Selected Projects & Publications

Projects

2023

Irish Film Poetry Archive (10.7486/DRI.z6044q33h)

2021 - 2024

Principal Investigator, C21 Editions: Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age (IRC/W001489/1 & AH/W001489/1), Irish Research Council & Arts & Humanities Research Council UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities

Books

2019

O’Sullivan, James, Towards a Digital Poetics: Electronic Literature & Literary Game, Palgrave Macmillan.

Edited Books

2023

Kelleher, Margaret, and James O’Sullivan (eds.), Technology in Irish Literature & Culture, Cambridge University Press.

2023

O’Sullivan, James (ed.), The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities, Bloomsbury Academic.

2021

O’Sullivan, James (ed.), Digital Art in Ireland: New Media and Irish Artistic Practice, Anthem Press.

2021

Grigar, Dene, and James O’Sullivan (eds.), Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms, and Practices, Bloomsbury Academic.

2016

Ross, Shawna, and James O’Sullivan (eds.), Reading Modernism with Machines: Digital Humanities and Modernist Literature, Palgrave Macmillan.

Book Chapters

2023

O’Sullivan, James, Literary Games, Walking Simulators and the New Wave of Digital Fiction, in The Routledge Companion to Literary Media, edited by Astrid Ensslin, Julia Round & Thomas Bronwen, Taylor & Francis, pp. 255-267.

2023

O’Sullivan, James, Irish Digital Literature, in Irish Literature & Culture, edited by Margaret Kelleher and James O’Sullivan, Cambridge University Press, pp. 308-326.

2021

O’Sullivan, James, Publishing Electronic Literature, in Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms, & Practices, edited by Dene Grigar and James O’Sullivan, Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 255-266.

2019

O’Sullivan, James, and Dene Grigar, The Origins of Electronic Literature as Net/Web Art, in The SAGE Handbook of Web History, edited by Niels Brügger and Ian Milligan, SAGE, pp. 428-440.

2018

Heckman, Davin, and James O’Sullivan, Electronic Literature: Contexts and Poetics, in Literary Studies in a Digital Age, edited by Kenneth M. Price and Ray Siemens, Modern Language Association.

2018

Heckman, Davin, and James O’Sullivan, ‘your Visit Will Leave a Permanent Mark’: Poetics in the Post-Digital Economy, in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature, edited by Joseph Tabbi, Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 95-112.

2016

Mattson, Mark, Sarah Pickle, Andrew Gearhart, and James O’Sullivan, Infrastructure for Open Access: Mechanics, Economics, Politics, in Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Communications, edited by Kevin L. Smith and Katherine A. Dickson, Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 161-181.

2016

O’Sullivan, James, Christopher P. Long, and Mark Mattson, Dissemination as Cultivation: Scholarly Communications in a Digital Age, in Doing Digital Humanities: Practice, Training, Research, edited by Constance Crompton Richard J. Lane, and Ray Siemens, Routledge, pp. 384-397.

Journal Articles

2021

McCarthy, Rachel, and James O’Sullivan, Who Wrote Wuthering Heights?, in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities vol. 36, issue 2, pp. 383-391.

2020

O’Sullivan, James, The Digital Humanities in Ireland, in Digital Studies/Le champ numérique vol. 10.

2018

O’Sullivan, James, Electronic Literature in Ireland, in Electronic Book Review.

2018

O’Sullivan, James, The Equivalence of Books: Monographs, Prestige, and the Rise of Edge Cases, in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 494-503.

2018

Weidman, Sean G., and James O’Sullivan, The Limits of Distinctive Words: Re-Evaluating Literature’s Gender Marker Debate, in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 374–390.

2018

O’Sullivan, James, Katarzyna Bazarnik, Maciej Eder, and Jan Rybicki, Measuring Joycean Influences on Flann O’Brien, in Digital Studies/Le Champ Numérique vol. 8, no. 1.

2017

O’Sullivan, James, ‘The Dream of an Island’: Dear Esther and the Digital Sublime, Paradoxa vol. 29, special issue entitled Small Screen Fiction, edited by Astrid Ensslin, Pawel Frelik, and Lisa Swanstrom, pp. 317-26.

2017

Hswe, Patricia, Tara LaLonde, Kate Miffitt, James O’Sullivan, Sarah Pickle, Nathan Piekielek, Heather Ross, and Albert Rozo, A Tale of Two Internships: Developing Digital Skills through Engaged Scholarship, in Digital Humanities Quarterly vol. 11, no. 3.

2017

Gade, Prasad, Mary Galvin, James O’Sullivan, Paul Walsh, and Órla Murphy, Reactions to Imagery Generated Using Computational Aesthetic Measures, in Leonardo vol. 50, no. 5, pp. 453-460..

