Distant Reading

<h4>Kathleen Fitzpatrick is director of scholarly communication of the Modern Language Association and visiting research professor of English at NYU. She is author of <em>Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy</em> (NYU Press, 2011) and of <em>The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television</em> (Vanderbilt University Press, 2006). She is co-founder of the digital scholarly network MediaCommons, where she has led a number of experiments in open peer review and other innovations in scholarly publishing.</h4>

Kathleen Fitzpatrick

<h4>Alexander R. Galloway is author of <em>The Interface Effect</em> (Polity, 2012) and other books on digital media and critical theory. This fall the University of Chicago Press will publish <em>Excommunication: Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation</em> coauthored by Galloway, Eugene Thacker, and McKenzie Wark.</h4>

Alexander R. Galloway

<h4>James F. English&nbsp;is the director of the Penn Humanities Forum. &nbsp;He&nbsp;received his MA from the University of Chicago and his PhD from Stanford, specializing in modern and contemporary British fiction.&nbsp;His most recent book is&nbsp;<em>The Global Future of English Studies</em>, published by Blackwell in 2012 and due out in paperback later this year. &nbsp;</h4>

James F. English

Franco Moretti’s “Distant Reading”: A Symposium

James F. English&nbsp;is the director of the Penn Humanities Forum. &nbsp;He&nbsp;received his MA from the University of Chicago and his PhD from Stanford, specializing in modern and contemporary British fiction.&nbsp;His most recent book is&nbsp;<em>The Global Future of English Studies</em>, published by Blackwell in 2012 and due out in paperback later this year. &nbsp;