Dene Grigar


Dene Grigar is an award-winning digital artist and scholar based in Vancouver, Washington. She is the current President of the Electronic Literature Organization. In 2016, Grigar received the International Digital Media and Arts Association's Lifetime Achievement Award.

Scholarship

Grigar is Professor and Director of the Creative Media & Digital Culture Program at Washington State University Vancouver. Her scholarship is largely focused on electronic literature, and has appeared in journals like Computers and Composition and Technoculture. She co-authored Traversals: The Use of Preservation for Early Electronic Writing with Stuart Moulthrop. The book was a product of a 2013 NEH Startup Grant. Grigar's scholarly interests can be traced back to the early 1990s, when she took a class with Nancy Kaplan.
Grigar has done extensive work curating exhibitions of digital art and electronic literature, including for the Library of Congress and Modern Language Association.

Artistic career

Grigar has produced a number of multimodal artworks, including Curlew, which was featured at the 2014 OLE.1 festival in Naples, and When Ghosts Will Die, a finalist in the 2006 Drunken Boat Panliterary Awards. "Fallow Fields: A Story in Two Parts" was published in The Iowa Web Review, while the NEH funded her Fort Vancouver Mobile project.