2017

O’Sullivan, James, Modernist Intermediality: The False Dichotomy between High Modernism and Mass Culture, in English Studies vol. 98, no. 3, pp. 283–309

2017

Fuller, Simon, and James O’Sullivan, Structure over Style: Collaborative Authorship and the Revival of Literary Capitalism, in Digital Humanities Quarterly vol. 11, no. 1.

2016

Allen, Graham, and James O’Sullivan, Collapsing Generation and Reception: Holes as Electronic Literary Impermanence, in Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures 15.

2015

O’Sullivan, James, Diane Jakacki, and Mary Galvin, Programming in the Digital Humanities, in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, vol. 30, suppl 1, eds. by Melissa Terras, Claire Chivaz, Deb Verhoeven, and Frederic Kaplan, pp. i142–i147.

2015

O’Sullivan, James, Órla Murphy, and Shawn Day, The Emergence of the Digital Humanities in Ireland, in Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies, 2015.

2014

O’Sullivan, James, The New Apparatus of Influence: Material Modernism in the Digital Age, in International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 226–238.

2014

O’Sullivan, James, Finn’s Hotel and the Joycean Canon, in Genetic Joyce Studies 14.

2014

O’Sullivan, James, Time and Technology in Orlando, in ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 40–45.

Other

2023

O’Sullivan, James (curator), Data|Art, The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Cork.

2020

Murphy, Órla, Shawn Day, and James O’Sullivan, A Report on Digital Humanities at University College Cork, in Chinese Journal of Digital Humanities 数字人文 no. 3, pp. 169-174.

2020

Nilsson-Fernàndez, Pedro and James O’Sullivan (eds.), ELO2019 Gathering (Cork, Ireland), in Electronic Book Review.

2019

Clarke, Chris & James O’Sullivan (curators), Peripheries: ELO2019 Exhibition Programme, The Glucksman, University College Cork.

2018

O’Sullivan, James, DHSI Colloquium Special Collection, in Digital Studies/Le Champ Numérique vol. 8, no. 1.

2017

O’Sullivan, James, Scholarly Equivalents of the Monograph? An Examination of Some Digital Edge Cases, for The Academic Book of the Future project, University College London.

2016

O’Sullivan, James, Mary Galvin, and Diane Jakacki, DHSI Colloquium 2014 Special Issue, in Digital Humanities Quarterly vol. 10, no. 1.

2016

Chenier, Natasha R., and James O’Sullivan, Regarding the Joyce Word Dictionary, in James Joyce Quarterly vol. 53, no. 1–2, pp. 17–21.

Essays, Features & Reviews

2023

O’Sullivan, James, Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation speech was not all about her, in British Politics & Policy, London School of Economics.

2023

O’Sullivan, James, The golden age of video games is over, in RTÉ Brainstorm.

2023

O’Sullivan, James, Are the Clintons actually writing their novels?, in The Conversation.

2020

O’Sullivan, James, Text Is Dead, Long Live Text!, in The Future of Text, edited by Frode Alexander Hegland, p. 206.

2020

McCarthy, Rachel, and James O’Sullivan, Who Wrote Wuthering Heights?, in The Irish Times.

2020

2019

O’Sullivan, James, Literary Cork, in Stranger’s Guide Issue 4 (Ireland), pp. 47-51.

2019

O’Sullivan, James, The humanities have a reproducibility problem, in Talking Humanities.

2018

O’Sullivan, James, The Place of Literature in a City Rising, in Blog // Los Angeles Review of Books.

2018

O’Sullivan, James, Edge cases as academic possibility, in Talking Humanities.

2018

O’Sullivan, James, ‘Places We Actually Go’: Three Irish Poets’ Debuts, in Los Angeles Review of Books.

2018

O’Sullivan, James, We Need to Talk about the Digital Humanities Job, in Talking Humanities.

2018

O’Sullivan, James, Forget the Ivory Tower – Lecturers Are Working Class Too, in The Irish Times.

2018

2017

O’Sullivan, James, Publishing Holes, in Holes: Decade I, New Binary Press, pp. 109–13.

2017

O’Sullivan, James, Computing differences in language between male and female authors, in RTÉ Brainstorm.

2017

O’Sullivan, James, The Realities of Independent Publishing in Ireland, in The Irish Times.

2017

Conference Contributions

2023

O’Sullivan, James, DH Pedagogy in Ireland as Neo-Liberal Logic or Social Opportunity?, Digital Humanities (DH2023), Graz.

2023

Kurzmeier, Michael, James O’Sullivan, Michael Pidd, Órla Murphy, Bridgette Wessels, and Sophie Whittle, Building a Digital Edition from Archived Social Media Content, Digital Humanities (DH2023), Graz.

