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This is the page for writing a brief description of yourself. I've started us off with mine...

 

Ruth Page

I'm a senior lecturer in the School of English at UCE Birmingham, UK. I'm interested in all sorts of aspects of narrative, especially feminist narratology and digital narratives. You can have a look at my research profile to get an idea of what I've worked on, my blog to see what I'm working on at the minute, and my undergraduate narrative module to see how I approach teaching narrative. Hopefully, most of you will have made contact with me by now as I'm convening the symposium on Narrative and Multimodality.

 

 

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Astrid Ensslin

I'm a Lecturer in New Media at the University of Wales, Bangor (NIECI). I specialise in New Media literature, culture and semiotics, (critical) discourse analysis, language in the media, and corpus linguistics. I am founding editor of the MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities and am currently co-editing (with Alice Bell) the 2007 issue of Dichtung Digital on ‘New Perspectives on Digital Literature: Criticism and Analysis'. My monograph Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions (Continuum) is due for publication in May 2007, and I am co-editing (with Sally Johnson) an volume titled Language in the Media: Representations, Identities, Ideologies (Continuum), scheduled for September 2007. For more details, please visit my homepage.

 

 

Anne Furlong

Originally from the far east of Canada, I now teach in the near east: from Newfoundland I have moved west to Prince Edward Island where I am Assistant Professor in the English Department of the University of Prince Edward Island. I focus on relevance stylistics and the pragmatics of literary interpretation. Currently I'm working on relevance theory, repetition, the interpretation of literature, and style. I've written on LM Montgomery (the author of Anne of Green Gables) and William Gaddis, and prefer working with mainstream, "canonical" (or at least widely-taught) texts in my research. I'm an investigator with the CMTC -- an interdisciplinary research project based at UPEI that investigates the links between cognition, communication, culture and technology (Playstation.doc) -- and with a project which is exploring the use of wiki and Second Life in teaching at the elementary grade level.

 

 

Sonia Fizek

I'm a 5th year student at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Lodz, Poland (www.uni.lodz.pl). Currently I am writing my MA thesis on cyberliterature and its correlations with paperliterature. In May I am delivering a presentation at the academic conference organized by the Fatih University in Istanbul (Metamorphosis and Place). This year I spent one semester at the University of Flensburg, Germany(www.uni-flensburg.de) being part of the Erasmus Exchange Program. For the last 3 years I have also been a freelance translator. I hope to continue my academic career at the PhD studies abroad.

 

Alison Gibbons

I'm a 2nd year PhD Student from the University of Shefffield supervised by Dr. Joanna Gavins. My research seeks to merge cognitive poetics with theories from visual perception and communication in order to create a critical discourse capable of analysing the interaction between word and image in multimodal literary print novels (House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski; VAS: An Opera in Flatland by Steve Tomasula; The Jiri Chronicles by Debra Di Blasi). My research also draws on cognitive psychology, including developments in multisensory perception, haptics, and embodiment. My paper " "I contain multitudes": Narrative Multimodality and the book that bleeds" reflects my current research. For more details. please visit my homepage.

 

 

Alice Bell

I am a lecturer in English Language and Literature at Sheffield Hallam Unuversity. My research is in hypertext fiction and narrative theory - specifically Possible Worlds Theory. My work focuses on predominantly text-only novels, but I am currently moving towards analysing the role of image in hypertext fiction. I am currently co-editing (with Astrd Ensslin) the 2007 issue of Dichtung Digital on 'New Perspectives on Digital Literature: Criticism and Analysis'. I am also writing a monogrph entitled The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction.

 

Andrew Salway

I am an independent researcher with interests in computer-assisted multimedia content analysis, focussing on narrative and multimodality aspects, and in new media. I have 12 years experience working in and between a number of fields, including multimedia computing, information science, corpus linguisitcs, new media and audiovisual translation. I am currently working on the automatic analysis of stories in film and the relationship between images and text on webpages. There's more about my work at www.bbrel.co.uk.

 

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Bruce Mason

I'm a workshop facilitator for the Structure and Suspense group. Currently at DMU working on a folksonomy and tagging project while blogging about it and transliteracy. My background is in folklore (at MUN), ethnography and hypermedia. I'm not really 2-dimensional.

