Education
BA, Oberlin College
MA, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Interests
- 19th Century American literature
- History and Narrative Form
- Virtual Worlds and Comparative Media
Scholarly Works
Book Chapters
Eric Hayot and Edward Wesp (2010). Solomon's Bluff: Virtual Property and the Aesthetics of Modern Worldmaking. In Paul K. Saint-Amour (Eds.), Modernism & Copyright: Oxford UP.
(2009). Some Words With A Mummy: Teaching Satire and the Democratic Threat in Poe's Fiction. In Jeffrey Weinstock and Anthony Magistrale (Eds.), Approaches to Teaching Poe's Poetry and Prose: MLA.
Journal Articles
(2014, December). A Too-Coherent World: Game Studies and the Myth of "Narrative" Media. Game Studies
(2010, January). Beyond the Romance: The Aesthetics of Hawthorne's Chiefly About War Matters. Texas Studies in Literature and Language
Eric Hayot and Edward Wesp (2009, April). Towards a Critical Aesthetic of Virtual-World Geographies. Game Studies
Eric Hayot and Edward Wesp (2004, April). Reading Game/Text: EverQuest, Alienation, and Digital Communities. Postmodern Culture
Edward Wesp and Eric Hayot (2004). Style: Strategy and Mimesis in Ergodic Literature. Comparative Literature Studies, 41, 404-423.
Eric Hayot and Edward Wesp (2004). Style: Strategy and Mimesis in Ergodic Literature. Comparative Literature Studies
Conference Proceedings
(2012, June). Comparative, Transatlantic Questions of Aesthetics in The Marble Faun. Conversazioni in Italia: Joint meeting of the Emerson Society, Hawthorne Society, and Poe Studies Association, Florence, Italy
(2010, June). The Virtuoso's Collection: Satire and the Virtues of Literature. Hawthorne Society: Biennial Summer Conference, Concord, MA
(2010, April). The Faun's Ear: Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Museum as Medium. Northeast MLA Convention, Montreal
Edward Wesp (2008, June). "Momentary Triumph and the Trudge of History: The Aesthetics of Hawthorne's 'Chiefly About War Matters'". Nathaniel Hawthorne Society, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
(2008, April). Visualizing Desire: Video Games in a Comparative Framework. Playing to Win: The Business and Social Frontiers of Videogames Penn State University
(2007, March). Poe's "Perverse" and the History of Democracy. Northeast MLA Convention, Baltimore, MD
(2005, December). Imagining Ownership: Literary and Ludic Relations to Imaginary Possessions. MLA Annual Convention, Washington, DC
