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
SHOW MORE
Interview for Poetry Is (Speaking Portraits)
George Quasha, June 2015
"Digital Poetry: Written by People or Computers?"
Living Lab on The Point, November 2013
“Spellbinder Jettison Mojo”
NJIT Office of Strategic Communications, September 2012
Conversations about Poetry and Technology
Glia.ca, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2012
trained listener (PoemTalk)
PennSound, March 2010
George Quasha, June 2015
"Digital Poetry: Written by People or Computers?"
Living Lab on The Point, November 2013
“Spellbinder Jettison Mojo”
NJIT Office of Strategic Communications, September 2012
Conversations about Poetry and Technology
Glia.ca, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2012
trained listener (PoemTalk)
PennSound, March 2010
COLLAPSE
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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Complicated Sines
Bandcamp, August 2020
Twisting Archival Ratio
Bandcamp, June 2020
Showing Trees in Public
Noemata.net, February 2020
This Yet
Bandcamp, December 2019
“US” Poets Foreign Poets: A Computationally Assembled Anthology
Asymptote, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2019
Charles O. Hartman in conversation with Chris Funkhouser
Utsanga, December 2017
“On The Cricket: An Interview with Amiri Baraka”
Hambone, June 2015
“Combinatory and Automatic Text Generation”
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media and Textuality; The Johns Hopkins U P,
“Early Digital Art and Writing (Pre-1990)”
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media and Textuality; The Johns Hopkins U P,
“Political Ideas in Science Fiction”
UnderAcademy/Free Dogma P, June 2012
“Babel Fan Raft”
Dandelion, May 2012
"Somewhere"
Altered Scale, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2012
“Foreword”
Gnoetry Daily, December 2011
"We Sting House"
Mad Hatters' Review , October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2011
“Combinatory and automatic text generation”
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media and Textuality,
“Sunflowers on Quaker Church Road”
The New River: A Journal of Digital Writing and Art, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2011
"AH (cubed)"
Rampike, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2011
Bandcamp, August 2020
Twisting Archival Ratio
Bandcamp, June 2020
Showing Trees in Public
Noemata.net, February 2020
This Yet
Bandcamp, December 2019
“US” Poets Foreign Poets: A Computationally Assembled Anthology
Asymptote, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2019
Charles O. Hartman in conversation with Chris Funkhouser
Utsanga, December 2017
“On The Cricket: An Interview with Amiri Baraka”
Hambone, June 2015
“Combinatory and Automatic Text Generation”
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media and Textuality; The Johns Hopkins U P,
“Early Digital Art and Writing (Pre-1990)”
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media and Textuality; The Johns Hopkins U P,
“Political Ideas in Science Fiction”
UnderAcademy/Free Dogma P, June 2012
“Babel Fan Raft”
Dandelion, May 2012
"Somewhere"
Altered Scale, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2012
“Foreword”
Gnoetry Daily, December 2011
"We Sting House"
Mad Hatters' Review , October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2011
“Combinatory and automatic text generation”
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media and Textuality,
“Sunflowers on Quaker Church Road”
The New River: A Journal of Digital Writing and Art, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2011
"AH (cubed)"
Rampike, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2011
COLLAPSE
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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Funkhouser, Christopher (2010). “Post-Chapter Dialogue” , Francisco Ricardo (Ed.), Continuum. New York: Continuum
Funkhouser, Christopher (2009). “Kissing the Steak”, Francisco Ricardo (Ed.), Continuum. New York: Continuum
Funkhouser, Christopher (2009). Preface, Helton Goncalves de Souza (Ed.), Editora O Lutadora. (pp. 11-13). Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais: Editora O Lutadora
Funkhouser, Christopher (2009). “Kissing the Steak”, Francisco Ricardo (Ed.), Continuum. New York: Continuum
Funkhouser, Christopher (2009). Preface, Helton Goncalves de Souza (Ed.), Editora O Lutadora. (pp. 11-13). Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais: Editora O Lutadora
COLLAPSE
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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Funkhouser, Christopher (2017). Being Matter Recorded. Jacket2,
Funkhouser, Christopher (2016). “Shy nag: Second Staging, Bergen 2015” . Hyperrhiz(16), 3.
Funkhouser, Christopher (2014). "Representations in Digital Poetry, Beginning in Portugal". Cibertextualidades (6),
Funkhouser, Christopher, & Klobucar, Philip (2013). “Condors’ Polyphony and Jawed Water-lines Catapulted Out: Gnoetry and its Place in Text Processing’s History” . Electronic Book Review, 2013,
Funkhouser, Christopher, & Tempest, Sonny (2012). “Picture Becomes Text, Becomes Writing: Software as Interlocutor” . Cordite Poetry Review(40), 2.
Funkhouser, Christopher (2012). “Aya Karpinska and Daniel C. Howe” . Revista Laboratorio (6), 6.
Funkhouser, Christopher (2012). “Anthropophagy” . Reality Sandwich(Feb. 2012), 6.
Funkhouser, Christopher (2011). “Bringing Harry Mathews to PennSound (and you)”. Jacket2, 5.
Funkhouser, Christopher (2010). “Making MIDIPoetry”. Authoring Software,
Funkhouser, Christopher (2010). “On Using Tools Made by Comrades” . Netartery: synthesis of arts & ideas,,
Funkhouser, Christopher (2009). “Cannibalistic Tendencies in Digital Poetry: Recent Observations & Personal Practices” . Harriet (Poetry Foundation),
Funkhouser, Christopher (2009). Presents: Maria Damon’s Textile Styling” . Jacket, 37, 8.
Funkhouser, Christopher (2009). “The Scope for a Reader: The Poetry of Text Generators” . dichtung-digital , 38,
Funkhouser, Christopher (2008). “On Virtually Disembodied Expression”. Reality Sandwich(Nov. 2008), 7.
Funkhouser, Christopher (2016). “Shy nag: Second Staging, Bergen 2015” . Hyperrhiz(16), 3.
Funkhouser, Christopher (2014). "Representations in Digital Poetry, Beginning in Portugal". Cibertextualidades (6),
Funkhouser, Christopher, & Klobucar, Philip (2013). “Condors’ Polyphony and Jawed Water-lines Catapulted Out: Gnoetry and its Place in Text Processing’s History” . Electronic Book Review, 2013,
Funkhouser, Christopher, & Tempest, Sonny (2012). “Picture Becomes Text, Becomes Writing: Software as Interlocutor” . Cordite Poetry Review(40), 2.
Funkhouser, Christopher (2012). “Aya Karpinska and Daniel C. Howe” . Revista Laboratorio (6), 6.
Funkhouser, Christopher (2012). “Anthropophagy” . Reality Sandwich(Feb. 2012), 6.
Funkhouser, Christopher (2011). “Bringing Harry Mathews to PennSound (and you)”. Jacket2, 5.
Funkhouser, Christopher (2010). “Making MIDIPoetry”. Authoring Software,
Funkhouser, Christopher (2010). “On Using Tools Made by Comrades” . Netartery: synthesis of arts & ideas,,
Funkhouser, Christopher (2009). “Cannibalistic Tendencies in Digital Poetry: Recent Observations & Personal Practices” . Harriet (Poetry Foundation),
Funkhouser, Christopher (2009). Presents: Maria Damon’s Textile Styling” . Jacket, 37, 8.
Funkhouser, Christopher (2009). “The Scope for a Reader: The Poetry of Text Generators” . dichtung-digital , 38,
Funkhouser, Christopher (2008). “On Virtually Disembodied Expression”. Reality Sandwich(Nov. 2008), 7.
COLLAPSE
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