Tess McNulty

Tess McNulty is an Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities in the Department of English at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, with additional affiliation at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Her research focuses on viral content genres, analytic philosophy, feminist thought, and therapeutic culture. She holds a PhD in English from Harvard and previously served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Dartmouth's Neukom Institute for Computational Science.

Her work bridges literary theory and digital media studies, including a current book project analyzing viral content across platforms like Facebook, Twitter/X, and TikTok. Notable publications include Content's Forms (New Literary History, 2023) and Content-Era Ethics (Journal of Cultural Analytics, 2021).

McNulty's writing extends to public venues such as Harper’s and The Point, addressing digital and feminist themes. She has no currently listed scientific awards but maintains active involvement in computational humanities research through NCSA collaborations.