Jeffrey T. SCHNAPP is founder-director of the Stanford Humanities Lab, one of the world's leading digital arts and humanities research centers, and holder of the Rosina Pierotti Endowed Chair at Stanford University. He is currently visiting professor at the Graduate School of Design and in Comparative Literature at Harvard University where he is in residence at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

He is the author of more than 20 books, the most recent being Speed Limits, published by Skira in Milano in collaboration with the Canadian Center for Architecture and the Wolfsonian.