Joseph Tabbi

Joseph Tabbi (May 4, 1960) is a US academic and literary theorist, notable for his contributions to the fields of American literature and electronic literature. He was the first scholar granted access to the William Gaddis archives, and is the author of Nobody Grew but the Business: On the Life and Work of William Gaddis (2015) and the editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature (2017), Post-Digital: Critical Debates from electronic book review (2019), and an additional forthcoming volume from Bloomsbury Publishing. His other works include Cognitive Fictions (2002) and Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk (1996). He edits the scholarly journal Electronic Book Review (ebr), which he founded with Mark Amerika.

Biography

Tabbi received a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1989 for a dissertation titled "The Psychology of Machines: Technology and Personal Identity in the Work of Norman Mailer and Thomas Pynchon."

Books

• Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk (Cornell University Press, 1996) ISBN 9780801483837
• Cognitive Fictions (University of Minnesota Press, 2002) ISBN 9780816635573
• Nobody Grew but the Business: On the Life and Work of William Gaddis (2015)

Edited books

• Reading Matters: Narrative in the New Media Ecology (Cornell University Press,1997) (with Michael Wutz) ISBN 9780801484032
• Paper Empire: William Gaddis and the World System (University of Alabama Press , 2007) (with Rone Shavers et al.)
• The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature (2017)
• Post-Digital: Critical Debates from electronic book review (2019)