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Alex Saum-Pascual Joins ELO’s Board of Directors

17 Mar, 2020

Alex Saum-Pascual Joins ELO’s Board of Directors

We are so excited to share that BCNM faculty member Alex Suam-Pascusal, Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature, has joined the Board of Directors at the Electronic Literature Organization! Alex is an incredible artist known for her digital poetry, art, creative works, electronic literature, and new media. The ELO is an international organization dedicated to the investigation of literature produced for the digital medium.

From the announcement:

Alex Suam Pascual is Associate Professor of Spanish and New Media at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches Contemporary Spanish Literature and Culture (20th and 21st Centuries) and Electronic Literature (Digital Humanities). She is also part of the Executive Committee of the Berkeley Center for New Media. Her academic work on digital media and literature in the Spanish-speaking world has been published in Spain, Mexico and the United States in the Digital Humanities Quarterly.

As an artist, she is interested in the intersection of female representation in digital media and online spaces as these relate to offline environments in the Anthropocene. Her digital artwork and poetry has been exhibited in galleries and art festivals in the United States and abroad. She is currently a 2020 Poetry Fellow at the Arts Research Center, working on her latest electronic literature work, corporate poetry.

For full announcement click here

Congratulations Alex!