About
Li Cornfeld is a feminist media scholar whose research concerns the intersections of technology, performance, and public culture. Her first book project, The Theater of Invention, investigates live spectacles staged at tech industry sites as foundational to the development of media and technology under late capitalism. This work refines theories of the relationship between mediation and liveness in digital culture by establishing the persistent import of the live act in legitimizing the industrial imagination of emerging media.
Dr. Cornfeld's scholarship has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Association of University Women. Her publications include articles in Feminist Media Histories; Feminist Media Studies; Communication, Culture, & Critique; and Women & Performance. She received her PhD in Communication Studies from McGill University.
