Dr. Virginia Kuhn is a Professor in the Division of Media Arts + Practice and Associate Director of the Institute for Multimedia Literacy in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. Her work centers on visual and digital rhetoric, feminist theory and algorithmic research methods. Kuhn directs an undergraduate honors program in multimedia, as well as a graduate certificate in digital media and culture. Kuhn joined USC in 2005 after successfully defending one of the first born-digital dissertations in the US, challenging archiving and copyright conventions. Her work can be found in an array of digital and print-based formats.