Spleenhouse

Marcel O'Gorman is a Professor of English and Director of the Digital Media Studies Program at the University of Detroit Mercy. He is currently the Visiting Humanities Fellow at the University of Windsor, where the Humanities Research Group is supporting the Spleenhouse project. Professor O'Gorman has published books and articles about the intersection of digital media, art, and the humanities, including E-Crit: Digital Media, Critical Theory, and the Humanities (University of Toronto Press) and New Media / New Methods (Parlor Press). His digital media performance piece, Dreadmill , is touring North America in the fall and winter of 2005. While Dreadmill critiques the demise of the body in a screen-obsessed culture, Spleenhouse is O'Gorman's attempt to reconcile his own role in the demise of his family's traditional farmstead; as an artist and academic, he rejected the LaSalle French farming legacy in pursuit of European French literature, art, and criticism.