Lecture by Todd Presner: Where is Critical Theory in DigitalHumanities?
Speaker(s): Todd Presner
The first formal lecture of the DLCL's Digital Humanities Focal Group will feature Todd Presner, Professor of Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature at the University of California Los Angeles. He is the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies and is also the Chair of the Digital Humanities Program. His research focuses on European intellectual history, the history of media, visual culture, digital humanities, and cultural geography. His books include: Mobile Modernity: Germans, Jews, Trains (Columbia University Press, 2007), Muscular Judaism: The Jewish Body and the Politics of Regeneration (Routledge, 2007), Digital_Humanities (MIT Press, 2012), co-authored with Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, and Jeffrey Schnapp; and HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities (Harvard University Press, 2013), with David Shepard and Yoh Kawano. His collaborative research has been awarded numerous grants and prizes, including the MacArthur "digital media and learning" prize and a Google Digital Humanities grant.