(Un)Supervised CFP
The theme of ELOnline 2026 is (Un)Supervised. One interpretation of this might regard a kind of LLM development, but we also consider perennial questions in the field around who is watching, who is reading, and who is learning about Electronic Literature, especially E-Lit cultures outside this institution. We particularly encourage submissions that center on computational research questions and generativity and the university as spaces where community and computational creativity are contested by many actors and parties. We invite attention to both un-institutioning (such as the decoupling of the federal government from research initiatives at public and international institutions) and the adaptive, critical, reflexive processes of institution-building, maintenance, and reinforcement (initiatives, pedagogies, technologies, labs, partnerships, research organizations, platforms, large-language-models, publications, etc.).
As part of this theme, we invite submissions in celebration of the E-Literary arts across all formats exploring the trajectories of the web, academia, and social platforms as sites of electronic literature making, community care, and movement. Topics of particular interest include:
Conference Themes
- • E-Lit Access, Anthologies, + Archivism
- • Emerging + Migrating E-Lit Networks, Community, + Platforms
- • Critical Making, Digital Humanities, + E-Lit Criticism
- • Generative / Agentic AI + Computational Creativity
- • Institutional Imaginaries After Federal Withdrawal
- • Theories, Aesthetics, + Praxes of Resistance
- • Anti-Racist, Feminist, + Queer Edu-Labor
- • Twine + Hypertext [Non]Fictions & Poetics
- • Mixed + Extended Reality + Imaginaries
