About

Elise Takehana (Ph.D., English, University of Florida) is an Associate Professor of English Studies and Co-Coordinator of the Center for Faculty Scholarship. Her research interests include media studies, digital humanities, aesthetics, electronic literature, and modern and contemporary literature. She also has a nascent interest in stylometry, distant reading, and computational linguistics.

Education

Ph.D. in English, University of Florida, May 2010

Concentration: New media studies, literary theory, 20th-century art and text production

Dissertation: Immersion and Contemplation: Merging Models of Knowledge in New Media Narratives

Director: Gregory L. Ulmer

M.A. in English Composition with an emphasis in Literature, California State University San Bernardino, June 2006

Concentration: Composition and rhetoric, media and literary theory, postmodern American fiction

B.A. in English Literature with High Honors, California State University San Bernardino, December 2003

Blog Posts

    Publications

    BOOK


    The Baroque Technotext: Literature in a Digital Mediascape. Intellect Press. March 2020

     

    BOOK CHAPTERS


    “Baroque Computing: Interface and the Subject-Object Divide” Design, Mediation, and the Post-Human, Edited by Dennis M. Weiss, Amy D. Propen, and Colbey Emmerson Reid. Lexington Books, 2014, pp. 41-67.

    “Burroughs / Rauschenberg: Text-Image / Image-Text” The Future of Text and Image, edited by Ofra Amihay and Lauren Walsh. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012, pp. 273-308.

     

    EDITED COLLECTION


    Futures of Digital Studies in Digital Humanities Quarterly 5.3 Collection I Summer 2011 (co-edited with Mauro Carassai)

    Futures of Digital Studies in Digital Humanities Quarterly 6.2 Collection II Winter 2012 (co-edited with Mauro Carassai) 

     

    ARTICLES


    “Prying Open the Oyster: Creating a Digital Learning Space from the Robert Cormier Archive.” The ALAN Review vol. 43, no. 3, 2016, pp. 11-21. (co-authored with AnnaMary Consalvo)

    “The Shape of Thought: Humanity in Digital, Literary Texts,” Comunicazioni sociali, vol. 37, no. 3, 2016, pp. 342-353.

    Can You Murder a Novel? Part 1” Hybrid Pedagogy 26 Jul. 2015, https://hybridpedagogy.org/can-you-murder-a-novel-part-1/ (co-authored with Jonathan Jena, Matthew Ramsdem, and Natasha Rocci)

    Can You Murder a Novel? Part 2” Hybrid Pedagogy 9 Aug. 2015, https://hybridpedagogy.org/can-you-murder-a-novel-part-2/ (co-authored with Jonathan Jena, Matthew Ramsdem, and Natasha Rocci)

    Can You Murder a Novel? Part 3” Hybrid Pedagogy 26 Aug. 2015, https://hybridpedagogy.org/can-you-murder-a-novel-part-3/ (co-authored with Jonathan Jena, Matthew Ramsdem, and Natasha Rocci)

    Can You Murder a Novel? Part 4” Hybrid Pedagogy 6 Sept. 2015, https://hybridpedagogy.org/realism-and-closure-in-the-mystery-novel/ (co-authored with Jonathan Jena, Matthew Ramsdem, and Natasha Rocci)

    “Porous Boundaries in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves: Anticipating a Digital Composition and Subjectivity” Cross-Cultural Studies 32 (2013): 29-61. Print.

    “Aesthetic Politics: Models of Reading. Models of Citizenship” Journal of Contemporary Thought 35 (Summer 2012): 167-182. Print.

    “Introduction: Futures of Digital Studies,” Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 3, 2011. http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/5/3/000109/000109.html (co-authored with Mauro Carassai)

    “Browsing the Data Narrative: Affective Association and Visualization” The Journal of the International Digital Media and Arts Association, vol. 7, no. 1, 2010, pp. 55-65.

    “Legitimizing the Artist: Avant-Garde Utopianism and Relational Aesthetics,” Shift, vol. 2, no. 1, 2009, http://shiftjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/takehana.pdf.

    “Associations Through (Re)Mediations: The ‘Cut and Paste’ Aesthetic and Transparency” Artciencia, vol. 2, no. 6, 2007.

     

    BOOK REVIEW


    “Review of Nicola Dibben, BjörkMusic Theory Online, vol. 16, no. 3, 2010, https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.10.16.3/mto.10.16.3.takehana.html.


     


     

    NEWSPAPER ARTICLES


    “On the Letter.” (A 26 piece series on the history of the letter forms A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z) Sentinel & Enterprise. 13 Jul. – 11 Aug 2015: A2. Print.

    “Yeast.” Sentinel & Enterprise. 10 Aug 2015, A1. https://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/2015/08/10/yeast-by-elise-takehana/

    “Standing Still.” Sentinel & Enterprise. 3 Aug 2015, A1. https://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/2015/08/03/standing-still-by-elise-takehana/

    “Quality & Quantity.” Sentinel & Enterprise. 31 Jul. 2015, A1. https://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/2015/07/31/quality-quantity-by-elise-takehana/

    “Piano Cases.” Sentinel & Enterprise. 30 Jul. 2015, A1. https://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/2015/07/30/piano-cases-by-elise-takehana/

    “Paper.” Sentinel & Enterprise. 30 Jul. 2015, A1. (under the pseudonym, Lilja Legrain) https://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/2015/07/30/paper-by-lilja-legrain/

    “Leominster’s Combs.” Sentinel & Enterprise. 25 Jul. 2015, A1. (co-authored with Logan Miles) https://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/2015/07/25/leominsters-combs-by-logan-miles-and-elise-takehana/

    “Henrietta Leavit.” Sentinel & Enterprise. 21 Jul. 2015, A1. https://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/2015/07/21/henrietta-leavitt-by-elise-takehana-2/

    “Got Grit? ” Sentinel & Enterprise. 20 Jul. 2015, A1. https://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/2015/07/20/got-grit-by-elise-takehana/

    “Baby Carriage.” Sentinel & Enterprise. 14 Jul. 2015, A1. https://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/2015/07/14/baby-carriages-by-elise-takehana/

    Projects

    WORK IN PROGRESS

    Nice Outsides: Suicide Notes, an anagram and stylometry project

    Digital Archive: “Robert Cormier: The John Fitch IV columns”

    Article: “Expressive Algorithms and Formulaic Expressions”

    Article: “Nature of Randomness in Marc Sapporta’s Composition No. 1”

    DIGITAL PROJECTS

    Twisted Intimacy: Disturbing Perversions and Genuine Warmth a digital archive exhibit of the Robert E. Cormier collection, 2020. https://robertcormiertwistedintimacy.omeka.net/

    When We Were Normal an augmented reality tour of Fitchburg State University, 2018. https://fitchburgstate.wixsite.com/whenwewerenormal

    Sample Digital Edition of the 50th Anniversary Annotate Edition of Robert E, Cormier’s The Chocolate War, 2018. http://thechocolatewar.org/

    Evil, Empathy, and Finding Humanity digital archive exhibit of the Robert E. Cormier collection, 2016. https://terrorandbullies.omeka.net/

    Censorship and Intolerance a digital archive exhibit of the Robert E. Cormier collection, 2015. https://cormiercensorship.omeka.net/

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