Yolanda De Gregorio Robledo Selected as the 2026 Joseph P. Tabbi Fellow

Chosen for her research on feminine digital poetics.

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Text: Yolanda de Gregorio Roblado, University of Cadiz, 2026 Joseph P. Tabbi Fellow
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The Center for Digital Narrative (CDN) is pleased to announce that Yolanda De Gregorio Robledo (external link), Assistant Professor from the University of Cadiz, has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 Joseph P. Tabbi Fellowship for International Researchers in Electronic Literature.

De Gregorio Robledo was chosen from a competitive pool of applicants for her project Toward a Women Digital Poetics: Rethinking Écriture Féminine in Digital Media. She will join the CDN as a guest researcher during the Autumn 2026 semester.

"The competition was tough as there were several excellent applications for the guest researcher fellowship," said Professor Scott Rettberg. 

"But Yolanda De Gregorio Robledo's application stood out as particularly well-developed and suited to the resources of the CDN. She'll both be collaborating with researchers here and making contributions to both the Living Glossary of Digital Narrative (external link) and writing an article for submission to the electronic book review (external link). We're delighted to welcome her."

During her residency, De Gregorio Robledo will work alongside CDN's PAIG (Publications and Infrastructure Group) and participate in the Centre's research activities. The fellowship, named for Professor Emeritus Joseph Tabbi, supports earlier-career international researchers working in the field of electronic literature.

This is the first in an annual fellowship, the next will be for Autumn 2027, with a call in September. This March we will send out a call for CDN Guest Researcher Fellowship for Spring 2027.

About the Center for Digital Narrative (CDN)

CDN is a Norwegian Centre of Research Excellence funded by the Norwegian Research Council from 2023-2033. CDN focuses on algorithmic narrativity, new environments and materialities, and shifting cultural contexts. We will investigate how the interactions of human authors with non-human agents result in new narrative forms, how the materiality of digital narratives has changed, and how cultural contexts are reshaping the use and function of digital narrative. 

CDN hosts approximately 40 funded and affiliated researchers and regularly hosts international guest researchers at all career stages.

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About the Joseph P. Tabbi Fellowship

The Joseph P. Tabbi Fellowship for International Researchers in Electronic Literature is awarded annually by the Center for Digital Narrative (CDN) at the University of Bergen. The fellowship funds a semester stay. It is open to earlier-career faculty with a doctoral degree employed at a university outside Norway. Fellows collaborate with CDN researchers and contribute to projects such as the Living Glossary of Electronic Literature, the CELL Index, and the electronic book review. The fellowship is named after Professor Emeritus Joseph Tabbi, a pioneer in electronic literature and open-access publishing, and one of the original Principal Investigators of the CDN.

  • 2026: Yolanda de Gregorio Roblado, University of Cadiz

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