Alan Liu is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has taught since 1988. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1980 and taught in the English Department and British Studies Program at Yale University from 1979-87. His central interests include British Romantic literature and art, information culture, new media, literary theory, and cultural studies. He is the author of Wordsworth: The Sense of History (Stanford Univ. Press, 1989) and The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2004).

His major web projects include The Voice of the Shuttle; Palinurus: The Academy and the Corporation; and The Romantic Chronology (co-edited with Laura Mandell). He is director of a curricular development project titled Transcriptions: Literary History and the Culture of Information. He also co-directs (with Rita Raley) the Literature and Culture of Information specialization in the UCSB English Department and and co-organized the department's Public Humanities Initiative. In 2005, he started the University of California multi-campus research group, Transliteracies: Research in the Technological, Social, and Cultural Practices of Online Reading.

Monday, November 19, 2007, 2:00 PM @ 135 HIB

The Transliteracies Project includes scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and engineering in the University of California system. Its working groups study online reading from different perspectives; publish research and demonstration software; and train graduate students working at the intersections of the humanistic, social, and technological disciplines. Transliteracies is a UC Multi-Campus Research Group with funding from the University of California Office of the President as well as from its host campus with the UC system, UC Santa Barbara.

The UCI Software Culture series brings new media scholars to UC Irvine, supported by Film & Media Studies, Visual Studies, and the Humanities Center. All talks free and open to the public.