Über den Autor James (Hrsg.) Mackay
James Mackay is Associate Professor of Literature and Digital Cultures at European University Cyprus. Previous publications include The Salt Companion to Diane Glancy (2010) and Tribal Fantasies: Native Americans in the European Imaginary 1900-2010 (2014, with David Stirrup). He is a founder-editor of the journal Transmotion, an open-access journal of Indigenous literary and cultural studies. Recent projects include a co-edited issue of the European Journal of English Studies on Instapoetry as a transnational phenomenon.JuEunhae Knox is Teaching Associate at the Digital Humanities Institute at the University of Sheffield, UK, examining AI-produced poems against Instapoetry practices, the effects of an over-inundated digital metaverse on new poetic forms, and how marginalised counterpublics resist algorithmic constrictions and platformization. Her PhD thesis at the University of Glasgow, UK, was the first to study Instapoetry and poe(t/m)-tagging in light of the Creator Economy. She led the inaugural global conference #Reading Instapoetry with James Mackay, and her article "United We 'Gram," published by Poetics Today, scrutinizes the hypertextual effects of consumerist Instapoetry trends.