Frances Corry

Frances Corry is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Culture & Data Stewardship at the University of Pittsburgh.

Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center on Digital Culture and Society. She earned her PhD in Communication from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

Corry’s research employs critical-historical approaches to information, focusing on the prehistories and afterlives of data-intensive systems—from social media platforms to AI systems. Her book project explores the processes of social media platform closure and content deletion to investigate questions surrounding the future of cultural memory.

Her work has been published in venues including FAccT, Convergence, Feminist Media Studies, First Monday, the International Journal of Communication, the Computer Communication Review, and others. She has been cited as an expert on the intersection of technology and society in outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, VICE, and the Los Angeles Times.

Corry has collaborated with a range of institutions on both research projects and research-based creative work. Her fellowships include those from Harvard University's Library Innovation Lab, the ACM History Committee, and the USC Center for Science, Technology, and Public Life. She has also contributed to computing institutions' oral history collections, including projects with the Computer History Museum and the A.M. Turing Awards. She serves on the editorial board of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. More at francescorry.net

Courses Taught

• LIS 2671: Digital Humanities
• LIS 2975: Critical Information Studies