Jessica Pressman

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  • Digital Modernism: making it New in New Media : Columbia University Press, 2014. ISBN   978-0-19-993710-3
  • Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone's Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit}, co-written with Mark C. Marino and Jeremy Douglass. University of Iowa Press, 2015. ISBN   1-60938-345-1
  • Book Presence in a Digital Age , co-edited with Kiene Brillenburg Wurth and Kári Driscoll. Bloomsbury Press, 2018. ISBN   978-1-5013-2120-7
  • Bookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age : Columbia University Press, 2020. ISBN   978-0-231-19513-3
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    Jessica Pressman
    NationalityAmerican
    Occupation(s)Professor of English and Comparative Literature
    Academic background
    Education Brandeis University
    University of California, Los Angeles