Professor Craig Jonathan Saper
Professor · Tenure-Track
Language, Literacy and Culture
College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
He/Him/His/Himself
About
Director of the Language, Literacy, and Culture Doctoral Program (2012-2015 and 2022-2025, 2020-2022 as Interim, 2011-2012 as Associate Director), Professor in the LLC Program (2012-present), and Bearman Family Foundation Chair (2012-2015). Co-Editor, Readies for Bob Brown’s Machine: A Critical Facsimile Edition (2020). Author of Amazing Adventures of Bob Brown (2016), Artificial Mythologies (1997), Networked Art (2001), Intimate Bureaucracies (2012), Editor & Intro The Readies for Bob Brown’s Machine (2020); Electracy: Gregory L. Ulmer’s Textshop Experiments (2016); Readies; Words; 1450-1950; and Gems (2014-15), and Houdini (2017).
Research interests
Anglo-American history of publishing especially as it relates to modernist and experimental poetry; visualizations of big data in digital humanities; modern periodical publishing.
Teaching interests
digital rhetoric, cultural language systems, cultural and media theory, visual and experimental poetry, media and communication studies, modernism, literary and rhetorical theory
Education
- Ph D, English — University of Florida (1990)
Publications
- Auteur-Publishers: Small Press Practices as Avant-Garde Writing 2025
- Saudades: toward a sociopoetics of diaspora, migration, & exiled writing 2023
- Readies for Bob Brown’s Machine: A Critical Facsimile Edition 2020
- “Introduction and Notes on the Text: – Readies for Bob Brown's Machine – Machine Art – Conceptual Poetry – Political Engagement – e-Literacies” 2020
- Invent(st)ory: The Contributors and Their Readies 2020
Grants and Contracts
- MRI: Acquisition of CAVE2 Display for Discovery Science, Creativity, and Education 2015
- Assessing Civic Engagement 2012