Steve Tomasula
Associate Professor
Specialty: Creative Writing, 20th & 21st Century Literature
Degrees: M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago
Steve Tomasula is author of the novels VAS: An Opera in Flatland (University of Chicago Press); The Book of Portraiture (University of Alabama Press/FC2); IN & OZ (Ministry of Whimsy Press); and TOC: A New-Media Novel (University of Alabama Press/FC2). Over fifty of his short stories have been in magazines like Bomb, McSweeneys, The Iowa Review, Denver Quarterly, and the Western Humanities Review. Critical essays on art and literature have been published internationally in journals including Leonardo, Kunstforum (Germany); Flusser Studies: A Multilingual Journal for Cultural and Media Theory; and Circa (Ireland), while his essays and fiction have been included in anthologies such as Musing the Mosaic (SUNY); Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information(Routledge); Forms at War (University of Alabama Press); Not Normal, Illinois (Indiana University Press); and The Year’s Best SF (NY: Harper Collins).
He has given featured readings or keynote addresses at the Universite Paris Sorbonne; The Bowery Poetry Club; KGB, Shakespeare & Company; The University of Utah; The University of California San Diego; Brown University, and other venues.
Incorporating narrative forms of all kinds—from comic books, travelogues, journalism or code to Hong Kong action movies or science reports—Tomasula’s writing has been called a ‘reinvention of the novel,’ crossing visual, as well as written genres, and drawing from science and the arts to take up themes of representation, especially how people picture each other through the languages they use. He is currently working on a collection of short fiction, The Atlas of Man, and a novel, Ascension, which traces our relationship to nature through our depictions of it—from naturalist sketchbook to folders of genetic information. He is also editing HERE•NOW: The Anthology of Prose, Poetry, Found, Visual, E- & Other Hybrid Writings as Contemporary, Conceptual Art (U of Alabama Press).
Recent and Forthcoming Fiction and Essays
- “The Color of Flesh” in Boulder Pavement (Canada) (forthcoming).
- “Mem” in Rampike (Canada) (forthcoming).
- “Information Design and Form in the Novel” in The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature (forthcoming).
- “Endurance” in Bomb (forthcoming).
- “Where We are Now: A Dozen or So Observations, Historical Notes & Soundings for a Map of Contemporary American Innovative Literature as Seen from the Interior” in Etudes anglaises (Paris) (forthcoming 2010).
- “Code and New-Media Literature” in The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature (forthcoming).
- “Emergence and Posthuman Narrative” in Flusser Studies: A Multilingual Journal for Cultural and Media Theory. Spring, 2010.
- “The Kingdom’s Good” in The Fairytale Review. The Aquamarine Issue, 2009, pp. 181-82.
- “from The Book of Portraiture” in Forms at War. R.M. Berry ed. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009, pp. 269-286.
- “Medieval Land” in Not Normal, Illinois. Michael Martone ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009, pp. 233-245.
- “Remembering Raymond Federman,” in American Book Review. Vol. 31, No. 1, November/December 2009, p. 20.
- “War of the Words” in American Book Review. May/June, 2009, p. 6.
- “(Gene)sis” in Eduardo Kac, Histoire naturelle de l’Énigme. Martin Richet trans. Paris: Éditions Al Dante, 2009, pp. 44-63.
- “On Flatness” in Center: A Journal of the Literary Arts. Issue 8, 2009, p. 110.
- “The One Marvelous Thing by Rikki Ducornet” in Rain Taxi. Spring 2010.
- “Between Staying and Hearing: Vacation by Deb Olin Unferth” in American Book Review. Vol. 30, No. 2, January/February 2009, p. 17.
Recent Awards and Honors
- 2010: The Mary Shelly Award for Outstanding Fictional Work.
- 2010: Named a Howard Fellow (deferred until 2011).
- 2010: Selected to participate in IN(TER)VENTIONS: Literary Practice at the Edge: A Gathering [of American and Canadian authors], The Banff Centre in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
Contact Information
162 Decio Faculty Hall
(574) 631-7647
tomasula.4@nd.edu
http://www.stevetomasula.com
Postal address
Department of English
356 O’Shaughnessy
Notre Dame, IN 46556