2023

Kurzmeier, Michael, James O’Sullivan, Michael Pidd, Órla Murphy, and Bridgette Wessels, Preservability and Preservation of Digital Scholarly Editions, IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference, Hilversum.

2022

Kurzmeier, Michael, James O’Sullivan, Órla Murphy, Michael Pidd, and Bridgette Wessels, A Quantitative Analysis of Digital Scholarly Editions, Digital Humanities Congress, Digital Humanities Institute, University of Sheffield.

2022

O’Sullivan, James, Michael Pidd, Órla Murphy, Bridgette Wessels, with Michael Kurzmeier, Perspectives on the Future of Digital Editions & Publishing, Digital Humanities (DH2022), Tokyo.

2017

Nelson, Jason, Alinta Krauth, James O’Sullivan, Justin Tonra, and Anne Karhio, Digital Literature & Art: Interface as Creative Device, Cúirt International Festival of Literature, Galway.

2017

O’Sullivan, James, Scholarly Equivalents of the Monograph? An Examination of some Digital Edge Cases, SHARP: Technologies of the Book, Victoria, British Columbia.

2016

Faull, Katherine Mary, Diane Jakacki, James O’Sullivan, Amy Earhart, and Micki Kaufman, Access, Ownership, Protection: The Ethics of Digital Scholarship, Digital Humanities (DH2016), Kraków.

2016

O’Sullivan, James, Michelle Shade, and Ben Rowles, Player-Driven Content: Analysing Textual Communications in Online Roleplay, Digital Humanities (DH2016), Kraków.

2016

O’Sullivan, James, The Evolution of E-Lit, Electronic Literature Organization Conference & Media Arts Festival (ELO2016), Victoria, British Columbia.

2015

O’Sullivan, James, Electronic Literature: A Publisher’s Perspective, Electronic Literature Organization Conference & Media Arts Festival (ELO2015), Bergen.

2015

O’Sullivan, James, Computational approaches to Ireland’s Contemporary Literary Journals, Digital Humanities (DH2015), Sydney.

2015

O’Sullivan, James, Electronic Literature and the Politics of Process, Digital Humanities (DH2015), Sydney.

2015

Weidman, Sean, and James O’Sullivan, Gender Markers: Distinctive Words in Male and Female Authorship, Digital Humanities (DH2015), Sydney.

2015

O’Sullivan, James, Irish Literature as Born-Digital, MLA Annual Convention, Vancouver.

2015

Jakacki, Diane, Katherine Faull, Dot Porter, and James O’Sullivan, The Ethics of Data Curation: The Quandary of Access vs. Protection, Keystone Digital Humanities, Philadelphia.

2014

O’Sullivan, James, and Diane Jakacki, What we make of Code: The Role of Programming in the Digital Humanities, Digital Humanities (DH2014), Lausanne

2014

Durity, Anthony, and James O’Sullivan, On Reusability and Electronic Literature, Digital Humanities (DH2014), Lausanne.

2014

Fuller, Simon, and James O’Sullivan, Beyond Style: Literary Capitalism and the Publishing Industry, Digital Humanities (DH2014), Lausanne.

2014

O’Sullivan, James, Katarzyna Bazarnik, Maciej Eder, and Jan Rybicki, Two Irish Birds: A Stylometric Analysis of James Joyce and Flann O’Brien, Digital Humanities (DH2014), Lausanne.

2014

Fuller, Simon, and James O’Sullivan, ‘More or less all plot’: A Rolling Delta Analysis of the Commodification of Collaboration, Canadian Society for Digital Humanities Annual Conference, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Brock University, Saint Catharine’s.

2012

O’Sullivan, James, Materiality and Form in Electronic Literature, Society for Digital Humanities Annual Conference, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Waterloo.

Creative Writing

2019

Corpse Paths, in The Stinging Fly, Issue 41, vol. 2

2018

Vienna, in Southword 35

2018

The State Theatre, in Banshee 6

2017

Ghosts, in Prairie Schooner vol. 91, no. 3

2017

Galaxies, in Prairie Schooner vol. 91, no. 3

2017

Rust, in Poetry Salzburg Review no. 30

2017

Abandoned Places, in Poetry Salzburg Review no. 30

2017

O’Sullivan, James, Courting Katie, Salmon Poetry

2016

Picture Box, in Crannóg, Issue 43

2016

Different Kinds of Life, in Southword 29A

2015

Extract from Designing Waste, in Banshee 1

2015

The Laundry, in Cyphers

2014

O’Sullivan, James, Groundwork, Alba Publishing

2013

Children’s Ward, in Southword 25

2013

Remember When, in The SHOp, Issue 43

2013

Moll’s Gap, in Revival Literary Journal, Issue 26

2013

O’Sullivan, James, Kneeling on the Redwood Floor, Lapwing Publications