Jeffrey Schnapp

A pioneering figure in the field of digital humanities, Jeffrey Schnapp was the founder and director of the Stanford Humanities Lab prior to joining the Harvard faculty in 2010, where he serves as faculty director of metaLAB@Harvard and co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He is a scholar of medieval and modern Italian literature and culture, with a special emphasis on the life and works of Dante Alighieri and the Italian modernist movement. He is the author, editor, and curator of numerous works, including The Transfiguration of History at the Center of Dante's Paradise (Princeton University Press, 1986), A Primer of Italian Fascism (University of Nebraska Press, 2000), Crowds (Stanford University Press, 2006), and SPEED Limits (Skira, 2009).