Craig J Saper

Craig Saper is Professor of Language, Literacy, & Culture at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). Saper is the author of Amazing Adventures of Bob Brown (2016), Intimate Bureaucracies: A Manifesto (2012), Networked Art (2001), and Artificial Mythologies (1997). Saper has published articles on a wide range of topics including electracy, cultural theory, film and media, digital publishing, visual culture, and mail art. He has edited several. anthologies and special issues including Electracy: Gregory L. Ulmer's Textshop Experiments; Imaging Place with John Craig Freeman and Will Garrett Petts; Drifts, a special issue of Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge; "Mapping Culture Multimodally" from the journal Hyperrhiz; and "Instant Theory: Making Theory Popular", a special issue of the journal Visible Language. In 2014, he founded an artist collective that re ignited Roving Eye Press, a small press started by Bob Brown. Saper was invited to write new introductions for the first series published by the press. In 2016, Saper published the first biography of Brown. From 2012 to 2015, Saper served as Bearman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship at UMBC. He has previously taught at The University of Central Florida; the University of Pennsylvania; The University of the Arts in Philadelphia; and Indiana University, Bloomington.

Growing Folkvine: Florida's Art & Artists on the Web with Kristin G. Congdon & Lynn Tomlinson (University of Central Florida, 2007)