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Sandy Baldwin
Associate Professor Director, Center for Literary Computing Ph.D. 1999 NYU Tel: 293-9703 Fax: 293-5380 Email: Charles.Baldwin@mail.wvu.edu |
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Specializations
Interrelations between Literature and Media Technology, Avant-garde writing, 20th Century American Literature, Critical Theory
Sandy Baldwin’s work imagines the future of literary studies in a digital age. As coordinator of the Center for Literary Computing, he facilitates interdisciplinary research projects in the poetics of new media and the media ecology of literary institutions, using web-technologies, multimedia, hypertext, audio/video, and virtual environments. Sandy’s scholarly work explores media technologies as rhetorical and aesthetic objects, asking how media structure our thought and experience. His particular focus is on continuities and borrowings between literary theory and theories of digital multimedia. Current research areas include: net art as a literary genre, avant-garde writing as a precursor of multimedia, the narrativity of computer games, and the cultural implications of nanotechnology (see his essay in Culture Machine http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk/).
Sandy’s creative writing experiments with text, sound, image, and collaborative performance. He is a founding member of the multimedia performance/poetry groups Purkinge and Nine Way Mind, with works in print, on the Internet, and on CD-ROM; and with performances in the USA, Europe, at conferences, reading series, radio shows, and rock concerts. He also writes and performs collaboratively with the Atlanta Poets Group. An example of his solo work appeared in the anthology Another South: Experimental Writing in the South (University of Alabama Press).