Davis Schneiderman
Executive Director of the Krebs Center for the Humanities and Professor of English
Krebs Center
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- dschneid@lakeforest.edu
Current Teaching and Research Interests
Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities: Digital Humanities, Remix/Mash-Up Culture, Uncreative/Creative Writing, William S. Burroughs, Postmodernism, Innovative and Avant Literature, the Grateful Dead and American Culture
Education
Ph.D. Binghamton University
MA Binghamton University
BA The Pennsylvania State University
Edited Collections
William S. Burroughs in Context, Eds. Oliver Harris, Davis Schneiderman, and Alex Wermer-Colan. Cambridge U Press. Forthcoming.
The Third Mind, by William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin. Eds. Davis Schneiderman and Marcus Boon. U. of Minnesota Press. Forthcoming.
The Book of Methods, by William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin. Eds. Davis Schneiderman and Marcus Boon. U. of Minnesota Press. Forthcoming.
The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism’s Parlor Game. Eds. Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, Davis Schneiderman, and Tom Denlinger. U. of Nebraska Press, 2009.
Retaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization. Eds. Davis Schneiderman and Philip Walsh. Pluto Press, 2004. Reality Studio, 2014.
Novels
Ink. Seattle: Jaded Ibis Press
[SIC]. Seattle: Jaded Ibis Press
Multifesto: A Henri d’Mescan REMIX. New York: Spuyten Duyvil Press
Blank: a novel. Jaded Ibis Press
Drain. Northwestern University Press
Abecedarium. (with Carlos Hernandez). Portland: Chiasmus Press
Federman, Raymond. SHHH: a novel. Introduction. Editor. Starcherone Books
Selected Scholarly Articles
“The Miraculous and Mucilaginous Paste Pot: Extra-illustration and Plagiary in the William S. Burroughs Legacy.” The Journal of Beat Studies. 1.2 (2013): 53-80
“Raymond Federman and the Pla(y)giarism of Re-Writing.” Federman at 80: From Surfiction to Critifiction. Ed. Jeffrey Di Leo. (SUNY Press, 2011)
Selected Creative Work
Appearing in Notre Dame Review, The Iowa Review, Fiction International, Western Humanities Review, TriQuarterly, Mandorla, Fairy Tale Review, Other Voices, Exquisite Corpse, Another Chicago Magazine, The Journal of Experimental Fiction. Diagram, Gargoyle, and others
Selected Essay/Non-Fiction/Journalism (50+)
“Appearing in the Huffington Post (40+ articles), Grateful Dead Studies, Chicago Tribune, Harpers.org,
the Writer’s Chronicle, the National Book Review, Ravinia Festival, The Rumpus, the Nervous Breakdown, FrenchCulture.org, Ravinia Festival Magazine, Entropy.
Including interviews with Temple Grandin, David Shields, Sherry Turkle, Regina Taylor, Aleksander Hemon, Ben Wizner, etc.
Selected Digital Humanities/Documentation/Exhibition
“Drone Space Modulator.” Online supplement to chap 5. of Conceptualisms: The Anthology of Prose, Poetry, Visual, Found, E-, and Hybrid Writing as Contemporary Art, edited by Steve Tomasula. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama.
The Museum of Alternative History (lead writer for group exhibition). RNG gallery, Omaha, 2013;
KANEKO gallery, Omaha, 2018; &NOW Festival at the University of Washington, Bothell, 2019. Omaha Arts and Entertainment Awards and Best Group Show in the group's 8th- and 13th-annual awards.
“The Whole World is Watching: 1968 Chicago, Tomorrow.” Wounded Galaxies. Indiana
University Press. Forthcoming. (Performance documentation from Chicago Humanities Festival).
Virtual Burnham Initiative. Centennial of the Plan of Chicago, 2009. NEH Office of Digital Humanities-
sponsored. Chicago History Museum digital collection, 2018.
“Modern Business Machines.” Collaboration with Regina Taylor for Goodman Theater’s Stop, Reset, 2015.
Selected Grants
Principal Investigator, Humanities 2020, Mellon Foundation (2019-2023), $1,100,000
Principal Investigator, Digital Chicago, Mellon Foundation (2014-18), $800,000
Principal Investigator, Digital Collaboration planning grant, Mellon Foundation (2014-16), $100,000
Principal Investigator Digital Collaboration planning grant, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2014-16), $100,000
Digital Humanities Start-Up Award, National Endowment for the Humanities (2008-9), 25,000
Illinois Arts Council award (2004-5, 2005-7, 2007-7), $9740
Six-college collaboration, Midwest Instructional Technology Center (2004-2007), $60,000
Kemper Foundation (2001-2), $15000
Selected Awards and Honors
Charlotte Simmons Prize, awarded to service to the external community, Lake Forest College
Academic Leadership Academy, Center for the Study of Higher Education, Pennsylvania State University
The Bird Award for Intellectual Contributions to the Campus Community, Lake Forest College
Visiting Scholar, University of London-Institute of Paris
Visiting Artist, University of Central Arkansas
William L. Dunn Award for Outstanding Teaching and Scholarly Promise, Lake Forest College