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 2012-2015, 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.