PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – On Monday, March 5, 2012, Tara McPherson will give a talk entitled “Post-archive: Scholarship in the Digital Age” at 5:30pm in the Lownes Room, John Hay Library, followed by a reception in the lobby. This will be the fourth talk of the Digital Arts & Humanities 2011-2012 Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage and the Brown University Library.

Tara McPherson is Associate Professor of Gender and Critical Studies at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, co-director of USC’s Center for Transformative Scholarship, among the founding organizers of Race in Digital Space, a core member of HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory), the founding editor of the peer reviewed multii-media journal Vectors, and an editor of Digital Youth, Innovation and the Unexpected, part of the MacArthur Foundation series on Digital Media and Learning. She served as a co-editor of Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture (Duke UP: 2003), and her book Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender and Nostalgia in the Imagined South (Duke UP: 2003) received the 2004 John G. Cawelti Award for the outstanding book published on American Culture. McPherson is currently working on a manuscript about the cultural and racial logics of code.

The Digital Arts & Humanities Lecture Series is free and open to the public. More information about this lecture is available at the event website.

Contact: Jennifer Braga |  401-863-6913

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