 

 

 

Richard Walsh

I teach in the Department of English at the University of York, and my research interests centre upon the relation between fiction and narrative theory—hence my forthcoming book, The Rhetoric of Fictionality: Narrative'' Theory and the Idea of Fiction (OSUP, sometime this year). An important aspect of the project was an inquiry into the contingency of narrative upon its various media, and my paper develops that line of thought further by considering the implications of viewing dreams as fictions.

 

 

I am an avid blogger and write a personal blog and contribute to various other academic blogs. I am also a professional blogger for the independent bookshop Frontline Books based in Leicester. Currently, I am a doctoral researcher at the Institute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort University. My Ph.D. thesis examines born digital web fictions within a narrative and feminist theoretical context. Consequently I call for a "widening" of certain narratological concepts such as "mimesis" and "temporality." I am a lecturer, a research assistant for the Narrative Laboratory project, and a member of the Production and Research in Transliteracy group. Recently, I have been expanding my interests to include digital literacy and pedagogy and am working on a project to help bring more multimodal stories into the classroom. My work has been published on and offline and I have presented papers in the U.K., Europe, and Canada. And yup, this all keeps me outta trouble...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sue Thomas

I'm a writer and Professor of New Media at De Montfort University, Leicester. My bio stuff is here and I would like to add that I have the pleasure of working with Jess Laccetti, Bruce Mason and Chris Joseph, who will all be at this conference! I'm in the Space and Sound group, which will be useful for me as I am very interested in cyberspace as a natural space. I'm also fascinated by transliteracy, of which more at www.transliteracy.com and excited about DMU's upcoming conference on Women, Blogging and Business. Looking forward to meeting you all.

 

 

 

David Herman

I teach in the English Department at Ohio State University, where I currently serve as director of Project Narrative, a new interdisciplinary initiative designed to promote state-of-the-art research and teaching in the field of narrative studies. I also serve as editor of the Frontiers of Narrative book series published by the University of Nebraska Press. I'm interested in linguistic and cognitive approaches to narratives of all sorts, and I'm really looking forward to the symposium. What a great line-up of papers and projects!

 

Alan Palmer

No photo I'm afraid! (Just as well perhaps in view of the previous photo - great likeness, David!) I'm an independent scholar living in London. My book Fictional Minds was published in 2004. I'm interested in cognitive approaches to narrative. I'm looking forward to the conference and to seeing, in particular, how the sorts of approaches that I've developed towards the traditional novel can be extended to different sorts of multimodal narratives.

 

 

 

Cathy Fowley

 

I am a PhD student in Dublin City University, under the direction of Dr. Francoise Blin and Dr. Minako O’Hagan. The tentative title of my thesis is An Ethical Journey through Personal Narratives: Irish Adolescents, their Blogs and their Readers''. I am an avid blog reader and a sporadic blogger.

 

 

 

Piergiorgio Trevisan

 

I have finished my PhD at the University of Udine, Italy, working on the concept of character in literature. At the same time, I have begun to explore how multimodality can be used in advertising texts, studying and analysing some ads. I am very interested in observing how multimodality and literature are connected, and how can multimodality be used in order to shape the image of a literary character and its identity. I'm looking forward to the conference to collect new ideas!

 

Sara Whiteley

I am a first year PhD student at Sheffield University, supervised by Dr Joanna Gavins. My research aims to integrate a consideration of reader and character emotion into the cognitive poetic framework of Text World Theory. My work has focused on text-only literature so far, but I am interested in multimodality and the implications this has for emotional involvement. I hope to find out more about the field from the conference, and discover ideas and fresh perspectives I can incorporate into my research.

 

 
Jennifer Riddle Harding
 
Sorry everyone, I couldn't figure out how to turn my picture into a thumbnail. I'm Jennifer Harding, Assistant Professor of English at Washington & Jefferson college near Pittsburgh, PA. I specialize in cognitive approaches to literature, with a particular interest in American short stories and figurative language. For example, I have written on counterfactuals used by Hemingway and similes used by Flannery O'Connor and others. In my teaching, I regularly incorporate multi-modal learning and that is what I'm speaking on at the conference. Having read everyone else's bios, I am so excited to get to Birmingham!
 

