Kenneth L. Brewer is a Clinical Associate Professor in Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. He received his Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University, and has taught at the City University of New York and the University of California, Santa Barbara. At UTD, his teaching has focused on British Literature from the Romantic period to the present as well as a course on the history of the horror film. His research explores theories of aesthetic taste, and his current project is a history of the relationship between aesthetic taste and recommendation systems based on algorithms.