The EmoryMOO of Prometheus Unplugged

This Web space contains information on both the EmoryMOO, home of the Villa Diodati, and Prometheus Unplugged, the third annual national graduate student conference on Romanticism, which was held at Emory University (Atlanta, GA) in April, 1996.

EmoryMOO is a MOOspace maintained by Emory University as a resource for teachers and Romanticists everywhere. We provide MOOspace for classes to meet or other events. The MOO contains the Villa Diodati, the MOOspace for Romantic Circles, a Website devoted to the study of Lord Byron, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, their contemporaries and historical contexts. This fall the Villa Diodati will be the site of mini-conferences on the electronic editions of Mary Shelley's The Last Man and Percy Shelley's The Devil's Walk that are edited and archived at the Romantic Circles webspace.

More than just Romanticists, however, EmoryMOO serves teachers of language and literature everywhere. If you would like to have a class use the MOO or host a single MOO event, contact Carole Meyers for more information.

The Origins of Prometheus Unplugged

This Web site was the cyber-companion to the third annual Graduate Student Conference in Romanticism which met at Emory University in April 1996. The Virtual Conference was based on a new World Wide Web/MOO interface and featured virtual keynote addresses from Stuart Curran, Jerome McGann, and Harry Rusche.

At this site, we posted all of the conference papers, along with some responses,so that others could benefit from these presentations and have the opportunity to ask their authors questions using our bulletin board system. Using the navigational aids above, you can enter the Conference Center to read and post responses to papers delivered at the live conference or to access the Web pages for the virtual keynotes, take a trip to the library to peruse some Romanticism Resources on the Web, or saunter through the Opium Den to see the more informal notes posted there.

While this web site ws integral to the virtual conference, the real interactions took place in the Emory MOO, a textual virtual environment that allows people to interact and communicate in almost real time even over great distances. Using Juggler--our customized Web/MOO interface--conferees talked to others in the MOO while viewing conference papers on the Web.

You can still take a look (and add to) the Conference Bulletin Board hanging from the statue of Prometheus that stands at the center of the Emory MOO. Who's logged into the MOO right now? Find out.

If you'd like to enter the MOO yourself, visit the Help section to download Juggler and to get instructions on how to receive your own character in the MOO.

At any point in your travels, Prometheus will return you here.