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
2022
O’Sullivan, James, The sociology of style: The sociology of style: Writing and influence within literary families, in Poetics vol. 92, Part A.
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.
2021
O’Sullivan, James, “The Brontës, the Shelleys, Kingsley and Martin Amis: new research suggests literary relatives share similar writing styles”, 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
O’Sullivan, James, We are failing young people if we can’t teach them common decency, in The Irish Times.
2019
O’Sullivan, James, Good literature can come in digital forms: just look to the world of video games, in The Conversation.
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, Bill Clinton and James Patterson Are Co-Authors – but Who Did the Writing?, in The Guardian.
2018
O’Sullivan, James, Forget the Ivory Tower – Lecturers Are Working Class Too, in The Irish Times.
2018
O’Sullivan, James, Universities Have Become like Ikea – Just Follow the Instructions, in The Irish Times.
2017
O’Sullivan, James, Publishing Holes, in Holes: Decade I, New Binary Press, pp. 109–13.
2017
O’Sullivan, James, Electronic Literature’s Contemporary Moment: Breeze and Campbell’s ‘All the Delicate Duplicates’, in Los Angeles Review of Books.
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
O’Sullivan, James, Why You Don’t Need to Write Much to Be the World’s Bestselling Author, in The Conversation.
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