Andrew KLOBUCAR

Andrew KLOBUCAR, BA (Toronto), MSc (Edinburgh), PhD (UBC)

Andrew Klobucar is a writer and lecturer in the English Department at Capilano University, North Vancouver. He holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of BC. Since 1996, he has continued to publish a wide assortment of critical writings on contemporary North American poetry. He co-edited the Canadian poetry anthology Writing Class (New Star, 1999) on the work and early history of the Kootenay School of Writing, an important literary collective known throughout North America for its experimental poetry reading series, publications and writer residencies.

Current critical work remains based in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and the Digital Humanities, exploring various issues and innovations in new media, electronic publishing and the increasingly important role technology plays in today's literary and pedagogical fields. With fellow Vancouver-based writer and programmer, David Ayre, Klobucar has produced many critical and creative digital writing projects, including independent software tools for writing and literary analysis. Their Web site, “Global Telelanguage Resources” at http://www.gtrlabs.ca is designed to foster ongoing intellectual discussion on digital technology as both a field of writing and mode of literary production/distribution.

For information: http://www.songinstitute.ca/song/faculty/andrew-klobucar/. Klobucar’s next book looks specifically at the relationship between modern lexicology, epistemology and aesthetics in an effort to investigate and historicise the influence of linguistic and information technologies on literary avant-garde practices over the past century.

Recent Publications:

• (Forthcoming 2007) “Language Technologies: An Introduction to New Media.” TCR: The Capilano Review 2.50 (Winter 2007).
• “Bird is the Word: Electronic Knowledge.” Backflash. (Fall 2005).
• “Slow Learner: An Interview with Peter Quartermain,” TCR: The Capilano Review 2.44(Fall 2005).
• GUI Sunday. CD ROM Publication. Artspeak Gallery: Vancouver, 2003.
• “Pulse: Review of Recent Art Work by Antonia Hirsch.” PostScript 8. Artspeak Gallery: Vancouver, 2002.
• “The Apocalypse will be Televised,” GenXegesis: Essays on Generation X Culture. University of Wisconsin: Popular Press, 2002.
• “How to Read the Hand Writing: Andrew Levy’s Later Lines,” Electronic Poetry Foundation. SUNY Buffalo. January 2001 http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/levy/klobucar.html.