Erin holds a Ph.D. in Art History and an M.S. in Information Science from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and an M.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Chicago. Her recent publications include "'Computers Never Make Mistakes': Judy Malloy's 'Bad Information'" (2026) in The Archives of American Art Journal and “'Bandwidth Is Political'”: Nancy Paterson’s Stock Market Skirt (2025) in Visual Resources. She served as the Chester Dale Predoctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art (’22-’24), the Object-Based Teaching Fellow at the Ackland Art Museum ('20-'21), and the "Learning from Artists Archives" Fellow at UNC ('15-'17). She has also worked for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, the Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center, and the national oral history nonprofit, StoryCorps. Her interests include oral history, digital archives and preservation, media theory and history, the social web, critical disinformation studies, global feminisms, and intersections of art and technology.