Seth Perlow is Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University. His research focuses on American poetry, literature and technology, media studies, and historical poetics.

Perlow holds a PhD in English from Cornell University, an MA in Humanities from the University of Chicago, and an AB in Comparative Literature from Brown University.

He is the author of The Poem Electric: Technology and the American Lyric (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) and editor of Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons: The Corrected Centennial Edition (City Lights Books, 2014).

In addition to his peer-reviewed scholarship, his essays about poetry and public culture have appeared in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, and elsewhere.