Jeremy Dean is the Chief of Education at Rap Genius. As Rap Genius expands their interactive archive beyond hip-hop lyrics to include literary, historical, legal and scientific texts, Jeremy is facilitating the integration of their “Genius” annotation platform into K-16 classrooms across the country. Jeremy is a scholar-educator with fifteen years of experience teaching at both the college and high school levels. He received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Texas at Austin where he worked as a Project Leader in the Digital Writing and Research Lab for four years developing units and lesson plans around a variety of digital tools.