Lauren Tilton

Lauren Tilton is Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities in the Department of Rhetoric & Communication Studies and Director of the Distant Viewing Lab at the University of Richmond (Virginia, USA). Her research focuses on 20th and 21st century U.S. visual culture and the digital humanities. She is director of Photogrammar and co-author of Humanities Data in R (Springer, 2015). Her work has appeared in journals such as American Quarterly, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities and the Journal of Cultural Analytics and has received grant support from organizations such as American Council of Learned Societies and U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities.  She serves on the Association for Computing in the Humanities (ACH) Executive Council and ADHO Audio Visual in DH Special Interest Group (AVinDH SIG) Steering Committee.  She received her PhD in American Studies from Yale University.