Alex Wermer-Colan
About me
I work as the Academic and Research Director at Temple University Libraries. I also serve as the Executive Director of Philly Community Wireless, and the Managing Editor for the Programming Historian in English.
I work on and advise a variety of other projects around literature, theater, new media, and community technology. If you are interested in meeting or consulting with me, please reach out via email.
Projects
A new translation of Jean Cocteau's Letter to the Americans from 1947, published by New Directions.
2022
2019
The definitive anthology on William S. Burroughs' cut-up method, containing scholarly criticism, interviews, and previously unseen archival materials, from cut-up texts and photomontages to essays and screenplays.
A Lost & Found anthology of archival materials containing William S. Burroughs cut-up experiments with canonical writers. In collaboration with Experiments in Opera, ten composers set selected pieces to music in performances at The Stone.