Background

Richard specializes in the relationship between visual culture and poetics in both early modern British literature and electronic (digital) literature. His current book project, Engagements with Electronic Literature (on contract with Routledge), considers the rich history and possible futures of literary works developed with and for the digital computer. In his work as Associate Director of the Electronic Literature Lab, he oversees the Extended eLectronic Metadata Schema (ELMS) that describes born-digital works of literature, art, and games for ELO’s The NEXT. His digital poetry has appeared in publications like The New River Journal and Taper.

Richard lives in Kirkland with his wife, Martha, and their three children. In his free time, you may find him writing, painting, playing guitar, and meandering on long walks through the neighborhood. 

“Dissimulation is but a faint kind of Policy, or Wisdom; For it asks a strong Wit, and a strong Heart, to know, when to tell Truth, and to do it.” – Francis Bacon, Essays

Recent Publications

We Descend: Complete Edition (text map architecture). Eastgate Systems, Inc. and The Electronic Literature Lab (forthcoming 2023).

“Metadata for Access: VR and Beyond,” The Future of Text, Volume 3, edited by Frode Hegland, 2023. Coauthored with Dene Grigar.

“Toward the Twenty-First-Century Land-Grant Humanities PhD: New Pathways for Access, Inclusion, and Public Engagement.” In Graduate Education for a Thriving Humanities Ecosystem, ed. S. Hartman. New York: Modern Language Assoc. of America, 2023. Coauthored with Todd Butler and Tabitha Espina.

“Powerful Looks in Tamburlaine.” Journal of Marlowe Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 2021, pp.26-39.

Recent Curatorial Work

Curator and Metadata Specialist, The Alan Sondheim Collection; The NEXT, Summer 2023

Co-Curator for An Invitation to Experience: Expanding Access for Disabilities and Sensory Sensitivities; The NEXT, 1 March-31 May, 2023

Metadata Specialist, The ELO Archives, The NEXT, Summer 2022 Co-Curator for The Ephemera of Electronic Art; The NEXT, 17 July-30, November 2022

Recent Grants

Co-PI, “Improving Metadata for Better Accessibility to Scholarly Archives for Disabled and Sensory Sensitive People,” The Society of American Archivists, 2023

Co-PI, “A Post-Pandemic Reckoning: Improving Metadata for Better Accessibility to Scholarly Archives for People with Disabilities,” Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute, 2022

Working member, NextGEN Ph.D. project, National Endowment of the Humanities, Washington State University, 2021-2022