Gregory Ulmer

Gregory Ulmer

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name = Gregory Ulmer



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birth_date = December 23, 1944
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nationality = USA
field = English
work_institutions = University of Florida
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Gregory Leland Ulmer (born December 23, 1944) ["Contemporary Authors Online", s.v. "Gregory L(eland) Ulmer." Accessed March 3, 2008.] has been a professor in the Department of English at the University of Florida (Gainesville) since 1985.

Career

From 1972 to 1977 Ulmer worked as an assistant professor in the Humanities Department of the University of Florida and became the Acting Chair of the department in 1979. Since then he has received tenure, and he became the co-director of the Institute for European & Comparative Studies (1987–1990), and the director of the film studies program (1986–1989).

Many of Ulmer's breakthrough theories grow out of his home-spun "puncepts" like textshop, choragraphy, applied grammatology, mystory, heuretics, and post(e)-pedagogy. His explorations into what he refers to as an "anticipatory consciousness" designed to utilize the force of intuition as a way to invent emergent forms of knowledge, are methodologically remixed by Ulmerian disciples all over world.

One such project to grow out of Ulmer's magical mystory tour is "Illogic of Sense: The Gregory L. Ulmer Remix", [Darren Tufts and Lisa Gye, eds., [http://www.altx.com/ebooks/ulmer.html "Illogic of Sense: The Gregory L. Ulmer Remix"] (Boulder, CO: Alt X Press, 2007).] an e-book publication that highlights how Ulmer's seminal work has been central to contemporary thinking on the future of writing and new forms of hybridized "digital rhetoric." Published by the Alt-X Press [http://www.altx.com/] , which was founded by Ulmer's former student turned internationally acclaimed artist and writer Mark Amerika, the ebook is said to have finally fulfilled the long-promised potential of online publishing to use stimulating visual arrangement, media hybridization, and typographical ingenuity to blur the distinction between publication, exhibition, and design performance, which further brings to mind Ulmer's own self-consciously titled book "Internet Invention."

Academic interests

Ulmer's work focuses on hypertext, electracy and cyberlanguage and is frequently associated with "emerAgency", "fetishturgy," "choragraphy" and "mystoriography." He is the author of "Applied Grammatology: Post(e)-Pedagogy from Jacques Derrida to Joseph Beuys"; "Teletheory: Grammatology in the Age of Video"; "Heuretics: The Logic of Invention"; "Internet Invention: From Literacy to Electracy"; and "Electronic Monuments".

Following his motto (from the Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō) "not to follow in the footsteps of the masters, but to seek what they sought," Ulmer developed a mode for research and pedagogy that does for electracy what the argumentative essay (paper) does for literacy.

From his lectures

References

External links

* [http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~gulmer/ Ulmer Faculty Page at University of Florida]
* [http://www.egs.edu/faculty/ulmer.html Gregory Ulmer at European Graduate School]
* [http://www.altx.com/ebooks/ulmer.html Illogic of Sense: The Gregory L. Ulmer Remix]

See also

* List of thinkers influenced by deconstruction


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