Joseph Tabbi (1960-) is a US academic living in Norway, and is a full professor at the University of Bergen.
[1] Tabbi received a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1989 for a dissertation titled "The Psychology of Machines: Technology and Personal Identity in the Work of Norman Mailer and Thomas Pynchon.
He was the first scholar granted access to the archives of the reclusive novelist William Gaddis,[4] and is the author of Nobody Grew but the Business: On the Life and Work of William Gaddis[5][6] and the editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature[7] (2017) and Post-Digital: Critical Debates from electronic book review[8] (2020).
His other works include Cognitive Fictions[9] (2002) and Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk[10] (1996).
[11] Tabbi edits the scholarly journal Electronic Book Review[12] (ebr), which he founded with Mark Amerika.