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
Philly Community Wireless
2020-Present
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.
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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.