Consortium on Electronic Literature

“[t]he cell, the smallest autopoietic structure known today . . . the minimal unit that is capable of incessant self-organizing metabolism.”

- Humberto Maturana

Initiated in 2009, the Consortium on Electronic Literature (CELL) is an international, open access, non-commercial resource offering centralized access to literary databases, archives, and institutional programs in the literary arts and humanities scholarship. CELL currently includes 6 member organizations and has been designed to allow for the integration of many more. Our collaborative network has been developing the information architecture needed for making born digital creative works and scholarly criticism findable across databases, world-wide.