Research culture & Communication

Maria Engberg

Current research projects & interests:

Principal Investigator for BTH in the HERA-funded 3-year project: Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice. [for more information: visit HERA or go to this description]

Founding member of the Nordic Digital Culture Network, a Nordplus Higher Education network linking academic programs focused on digital culture in the Nordic countries.

Member of the editorial group of the Electronic Literature Directory: http://directory.eliterature.org/

Member of the BTH research group: CP@T-lab.

My research interests focus on digital media studies, American contemporary literature, Augmented reality experience design and narrative, locative media, experimental literature, including digital literature, graphic novels, and visual culture.

RECENT publications & presentations:

"Digital Literature and the Modernist Problem." with Jay Bolter. Digital Humanities Quarterly. http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/5/3/000099/000099.html

VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS

The fall semester 2011, I was Visiting Professor and Visiting Affiliate Researcher at the Wesley Center for New Media, LCC, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta USA. http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/

The summer semester of 2011, I am Visiting Professor at University of Baureuth. http://medienwissenschaft.uni-bayreuth.de/ where I taught a course in Social Media.