Schedule

Unit 1: New Horizons for the Literary

January 23

• Hayles, pp1-30
• Leishman, Deviant: The Possession of Christian Shaw

  Jim's Presentations:
  The Electronic Literary: An Introduction [Prezi] [PDF]
  Intermediation [Prezi] [PDF]

January 30

• Hayles pp43-70
• Moulthrop, Reagan Library
• Summary/Analysis Paper 1 Due
• Browse Learning Record
• Browse Peg Syverson's Learning Record Page

  Jim's Presentations:
  Intermediation Recap [Prezi] [PDF]
  The Body and the Machine in Electronic Literature [Prezi] [PDF]

February 6

• Hayles, pp87-126
• Kate Pullinger and babel, Inanimate Alice, Episode 1: China
• Summary/Analysis Paper 2 Due

  Jim's Presentations:
  The Body and the Machine - Recap [Prezi] [PDF]
  How Electronic Literature Revalues Computational Practice [Prezi], [PDF]

Friday, February 10

• LRO PART A DUE

February 13

• Hayles, pp131-157
• Wardrip-Fruin, Durand, Moss, and Froehlich, Regime Change
• Summary/Analysis Paper 3 Due

  Jim's Presentations:
  How E-lit Revalues Computational Practice [Prezi] [PDF]
  The Future of Literature [Prezi] [PDF]

February 20

• Hayles, pp159-170
• Bring draft of Expanded Summary-Analysis Paper to class
• In class: Short Writing Exercise, Paper Workshop

February 24

• Expanded Summary-Analysis Paper Due by midnight

Unit 2: Twisty Little Passages

February 27

• Montfort, pp1-36
• For a Change (Schmidt)
• In class: Inform7 Workshop

March 5

• Montfort 65-94
• Adventure (Crowther and Woods)
• In class: Inform7 Workshop

  Jim's Presentations:
  Riddles and Interactive Fiction [Prezi] [PDF]
  Adventure and its Ancestors [Prezi] [PDF]

March 10

• MIDTERM LRO DUE AT NOON

March 12

• Montfort, pp95-118
• Zork (Anderson, Blank, Daniels, and Lebling)
• In class: Inform7 Workshop
• Interactive Fiction Project 1.0 (completed in class)

  Jim's Presentations:
  Zork and Other Mainframe Works [Prezi] [PDF]

March 19

• Montfort, 193-222
• Book and Volume (Montfort)
• In class: Inform7 Workshop
• Inform7 Project 2.0; Paper, first draft (both saved to Dropbox prior to class)

March 26

• Montfort, pp223-233
• Inform7 Workshop
• Inform7 Project 3.0; Paper, second draft (both saved to Dropbox prior to class)

  Jim's Presentations:
  Interactive Fiction's Impacts [Prezi] [PDF]

March 30

• Game+Short Paper Due at noon
• Final Inform7 and Paper Due (both saved to Dropbox prior to class)

Unit 3: How To Do Things With Videogames

April 9

• Bogost, Introduction
• Play: Phone Story, One Chance

April 16

• Bogost, “Art,” "Empathy," Conclusion
• Bogost, read your group's chapter
• Group Project Workshop

April 23

• Bogost, re-read your group's assigned chapter
• Group Project Workshop

April 30

• Group Project Workshop
• Group Presentation, Dry Run

May 7

• Group Presentations
• Final LRO Questions
• Course Evaluations

May 14

• FINAL LRO DUE AT NOON