Publications and Works in Progress

Books

1. “Author Function: A Literary History of Artificial Intelligence.” Forthcoming, University of Chicago Press, 2024.
2. Literary Theory for Robots, W.W. Norton, 2024.
3. Plain Text: The Poetics of Computation. Stanford University Press, 2017. Reviewed in Critical Inquiry (September 2017), Leonardo (October 2017), LARB (November 2017), and Textual Practice (July 2018).

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

1. “AI-First Authorship.” In peer-review at Modern Fiction Studies (2025).
2. “Author—Anonymous and Distributed.” New Techno Humanities 4.1 (2024).
3. “Distributed Agency in the Novel.” New Literary History 54.1 (2022): 903–937.
4. “The Emergence of American Formalism.” Modern Philology 117.2 (November 2019): 257–283.
5. “Toward a Computational Archaeology of Fictional Space.” New Literary History 49.1 (2018): 119–147.
6. “Laminate Text: The Strata of Digital Inscription.” Amodern (December, 2017).
7. “Unintelligent Design.” Boundary 2 44.2 (May, 2017): 145–156.
8. “Book Piracy as Peer Preservation,” primary author with Maxwell Foxman, Computational Culture 4 (2014).
9. “Sustainable Authorship in Plain Text.” The Programming Historian (2014). Primary author with Grant Wythoff. Translated into Spanish as “Escritura sostenible en texto plano usando Pandoc y Markdown” by Víctor Gayol (revisado por Antonio Rojas Castro y Maria José Afanador-Llach).
10. “Stalin’s PowerPoint.” Modernism/modernity 21.1 (2014): 253–267.
11. “Three Notes on Mary.” The Nabokovian 46 (2001): 24–25.

Edited Volumes & Refereed Chapters

1. “Materiality,” in The Cambridge Companion to Literature in a Digital Age, ed. Adam Hammond. Cambridge UP, 2024.
2. “Anonymous, Massively Collaborative, Trans-human,” in Rethinking Authorship in Comparative and Historical Perspectives [in Japanese], ed. Haruo Shirane and Tomi Suzuki. Iwanami Shoten, 2022.
3. “Reading Platforms: A Concise History of the Electronic Book” in The Unfinished Book, ed. Alexandra Gillespie and Deidre Shauna Lynch. Oxford UP, 2021.
4. “Archive” in Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis, ed. Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, et al. Bloomsbury, 2017: 299–310.
5. “Visual-quantitative Approaches to the Intellectual History of the Field” in Futures of Comparative Literature, ed. Ursula K. Heise, et al. Routledge, 2017: 258–266.
6. “Critical Computing in the Humanities” with John Simpson and Phillip Polefrone in Doing Digital Humanities: Practice, Training and Research, ed. Ray Siemens. Routledge, 2016: 85–103.
7. “Blunt Instrumentalism” in Debates in the Digital Humanities, ed. Matthew K. Gold, et al. Minnesota UP, 2016: 83–91.
8. “Travelogue as Fact and Fiction.” Imaginäre Topografien: Migration und Verortung, ed. Klaus Müller-Richter and Ramona Uritescu-Lombard. Transcript-Verlag, 2007: 99–111.

Public Scholarship & Commentary

1. “Writing Was Always Magical: An Interview with Dennis Yi Tenen” with Tsering Dolka Gurung in Public Seminar, June 12, 2025.
2. “Translation Machines” for Imminent Newsletter, May 2025.
3. “Automi autori dai dizionari a ChatGpt,” L’Espresso, November 8, 2024: 80–82. English translation here.
4. An interview with Luca De Biase for Il Sole 24 Ore, November 3, 2024.
5. “Drowning in a Mechanical Chorus,” Issues in Science and Technology XL.3 (Spring 2024): 15.
6. “Dennis Tenen on Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age by Bernard Harcourt.” Los Angeles Review of Books (2016).
7. “What Is? Nine Epistemological Essays by Johanna Drucker.” Design and Culture 7.2 (2015): 264–265.
8. “Writing Technology: The Circle by David Eggers and Mad About a Boy by Bridget Jones.” Public Books (2014).
9. “History and Poetics of Intertextuality by Marko Juvan.” The Slavic and East European Journal 56.2 (2012): 309.
10. “Vokzal, Garazh, Angar: Vladimir Nabokov I Poetika Russkogo Urbanizma by Yuri Leving.” The Slavic and East European Journal 49.4 (2005): 688–689.

Projects in Progress

1. “Ghost Writer,” book manuscript in progress.
2. “The Textual Laboratory,” book manuscript in development.
3. “Soft Power through State Reading Rooms,” article in progress.
4. “Vaccine Hesitancy as Literary Form,” article in progress.