Literary Publications by Prof. Juan B. Gutiérrez

Juan B. Gutiérrez I am a Professor of Mathematics at The University of Texas at San Antonio. I direct the Biomathematics Research Group (BRG); the BRG explores mathematical and computational models at multiple scales (from genes to ecology).

Regarding literature, I am a fiction author, and also a scholar particularly interested in: (i) artificial intelligence applied to storytelling, (ii) digital narratology (or digital neo-structuralism), (iii) narrative bots, and (iv) natural language processing. I believe that storytelling is an essential state of human minds, and that it can be mediated by digital technologies.

Published Fiction
2006
Novel. El primer Vuelo de los Hermanos Wright (The first Flight of the Wright Brothers). Written with the support of Award #COLCULTURA-SECAB 014/1996 by the Instituto Colombiano de Cultura – Colcultura, now the Ministry of Culture of Colombia. 1996-1998
2005
Novel. Condiciones Extremas (Extreme Conditions). Written with the support of Award #IDCT-514/1997 by the Instituto Distrital de Cultura y Turismo de Bogota (Institute of Culture and Tourism of the City of Bogota.) 1997-1998.
2000
Story. Las Fricciones de San Sebastián. (The Frictions of St. Sebastian). Revista Avianca. Magazine of Avianca Airlines. Number 254. Bogota. Colombia. Mar, 2000. Pag. 66-69. Bogota, Colombia.
2000
Story. La Sagrada Geometría (The Sacred Geometry.) In Antología Colombiana de Ciencia Ficción (Companion of Colombian Science Fiction). Pag. 93-96. Rene Rebetez (ed.) Espasa, 2000. Bogota, Colombia. ISBN: 958-614-804-1
1998
Story. Las Exquisitas Disquisiciones de Fray Leonardo Baz. (The exquisite reasoning of Father Leonardo Baz.) Gaceta. Magazine of the Ministry of Culture of Colombia. Pag. 150-145. Num. 44-45. Bogota, Colombia. 1999. ISSN: 0121-7194
1996
Short Story Book. Siete Curiosas Formas de Morir. (Seven Curious Ways to Die). Unidad de Publicaciones. Facultad de Ingeniería. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. 1996. (Press of the School of Engineeering of the National University of Colombia.)
1996
Story. González, Archivos y Documentos. (Gonzalez, Files and Documents.) In Sunday Readings of El Tiempo (Sunday Readings from The Times), newspaper. ISSN: 0121-9790. Also in Carta Universitaria, Magazine of the National University, December 1996. Bogota, Colombia. ISSN: 0122-2929
1995
Story. La Sagrada Geometría (The Sacred Geometry.) In Crea, Una Expedición por la Cultura Colombiana (CREA: An Expedition through the Colombian Culture). Ministry of Culture of Colombia (formerly Colcultura). Page 17-22.
1995
Story . Atyseikuiwandiú, o los Avatares de la Cruel Sangre (Atyseikuiwandiú, or the Fortune of the Cruel Blood). In Lecturas Dominicales de El Tiempo (Sunday Readings from The Times), newspaper. 01/15/1995. Bogota, Colombia. Also in Ko’eyú, Journal of Cultural and Politic Analysis. Number 64, April-June 1994. Caracas, Venezuela.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
2010
CHAPTER. L Borràs, JB Gutierrez. The Global Poetic System (GPS): A System of Poetic Positioning. Chapter 15, pp. 345-364. Beyond the Screen: Transformations of Literary Structures, Interfaces and Genre. Peter Gendolla, Jörgen Schäfer, Eds. Transcript Verlag, 2010. Bielefeld, Germany.
2009
JOURNAL. JB Gutierrez, Mark C. Marino, Pablo Gervás, Laura Borràs Castanyer Electronic Literature as an Information System. In Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures. Issue 6, Summer 2009.
2008
PROCEEDINGS. JB Gutierrez and MC Marino. Literatronica. Adaptive Digital Narrative. In Creating ’08: Proceedings of the hypertext 2008 workshop on Creating out of the machine: hypertext, hypermedia, and web artists explore the craft, pages 5-8, New York, NY, USA.
2007
CHAPTER.     JB Gutierrez. The Limits of Digital Narrative: A Functional Analysis. Chapter 5, pp. 85-103. Literatures in the Digital Era: Theory and Praxis. Amelia Sanz, Dolores Romero, Eds. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007. UK/Spain.
2006
PROCEEDINGS. JB Gutierrez. Literatronic: The use of Hamiltonian cycles to produce adaptivity in literary hypertext. In The Bridges Conference 2006: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science, pages 215-224, London, UK, August 2006.
