Laura B. McGrath is Assistant Professor of English and Digital Humanities at Temple University. She specializes in post-1945 U.S. literature, literary sociology, and computational analysis. She is currently at work on her first book, a study of the literary agent, entitled Middlemen: Making Literature in the Age of Multimedia Conglomerates. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in American Literary History, Post45, CA: The Journal of Cultural Analytics, Public Books, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.