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Author name: Jessica Pressman

Jessica Pressman is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University, where she co-founded SDSU’s Digital Humanities Initiative. She is the author of "Bookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age" (Columbia UP, 2020), "Digital Modernism: Making It New in New Media" (Oxford University Press, 2014), co-author, with Mark C. Marino and Jeremy Douglass, of "ReadingProject: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone’s Project for Tachistoscope" {Bottomless Pit} (University of Iowa Press, 2015). She co-edited two volumes: "Comparative Textual Media: Transforming the Humanities in the Postprint Era" (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) with N. Katherine Hayles and "Book Presence in a Digital Age" (Bloomsbury Press, 2018) with Kiene Brillenburg Wurth and Kári Driscoll.

Disney’s Black mermaid is no breakthrough

By Jessica Pressman / Dec 22, 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutesMermaids have become a cultural phenomenon, and clashes about mermaids and race have spilled out into the open. This is most pointedly apparent in the backlash over Disney’s much-anticipated “The Little Mermaid.”

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