2004
JOURNAL. JB Gutierrez. Hipertexto Literario: Replantemianto de las premisas. (Literary Hypertext: Rethinking the premises.) Hojas Universitarias. Journal of the School of Humanities of the Universidad Central, (56):128-132. Bogota, Colombia, October 2004.
2000
JOURNAL. JB Gutierrez. Hipertexto en Contexto III. (Hypertext in context III.) In Signo y Pensamiento. Journal of the School of Communication of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, XIX(36):111-118. Bogota, Colombia, 2000.
1999
JOURNAL. JB Gutierrez. Hipertexto en Contexto (Hypertext in Context.) In Revista de Literatura Hispanoamericana. (Journal of Latin-American Literature). Journal of the School of Literature of the Zulia University (38):83-90, Jan-Jun 1999. Maracaibo, Venezuela, 1999. ISSN: 0252-9017
Publications About My Literary Work
2021
Colombia. Dissertation. Julian Alberto Cubillos Ocampo Alfabetización mediática en r evolución digital y literatura electrónica. (Doctoral dissertation, UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES, COLOMBIA.
2017
USA. Article. Melissa Fitch Latin American Literature and NewTechnology. In Critical Insights – Contemporary Latin American Fiction, Ignacio López-Calvo Ed. Salem Press, Gey House Publishing.
2015
USA. Dissertation. Julio Alejandro Pérez Digital Storytelling in Spanish: Narrative Techniques and Approaches . (Doctoral dissertation, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA).
2015
Germany. Dissertation. Klöpper-Mauermann, S. Die spanischsprachige Hyperfiction und ihr Leser: narratologische Auslotungen einer schwierigen Beziehung. (Doctoral dissertation, UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG).
2015
Iceland. MA Thesis. Nevena Novaković El uso de la literatura digital en el aula de ELE . (MA Thesis, UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND).
2014
Spain. Article. Linares, J. M. G. (2014). Literatrónica: un análisis hipertextual de Condiciones extremas, de Juan B. Gutiérrez. Álabe: Revista de Investigación sobre Lectura y Escritura, (9)6, 2014.
2013
USA. Dissertation. Gainza, C. (2013). Escrituras Electrónicas en América Latina. Producción Literaria en el Capitalismo Informacional (Doctoral dissertation, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH).
2012
2010
USA. MA Thesis. Fordyce, T. (2010). Linked variations: authoring-system specific link construction and the analysis of hypertext literature (MA Thesis, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY).
2010
Agentina. Article. Cobo, R. M. D. (2013). Modelos para armar: hacia la digitalización de la narración literaria. CELEHIS: Revista del Centro de Letras Hispanoamericanas, 19(21), 47-72, 2008.
2009
USA. Dissertation. Cleger, O. (2009). El arte de narrar en la era de las blogoficciones: Una aproximacion interdisciplinaria a la literatura en los blogs (Doctoral dissertation, THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA).
2008
USA. Dissertation. Acuna-Zumbado, E. (2008). Hacia la construccion del sujeto y sus procesos de lectura en la hipertextualidad latinoamericana (Doctoral dissertation, UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS).
2007
Colombia. Article. Henry, P. S. (2013). Metamorfosis literaria en la era digital: El primer vuelo de los hermanos Wright. Cuadernos de Literatura, 12(23):142-452, 2007.
2007
UK/USA/Spain. Chapter in book. Perla Sasson-Henry. From Hypertexts To Blogs: “El Primer Vuelo De Los Hermanos Wright” And “Más Respeto Que Soy Tu Madre.” Chapter 20, pp. 319-328. Literatures in the Digital Era: Theory and Praxis. Amelia Sanz, Dolores Romero Eds. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007. UK.
2002
Germany. Article. Jochen Mecke. Ästhetische Differenz in Print- und Hypertext (fiktion) (Aesthetic difference in print and Hypertext fiction). PhiN-Beiheft 2/2004: 141. Philologie im Netz. (Philology in Net). Journal of philology of the University of Berlin. Germany. ISSN: 1433-7177
2001
USA. Chapter in book. Susana Pajares Tosca. Condiciones Extremas. Digital Science Fiction from Colombia. Latin American Literature and Mass Media. Garland. Hispanic Issues Series. New York, 2001. ISBN: 081-533-894-5.