"Lulled into somnolence by five hundred years of print, literary studies have been slow to wake up to the importance of MSA (media-specific analysis). Literary criticism and theory are shot through with unrecognized assumptions specific to print. Only now, as the new medium of electronic textuality vibrantly asserts its presence, are these assumptions clearly coming into view."

- N. Katherine Hayles, Writing Machines

Dana Solomon is a PhD student in the English Department at UCSB.  His research interests include twentieth and twenty-first century critical theory, cultural studies, and global literature with special attention paid to intersections of literature and contemporary cultural phenomena.  Recent projects have interrogated various topics including torture, preemptive and protracted warfare, the new vitalism, networks, and electronic literature.  Dana is affiliated with UCSB's Literature.Culture.Media center as well as the interdisciplinary Center for Literature, Theory, and Culture.  

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