Lori Emerson is an Associate Professor of English Literature and Intermedia Arts, Writing, and Performance at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Founding Director of the Media Archaeology Lab. She writes on media poetics, history of computing, and media theory. She is the author of Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound (University of Minnesota Press, Spring 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).