Debunking Urban Legends

Scott Rettberg is a Chicago native who now lives in Norway. He writes, and writes about new media and electronic literature. Rettberg is the cofounder of the Electronic Literature Organization and currently project leader of the HERA-funded ELMCIP project. He is an associate professor of digital culture at the University of Bergen (recent research), and is the proud father of Jessica Ann and Benjamin Scott Rettberg.

After Parthenope: a generative fiction produced for the 2011 Officina del Litterature Electronica exhibition in Naples.

Frequency poems: poems produced with the Frequency poetry generator, an aspect of a larger constrained writing project. 2009.

Tokyo Garage. A remix of Nick Montfort's Taroko Garage poetry generator, for the imaginary city. 2009.

The Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One. N. Katherine Hayles, Nick Montfort, Scott Rettberg, and Stephanie Strickland, eds. An edited CD-ROM and online anthology of selected works of electronic literature. College Park, MD: The Electronic Literature Organization, 2006.

Implementation, a novel on stickers. With Nick Montfort. 2005.

“The Meddlesome Passenger.” Beehive 05:01 (2002). (Internet Explorer required).

Kind of Blue, a serial novel for email. Frame Journal of Technology and Culture (August 2003).

The Unknown, a hypertext novel. 1998-2002. With William Gillespie, Frank Marquardt, and Dirk Stratton.

(Update coming soon)

“Corporate Ideology in World of Warcraft.” Book chapter in World(s) of Warcraft, a Critical Anthology of World of Warcraft Studies. Hilde Corneliussen and Jill Walker, eds. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008.

“Dada Redux: Elements of Dadaist Practice in Contemporary Electronic Literature.” Digital Arts and Culture Conference, Perth Australia, September 2007.

Dissertation: Destination Unknown: Experiments in the Network Novel. University of Cincinnati, Department of English and Comparative Literature, 2003.

“All Together Now: Collective Knowledge, Collective Narratives, and Architectures of Participation.” Published in the DAC 2005 Conference Proceedings, revised version forthcoming as “All Together Now: Collective Narratives and Collective Knowledge Communities in Context” in New Narratives: Theory and Practice, Thomas Browan and Ruth Page, eds.

“Reconfiguring Place and Space in New Media Writing,” “Written on the Body: An Interview with Shelley Jackson,” and “Avant-Gaming: An Interview with Jane McGonigal.” (Complied PDF) The Iowa Review Web (July 2006).

“Experiments in Irrational Exuberance: The Present and Future of Electronic Literature or How I Became E-Literate.” Kairos 7.2 (Fall 2002).

“American Simulacra: Don DeLillo's Fiction in Light of Postmodernism.” Undercurrent #7 (Spring 1999).

“CURATING AMBIGUITY: The Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One: An email conversation with Scott Rettberg” by Franz Thalimar. CONT3XT #4, November 2006.

“Interview of Scott Rettberg” by Simon Mills. Framed: contextualizing digital art and writing between 1998-2005, September 16, 2006.

“E-voking muses: The next wave in world literature is gestating in a scruffy Ravenswood office” by Julia Keller. The Chicago Tribune, May 18, 2001.

“Hypertext: Reading Between the Links” by Julia Keller. The Chicago Tribune, August 15, 1999.