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Schedule
2026
Wednesday, July 15th
2:15 PM

Name that face—Wikimedia images

Denise Larsen, Independent

Narratives & Worlds

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

Workshop

3:30 PM

High-Performance Spatial Text: Ludic Constriction and Narrative Performance in XR Game Engines

patrick lichty, Winona State University

Narratives & Worlds

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Workshop

4:45 PM

Out Of This World: An Exoplanetary Workshop

Monica Storss, Northeastern University
Bart Kuipers, SETI Institute

Narratives & Worlds

4:45 PM - 5:45 PM

Workshop

Thursday, July 16th
9:15 AM

Nilo Ybyraporã: transcestral instapoetry

Daniela Silva de Freitas, Universidade Federal de Alfenas

Narratives & Worlds

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Individual Talk

9:15 AM

Poetry of Movement: Virality, Affect and Agency in Warsan Shire’s “Home”

Shweta Khilnani

Narratives & Worlds

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Individual Talk

9:15 AM

Reimaging Authorship in Contemporary Chinese Poetry

zhijing wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Narratives & Worlds

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Individual Talk

9:15 AM

Start typing… Digital Poetry in Latin America

Alex Saum-Pascual Saum-Pascual, University of California, Berkeley
Élika Ortega-Guzman, University of Colorado, Boulder

Narratives & Worlds

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Individual Talk

10:30 AM

Hosting the Gap: Digital Typography as Linguistic Hospitality in Translation

Maya Sarfaty, Universidade de Lisboa

Narratives & Worlds

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Individual Talk

10:30 AM

Never Let It Collapse: Three Passes at an Unsupervised Cat's Cradle

Caitlin Fisher, York University

Narratives & Worlds

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Individual Talk

10:30 AM

Quilt Poems: Encoding Craft Traditions as Generative Poetry

Lee Tusman, SUNY Purchase

Narratives & Worlds

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Individual Talk

10:30 AM

(Un)Supervised Critical Baking: Reflective Virtual Cheesecake Simulation

Emily Johnson, University of Central Florida
Vee Kennedy, University of Central Florida

Narratives & Worlds

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Individual Talk

2:15 PM

Post-Digital Creativity in Underacknowledged Communities

Tegan Pyke, University of Bergen
Hannah Ackermans, University of Bergen
Zahra Rizvi, University of Bergen

Narratives & Worlds

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

Panel

3:30 PM

Cooperation, Collaboration, and Community in Horror and Suspense Games

Rachel Kerr, University of Texas at Dallas
Monica Evans, University of Texas at Dallas
Cameron Irby, University of Texas at Dallas
Cheri Tang, University of Texas at Dallas

Narratives & Worlds

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Panel

4:45 PM

Boîte en Valise / Writing Inside the Box : Local Virtual Space and Creative Exigencies

patrick lichty, Winona State University

Narratives & Worlds

4:45 PM - 5:45 PM

Individual Talk

4:45 PM

Compressed Cinema as a Study in LLM Latent Spaces

Mallen Clifton, Stanford University

Narratives & Worlds

4:45 PM - 5:45 PM

Individual Talk

4:45 PM

From Voice to Environment: Authorship in Spatial Collage

Daniel Lichtman, St. John’s university

Narratives & Worlds

4:45 PM - 5:45 PM

Individual Talk

4:45 PM

Red-Teaming GenAI Chatbots: Toxic “Talk” & Product Liability

Siobhan O'Flynn, University of Toronto

Narratives & Worlds

4:45 PM - 5:45 PM

Individual Talk

Friday, July 17th
9:15 AM

Exploring fractures in the intimate technology shaping millions of lives

Christine Wilks, University of Alberta

Narratives & Worlds

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Individual Talk

9:15 AM

In Dark times, Should the Stars Also Go Out?: Disco Elysium & Melancholic Agency

Shannon Lee Ms, National University of Singapore

Narratives & Worlds

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Individual Talk

9:15 AM

Migritude in the Digital Space: An Analysis of Migration Narratives in Twenty-First-Century Electronic Literature

Ruth Oluyemi Akande, University of Lagos

Narratives & Worlds

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Individual Talk

9:15 AM

Network of Time: Reading History Through Photographic Adjacency

Jesse M. Ward

Narratives & Worlds

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Individual Talk

10:30 AM

Code poetry and labour: the game excess of work

María Garay Arriba, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain

Narratives & Worlds

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Individual Talk

10:30 AM

Electronic Literature in AI data work

Mihai Bacaran, Independent

Narratives & Worlds

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Individual Talk

10:30 AM

Positioning Electronic literature as an Emerging Creative Industry in the Majority World: A Comparative Analysis with Video Games and Digital Arts

Mehulkumar Desai Mr., Indian Institute of Technology, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad

Narratives & Worlds

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Individual Talk

10:30 AM

The Implications of Generative-AI User Prompt Engineering Shaping the Absent Presence of Latino Women Textual Rhetoric in LLMs

Angely C. Suarez DeJesus

Narratives & Worlds

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Individual Talk

2:15 PM

Performing Comedy in the Virtual Space; Helping Society Get Over Itself

Rob Wittig, Meanwhile Netprov Studio
Mandy Canales, Washington State University
Mark C. Marino, University of Southern California

Narratives & Worlds

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

Workshop

Saturday, July 18th
9:15 AM

How Firm is Our Foundation? : Towards a Pedagogy of AI

Katherine Parrish Ms., Independent Scholar

Narratives & Worlds

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Individual Talk

9:15 AM

Small Changes, Large Effects: A Chaos Theory Framework for Electronic Literature in Climate Education for Indian Primary Students

Mumtaz Mazumdar Dr, M. C. Das College

Narratives & Worlds

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Individual Talk

9:15 AM

Teaching Writers to Think Queerly: Twine, Interactive Narrative, and the Unlearning of Linear Storytelling

LJ Connolly, University of Central Florida

Narratives & Worlds

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Individual Talk

9:15 AM

Twine and Inky: A Hypertext Multi-tool for the Creative Writing Classroom

Jeremy Andriano, Toronto Metropolitan University

Narratives & Worlds

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Individual Talk

10:30 AM

Digital Nollywood as Interactive Narrative: Gender, Power, and Audience Rewriting

Theodora Bassey Etim, University of Calabar, Nigeria

Narratives & Worlds

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Individual Talk

10:30 AM

Reacting to Electronic Literature in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria

Faith Samuel Bassey, University of Uyo, Nigeria

Narratives & Worlds

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Individual Talk

10:30 AM

Unsupervised Pedagogy and Electronic Literature under Infrastructural Constraint: Experiences from Calabar

Lilian Okoro

Narratives & Worlds

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Individual Talk

10:30 AM

Unsupervised: Shedding Light on South African Digital Poetry

Jasmine Mattey, University of Bergen

Narratives & Worlds

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Individual Talk