Mixed Media in Contemporary American Literature: Voices Gone Viral

After situating research through voices of nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature, this book examines the expressions of a multi-media vocality, examining the interactions among cultural polemics, aesthetic forms, and changing media in the twenty-first century.

Joelle Mann is faculty in the Writing Initiative at Binghamton University, where she teaches courses on composition, rhetoric, technical writing, and digital writing. Joelle’s research investigates changing medial tropes and their sociopolitical implications in multimodal literature and writing. Aside from earning her doctorate from Stony Brook University, Joelle also has advanced teaching certifications in Media, Art, and Technology as well as in Cultural Studies. She is on the executive board for the SUNY Council on Writing, and she has published articles in a variety of literary journals, including Critique: Contemporary Studies in Fiction, Children’s Literature, The American Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literature, and Pedagogy and Literary Studies.