Most of the people I follow on Twitter are medievalists, even though I’m not a medievalist myself. Far from it: my research focuses on the 20th and 21st ...

Elyse Graham
Elyse Graham is an assistant professor of digital humanities at Stony Brook University.
We Like Short Shorts
By Elyse Graham
We seem to be in an age in which short forms have risen from minor to major cultural commodities. On November 30, 2017, word went out on the internet that Vine, a defunct video-sharing platform ...
The Great LOLCat Massacre
By Elyse Graham
Recently, for work, I read through 10 years’ worth of the New York Times best-seller list and noticed a strange phenomenon. Since December 17 ...