Torsa Ghosal is the author of a book of literary criticism, Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative, and an experimental novella, Open Couplets, and is the co-editor of Fictionality and Multimodal Narratives. She has a PhD in English from the Ohio State University, where she was awarded a Presidential Fellowship as well as a John Muste Award for best dissertation. Currently, she is Assistant Professor of English at California State University, Sacramento.

Introduction: Global Literary Studies and Digital Literature

Torsa Ghosal

I: REIMAGINING DIGITAL LITERARY STUDIES

1. Textual Instability: Paradoxes of Literary Remix

Simone Murray

2. Diverse Mappings of Electronic Literature: Expanding the Canon(s)

Mariusz Pisarski

3. Ludonarrative Postcolonialism: Re-Playing the Colonial Discourse

Souvik Mukherjee

II. DIGITAL EMBODIMENTS AND DISABILITIES

4. Games as Critical Literature: Playing with Transhumanism, Embodied Cognition, and Narrative Difference in SOMA

Cody Mejeur

5. The Horror of Networked Existence: Affect, Connection, and Anxiety in Classic Creepypasta Narratives

Sara Bimo

6. Networked Chronic Pain Narratives: Locating Disability through Fibromyalgia Facebook Community

Rimi Nandy

III. FORMS OF RESISTANCE

7. The Erasing Impulse: Veiling and Unveiling the Poetic and the Political

Álvaro Seiça

8. Digital Cartoons: Collaborative Activism in Hong Kong

Kin Wai Chu

9. Between Two Screens: The January 25th Revolution in Egypt

Reham Hosny

10. 'If this document is authentic': On Bill Bly's Archival Fiction

Brian Davis

IV. MEDIAL AND CULTURAL CROSSINGS

11. From Oral to Digital and Back: Adinkra Symbols and Kweku Ananse on YouTube

J.B. Amissah-Arthur andKwabena Opoku-Agyemang

12. Bending Voices, Opening Ears: Voice, Music, Sound, and Affect in Digital Literature

Hazel Smith

13. Intermedial Experience and Discursive Voice in Printed Text, Audiobook, and Podcast: H. P. Lovecraft's "The Statement of Randolph Carter"

Jarkko Toikkanen and Mari Hatavara