Elisabet Takehana

Office hours: W 11:00-12:15 and F 12:30-1:45 in Miller 206 or via Google Meet (https://rb.gy/whvntn to make virtual appointments) or please contact via email to set-up an appointment. Thank You!
Biography
Courses Taught
Background
Ph.D., University of Florida (English)
M.A., California State University, San Bernardino (English)
B.A., California State University, San Bernardino (English)
Elise Takehana has been a professor at Fitchburg State since 2012 and teaches first-year writing, magazine journalism, nonfiction, rhetorical style, editing, experimental writing, and media studies either in creative writing courses or the occasional graduate literature seminar. Her research interests are equally varied with essays and articles on 20th and 21st century print and digital literature, media studies, aesthetics, genre studies, posthumanism, digital humanities, and multimedia composition.
Elise is looking to develop new methodological skills to contribute to the growing field of quantitative and networked literary analysis and stylometry. She is currently developing a project exercising the boundaries of antagonistic stylometry for creative generation and conducting research for two proposed articles “Expressive Algorithms and Formulaic Expressions” and “The Nature of Randomness in Marc Saporta’s Composition No. 1"
Book:
The Baroque Technotext – a monograph on the baroque aesthetic practices that underpin several print and digital literary texts that embrace the meaning value of their materiality
Digital Projects:
When We Were Normal - an augmented reality walking tour of Fitchburg State’s early history built and written in collaboration with students
Robert E. Cormier Digital Archive Exhibits – thematic collections of archival material from young adult author, Robert Cormier’s rich collection.
Articles:
- “Prying Open the Oyster: Creating a Digital Learning Space from the Robert Cormier Archive.” The ALAN Review vol. 43, no. 3, 2016, pp. 11-21. (co-authored with AnnaMary Consalvo)
- “The Shape of Thought: Humanity in Digital, Literary Texts,” Comunicazioni sociali, vol. 37, no. 3, 2016, pp. 342-353.
- “Can You Murder a Novel? Part 1” Hybrid Pedagogy 26 Jul. 2015, https://hybridpedagogy.org/can-you-murder-a-novel-part-1/(co-authored with Jonathan Jena, Matthew Ramsdem, and Natasha Rocci)
Conference Presentations
- “The Digital and the Baroque: Confronting Hyper-Representation.” ELO (Electronic Literature Organization), Porto, Portugal, July 2017
- “Mise en Abîme Mediascape: The Book in Code and Code in the Book.” SHARP (Society on the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing) 25th Annual Convention, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, June 2017
- “The Aesthetic of the List: The Digital in Humanity’s Literature.” NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) 47th Annual Convention, Hartford, March 2016
- “The Shape of Thought: Humanity in Digital, Literary Texts.” SWPACA (Southwest Popular/American Culture Association) 37th Annual Convention, Albuquerque, February 2015
- “Print to Digital Novel: Is It Still a Novel?” ALA (American Literature Association) 26th Annual Convention, Boston, May 2015 (co-presented with Jonathan Jena, Matthew Ramsden, and Natasha Rocci)
ELO Electronic Literature Organization