Edward Barrett (Ph.D., Harvard University) is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Media Studies/Writing, where his research, teaching, and publications focus on poetry and digital media.
Poetry books:
Play Lucretius (2024);
The Leaves Are Something This Year: New and Selected Prose Poems (2023);
The Sinatra n (2016);
Toward Blue Peninsula (2014);
Down New Utrecht Avenue (2011);
Bosston (2008); Kevin White (2007);
Or Current Resident (2005);
Rub Out —Three Verse Novels (2003);
Sheepshead Bay (2001);
Breezy Point (2000);
Practical Lullabies for Joe (1999);
Common Preludes (1994);
The Leaves Are Something This Year (1992);
Theory of Transportation (1990); and
7x3 (1987). Plays:
Antigone (translated from the Greek; produced Off-Broadway, 1982). Opera libretto:
Shaman (text translated from Navajo; premier, Manhattan Chamber Opera Company, NYC 1987). Digital Media books: Building Mobile Experiences (F. Bentley and E. Barrett, MIT Press, 2012);
Contextual Media: Multimedia and Interpretation (MIT Press, 1995);
Sociomedia (MIT Press, 1992);
The Society of Text: Hypertext, Hypermedia, and the Social Construction of Information (MIT Press, 1989); and
Text, ConText, and HyperText: Writing with and for the Computer (MIT Press, 1988). Textbooks:
The MIT Guide to Teaching Web Site Design (E. Barrett, D. Levinson, S. Lisanti, MIT Press, 2001) and
The Mayfield Handbook of Technical and Scientific Writing (L. Perelman, J. Paradis, and E. Barrett. McGraw-Hill, 1998).
