Paul Benzon

Paul Benzon is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Skidmore College. He holds a B.A. from Williams College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Rutgers University, New Brunswick. His research and teaching focus on contemporary literature, media studies, and digital culture, with a particular interest in the materiality of media technologies and their historical implications.

• Education: B.A. (Williams College), M.A./Ph.D. (Rutgers University)
• Research: Explores media history, digital humanities, and experimental literature.

His work engages with topics such as graphic narratives, electronic literature, and the intersection of literary form with technological systems.

Selected publications include studies on digital textual labor, ecopoetics, media obsolescence, and formal experimentation in literature. He has received prestigious awards like the James Phelan Prize and the William Riley Parker Prize for his contributions to media and literary studies.