Brian Davis

Brian DavisBrian DavisBrian Davis

English Teacher

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Brian Davis

Brian DavisBrian DavisBrian Davis

English Teacher

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About

Brian  is currently a high school English teacher at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred heart in Bethesda, Maryland. He also holds the position of Lecturer at the University of Maryland where he teaches courses in literature, writing, film and digital studies. He has also taught at Loyola University, Trinity Washington University, and Georgetown Day School. 


For his doctoral research project, titled "Books as Archives: Archival Poetics in Post-1980 Experimental Literature" (2020), Brian developed a formal and historical poetics of "multimodal book-archives," an experimental mode of contemporary writing that tells stories through the collection and representation of reproduced texts and other artifacts. 


His research and writing has been published at Electronic Book Review, Frontiers of Narrative Studies, Orbit: A Journal of American Literature, and in an edited collection called Global Perspectives on Digital Literature.


He is currently working on a monograph called Archiving the Future: Science Fiction and the Archive, which examines the different roles that inscription technologies and archiving have played in works of science fiction from 1800-present.


He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland with his wife, son, and two cats.


Publications

'If this document is authentic': On Bill Bly's Archival Poetics

'If this document is authentic': On Bill Bly's Archival Poetics

'If this document is authentic': On Bill Bly's Archival Poetics

Chapter in Global Perspectives on Digital Literature, edited by Torsa Ghosal (2023).

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Living the Line podcast, hosted by Carson Grubaugh

'If this document is authentic': On Bill Bly's Archival Poetics

'If this document is authentic': On Bill Bly's Archival Poetics

"MULTI-MODAL BOOKS" (July 10, 2022)

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Danielewski's The Familiar and the Concept of the Bibliotrope

'If this document is authentic': On Bill Bly's Archival Poetics

Instrumentalizing the book: Anne Carson’s Nox and books as archives

Orbit: A Journal of American Literature,  10.2, 2022.

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Instrumentalizing the book: Anne Carson’s Nox and books as archives

Descending into the Archives: An Interview with Hypertext Author Bill Bly

Instrumentalizing the book: Anne Carson’s Nox and books as archives

Frontiers of Narrative Studies, 7.1, 84-109, 2021.

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A Life in Books: An Interview with Author-Designer Warren Lehrer

Descending into the Archives: An Interview with Hypertext Author Bill Bly

Descending into the Archives: An Interview with Hypertext Author Bill Bly

with Warren Lehrer, Electronic Book Review, September 2020.

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Descending into the Archives: An Interview with Hypertext Author Bill Bly

Descending into the Archives: An Interview with Hypertext Author Bill Bly

Descending into the Archives: An Interview with Hypertext Author Bill Bly

with Bill Bly, Electronic Book Review, March 2019.

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Courses Taught

American Literature: 1865 to present

Literatures of the Americas: 1492-Present

Literatures of the Americas: 1492-Present

 University of Maryland

Literatures of the Americas: 1492-Present

Literatures of the Americas: 1492-Present

Literatures of the Americas: 1492-Present

 University of Maryland

Science Fiction: Allegories of the Human

Literatures of the Americas: 1492-Present

Science Fiction: Allegories of the Human

 University of Maryland

Introduction to Film Studies

Writing about Literature: Multiethnic Literature by Women

Science Fiction: Allegories of the Human

 University of Maryland

World Literature by Women: Dystopian Fiction

Writing about Literature: Multiethnic Literature by Women

Writing about Literature: Multiethnic Literature by Women

 University of Maryland

Writing about Literature: Multiethnic Literature by Women

Writing about Literature: Multiethnic Literature by Women

Writing about Literature: Multiethnic Literature by Women

 Trinity Washington University

Technical Writing

Technical Writing

Technical Writing

University of Maryland

Academic Writing

Technical Writing

Technical Writing

University of Maryland

Effective Writing

Technical Writing

Digital Writing and Rhetoric

 Loyola University Maryland

Digital Writing and Rhetoric

Introduction to Digital Studies

Digital Writing and Rhetoric

 University of Maryland

Introduction to Digital Studies

Introduction to Digital Studies

Introduction to Digital Studies

University of Maryland

High School English

Introduction to Digital Studies

Introduction to Digital Studies

Georgetown Day School

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