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Dr. Allen C. Jones

Allen C. Jones is Associate Professor of English Literature at University of Stavanger, Norway. As a creative writer, a digital humanist, and a scholar, he takes an interdisciplinary approach to literature. His digital work explores interactive 3D visualizations ("games") that encourage users to experience (play and create) alternative and "non-linear" readings of a text (metaphor mapping). Find his paper-based creative work here: Razor Lit Mag, Blackbox Manifold, Moss Trill, b(OINK), Five:2:One, Korea Lit, Maudlin House, Fiction Southeast, The American Journal of Nursing, Whale Road Review, Bird's Thumb, Pilgrimage, The Louisiana Review, The Bitter Oleander, The Southern Anthology, GSU Review, Third Wednesday, Zillah, Two Hawks Quarterly, Southwestern Review, Third Wednesday, Ekleksographia, and various other journals and anthologies. With his students he is presently building a modernist research website as well as experiments in online network fiction. You can also find a digital museum of his students' digital work here, and their brick-and-mortar designs here.

                                                         The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
                                                                                                                                                   --Wittgenstein

                                                           I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.
                                                                                                                                                                      --Thoreau

                                                   "he spent whole days and nights over his books; and thus with little sleeping and much reading, his brains
                                                                                        dried up to such a degree that he lost the use of his reason"
                                                                                                                                                                           --Cervantes

                                               A philosopher who has evolved his entire thinking from the fundamental themes of the philosophy of science, and followed the main line of the active, growing rationalism of contemporary science as closely as he could                                         must forget his learning and break with all his habits of philosophical research, if he wants to study the                                                                                         problems posed by the poetic imagination.
                                                                                                                                    --Gaston Bachelard (The Poetics of Space)

RECENT EVENTS: Feb 2017: Virtual Reality in Rome

At the X Annual International Jame Joyce Foundation Conference where I presented my paper: The Parenthetical Screen: A Formal Training of the Codic Eye in Joyce’s “Circe.” Here I am trying to smash a virtual glass in the Martello Tower in Boston University's installation "Joycestick," a virtual Joycian world. Special thanks to Joseph Nugent and his team. I also might be trying to throw Ulysses around the room (no respect). After spending ten minutes in this world, I was sweating profusely and had heart palpitations. Good thing? Maybe. Definitely powerful. No technological doomsday talk now, but I do wonder where we are going with all this. I have my own ideas of our destination, but they haven't put me in charge of the world yet. Soon.

RECENT EVENTS: June 2016: Literary Metaphor Mapping

Recently completed metaphor-mapping program as part of the University of Puget Sound Capstone Project. Programmers: Alexia Ingerson and Tori Vaz.

TRY IT NOW!: Metaphor Mapping Program

RECENT EVENTS: March 2016: Juan Morales visits University of Puget Sound

Poet Juan Morales came to do a workshop and reading from his new book The Siren World. Students were asked to study his book and to write their own replacement poem using one of his poems.

About Juan:

Poet Juan Morales is a CantoMundo Fellow, the Editor of Pilgrimage Magazine, and an Associate Professor of English at Colorado State University-Pueblo, where he directs the Creative Writing Program and curates the SoCo Reading Series. Morales’ first book of poems, Friday and the Year that Followed won the Seymore and Gorsline Poetry Prize. He will be reading from his second poetry collection, The Siren World, which was selected as one of NBC News' 2015 Latino Books: 8 Must-Reads from Indispensable Small Presses.

More info on Juan

RECENT EVENTS: Oct. 2015: DT Game is up! PLAY NOW!

The Dylan Thomas Game 2D Version is finally up and running. Click either to play (different formats):

1. Play online: Dylan Thomas Game

Warning: This version does not score or give you directions. It is simply a game board. You must actually read the directions below!

Directions:
1. Press okay for the Dylan Thomas puzzle/game (or enter your own once you have become an expert).
2. On the right will be the line list for the game. On the left the game board.
3. Drag lines from the list to the board. Grab ends to size or middle to rotate.
4. Goal: each line must touch another line that shares a content word (content word = not "and," "the," etc.). First line can go anywhere.
5. 1-Player Puzzle: fit all the lines to the board and you win. This will take rearranging as you go.
6. 2-person Game: Each player takes a turn placing a line. Winner is the last to place a line. Lines may not be moved once played.

Note: 2-Person Variant: A player may move a line one time as a move. This line cannot be moved again for two turns.

RECENT EVENTS: August 2015: Modernist Timeline is Up!

Check out the research website we are building on the Modernist movement: ModernistTimeline

RECENT EVENTS: November 2014

I conducted a writing workshop with the full-immersion fourth graders at Rosa Parks Elementary in Berkeley, California. Students learned about guided free writing and surrealist techniques including the Exquisite Corpse. Notice that one of these excellent students shows her investment in surrealist practice by putting on her best Desnos trance look.

RECENT EVENTS: Open Mic Takes Off

The Coffee House Series at University of Puget Sound kicks off the event season with an open mic featuring Laura Krughoff. Read the article. Recent events also include a literary trivia night.

RECENT EVENTS: Summer 2013: The Dylan Thomas Machine

Presenting the demo video of the DT Machine at the University of Arkansas on their six screen integrated presentation monitor at the Digital Humanities Summer Research Institute. I am presently working with programmer Billy Rathje on developing a prototype for this interactive poetry analysis game.