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Daniel Snelson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His interdisciplinary research integrates poetry, digital media, and editorial theory, with a focus on 20th/21st-century experimental practices. He holds an A.B. from Princeton University (2007) and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania (2015).
Research Interests: Snelson’s work explores intersections of technology and textual practices, including digital humanities, media archaeology, and computational poetics. Key areas include:
- The materiality of media formats in print, sound, and cinema
- Avant-garde approaches to digital archives and databases
- Network cultures and electronic literature
- Editorial theory and bibliographic studies
His publications consistently engage with themes of digital preservation, executable text, and media-specific analysis, reflecting a sustained inquiry into how technology reshapes literary and artistic production.
Snelson co-directs the academic performance collective Research Service and has contributed to major digital archives including UbuWeb, PennSound, Eclipse, and Jacket2. He is developing a transdisciplinary platform called Media & Experiment in Text & Art (META) and has created courses on electronic literature (ELIT 2017) and contemporary poetry (SPOT 2018) at UCLA.
