{"id":1398,"date":"2015-09-14T19:02:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T23:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/englishprofiles\/?page_id=1398"},"modified":"2020-08-27T12:18:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T16:18:58","slug":"ken-alba","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/englishprofiles\/ken-alba\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Alba"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My dissertation focuses on the relationship between literature and information technology, with a particular focus on post-45 Anglophone drama and newer works of electronic literature. I\u2019m fascinated by the ways certain media technologies make possible (or impossible) certain kinds of literary and social performance, and how a careful reading of literature about the relationship between performance and technology can illuminate what identity \u2013 and identity categories like race and gender \u2013 looks like in the information age. In the classroom I work with a wide range of material, from science fiction to early modern drama, in a wide variety of genres and mediums, from novels to films and television programs to video games. This year, I will be continuing my research and finishing my dissertation at MIT’s Digital Humanities Program as the Paul Funk Predoctoral Fellow.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can view my CV\u00a0here<\/a> and visit my website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Education<\/strong>
\nPh.D., English, Boston University, expected Spring 2021
\nM.A., English, Boston University, 2015
\nB.A., English, Southern Connecticut State University, 2014
\nB.A., Philosophy, Southern Connecticut State University, 2014<\/p>\n

Publications<\/strong>
\n2019\u00a0Pop Beckett<\/em><\/strong>
\nForthcoming, Ibidem Press
\nIncluded Essay, \u201cSamuel Beckett and Memes: Online Aftertexts”<\/p>\n

2019 Spring The Beckett Circle<\/strong>
\nTheater Review: \u201cBut The Cloudless<\/em> at the Sprinkler Factory\u201d
\n\u00a0<\/strong>
\n2018 Autumn The Beckett Circle<\/strong>
\nTheater Review: \u201cWaiting for Godot<\/em> at the Firehouse Theater\u201d<\/p>\n

Conference Presentations<\/strong>
\n2019 July The Electronic Literature Organization Conference and Media Arts Festival<\/strong>
\nUniversity College Cork, Cork, IR
\nPresented \u201cTexts, Interfaces, and The Puzzle Element in Her Story\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

2019 May The American Literature Association\u2019s Annual Conference<\/strong>
\nBoston, MA
\nPresented \u201c\u2018Skin and Air\u2019: Remediation and Power in Ma Rainey\u2019s Black Bottom<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

2019 April Technology and Literature<\/strong>
\nBoston University Romance Studies Department, Boston, MA
\nPresented \u201c\u2018A Play Infected With A Virus\u2019: Signal, Noise, and the Glitch in Blue Kettle<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

2019 March \u201cBeyond Beckett\u201d<\/strong>
\nCentre Culturel Irlandais de Paris, FR
\nPresented \u201cAlmost to the Tick <\/em>and EndlessGame<\/em>: Adapting Beckett with Unity\u201d<\/p>\n

2018 September Samuel Beckett and Technology<\/strong>
\nCharles University, Prague, CZ
\nPresented \u201cKrapp\u2019s Last Tape <\/em>and the Extended Mind\u201d<\/p>\n

2017 May Embodying Media: From Print to the Digital<\/strong>
\nCambridge University, Cambridge, UK
\nPresented \u201cStaging Quad<\/em> as an EndlessGame<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

2016 April Technology and the Human: Rethinking Post Humanism\u00a0<\/strong>
\nBrandeis University, Waltham, MA
\nPresented \u201cPerforming Identity on Virtual Stages\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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