Her work specializes in literary history, feminist digital media, histories of quantification and technologies of commemoration. A fellow of ASU’s Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, Wernimont works on new civil rights in digital cultures. She is affiliated with the School of Arts, Media and Engineering, the School for the Future of Innovation in Society, the Center for Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics, the Nexus Lab for Transdisciplinary Informatics and Digital Humanities, and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Wernimont received a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Iowa, and holds master’s and doctoral degrees in English literature from Brown University.