April 12, 2025I presented at 4C25 on AI refusal, focusing on the ways that AI reduces intentionality and creativity in the craft…
April 11, 2025Content note: graphic descriptions of violence New publication alert! "Pain and Relief Come of Themselves" is now live in Peitho's…
January 21, 2025Dream publication announcement! The modified prototype (and I do mean prototype) of the parser-based game that formed the basis of…
June 21, 2024When I was invited to deliver one of the keynote addresses at Computers & Writing, "The planning committee was excited…
April 5, 2024Catch the Italo Calvino reference? This virtual presentation at 4C24 was complicated, as it involved designing and scripting a tiny…
January 26, 2024I didn't use scripted remarks for this roundtable talk, but below are some of the questions that were asked, and…
October 10, 2021Content note: corpse desecration, genocide, graphic descriptions of violence, intergenerational trauma, racism Publication alert! "Chaos Itself Is an Order" has…
February 4, 2019It's the anniversary of Sri Lanka's independence from British rule, thus also the kairotic moment prompting me to finally collect…![Green chalkboard with blue Post-It reading "If the pen is mightier than the sword, what to [sic] you have to say about the marker?"](https://vyshalimanivannan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/PostIt-Chalkboard-1024x579.jpg)
July 1, 2018Because what I really want my students to know—about the university, the course, writing—isn't what's in the syllabus, I created…
February 10, 2017A combination of Winter Storm Niko and a resulting spike in chronic pain has left me housebound in New York…