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Alan
Liu researches and teaches the culture
of information at the Univ. of California, Santa Barbara.
His special focus is the relation between the humanities
and the ethos of postindustrial "knowledge work"
as the latter is assisted and and allegorized by information
technology. (See also his work on Literary/Cultural
Theory and British Romantic
Literature.)
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Projects in the Digital Humanities
- Voice of the Shuttle
(70+ pages of categorized and briefly annotated
resources for humanities research; also covers growth
areas where the humanities now intersect with other
disciplines; started in 1994)
- Transcriptions:
Literary History and the Culture of Information
(principal investigator) (NEH-funded curriculum
development project whose courses
became a regular concentration within the English
major at UCSB in 2000-2001; the project also created
a computing "studio"
designed as a paradigm for humanities departments)
- Palinurus:
The Academy and the Corporation — Teaching
the Humanities in a Restructured World (resources
for thinking critically about the current overlap
between academic knowledge and corporate knowledge
work; covers the history of higher education, postindustrial
business principles, information technology in business
and education, and recent controversies)
- Romantic
Chronology (co-edited with Laura Mandell, Miami
U., Ohio) (database-driven Web site that explores
how information technology can help map, or re-map,
a literary "period")
- The
Laws of Cool: The Cultural Life of Information
(book-in-progress under contract with Stanford Univ.
Press on the history, sociology, and aesthetics
of information as an experience of culture; thinks
critically about postindustrial "knowledge
work" and the relevance of higher education
to the culture of such work)
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Participation in Other Information-Technology
Initiatives
- Digital
Cultures (U. California Multi-Campus Research Group)
(steering board member) (research initiative in
which humanists and social scientists from throughout
the U. California system collaborate on annual institutes,
conferences, workshops, and online events relating
to the history and future of information technology)
- UCSB Center
for Information Technology and Society (steering
board member) (sponsors research in the sciences,
social sciences, and humanities on the social impact
of information technology; promotes collaboration
between the university and industry in investigating
the uses of information)
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Writings on the Digital Humanities
(excerpts only unless otherwise indicated)
- "The Future Literary: Literature and the Culture
of Information" (forthcoming: The English Institute/Routledge)
- "Knowledge in the Age of Knowledge Work," Profession
1999: 113-24
- "The Downsizing of Knowledge: Knowledge Work and
Literary History," abridged version of a talk at
U. California, Berkeley, ed. Randolf Starn, Doreen
B. Townsend Center Occasional Papers, No. 15 (Berkeley,
Calif.: Townsend Center, 1998)
- "Globalizing the Humanities: 'The Voice of the
Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research'," Humanities
Collections 1, no. 1 (1998): 41-56
- "Sidney's Technology," solicited for a volume
of essays on "Narrative Theory Today," ed. Carol
Jacobs and Henry Sussman
- "Should
We Link to the Unabomber? An Essay in Practical
Web Ethics" (self-published Web essay,
Oct. 9, 1995; full document online)
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Courses on the Digital Humanities
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See also Alan Liu's work
in Literary/Cultural Theory and
British Romantic Literature.
 ©2000,
Alan
Liu, English Dept., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
(e-mail)
This page last revised 3/27/00
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