Oakland University
Biographical Sketch: Joanne Lipson Freed is Associate Professor and M.A. Program Director in the Department of English at Oakland University. She is the author of Haunting Encounters: The Ethics of Reading across Boundaries of Difference (Cornell UP 2017), and her articles have appeared in Comparative Literature Studies, African American Review, ARIEL, and Narrative. Her current book project, “The Novel of Formation in the Era of the Algorithm,” explores the overlap between algorithmic and novelistic forms in the production of twenty-first-century subjectivity.