Christopher Funkhouser
Christopher Funkhouser
Professor, Humanities & Social Sciences
425 Cullimore Hall
About Me
Born in St. Louis, raised in NJ, VA, NY, and MA. Educated at U. of Virginia (BA, MA), U. of Albany-SUNY (PhD).
Education
Ph.D.; University of Albany; ; 1997
M.A.; University of Virginia-Main Campus; ; 1988
B.A.; University of Virginia-Main Campus; ; 1986
M.A.; University of Virginia-Main Campus; ; 1988
B.A.; University of Virginia-Main Campus; ; 1986
Website
2023 Fall Courses
COM 324 - PODCAST PRACTICUM
COM 353 - APPLIED VISUAL COMMUNICATION
COM 353 - APPLIED VISUAL COMMUNICATION
Teaching Interests
Digital (electronic) literature, Interactive Audio Production, Document and Web Design.
Past Courses
COM 324: PODCAST PRACTICUM
COM 325: SPECIAL TOPICS IN COMMUNICATION
COM 325: ST: RADIO PRACTICUM
COM 325: ST: SPECIAL TOPICS
COM 353: COMPOSING DOCUMENTS FOR PRINT
COM 369: DIGITAL POETRY
ENG 333: CYBERTEXT
ENG 352: TECHNICAL WRITING
ENG 353: COMPOSING DOCUMENTS FOR PRINT
ENG 353: ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING
ENG 354: COMPOSING DOCUMENTS FOR THE WEB
ENG 354: COMPOSING DOCUMNTS FOR WEB
ENG 492: CO-OP WORK EXPERIENCE III
HSS 403: HUMANITIES SENIOR SEMINAR - LITERATURE
HSS 403: LIT SEM:
HSS 403: LIT SEM: DIGITAL POETRY
HSS 403: LIT SEM: ELECTRONIC LIT
HSS 403: LIT SEM: ELECTRONIC LITERATURE
HSS 403: LIT SEM:ELECTRONIC LITERATURE
COM 325: SPECIAL TOPICS IN COMMUNICATION
COM 325: ST: RADIO PRACTICUM
COM 325: ST: SPECIAL TOPICS
COM 353: COMPOSING DOCUMENTS FOR PRINT
COM 369: DIGITAL POETRY
ENG 333: CYBERTEXT
ENG 352: TECHNICAL WRITING
ENG 353: COMPOSING DOCUMENTS FOR PRINT
ENG 353: ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING
ENG 354: COMPOSING DOCUMENTS FOR THE WEB
ENG 354: COMPOSING DOCUMNTS FOR WEB
ENG 492: CO-OP WORK EXPERIENCE III
HSS 403: HUMANITIES SENIOR SEMINAR - LITERATURE
HSS 403: LIT SEM:
HSS 403: LIT SEM: DIGITAL POETRY
HSS 403: LIT SEM: ELECTRONIC LIT
HSS 403: LIT SEM: ELECTRONIC LITERATURE
HSS 403: LIT SEM:ELECTRONIC LITERATURE
Research Interests
Digital Poetry, Podcast Audio Production, Contemporary Literature, Hypertext/Hypermedia Pedagogy.
Broadcast Media
Poet Ray'd Yo
Wave Farm, 2022
Poet Ray'd Yo
Wave Farm, 2021
Most Serene Congress
Letter [r] Press, December 2017
POET RAY'D YO
WGXC, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2015
Funk's SoundBox: version archival
We Press, July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2015
Wave Farm, 2022
Poet Ray'd Yo
Wave Farm, 2021
Most Serene Congress
Letter [r] Press, December 2017
POET RAY'D YO
WGXC, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2015
Funk's SoundBox: version archival
We Press, July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2015
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Essay
Recording Peter Lamborn Wilson
Brooklyn Rail, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2022
Remembering Peter Lamborn Wilson
No Quarter, September 2022
Brooklyn Rail, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2022
Remembering Peter Lamborn Wilson
No Quarter, September 2022
Other
Unnameable EP
Bandcamp, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2022
improvised is how the voice is used...
Electronic Literature Organization, June 2022
Workers Sporing
Bandcamp, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2022
Goon Discord Router
Bandcamp, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2021
Leave Style Expanded
Bandcamp, December 2020
Bandcamp, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2022
improvised is how the voice is used...
