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Assistant professor of Spanish Scott Weintraub has co-edited a new book, with Luis Correa-Díaz of The University of Georgia, titled "Poéticas y poesías digitales/electrónicas/tecnos/New-Media en América Latina: Definiciones y exploraciones," translated as "Digital Poetry and Poetics—Electronic—Techno—New Media in Latin America." The twenty essays included in the volume analyze new media poetics in a variety of Latin American countries, including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, El Salvador, Mexico, Peru and the U.S. This book comes on the heels of a recently-published "sampling" of digital poetry in the Chilean poetry journal "AErea: Anuario hispanoamericano de poesía" (January 2016), edited by Luis Correa-Díaz (available for purchase on Amazon.com as a Kindle book). 

This publication from Ediciones Universidad Central is available as an open-access e-book, with distribution through a Creative Commons 2.5 license. According to the publisher, the license means that "You are free to copy and redistribute this material in any media or format, provided that you credit the material appropriately, do not copy and redistribute for commercial purposes, and do not create derivative works." To download the e-book, please visit the publisher’s website at http://www.ucentral.edu.co/editorial/catalogo/poesia-poeticas-digitales. Ediciones UC recommends reading this e-book with iBook (iOS) or Gidten Reader (Android).

Weintraub's teaching and research focus on 20th and 21st century Spanish and Latin American literature; critical theory and cultural studies; poetry; cyberliterature and cyberculture; and the relationship between literature, philosophy, science, and technology. He is the author of "Juan Luis Martínez's Philosophical Poetics" (Bucknell University Press) and "La Última Broma De Juan Luis Martínez: No sólo ser otro sino escribir la obra de otro" (Editorial Cuarto Propio), translated as "Juan Luis Martinez's Final Trick: Not only Being Other but also Writing the Other's Work."