Whitney Trettien

Whitney Trettien is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and Faculty Director of the Price Lab for Digital Humanities. Her research bridges the history of the book, digital humanities, media studies, and gender studies, focusing on the materiality of texts from print to digital forms.

• Affiliated with Cinema & Media Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies, and Comparative Literature & Literary Theory

Her research explores:

• Early modern makerspaces and collaborative bookwork
• Printing press histories in prisons
• Digital tools for book history
• Queer editorial practices and transmedia bookwork
• Media archaeology of textual encoding

Key projects include:

• Cut/Copy/Paste (2021) - a hybrid print/digital study of early modern book hacking
• Printing in Prisons - tracing incarcerated print cultures
• Manicule - open-source digital exhibit platform
• Sonic scholarship through the Provoke! project

Selected awards:

• NEH-Mellon Digital Publication Fellowship
• NEH Fellowships Open Book Award
• Dennis M. DeTurck Award for Innovation in Teaching (2019)

Her recent work examines:

• Digital methodologies for studying fragmented texts
• Historical connections between printing and computing
• Creative-critical interventions in scholarly publishing
• Cultures of the book in digital pedagogy