Electronic Literature Organization, June 2022
Workers Sporing
Bandcamp, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2022
Goon Discord Router
Bandcamp, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2021
Leave Style Expanded
Bandcamp, December 2020
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Chapter
Funkhouser, Christopher (2022). Listening as learning: documenting preverbs, Burt Kimmelman (Ed.), Aporeia. (pp. 140-154). New York, NY: Aporeia
Funkhouser, Christopher (2021). being matter ignited...: an interview with Cecil Taylor, Adam Pendleton (Ed.), DABA; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz Konig. (pp. 138-162). New York; Koln: DABA; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz Konig
Funkhouser, Christopher (2019). “Notes on the Body in Relation to Technopoetry” , Edwin Torres (Ed.), Counterpath Press. (pp. 194-201). Denver, CO: Counterpath Press
Funkhouser, Christopher (2018). Pressing Record: On Ginsberg, Benjamin Boretz, et al. (Eds.), The Open Space Magazine. (pp. 315-329). Red Hook, NY: The Open Space Magazine
Funkhouser, Christopher (2012). “First generation poetry generators: foundations in form,”, Douglas Kahn and Hannah Higgins (Eds.), U California P. (pp. 34 pp). Berkeley, CA: U California P
Funkhouser, Christopher (2021). being matter ignited...: an interview with Cecil Taylor, Adam Pendleton (Ed.), DABA; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz Konig. (pp. 138-162). New York; Koln: DABA; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz Konig
Funkhouser, Christopher (2019). “Notes on the Body in Relation to Technopoetry” , Edwin Torres (Ed.), Counterpath Press. (pp. 194-201). Denver, CO: Counterpath Press
Funkhouser, Christopher (2018). Pressing Record: On Ginsberg, Benjamin Boretz, et al. (Eds.), The Open Space Magazine. (pp. 315-329). Red Hook, NY: The Open Space Magazine
Funkhouser, Christopher (2012). “First generation poetry generators: foundations in form,”, Douglas Kahn and Hannah Higgins (Eds.), U California P. (pp. 34 pp). Berkeley, CA: U California P
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Journal Article
Funkhouser, Christopher (2021). Applying Poetic Media in the Digital Humanities. Interférences littéraires /Literaire interferenties(25), 35-50.
Funkhouser, Christopher (2020). On Jim Rosenberg’s Word Space Multiplicities. Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics ,
Funkhouser, Christopher (2018). Being matter recorded: Cecil Taylor on/poetry. The Open Space Magazine(21), 10-14.
Funkhouser, Christopher (2018). Review of Baraka & Taylor at the Poetry Project (2000). The Open Space Magazine(21), 14-17.
Funkhouser, Christopher (2017). “IBM Poetry: Exploring Restriction in Computer Poems”. The Poetics of Computation, Special Issue of Humanities, 19.
Funkhouser, Christopher (2020). On Jim Rosenberg’s Word Space Multiplicities. Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics ,
Funkhouser, Christopher (2018). Being matter recorded: Cecil Taylor on/poetry. The Open Space Magazine(21), 10-14.
Funkhouser, Christopher (2018). Review of Baraka & Taylor at the Poetry Project (2000). The Open Space Magazine(21), 14-17.
Funkhouser, Christopher (2017). “IBM Poetry: Exploring Restriction in Computer Poems”. The Poetics of Computation, Special Issue of Humanities, 19.
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Conference Proceeding
"Midiazine Research Performance ELO 2018 / Eastern Bloc, Montreal, August 15"
Les Presses de l’Écureuil – ALN / NT2, 2020, November 2020
“Players only Love you when they’re Playin’: Community as Algorithm in Programmable Poetics”
Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice, November 2012
“On Jackson Mac Low, ‘Stanzas for Iris Lezak’”
Jacket2, May 2011
Les Presses de l’Écureuil – ALN / NT2, 2020, November 2020
“Players only Love you when they’re Playin’: Community as Algorithm in Programmable Poetics”
Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice, November 2012
“On Jackson Mac Low, ‘Stanzas for Iris Lezak’”
Jacket2, May 2011
Website Launched
Funk's SoundBox: version archival
We Press, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2020
We Press, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2020
Book Review
The Poem Electric: Technology and the American Lyric
Rain Taxi Review of Books, July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2019
The Last Vispo Anthology: Visual Poetry 1998-2008
Rain Taxi Review of Books, March 2013
"Digital Art and Meaning: Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations"
Rain Taxi Review of Books, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2012
“Tan Lin’s Seven Controlled Vocabularies”
Edit Publications, February 2011
“Bionanomedia Expression”
Postmodern Culture , April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2009
Rain Taxi Review of Books, July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2019
The Last Vispo Anthology: Visual Poetry 1998-2008
Rain Taxi Review of Books, March 2013
"Digital Art and Meaning: Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations"
Rain Taxi Review of Books, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2012
“Tan Lin’s Seven Controlled Vocabularies”
Edit Publications, February 2011
“Bionanomedia Expression”
Postmodern Culture , April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2009
Book
Funkhouser, Christopher (2015). Whereis Mineral: Selected Adventures in MOO. San Francisco, CA: Gauss PDF
Funkhouser, Christopher (2014). pressAgain. Bergen : Free Dogma Press
Funkhouser, Christopher (2011). Electro Perdix. Northampton,MA: Least Weasel
Funkhouser, Christopher (2011). November 2010. Kingston, PA: Chapbookpublisher.com
Funkhouser, Christopher (2014). pressAgain. Bergen : Free Dogma Press
Funkhouser, Christopher (2011). Electro Perdix. Northampton,MA: Least Weasel
Funkhouser, Christopher (2011). November 2010. Kingston, PA: Chapbookpublisher.com
Regular Column in Journal or Newspaper
"in audio practice: I-XII"
Jacket2, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2014
Jacket2, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2014
Monograph
New Directions in Digital Poetry
Continuum P, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2012
Continuum P, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2012
Cited Research
"Illuminated Nanoscripts"
hemispheric institute E-Misferica, May 2009
hemispheric institute E-Misferica, May 2009