Kiene Brillenburg Wurth

Biography

Dr. Kiene Brillenburg Wurth is full professor of Literature and Comparative Media at the University of Utrecht and project leader of the VIDI-project Back to the Book (2011-2016) funded by the Dutch Research Council, on the interactions between 'analog' and electronic literature in the digital age. She has been Director of Graduate Studies since December 2013. Kiene's research focuses on: literature and (new) media; music; aesthetic theory; intermediality in the modern and post-modern age. She is the author of Musically Sublime (New York: Fordham UP, 2009), and (with Ann Rigney) Het leven van teksten. Een Inleiding in de literatuurwetenschap (Amsterdam UP, 2006, 2008) used throughout the Netherlands. She is editor of Between Page and Screen: Remaking Literature Through Cinema and Cyberspace (Fordham/Oxford UP 2012). She is preparing a special issue on Literature and the Material Turn for Comparative Literature (2017) and, with Karí Driscoll and Jessica Pressman, is editing the volume Book Presence in a Digital Age (forthcoming in 2016 with Bloomsbury). Her new monograph Back to the Book: Fiction and the Future of Writing is due in 2017 with the MIT Press. She has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and volumes on literature and new media, intermediality, music, and music philosophy.

Research Interest

Literatuur in mediavergelijkend perspectief