Welcome to the ELR

The Electronic Literature Review is a web page dedicated to the diffusion of works of electronic literature, the research theories and methods developed in this field and, multiple topics from neighbour disciplines that are more or less pertinent to the study of electronic literature.

This project started in 2012 when I was about to finish writing my master’s thesis about Electronic Literature in Italy. I needed some clarifications and quotes from an author that I had included in my research. So, I created a blog on WordPress and set up simple rules for the form of the interviews, which were the following:

• the interviews are made of five questions;
• the interviewees are free to choose the length of their answers;
• the interviewees are free to take all the time they want to drill down and focus on a topic;
• topics concern the approach to electronic literature, the basic concepts of some works, the current works or projects and the perspective of the development of specific aspects of electronic literature such as archiving of works of electronic literature, the technology of new media and e-books or the divulgation and acceptance by a more or less wide audience;
• all interviews are written in the mother tongue of the interviewee or one of choice which is why I rely on the collaboration of friends and acquaintances for the translation and editing of the texts;

Between 2012-2017, I published 32 interviews with scholars and authors of electronic literature. I then included 8 interviews that I copied from other blogs in a series that I called #ELRFEAT as I intended to feature interviews from other web pages.

Between 2015-2016, I stopped working on the ELR project to colaborate on a new project called Gruppo Giada. The 6 interviews that I wrote with my project partner during those yeares, are now published on this page too.

In 2017-2018, I created another series dedicated to enhanced e-books. I interviewed 5 experts in digital publishing from Italy and tagged them with the label #ELRPUB. At that time, I had no idea that one day I would become a PhD student in digital publishing and a publisher myself. In 2018, I moved to London to undertake a PhD research study on the aesthetics of ehanced e-books.

Since the creation, the publication, and the storing of these e-books was part of my research, I created the digital-only publishing company EDGE DPUB LTD.

It only remains for me to wish you good reading

Daniele Giampà