Todd Presner is professor of European languages and transcultural studies¿at the University of California, Los Angeles, and holds the Michael and Irene Ross Chair in the¿Division of Humanities. He is the author of Mobile Modernity: Germans, Jews, Trains and Muscular Judaism: The Jewish Body and the Politics of Regeneration and the coauthor of Digital_Humanities and Urban Humanities: New Practices for Reimagining the City.