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Craig Saper is Professor and Director of the Language, Literacy, and Culture Doctoral Program at UMBC in Baltimore, and from 2012-2015 the Bearman Family Foundation Chair of Entrepreneurship. He is the author of Intimate Bureaucracies (2012), Networked Art (2001), Artificial Mythologies (1997) and has edited or co-edited volumes on Posthumography (2010), Imaging Place (2009), and Drifts (2007) and edited editions of Bob Brown’s Words (2010) and Readies (2010). He has published widely on Fluxus and visual poetry and serves as the Reviews Editor and "Blog Report" columnist for Rhizomes. His curatorial projects include exhibits on “Assemblings” (1997), “Noigandres: Concrete Poetry in Brazil” (1988) and “TypeBound” (2008), and folkvine.org (2003-6). In addition, he has published two artists books, On Being Read (1985) and Raw Material (2008). Saper is presently writing a biography of the poet-publisher-impresario-writer in every imaginable genre, Bob Brown, who invented an avant-garde reading machine; the simulation of the reading machine can be found at Saper’s website http://www.readies.org. He is now leading workshops and giving visiting lectures on defining the multiple forms of digital scholarship, and discussing how scholarly and university presses may respond to the multiple modes of scholarship and publication now available.