About Tyler

Tyler Shores is a writer and currently a graduate student at the University of Oxford. Tyler’s research interests include – the impact of ebooks and digital technology on literature and printed books; literature and the experience of reading in relation to philosophy, psychology, cultural studies, and sociology. He received his B.A. in English and Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley where he created and for six semesters taught a course on The Simpsons and Philosophy. He is a contributor to the Blackwell Popular Culture and Philosophy book series – including Heroes and Philosophy, Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy, Arrested Development and Philosophy, and 30 Rock and Philosophy. He also currently contributes to The Oxonian Review, a literary publication based in the University of Oxford.

Tyler has worked at Google in Mountain View, California as part of Authors@Google, one of the world’s most successful online lecture series. He has also worked as a project manager at The Center for Civic Education, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting greater civic and political awareness in students throughout the United States and around the world. He is currently working as a special advisor on digital textbooks.