Lisa Gitelman
Associate Professor of English; Associate Professor of Media Culture and Communication (Steinhardt)Ph.D. 1991 (English), M.A. 1985 (English), Columbia University; A.B. 1983 (English), University of Chicago
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Lisa Gitelman is a media historian whose research concerns American print culture, techniques of inscription, and the new media of yesterday and today. She is particularly concerned with tracing the patterns according to which new media become meaningful within and against the contexts of older media. Her most recent book is entitled Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture and was published by the MIT Press in 2006. Current projects include a monograph, "Making Knowledge with Paper," and an edited collection, "'Raw Data' Is an Oxymoron." She holds a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University and is a former editor of the Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers University. She has taught at the Catholic University of American and at Harvard University.
Areas of Research/Interest
Media history; American print culture; new media in historical context; techniques of inscription
Affiliated with other departments or programs
Associate Professor of Media Culture and Communication (Steinhardt)
Fellowships/Honors
Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship for research, American Antiquarian Society; Senior scholar in residence, Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University, 2005-2006; Leslie Center Humanities Institute Fellow, Dartmouth College; NEH Research Grant for University Teachers; Fellow, University of Iowa Obermann Center for Advanced Study; American Antiquarian Society Seminar in the History of the Book; NEH Summer Seminar, University of Chicago
Publications
Always Already New: Media, History and the Data of Culture. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006.
New Media, 1740-1915, co-ed. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003.
Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.
