Professor, Department of Media Studies, Catholic University Visiting Professor, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University

Lisa Gitelman is the author of Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture and Thomas Edison and Modern America: A Brief History with Documents (with Theresa M. Collins) and editor (with Geoffrey Pingree ) of the anthology New Media, 1740-1915, a volume of the Media in Transition series published by MIT Press.