Tanya Clement is the Director of the Humanities Institute and the Robert Adger Law and Thos. H. Law Centennial Endowed Professor in Humanities in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She has an MFA in Fiction from the University of Virginia (2000) and a PhD in English from the University of Maryland (2009), focusing on American Literary Modernism and Digital Humanities. She generally studies the dynamic interplay of digital information systems and scholarly research in literary study by considering how the data, algorithms, software, platforms, and networks that comprise digital information systems are co-constructed with the services, practices, policies, and theories that govern literary scholarship, including and especially literary archives. Often working collaboratively, she leads teams to build and analyze digital information systems in the humanities and uses the findings these activities generate to advance theory in critical cultural studies.

Her work involves imagining what we don't know by evaluating and rethinking how scholars and institutions produce knowledge through the generation, curation, dissemination, and interpretation of literature as data in constantly shifting contexts due to rapidly changing cultures and technologies. She is the lead investigator of the HiPSTAS (High-Performance Sound Technologies for Access and Scholarship) project, which has received funding from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Mellon Foundation. Her most recent and current HiPSTAS project is AVAnnotate, a platform for scholars and teachers to create digital editions and exhibits with audio and video. Her book on archival sound collections: Dissonant Records: Close Listening to Literary Archives was published by MIT Press in 2024.