Before joining Pace at the start of this academic year, she was a postdoctoral Visiting Scholar in Comparative Media Studies at MIT, and she received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Brown University. Her research combines media studies, hemispheric studies, and U.S. and Latin American literary studies. She is currently completing a book called Electrifying News: A Hemispheric History of the Present in Nineteenth-Century Print Culture. Kelley has also worked as a reporter for several nonprofits dedicated to broadcast and digital media production and as the director of the Idea Lab at Root Cause, a nonprofit committed to advancing social innovation. email: kkreitz@pace.edu