Letter writing: A Media Revolution with Chloe Summers Edmondson

Dr. Chloe Summers Edmondson is a Lecturer in the Civic, Liberal, and Global Education program at Stanford. She received her PhD from Stanford in the French & Italian Department in 2020, and MA in Communication in 2014. Her research is situated at the crossroads of literary criticism, cultural history, and media studies, with a focus on 17th and 18th-century France. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Modern History, Digital Humanities Quarterly, and the series Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, including a volume she co-edited with Dan Edelstein entitled "Networks of Enlightenment: Digital Approaches to the Republic of Letters" (Liverpool University Press/ Voltaire Foundation, 2019). Songs in this episode: "Moby Dick" by Glass Wave "We Used to Know" by Jethro Tull  "Sunrain" by Ash Ra Tempel