Claudia Kozak

Claudia Kozak holds a PhD in Letters from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and is a Principal Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) in Argentina. She serves as a Full Consulting Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at UBA, where she leads the project Archival Policies and Digital Technopoetics from a Decolonial Perspective at the Gino Germani Research Institute. Additionally, she teaches postgraduate courses as a visiting professor at various universities in Argentina and abroad.

The project

Title: From Analog Experimental Poetry to Digital Experimental Poetry: Diverging and Converging Lines in France and Latin America since the Mid-20th Century.

"In the context of the long research tradition developed on digital literature by Laboratoire Paragraphe (Université Paris 8), and of two ongoing research projects in France – “Jean-Pierre Balpe, auteur de littérature numérique française. Documenter, analyser et valoriser une œuvre fondatrice aux périmètres fuyants” (MHS Paris Nord, project code 24 1 A 3), co-led by Erika Fülöp (Toulouse 2) and Alexandra Saemmer (Paris 8), and “Patrimoine littéraire nativement numérique en France : pour une mémoire collective dynamique” (PLiN, Labex SMS, Université Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès) led by Erika Fülöp - this project is based on research involving archival work and interviews with key actors of French born digital poetry, to be carried out from 1 to 30 June 2025, on the basis of two documentary collections housed in French institutions. These are, on the one hand, the documents by and about the poet, publisher and performer Julien Blaine (1942-), held at the Bibliothèque National Française (BNF), and at the Institut Mémoires de l'édition contemporaine (IMEC), and on the other hand, the documentary archive (textual and digital) donated to the BNF (Archives et manuscrits) by the poet, teacher and theorist of digital literature Jean-Pierre Balpe (1942-). The aim is to explore the constitution of two genealogical lines of digital poetry, which may have operated in parallel, but which at the same time allow bridges to be built that take into account key aspects of the (pre)history of digital literature."

Hosting institution: Université Paris 8

Selective Bibliography

• Claudia Kozak. “Visual Patterns: Sign, Image and Object”. Poetry in Notions, Online Critical Compendium of Lyric Poetry. Gustavo Guerrero, Ralph Müller, Antonio Rodríguez, Kirsten Stirling (eds.), Laussane, Poetry in Notions, 2025,
• Claudia Kozak. “Latin American Digital Literature: A Close-Distant-Material- Collaborative- Localized Reading”. Contemporary Global Thinking from Latin American Women. Writings from the Margins. Aurea Mota, Laura Fólica, Diana Roig-Sanz (eds.), Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025, pp. 141-156.
• Claudia Kozak. “Words, Memory and Space in Intermedial Works by Gabriela Golder and Mariela Yeregui”. The Multimedia Works of Contemporary Spanish American Women Writers and Artists. Jane Lavery y Sarah Bowskill (eds.). Woodbridge (UK)/New York, Tamesis, 2023, pp. 205-218.
• Claudia Kozak. “La poésie numérique vue depuis l’Amérique Latine : théorie, histoire, critique”. Traduction Antonio Rodríguez. Théories du Lyric. Lyrical Valley, 3, novembre 2021, Université de Laussane,
• Leonardo Flores, Claudia Kozak, Rodolfo Mata (eds.). Antología Lit(e)Lat. Vol. 1. Antología de literatura electrónica latinoamericana y caribeña. Red de Literatura Electrónica Latinoamericana, 2020, 
• Claudia Kozak (ed.). Tecnopoéticas argentinas. Archivo blando de arte y tecnología. Buenos Aires, Caja Negra, 2012 (reedité 2015 et 2023