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). 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). 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
