Beat
Suter - one of the
first 
archivists
of net literature, author of the first dissertation
on the subject in German ("Hyperfiction und interaktive
Narration", 1999) and editor of several books and CD-ROMs on
net cultur and net literature (update-verlag
and cyberfiction)
- will be the first guest editor of dichtung-digital.
2/2002
is created totally under his direction. Most of teh 21
contributions are dedicated to the topic of computer
games.
Uwe
Wirth and Karin
Wenz are well known
in the field of digital literature because of their
publications and conferences (Modemfieber,
InterSzene,
p0es1s)
they have (co)organised. In 6/2002
Wirth and Wenz present contributions (most of them on
aspects of copmputer games) from the section
'Zeichenkörper im Netz' of the semiotics conference
2002 in Kassel.
Loss
Pequeño Glazier
is known in the academic world of digital aesthetics as
director of the Electronic
Poetry Center,
author of Digital
Poetics and
organizer of the E-Poetry-Symposium. The
contributions in 3/2003
are from the symposium Language & Encoding
organized by Glazier and Mark Böhlen, held at State
University of New York, Buffalo, in November 8-9,
2002.
Markku
Eskelinen,
independent scholar
and experimental writer of ergodic literature, interactive
drama, critical essays and cybertext fiction, is editor of
Game
Studies and coeditor
of Cybertext
Yearbook. In
4/2003
he assembles contributions by Sandinavian researchers in the
field of digital aestehtics.
Laura
Borràs Castanyer
is Lecturer at the Universtitat Oberta de Catalunya and
director of the Hermeneia:
Literary Studies and Digital
Technologies
research group. In 3/2004
she presents contribution from the conference Under
construction: Digital literatures and theoretical
approaches, held at the Open University of Catalonia in
Barcelona in April 14-16, 2004.
Peter
Gendolla is
Professor for literature, art, new media and technology at
the University of Siegen and chair of the project
"net-literature" within the research center "Media in
Transition." Jörgen
Schäfer is
Assistant Professor at the research project
"net-literature." Gendolla and Schäfer present in
1/2005
the contributions of the international conference
"Netliterature: Transformations in Literary Communikation"
in Siegen in November 25-27, 2004.
Astrid
Ensslin is Lecturer
in New Media an der Bangor University, UK; author of
"Canonizing
Hypertext: Explorations and
Constructions"
(London: Continuum, 2007)
Alice
Bell is Lecturer in
English Language ansd Literature at Sheffield Hallam
University. Researcher in digital literature and author of
"The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction" (forthcoming
2009, Palgrave-Macmillan)
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