Roger Whitson is Associate Professor of English and Digital Technology and Culture at Washington State University. He is author of Steampunk and Nineteenth-Century Digital Humanities: Literary Retrofuturisms, Media Archaeologies, Alternate Histories (2017) and William Blake and the Digital Humanities: Collaboration, Participation, and Social Media (2013), both from Routledge, along with a number of articles on critical making, media archaeology, digital humanities, and nineteenth-century studies. He is currently working on Deep Time of the Nineteenth Century, a co-authored monograph exploring the rise of timing mechanisms in computing, the discovery of vast time scales like evolutionary biology, and the rise of nineteenth-century historicism.
