Eric Dean Rasmussen is associate professor of English literature in the Department of Cultural Studies and Languages at the University of Stavanger, where he teaches in the English section and the program in Literacy Studies. He is also senior editor for the journal ebr (Electronic Book Review).
From 2010-12, Eric was a researcher in Digital Culture at the University of Bergen (UiB), where he served as the first editor of the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base. Eric has served as a research associate for the Electronic Literature Organization, an institution he's been affiliated with since its founding in Chicago in the late 1990s. He first came to UiB as a visiting førsteamanuensis in Humanistic Informatics. Rasmussen's interests include aesthetics and ideology in 20th and 21st-century literature and the impact of new media technologies on the literary arts and (digital) humanities.
Rasmussen has a Ph.D in English (Literature, Theory and Criticism) from the University of Illinois at Chicago, an M.A. in English (English and American Literature) from Emory University, and a B.A. in English (summa cum laude) from Coe College.