Joseph Tabbi

Joseph Tabbi (May 4, 1960) is a US academic[1] and literary theorist, notable for his contributions to the fields of American literature and electronic literature.[2] He was the first scholar granted access to the William Gaddis archives,[3] and is the author of Nobody Grew but the Business: On the Life and Work of William Gaddis[4][5] (2015) and the editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature[6] (2017), Post-Digital: Critical Debates from electronic book review[7] (2019), and an additional forthcoming volume from Bloomsbury Publishing. His other works include Cognitive Fictions[8] (2002) and Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk[9] (1996). He edits the scholarly journal Electronic Book Review[10] (ebr), which he founded with Mark Amerika.

Biography

Tabbi received a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1989 for a dissertation titled "The Psychology of Machines: Technology and Personal Identity in the Work of Norman Mailer and Thomas Pynchon." [11]

Books
  • Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk (Cornell University Press, 1996) ISBN 9780801483837
  • Cognitive Fictions (University of Minnesota Press, 2002) ISBN 9780816635573
  • Nobody Grew but the Business: On the Life and Work of William Gaddis (2015)

Edited books
  • Reading Matters: Narrative in the New Media Ecology (Cornell University Press,1997) (with Michael Wutz) ISBN 9780801484032
  • Paper Empire: William Gaddis and the World System (University of Alabama Press , 2007) (with Rone Shavers et al.)
  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature (2017)
  • Post-Digital: Critical Debates from electronic book review (2019)
gollark: But both seem to have pretty large dependency trees.
gollark: Might be a difference in dependency culture I guess.
gollark: Really? I find it to go much faster on average go programs versus average rust ones.
gollark: I mean, Go manages to sort of hit the first two and definitely the third.
gollark: Because programmers somehow can't just convert stuff to machine code given a mere 120 billion clock cycles to work with.

References
  1. "Tabbi, Joseph". English.
  2. "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com.
  3. "Joseph Tabbi - Penguin Random House". PenguinRandomhouse.com.
  4. Scott, Joanna (30 July 2015). "The Virtues of Difficult Fiction". The Nation – via www.thenation.com.
  5. "Nobody Grew but the Business - Northwestern University Press". www.nupress.northwestern.edu.
  6. "The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature".
  7. "Post-Digital".
  8. Herman, David (15 December 2018). "Cognitive Fictions (review)". Symploke. 12 (1): 294–296. doi:10.1353/sym.2005.0018.
  9. Mascaro, John (1999). "Kant Touch This: Joseph Tabbi's "postmodern Sublime"". Studies in the Novel. 31 (4): 506–515. JSTOR 29533360.
  10. "about ebr – electronic book review". electronicbookreview.com. 2014-01-18.
  11. WorldCat item page
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