About

Elizabeth Cornell is a Pre-Doctoral fellow in English at Fordham University. She is the founder of Fordham’s Graduate Student Digital Humanities group, a member of the Fordham University Digital Humanities Working Group for faculty and staff,and an active participant in the larger digital humanities community in New York City. In addition, she is a contributor to Digital Yoknapatawpha, a map-based online archive of William Faulkner’s work, published by the Digital Media Lab at the University of Virginia. Her current project, “The Einstein Phenomenon: Modern American Literature and the Popularization of Einstein’s Relativity Theory,” argues that Einstein’s theory of relativity contributed to the development of American modernism.