Dene Grigar
Dene Grigar is a digital artist and scholar based in Vancouver, Washington. She was the President of the Electronic Literature Organization from 2013 to 2019. In 2016, Grigar received the International Digital Media and Arts Association's Lifetime Achievement Award. Early life and career Dene Grigar married John Barber. Her mother is from what was then Czechoslovakia. 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 (MIT Press 2017) with Stuart Moulthrop. The book was a product of a 2013 National Endowment for the Humanities (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. Grigar helped lead the ELO repository in 2018, which was funded in part by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Grigar is now curating and editing the NeXt, an