Scott Rettberg

Scott Rettberg (CV) is a Chicago native who now lives in Norway. He writes, and writes about new media and electronic literature. He is an associate professor of Humanistic Informatics at the University of Bergen, and is the proud father of Jessica Ann Rettberg.

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

“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).

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

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.

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).

“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, forthcoming 2008.

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

The Unknown, An Anthology: an anthology of fiction and poetry by William Gillespie, Scott Rettberg, and Dirk Stratton, published in 2002 by Spineless Books. PDF free for the clicking, buy the book from Spineless Books.

Piercing Through, a play I wrote back in 1997 about a group of college students studying existentialism together during the first Gulf War (more fun than it sounds), which was selected by the Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative and performed as a staged reading at the Aranoff Center for the Arts in Cincinnati, Ohio.

“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.