This December, Kevin A. Wisniewski and Felix Burgos released the special issue Tours & Detours, part of their journal Textshop Experiments (ISSN: 2377-9039). Wisniewski (Cohort 15) and Burgos (Cohort 14) are currently both Ph.D. candidates in the Language, Literacy & Culture PhD Program.
TE is an electronic, open-access journal dedicated to works on and operating in the apparatus of electracy. It publishes scholarly and creative projects on and in new media, Internet culture, and experimental writing.
The editors were first introduced to electracy by Professor Craig Saper in his seminar with the same name and continued to work with related concepts in Independent Studies and as editorial assistants for Saper’s co-edited anthology Electracy: Gregory L. Ulmer’s Textshop Experiments (Davies Group, 2015).
The two were immediately aware of a void present in academic journals and related venues dedicated to experimental Humanities projects and started a forum for students and faculty to discuss and share their work and experiences. From here, Textshop was born, and Wisniewski and Burgos built a new infrastructure and impressive advisory board, which included Saper, for the journal. Published last May, Issue 1: The Textshop (T)issue acted as a response to the aforementioned anthology. It was visited by over 5,000 unique viewers.
The latest issue Tours & Detours has compiled an impressive fifteen original works, including pieces from scholars Barry Mauer (University of Central Florida), Sergio C. Figueiredo (Kennesaw State University), Matthew Newcomb (SUNY New Paltz), and Megan M. McIntyre (Dartmouth College) and artists matthew and allen, Curt Cloninger, and David Prescott-Steed, as well as fellow doctoral students from the University of Southern California and Clemson University.
Wisniewski and Burgos are delighted by the overwhelmingly positive response the journal has received and are already at work on Issue 3 and the production line-up for 2017-2018, which includes a new chapbook series.
Textshop Experiments may be viewed at http://www.TextshopExperiments.org/.
