Daniel Scott Snelson is a writer, editor, and archivist working as an Assistant Professor in the Departments of English and Design Media Arts at UCLA, where he serves as faculty for the Digital Humanities, the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies, and the UCLA Game Lab. His online editorial work can be found on PennSound, Eclipse, UbuWeb, Jacket2, and the EPC. Published books works include Elden Poem (Hysterically Real, 2022), Full Bleed: A Mourning Letter for the Printed Page (Sync, 2019), Apocalypse Reliquary: 1984-2000 (Monoskop, 2018), Radios (Make Now, 2016), EXE TXT (Gauss PDF, 2015), Epic Lyric Poem (Troll Thread, 2014), and Inventory Arousal with James Hoff (Bedford Press/Architectural Association, 2011). With Mashinka Firunts HakopianΒ andΒ Avi Alpert, he performs as one-third of the academic performance group Research Service.Β His forthcoming book, The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats (University of Minnesota Press, 2025), examines the networked afterlives of media-reflexive works of art and letters. Interests include file formats, experimental poetry, tabletop RPGs, media poetics, VR exercise, emerging genres, queer comics, internet vernaculars, walking simulators, and games of all stripes. In courses and compositions, he attends to new modes of collaboration, play, and circulation. See selected syllabi here. My inbox can be found at danny dot snelson at google mail. |