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Schedule
2026
Wednesday, July 15th
2:15 PM

Intro to Scrollimation: Principles and Practices

Artemio Morales, AltSalt

Hypertexts & Fictions

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

Workshop

3:30 PM

Edit the Peeragogy Wikibook

Charles Danoff, Mr. Danoff’s Teaching Laboratory, LLC

Hypertexts & Fictions

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Workshop

4:45 PM

On the Peripheries of E-lit: Study Digital Literary Cultures (Plus)

Kiera Obbard, University of Waterloo
Tanja Grubnic, Duke University
Magdalena E. Korecka, University of Hamburg
Kim Martin, University of Guelph
Tess McNulty, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Camilla Holm-Soelseth, Oslo Metropolitan University

Hypertexts & Fictions

4:45 PM - 5:45 PM

Panel

Thursday, July 16th
9:15 AM

A Human Was Here: Occult Poetics, Hypertext Ritual, and the (Un)Supervised Web

Emily Carr, Nectar, Inc.

Hypertexts & Fictions

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Individual Talk

9:15 AM

Coercing Contribution: Navigating Involuntary Authors through a Mountain of Sleep

Glenn S. Ritchey III, University of Central Florida

Hypertexts & Fictions

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Individual Talk

9:15 AM

Perverse Pleasure: A Defence of Difficulty Without Resolution

Joy Pang, National University of Singapore

Hypertexts & Fictions

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Individual Talk

10:30 AM

A multi-language video game dialogue corpus

Mark A. Black, Washington State University

Hypertexts & Fictions

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Individual Talk

10:30 AM

Eventization and the Community Aspect of Demoparties: A case study of Silly Venture, Last Party and Lost Party

Piotr Marecki, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
Krzysztof A. Ziembik, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
Patryk Ciesielczyk, Jagiellonian University, Kraków

Hypertexts & Fictions

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Individual Talk

10:30 AM

Miniature Novels Inside Code: Reflection Scenes as Emergent Literary Form in ChoiceScript

Matthew F. Griffin, New York University

Hypertexts & Fictions

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Individual Talk

10:30 AM

Narrative Nubs: Systematic Sketches of Story Systems

Nick Montfort, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Hypertexts & Fictions

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Individual Talk

2:15 PM

Storyboarding for Scrollimation

Artemio Morales, AltSalt

Hypertexts & Fictions

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

Workshop

3:30 PM

CELL Project Roundtable 2026

Davin Heckman

Hypertexts & Fictions

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Panel

4:45 PM

Thinking Ahead about Your Legacy: A Workshop Aimed at Preparing Your Archives for Future Access

Dene Grigar
Holly Slocum, Washington State University Vancouver
Greg Philbrook, Washington State University Vancouver
James Lesperance, washington state university Vancouver
Ruth Woodcock, Washington State University Vancouver

Hypertexts & Fictions

4:45 PM - 5:45 PM

Workshop

Friday, July 17th
9:15 AM

AFOA.NZ / A Flight Over Aotearoa New Zealand: Epistolary E-Lit in an Interactive Videobook for Children

Gisela De Castro Mrs., The University of Waikato

Hypertexts & Fictions

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Individual Talk

9:15 AM

Coaxing the Ripples: thoughts on distant writing of interactive works

Terhi Marttila, Interactive technologies Institute / LARSyS
Jay David Bolter, Georgia Institute of Technology
Watson Hartsoe, Georgia Institute of Technology

Hypertexts & Fictions

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Individual Talk

9:15 AM

Twice,again: Virentis – Bounded (Un)Supervision as World-Building Method

Andrew Burrell Dr, University of Technology Sydney

Hypertexts & Fictions

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Individual Talk

9:15 AM

Water Songs: An artist’s talk discussing “Documenting the Imperceptible”

Jolene L. Armstrong, Athabasca University
Monique Tschofen, Toronto Metropolitan University

Hypertexts & Fictions

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Individual Talk

10:30 AM

Conflicting agencies at the heart of literariness

Ana Marques da Silva, University of Coimbra

Hypertexts & Fictions

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Individual Talk

10:30 AM

“Huir sí es mejor plan”: Rethinking the Subject in Digital Literature

Fernanda Mugica, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata

Hypertexts & Fictions

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Individual Talk

10:30 AM

Posthuman Ethics and Networked Agency in AI-Human Cocreations

Liselotte de Beer, University of Stavanger

Hypertexts & Fictions

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Individual Talk

10:30 AM

(Un)Supervised Translation: How Fans Fill in the Gaps in Visual Novel Localization

Sara Raffel, University of Central Florida
Mónica G. González Burgos, University of Central Florida

Hypertexts & Fictions

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Individual Talk

2:15 PM

Archival Storytelling: Remembering Our Digital History

Dene Grigar

Hypertexts & Fictions

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

Individual Talk

2:15 PM

Digital Rare and Imaginary Libraries: Some Critical Approaches to Text-to-Image Books

Élika Ortega, University of Colorado, Boulder

Hypertexts & Fictions

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

Individual Talk

2:15 PM

Digitally Disfiguring the Canon

David T.H. Wright, University of Bergen

Hypertexts & Fictions

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

Individual Talk

2:15 PM

“You can see Note 23 here.”: Conceptualizing Critical Editions of Interactive Fiction

Jason Boyd, Toronto Metropolitan University

Hypertexts & Fictions

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

Individual Talk

Saturday, July 18th
9:15 AM

Reorienting Electronic Literature

Mehulkumar Desai, Indian Institute of Technology, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad
Shanmugapriya T, Indian Institute of Technology, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad
Leonardo Flores, Appalachian State University

Hypertexts & Fictions

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Panel

10:30 AM

Detour, Digress, Destroy (on random walks): Demoing a Platform for Text Manipulation

Devin Higgins, Michigan State University

Hypertexts & Fictions

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Individual Talk

10:30 AM

Human Digital Interaction

Kirill Azernyi

Hypertexts & Fictions

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Individual Talk

10:30 AM

New Beginnings

Brendan Howell, The Howell Ersatz Co.
Jenni Bohn, Burg Hülshoff Center for Literature
Andreas Bülhoff, sync.ed / Spoken Matter

Hypertexts & Fictions

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Individual Talk

10:30 AM

The Question is a Node: Online Quizzes as Interactive Non-Fiction

Michael Merriam, Independent

Hypertexts & Fictions

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Individual Talk

2:15 PM

"The First Web Novel at 30: The Collection and the Creative Process"

Robert Arellano
Scott Rettberg, University of Bergen

Hypertexts & Fictions

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

Panel