Aislinn McDougall

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About Aislinn

Aislinn McDougall is an Assistant Professor of Creative Technologies at the University of Regina. She grew up in Lumsden SK, and studied English and Creative Writing at the U of R before completing her MA and PhD in English at Queen’s University where she began research in the field of Digital Humanities. Prior to her appointment at the U of R, she worked as the Visiting Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Utah. Her current research looks specifically at the impacts of 21st century digital technologies on the transition from postmodernism to post-postmodernism in literature and media, arguing that “.compostmodernism” is the successor to postmodernism. Her work indicates .compostmodern’s prevalence across content, form, typography, materiality and medium in both print and digital texts, introducing terms like “literary cyber-consciousness” and “.compostmodern textual machinery” to highlight its impact. Her other research interests include digital mapping, digital archiving, digital storytelling, video games and the relationship between poetry and programming.

Her work has appeared in Orbit, Technoculture, C21 Literature, Canadian Literature and Études écossaises. As a professor of Creative Technologies, Aislinn enjoys instructing her students to work with digital technologies in a collaborative and hands-on environment. With this, she loves nothing more than to encourage her students to nourish the complex but productive relationship between digital technologies and creative expression. In addition to her research and teaching, Aislinn writes confessional poetry that explores family archive, memory, the body and life on the prairies among other things. Her poetry has appeared Cede Poetry and Allegory Ridge. When she’s not at the U of R researching and teaching, she enjoys spending time with her husband, two children and two cats.