Associate Professor Birger Vanwesenbeeck of the Department of English has had his essay featured in the scholarly volume, “Steve Tomasula: The Art and Science of New Media Fiction,” published by Bloomsbury.
The volume, edited by University of Western Illinois Professor David Banash, marks the first book-length study of multimedia novelist Steve Tomasula, and contains essays by several leading scholars of contemporary American literature including Katherine Hayles and Lance Olsen.
Dr. Vanwesenbeeck’s essay, “Mining the Gap: Word, Image, and Loss in The Book of Portraiture,” explores the strategic connections between mourning, lateness, and ekphrasis in Tomasula’s 2006 novel.
Vanwesenbeeck is scheduled to present a shorter version of the essay at the annual convention of the North East Modern Language Association in Toronto in May.
