About
Lori Emerson is an Associate Professor of Media Studies and Director of the Intermedia Arts, Writing, and Performance Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is also Founding Director of the
Media Archaeology Lab. Emerson writes about media poetics as well as the history of computing, media archaeology, media theory, and digital humanities. She is currently working on a cluster of research projects she calls “
Other Networks” or histories of telecommunications networks that existed before or outside of the Internet. She is co-author of
THE LAB BOOK: Situated Practices in Media Studies” (forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press, 2022) with Darren Wershler and Jussi Parikka and author of
Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound (University of Minnesota Press, June 2014). She is also co-editor of three collections:
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media, with Marie-Laure Ryan and Benjamin Robertson (2014);
Writing Surfaces: The Selected Fiction of John Riddell, with
Derek Beaulieu (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2013); and
The Alphabet Game: a bpNichol Reader, with Darren Wershler (Coach House Books 2007).