About ebr

electronic book review is a peer-reviewed diamond open access journal of critical writing produced and published by the digital literary network. Although ebr threads include essays addressing a wide range of topics across the arts, sciences, and humanities, ebr’s editors are particularly interested in critically savvy, in-depth work addressing the digital future of literature, theory, criticism, and the arts.

ISSN: 1553-1139

Contact: staff@electronicbookreview.com
Submissions: Can be submitted here.

Editor in Chief: Joseph Tabbi (University of Bergen)
Managing Editors: Anna Nacher (Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie), Tegan Pyke (University of Bergen)
Co-Editors: Daniel Johannes Rosnes (Independent), Hanna Hellesø Lauvli (University of Bergen), Yağmur Çisem Vik (University of Bergen), Samya Brata Roy (GITAM Deemed University)
Assistant Editor: Azza Hisham Sakr (University of Bergen)

Founding Publisher: Mark Amerika
Information Designer and Developer: Colin Robinson

Publication Ethics:

Electronic Book Review: Rules of Publication Ethics

Editorial Board:

Lai-Tze Fan (University of Waterloo), Anne Karhio (University of Inland Norway), Will Luers (Washington State University), Anna Nacher (Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie), Scott Rettberg (University of Bergen), Joseph Tabbi (University of Bergen), Rob Wittig (University of Minnesota Duluth), David Thomas Henry Wright (University of Bergen), Erika Fülöp (Université Toulouse II Jean Jaurès), Kathi Iman Berens (Portland State University), Davin Heckman (Winona State University)

International Advisory Board:

Joe Amato (Illinois State University), Tim Armstrong (Royal Holloway, University of London), Jan Baetens (KU Leuven), Ralph Berry (Florida State University), Serge Bouchardon (Sorbonne Université), Marc Bousquet (Emory University), Stephen Burn, David Ciccoricco (University of Otago), Stephen Darren Dougherty (University of Agder), Martin Paul Eve (Birbeck, University of London), Irene Fabbri (Independent), Anna Gibbs (Western Sydney University), Richard Grusin (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee), Mark B. N. Hansen (Duke University), Ursula Heise (UCLA), Stefan Herbrechter (Heidelberg University), Matthew Kirschenbaum (University of Maryland), Brian Lennon (Pennsylvania State University), Timothy Melley (Miami University), Dee Morris (University of Iowa), Timothy Morton (Rice University), Stuart Moulthrop (University of Wisconsin), Søren Bro Pold (Aarhus University), Manuel Portela (Universidade de Coimbra), Daniel Punday (Mississippi State University), Rita Raley (University of California, Santa Barbara), David Roh (University of Utah), Anne Royston (Rochester Institute of Technology), Allison Schifani (Georgia State University), Kelly Sultzbach (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse), Jörgen Schäfer (Universitaet Siegen), Davis Schneiderman (Lake Forest College), Rob Swigart (Independent), Thom Swiss (University of Minnesota), Regina Schober (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf), Rui Torres (Universidad de Granada), Phillip Wegner (University of Florida), Birger Vanwesenbeeck (State University of New York), Cary Wolfe (Rice University), Michael Wutz (Weber State University), Eric Dean Rasmussen (University of Stavanger)

Support and Affiliations:

  • Center for Digital Narrative, University of Bergen
  • Creative Media & Digital Culture, Washington State University Vancouver
  • University of Colorado at Boulder Department of English, 2009-2012
  • Graduate Media Design Program, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
  • Department of Cultural Studies and Languages, Faculty of Education and Humanities, University of Stavanger
  • Electronic Literature Organization
  • Consortium for Electronic Literature (CELL)

Partial Funding Provided By:

  • Dean’s Award, School of Arts & Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Alt-X Foundation
  • Faculty Enrichment Grant, Art Center College of Design
  • Faculty Support Grant, California Institute of the Arts
  • Electronic Literature Organization for Fellowships awarded to Jason Childs and Lai-Tze Fan in the year 2019

ebr does not charge APCs or submission charges.

Thread Credits

critical ecologies >–
Current thread editor: Lisa Swanstrom. Thread editor from 2008-2013: Stacy Alaimo. Thread editor from 2006-07: Andrew McMurray. Critical Ecologies was launched by Cary Wolfe and Joseph Tabbi in the winter of 1996/97. Concrete poem in Critical Ecologies icon by Daniel Wenk.

electropoetics >–
Current thread editor: Davin Heckman; thread editor from 2007-12: Lori Emerson; from 2003-06: Dave Ciccoricco. Electropoetics began in the Spring of 1997 with a special issue edited by Joel Felix. Concrete poem in Electropoetics icon by Daniel Wenk.

end construction >–
Current thread editor: Joseph Tabbi. Treated street sign for End Construction icon photographed by Daniel Wenk, interpreted by Anne Burdick.

fictions present >–
Current thread editor: Kiki Benzon. Thread editor from 2006-09: Stephen Burn

First Person >–
Current thread editor: Ed Finn. First Person was originally edited by Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin and co-produced with MIT Press in 2003.

image + narrative >–
Current thread editor: Joseph Tabbi. Image + Narrative was launched in the summer of 1998 by Steve Tomasula and Anne Burdick. Driving stills used in Image+Narrative icon by Anne Burdick.

internet nation >–
Current thread editor: Joseph Tabbi. Internet Nation was launched in the winter of 1998/99 by Vladislava Gordic. Stills of Ceausescu and Mickey used in the Internet Nation icon provided by Alexander Davic.

music/sound/noise >–
Thread editor from 2006-07: Trace Reddell. MusicSoundNoise was initiated in the winter of 2000/01 by Cary Wolfe and Mark Amerika. msn logo and animation created by Cynthia Jacquette.

technocapitalism >–
Current thread editor: Aron Pease. Thread editors from 2002-2003: Marc Bousquet and Katherine Wills, copy edited by Matthew Thornton. Technocapitalism began as a set of essays collected in 2002 to be the first in a series of Alt-X Critical E-books.

writing (post)feminism >–
Thread editor from 1996-2006: Elizabeth Joyce. Writing Postfeminism was guest edited by Elizabeth Joyce and Gay Lynn Crossley in the fall of 1996. The thread icon is from “Fear and Desire” by Susan Galey, 1993.

writing under constraint >–
Current thread editor: Joseph Tabbi. Writing Under Constraint was launched in the winter of 1999/2000 by Jan Baetens. The Writing under Constraint graphic was produced by Anne Burdick and Rei Fukui in collaboration with Daniel Wenk.