Media Coverage of my Fulbright Award
Prensa RUM interviewed me about my Fulbright and Electronic Poetry and published the following article and a 25-minute TV interview.
Leonardo Flores, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean of Assessment and Educational TechnologiesLeonardo Flores, Fulbright Scholar
Today, I received official notification that I have been awarded a 2012-13 Fulbright Scholarship to participate in the Digital Culture program at the University of Bergen in Norway. This is a 10-month teaching/research award in which I will teach 3 courses during the academic year and dedicate the rest of my time to research. You can read a copy of my proposal here.
Macromedia / Adobe Director PAD (Preservation, Access, Dissemination)
I’m interested in developing a critical edition of a work of electronic literature titled Arteroids (http://vispo.com/arteroids). This is an important work of electronic literature, written by Canadian poet and multimedia artist Jim Andrews initially with Macromedia Director 8 and later with upgraded versions up until reaching Adobe Director MX 2004 (version 10.1). Read the rest of this entry »
New Project: I ♥ E-Poetry
This week I launched a new blogging project: I ♥ E-Poetry.
Here’s a little background about me. I’ve created over 25 websites, blogs, groups, and other online spaces since 1999. For the past 5 years, I’ve maintained this blog which documents my professional work, including most of my course blogs. I use Facebook to keep in touch with friends and family, sharing choice morsels of my personal life. Read the rest of this entry »
English 3300: Introduction to Electronic Literature
Next semester I will teach one section of a Special Topics course, titled “Introduction to Electronic Literature.”
Follow this link to read the course proposal submitted to the English Department Curriculum Committee.
The course will be offered MWF 11:30-12:20 pm this Spring 2012 semester.
Proposal: Digitalización y Acceso a la Colección Limón de Arce
On Friday, November 21, 2011 I submitted a proposal to the Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades to digitize a rare book and document collection put together by José Limón de Arce (1877-1940), a poet, playwright, and historian from Arecibo. His collection is a treasure of rare historical documents and literary publications by small regional presses in Puerto Rico from the late 19th and early 20th century, described in more detail in the following excerpt from the proposal.
Bajo estos parámetros, hemos identificado 420 documentos con aproximadamente 50,000 páginas (de las aproximadamente 75,232 páginas de la colección). La distribución temática de los documentos es la siguiente: 211 son documentos históricos, 129 son de poesía, 63 son de interés cultural y 17 son obras teatrales y novelas.
The result of the digitization project will be a website to access an online database of these valuable materials and a DVD-ROM with a selection of the most important historical and literary materials from the collection to be distributed to 800 schools and cultural institutions.
This is a collaborative project with Dr. Ramonita Vega, a history professor in the Social Sciences Department and Prof. María Aquino, head librarian in the Puerto Rican Collection of the UPRM General Library.
Proposal: Badges for Information Literacy
On November 18, 2011. I submitted a group proposal for the DML4 Competition: Badges for Lifelong Learning, Stage one. The proposal, co-authored with CEDIBI Librarians Jaquelina Alvarez, Wanda Colón de Hau, and Arelys Fernández, and graphic designer Junibeth Arcelay, seeks to use a system of badges to encourage UPRM students to improve their information literacy. If implemented, this system has the potential to improve the instruction of this important set of skills by providing greater breadth of coverage and assessment.
NEH Summer Stipend Proposal
I just submitted a proposal titled “Bridging the Gap: Close Reading Digital Poetry” for the NEH Summer Stipends grant program. Here’s the abstract:
This proposal seeks to introduce electronic literature into mainstream academia by writing two articles for publication in conventional, high-impact literary journals. Each article will perform a close reading of an electronic poem by David Knoebel, a poet and multimedia artist who publishes in his website Click Poetry since 1996. The poems “A Fine View” (2000) and “Thoughts Go” (2001) are intense lyrical experiences that challenge our preconceptions about poetry by reconfiguring the poetic line in space, time. The goal is to demystify electronic literature by employing a technique that is foundational to literary study, close reading, and updating it with media-specific analysis and critical code studies. Through these articles I seek to bridge the gap between generations of scholars raised with critical tools and texts devised for print and new scholars and students shaped by texts in networks and digital media.
Proposal for NEH Enduring Questions Grant
I submitted a proposal for an NEH Enduring Questions grant program to create a course that addresses the question: How do we shape language?
Here’s the 1000-character abstract:
