Todd Presner is Professor of Germanic Languages, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies at the University of California Los Angeles. Since 2011, he is the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies. He is also the Chair of the Digital Humanities Program and faculty co-PI on the “Urban Humanities” initiative at UCLA. His research focuses on European intellectual history, visual culture, digital humanities, and cultural geography. His books include: Mobile Modernity: Germans, Jews, Trains (Columbia University Press, 2007), Muscular Judaism: The Jewish Body and the Politics of Regeneration (Routledge, 2007), Digital_Humanities (MIT Press, 2012), co-authored with Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, and Jeffrey Schnapp, HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities (Harvard University Press, 2014), with David Shepard and Yoh Kawano, and Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture (Harvard University Press, 2016), co-edited with Wulf Kansteiner and Claudio Fogu. His current research project is called “The Ethics of the Algorithm” and examines the nexus (and tension) between computation and ethics.