Emerson has a B.A. from the University of Alberta (1998), and M.A. from the University of Victoria (2001) and an M.A. from the University of Buffalo (2004). In 2008 she earned a Ph.D. from the University of Buffalo.[3] She joined the faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2008. As of 2022, she is an associate professor in the English department.[2] She is also the founder of University of Colorado's Boulder's Media Archaeology Lab.[4]
A component of Emerson's work centers on media archaeology or how to preserve digital memories.[7][8][9] The Media Archaeology Lab she founded at the University of Colorado Boulder campus collects obsolete technologies in order to foster study and understanding of them.[10] Carrying the motto "The past must be lived so that the present can be seen," the lab maintains all of these items in working order and allows them to be used at any time.[11][12] It houses the world's first portable computer, the Osborne 1, as well as video game consoles, typewriters, audiovisual materials, and audio equipment.[11] In exploring the ways in which the Media Archaeology Lab both differs from and adheres to the expectations of a traditional archive, Emerson and coauthor Libi Striegl describe that the Media Archaeology Lab "changes from year to year, depending on who is in the lab and what donations have arrived at our doorstep, and thus it undoes many assumptions about what archives as well as labs should be or do".[13] This form of digital archaeology is a term used by Emerson to describe how people have interacted with computers over time.[14] Her work establishing a media lab has been mentioned by other researchers in the field.[15][16][17]
Emerson, Lori (2014). Reading writing interfaces : from the digital to the bookbound. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN978-0-8166-9126-5.
Ryan, Marie-Laure; Emerson, Lori; Robertson, Benjamin J. (2014). The Johns Hopkins guide to digital media. Baltimore. ISBN9781421412245.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Reviewed by the Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association in 2014[22]
In 2015, Emerson received an honorable mention from the Electronic Literature Organization for the N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature for her work Reading Writing Interfaces.[23] In 2015, she received the ASSETT Teaching With Technology Award from the University of Colorado at Boulder for her work in the Media Archaeology Lab.[24]
^Hayles , New York, in the ISBN), Katherine (2020). Postprint: Books and Becoming Computational, Wellek Library Lectures. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 30. ISBN9780231198240.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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