Alex Saum

Poet and associate professor of Contemporary Spanish Literature and New Media at the University of California, Berkeley, Alex Saum’s research explores the relationship between art, literature, and the digital technologies. She is author of #Postweb!: crear con la máquina y en la red (Iberoamericana, 2018) as well as numerous articles on digital art in the Spanish-speaking world, and her work has appeared in The Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature Studies, and The Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, among other publications. Her digital poetry has been exhibited in galleries and art festivals around the world, as well as being studied in specialist monographs and forming part of Electronic Literature Collection Vol. 4 (2022). She serves on the Executive Committee of the Berkeley Center for New Media, and also the board of directors of the Electronic Literature Organization. She is presently working on the book Earthy algorithms: A materialist approach to capital, climate and digital literature in the Hispanic world, which is to be published in 2025.