Special Collections and the Center for Gaming Research are delighted to welcome Eadington Gaming Fellow, Lee Scrivner.
Lee Scrivner (PhD London 2011, MA Utah 1998, BA Utah 1997) is a Lecturer in American literature and culture sponsored by the US Department of State, currently touring universities in Colombia. Formerly, (2010-2012) he was a Fulbright Lecturer in the Humanities at Bosphorus University in Istanbul, a sessional lecturer at the University of London (2007-2008); and an adjunct professor at UNLV (2001-2005). His first book, Becoming Insomniac: How Sleeplessness Alarmed Modernity forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan explores a century-and-a-half old notion that modern, technologized life causes insomnia. The book investigates theories of sleeplessness, sensation, attention, and volition in medical, psychological, literary texts--mostly from the Victorian period, but also spanning through to today.
Why he's coming:
"My research will focus on ways in which Las Vegas came to epitomize global modernity’s technologized forays into the nocturnal and atemporality in general in the past century--especially through the city’s association with “nightlife” and 24-hour activity and in its tendency to deconstruct time and history in its casinos' themes, etc."
