George Landow is Professor of English and Art History at Brown University

Brown University

Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...

. He is one of the leading authorities on Victorian literature

Victorian literature

Victorian literature is the literature produced during the reign of Queen Victoria . It forms a link and transition between the writers of the romantic period and the very different literature of the 20th century....

, art, and culture, as well as a pioneer in criticism and theory of Electronic literature

Electronic literature

Electronic literature is a literary genre consisting of works of literature that originate within digital environments.-Definitions:N. Katherine Hayles discusses the topic in the online article...

, hypertext

Hypertext

Hypertext is text displayed on a computer or other electronic device with references to other text that the reader can immediately access, usually by a mouse click or keypress sequence. Apart from running text, hypertext may contain tables, images and other presentational devices. Hypertext is the...

 and hypermedia

Hypermedia

Hypermedia is a computer-based information retrieval system that enables a user to gain or provide access to texts, audio and video recordings, photographs and computer graphics related to a particular subject.Hypermedia is a term created by Ted Nelson....

. He is also the founder and current webmaster of The Victorian Webhttp://www.victorianweb.org/, The Contemporary, Postcolonial, & Postimperial Literature in English webhttp://www.postcolonialweb.org/, and The Cyberspace, Hypertext, & Critical Theory webhttp://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/.

Professor Landow has published extensively on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti...

, specifically the life and works of William Holman Hunt and John Ruskin

John Ruskin

John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political...

. Furthermore, Landow's articles and books are of some importance to studies on the effects of digital technology on language. Landow discusses the effects of electronic media on literature, creating a plausible link with critics such as Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher, born in French Algeria. He developed the critical theory known as deconstruction and his work has been labeled as post-structuralism and associated with postmodern philosophy...

, Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes

Roland Gérard Barthes was a French literary theorist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, existentialism, social theory, Marxism, anthropology and...

, Gilles Deleuze

Gilles Deleuze

Gilles Deleuze , was a French philosopher who, from the early 1960s until his death, wrote influentially on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus , both co-written with Félix...

, Paul de Man

Paul de Man

Paul de Man was a Belgian-born deconstructionist literary critic and theorist.He began teaching at Bard College. Later, he completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University in the late 1950s...

, and Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault , born Paul-Michel Foucault , was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas...

, among others. This places him in a slightly different position on issues such as "the end of books" through the prophetic and "futurologic" view often taken by critics regarding new media and literature.

Landow is a well-known author, researcher and one of the most important thinkers concerning Hypermedia

Hypermedia

Hypermedia is a computer-based information retrieval system that enables a user to gain or provide access to texts, audio and video recordings, photographs and computer graphics related to a particular subject.Hypermedia is a term created by Ted Nelson....

 and Hypertext

Hypertext

Hypertext is text displayed on a computer or other electronic device with references to other text that the reader can immediately access, usually by a mouse click or keypress sequence. Apart from running text, hypertext may contain tables, images and other presentational devices. Hypertext is the...

 in academia. His most important works highlight the epistemological modifications which result from the migration between systems of "closed" authorial publication (such as books), to the "open" systems, such as the hypertext and hypermedia.

Select works

• Hypertext 3.0 : Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society), 2005
• Hypertext 2.0 : The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society), 1997
• Hypertext : The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society), 1991
• Hyper/Text/Theory, 1994
• Hypermedia and Literary Studies, 1994 (with Paul Delany)
• The Digital Word: Text-Based Computing in the Humanities, 1993 (with Paul Delany)
• Elegant Jeremiahs: The Sage from Carlyle to Mailer, 1986
• A Pre-Raphaelite Friendship: The Correspondence of William Holman Hunt and John Lucas Tupper, 1986
• Ladies of Shalott: A Victorian Masterpiece and Its Contexts, 1985
• Images of Crisis: Literary Iconology, 1750 to the Present, 1982
• Victorian Types, Victorian Shadows; Biblical Typology in Victorian Literature, Art, and Thought, 1980
• Approaches to Victorian Autobiography, 1979
• William Holman Hunt and Typological Symbolism, 1979
• The Aesthetic and Critical Theories of John Ruskin, 1972

See also

• Jay David Bolter
  Jay David Bolter
  Jay David Bolter is the Wesley Chair of New Media and a professor in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Some of his main points of study include the evolution of media, the usage of technology in education, and the role of computers in the...
  
  
• Robert Coover
  Robert Coover
  Robert Lowell Coover is an American author and professor in the Literary Arts program at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction.-Life and works:...
  
  
• J. Yellowlees Douglas
• Electronic Literature Organization
  Electronic Literature Organization
  The Electronic Literature Organisation is a nonprofit organization "established in 1999 to promote and facilitate the writing, publishing, and reading of electronic literature." -History:...
  
  
• N. Katherine Hayles
  N. Katherine Hayles
  N. Katherine Hayles is a postmodern literary critic, most notable for her contribution to the fields of literature and science, electronic literature, and American literature. She is professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Program in Literature at Duke University. -Background:Hayles was...
  
  
• Shelley Jackson
  Shelley Jackson
  Shelley Jackson is a writer and artist known for her cross-genre experiments, including her groundbreaking work of hyperfiction, Patchwork Girl...
  
  
• Michael Joyce
• Lev Manovich
  Lev Manovich
  Lev Manovich is an author of new media books, professor of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, U.S. and European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he teaches new media art and theory, software studies, and digital humanities...
  
  
• Stuart Moulthrop
  Stuart Moulthrop
  Stuart Moulthrop is an innovator of electronic literature and hypertext fiction, both as a theoretician and as a writer. He is author of the hypertext fiction works Victory Garden , which was on the front-page of the New York Times Book Review in 1993, Reagan Library , and Hegirascope , amongst...
  
  

External links

• Official site
• Eastgate biography
• Hypermedia: futures. Critic and new media in the globalization era a talk given by George Landow at the File festival Symposium/November/2005