Melanie Walsh
Assistant professor, Information School
Artificial intelligence, Data science, Information science
Web / Pronouns: she/her
Expertise: AI & literature (fiction, poetry), social media, online communities, BookTok, publishing industry
Melanie Walsh is an assistant professor in the Information School and an adjunct assistant professor in the English Department at the University of Washington. She is currently at work on a book project, When Postwar American Fiction Went Viral: Protest, Profit, and Popular Readers in the 21st Century, which traces how late 20th-century American authors like James Baldwin and David Foster Wallace became cultural touchstones, icons, and memes over the last twenty-five years.
