Jeffrey is the founder/faculty director of metaLAB (at) Harvard and faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. He holds the Carl A. Pescosolido Chair in Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, is on the teaching faculty in the Department of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design, and is affiliated with the Critical Media Practice program in Visual and Environmental Studies. Originally trained as a medievalist, his recent books concern the modern and contemporary epochs with a focus on media, technology, architecture, design, and the history of the book. Among his current writing projects is the Library Test Kitchen Cookbook, a collaborative recipe-book for innovation in the design of learning spaces.