The University of Otago Centre for the Book Is delighted to host a public lecture by Assoc Prof David Ciccoricco on “Literary Tourism, Geo-narratives, and Public Humanities; or, why there’s an app for that”.  The talk will take place in the Moot Court, 10th floor of the Richardson Building, at 5:30 pm on Wednesday 2 October 2019.  Details below.

This Centre for the Book talk by David Ciccoricco will share the backstory and future directions of dtour, Dunedin’s literary tourism app, which was created as a UNESCO City of Literature project in 2018. It will demonstrate both live features and backend functionality of the app. The talk will conclude by discussing some of the theoretical context and planned publications surrounding the project, including perspectives from digital humanities, “geo-narratives,” and public humanities.

David Ciccoricco is Creative Director of dtour, Dunedin’s literary tourism app. He is Associate Professor in English and Linguistics at the University of Otago. His research is focused on literary and narrative theory with an emphasis on emergent forms of digital literature, as well as digital culture and posthumanism more generally. He is the author of Reading Network Fiction (2007), a book on pre-Web and Web-based digital fiction, and Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media (2015), which is focused on cognitive approaches to narrative and literary theory in print novels, digital narratives, and story-driven videogames.