[6] Jessica Pressman earned her bachelor's degree in English and American Literature, minor in Women's Studies at Brandeis University.
[14] In 2015, Pressman co-wrote Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone's Project for Tachistoscope (Bottomless Pit)[15], with Mark C. Marino and Jeremy Douglass, which won the Electronic Literature Organization's "N. Katherine Hayles Award for Literary Criticism of Electronic Literature" (2016).
[14] Pressman has also co-edited two volumes: Comparative Textual Media: Transforming the Humanities in a Postprint Era[16] with N. Katherine Hayles (2013) and Book Presence in a Digital Age[17] with Kiene Brillenburg Wurth and Kári Driscoll (2018).
[19] Rebecca Brenner Graham explain that this work looks at physical books through an "analytical, scholarly, and theoretical lens".
[22] Katherine Hayles explains that Pressman has identified "the aesthetic of bookishness: where literary works examine the nature of the book itself.