English/Creative Media and Digital Culture
adriana![Dene Grigar](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/1586/2016/07/dene-grigar_88x106.jpg)
![John Barber](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/1586/2017/02/barber_john.jpg)
Dene Grigar, professor and director, and John Barber, clinical associate professor, English/creative media and digital culture, WSU Vancouver, were invited speakers at the first electronic literature conference in the Arab world, Arab Electronic Literature: New Horizons and Global Perspectives, hosted in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, by Rochester Institute of Technology. Grigar presented “Preserving a Cultural Legacy of Born Digital Literature.” Barber presented, “Sound and Electronic Literature.” Barber’s sound art work, “There and Back,” was one of seven international works invited for a curated exhibition associated with the conference.