Projects

Post-Digital Touch: Writing Embodiments, Affective Interfaces, and Haptic Media 

This project will serve as my dissertation, in which I propose that the way we read is changing with the way we touch. It builds from my published and forthcoming work to account for the importance of touch to textual encounters in an age of ubiquitous computing devices which change the ways we compose our media and our bodily selves. Arguing for touching as a way of writing embodiment, I propose “writing embodiments” as texts, ranging from print and analogue to digital, which demonstrate how textual bodies and corporeal bodies are always intertwined and thus influence each other. Ultimately, I argue that writing embodiments advance cultural and materialist approaches which highlight through the haptic new ways to value embodiment as a diverse and highly contextual condition. This textual, tactile intervention into literary, film, and game studies scholarship critiques the cultural conceits of constantly upgrading media, from page to screen to touchscreen and beyond, which renegotiate concepts of embodiment.