Dr. Lauren Craig Tilton

Lauren Tilton is the E. Claiborne Robins Professor of Liberal Arts and Digital Humanities in the Department of Rhetoric & Communication Studies. Her research focuses on analyzing, developing, and applying digital and computational methods to the study of 20th and 21st century documentary expression and visual culture. Tilton’s first book, Humanities Data in R: Exploring Networks, Geospatial Data, Images, and Texts (2015, second edition forthcoming), built off work applying digital humanities to the study of photography for the digital, public humanities project, Photogrammar (photogrammar.org), which she directs. Her scholarship has appeared in journals such as American Quarterly, Digital Humanities Quarterly, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, and Journal of Cultural Analytics. Her work has received support from ACLS, CLIR, NEH, and Mellon Foundation, and she recently finished a stint as a researcher with the Library of Congress as a part of the Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud Initiative. Her co-authored scholarship also includes Layered Lives: Rhetoric and Representation in the Southern Life History Project (layeredLives.org), which was released with Stanford University Press in 2022, and Distant Viewing: Computational Exploration of Digital Images (distantviewing.org/book), which was released with The MIT Press in 2023.  She is the co-editor of the forthcoming "Debates in the Digital Humanities: Computational Humanities" (University of Minnesota Press). She received her PhD in American Studies from Yale University.

Please visit her website, laurentilton.com,for the most updated information about her research, service, and teaching.