 

 

Kees JM van Haaster.

 

My name is Kees JM van Haaster. I am a lecturer and researcher at the Hogeschool Utrecht, the Netherlands. I am a music teacher and a writer. Please visit www.kleineverhalen.hu.nl. Multi-user online simulations and narrativity are my main fields of interest at the moment.

 

 

Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard

 

I work at the Univ. of Birmingham in the English Dept (CELS - Centre for English Language Studies). Interested in Identity politics, Multimodality, Gender, Narrative and Critical Discourse Analysis.

 

 

Jeremy Scott

I'm a lecturer in English literature and language at the University of Kent. I teach in the areas of narratology, stylistics, discourse analysis, critical theory and general English literature, and also teach creative writing. I'm particularly interested in fictional technique, literary representations of dialect, the relationship between narratives and identity, fictional versions of Englishness, and really need to get a new picture. I'd particularly like to get other views on practical applications of narrative theory and multimodality within the teaching and production of creative writing.

 

Marina Lambrou

I am a Senior Lecturer at the University of East London. My main area of interest in narratives is in oral narratives, specifically, the notion of identity and how this is linguistically encoded in our personal narratives. I also consider myself to be an ethnographer and sociolinguist. I am the co-editor of “Contemporary Stylistics” (forthcoming, end of this year). I am looking forward to broadening my understanding of “Narrative and Multimodality” at this Symposium…

 

Carleigh Brady

After finishing my undergrad degree in Canada last year (Calgary, Alberta to be specific), I decided to move to England to pursue my MA. I'm currently studying Modern Literature at the University of York and am doing some comparative research on Victorian life-writing (ie letters, journals) and blogging for my MA dissertation.

 

 

Helena Barbas

I have been teaching Comparative Literature and Literary theory at FCSH - UNL for the last 20 years. My secret passion, not so secret anymore, is AI (I am a member of CENTRIA), and anything related with new technologies. I worked as computer programmer in the 70's, but accounting was not exactly my cup of tea. My present research interests are man/machine interaction, virtual characters, use of AI decision models. I belong to the InStory project team.

 

Sarah Hatton

 

I received my BFA in Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003.  While there, I participated in the research of Virtual Reality and the design of 3d characters for a children's software called Alice.   After graduating, I moved to Hong Kong for two years and taught English and Arts.  I am currently a graduate student pursuing my Master of Fine Arts in Digital Technology with a concentration in the Arts, Media and Engineering(AME) program at Arizona State University in Phoenix, AZ.  I am a research assistant for the AMEEd project also known as the Situated Multimedia Arts Learning Lab , or SMALLab, as a designer of visual and audio feedback.  I am intersted in using multimodal environments for experiential learning in both arts and language scenarios.  

 

Melissa McGurgan

Melissa McGurgan was transplanted into the Southeast from southern California at the age of six, where she developed an affinity for southern gentlemen and the color pink.  After completing her BFA in printmaking at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA in 2004, she packed up her Honda  and headed out west to pursue an MFA in printmaking at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, where she currently resides.  Her work has recently been featured nationally in

such exhibitions as New American City: Artists Look Forward, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ, Ink and Clay, Kellog Gallery, Pamona, CA and From Flat to Fat: New Dimensions in Printmaking, Arts Incubator, Kansas City, MO.  McGurgan's work will also be on view at upcoming exhibitions: Reading Room, Eyelounge Gallery, Phoenix, AZ and the Arizona Biennial, Tuscon Museum of Art, Tuscon, AZ.  She currently works as an preparator's assistant at the ASU Art Museum and teaches art and design to rambunctious children ranging in ages 4 - 25.

 

 

Ruby Rennie

Hi - I'm a lecturer in the University of Edinburgh. I wasn't at the symposium, so you can always delete me from this page *sob* if I shouldn't be here. I've been dabbling in Web 2.0 stuff for a while now, and have periods where I really find lots to say in my blog (implication being that there are times when I don't ...). I've also been known to stroll around Second Life, wondering if I'll ever meet anyone there. I'm a bit more successful in flickr and am trying to do the "take one photo a day" thing. My current research is on collaboration and the use of technology, so it would be great to discuss areas of common interest with this group.

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