Research
My research agenda focuses on scholarly communications, digital pedagogy, and humanities knowledge infrastructures, through postcolonial and intersectional feminist lenses. Digital humanities, the interdisciplinary area of study in which I situate my work, connotes a set of practices for using digital tools for humanistic inquiry and using humanities methods to understand digital media and technologies. At the heart of my work is the concern that while digital knowledge production has accelerated rapidly in the last few decades, the exclusions and biases that have characterized print culture - products of colonialism, racism, and patriarchy - are being reproduced and amplified in the digital cultural memory of humanity. The broader goal of my research is to call attention to these issues and to work collaboratively with colleagues to redress them.
A copy of my CV is available here.
Current Projects
Insurgent Academics
A book recovering the leading role that African diaspora, Latinx, indigenous, Asian American, and postcolonial scholars played in the rise of public humanities
Rocking the Academy
A podcast bringing listeners conversations with the very best truth tellers who are formulating a new vision for the future of higher education
Reanimate
An intersectional feminist publishing collective producing digital editions of little-known writing by women in media industries
The Global Du Bois
A series of data visualizations challenging the idea that W.E.B. Du Bois’s investment in decolonization is a later development in his intellectual trajectory
The Data-Sitters Club
A group of Baby-Sitters Club book connoisseurs assembling a comprehensive, colloquial guide to computational textual analysis
Minimal Computing Issue
A special issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly exploring the promises and limitations of minimal computing in digital humanities
Books
New Digital Worlds
A book examining the inequalities in digital knowledge production and how to address them in digital humanities methods published by Northwestern University Press in 2018
Intersectionality in DH
A volume considering the compunding effects of race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation on digital data, archives, and methodologies published by Arc Humanities Press in 2019
The Digital Black Atlantic
A collection for the Debates in Digital Humanities series shedding light on African diasporic approaches to digital humanities forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press in 2020
Digital Scholarship
Torn Apart/Separados was developed in collaboration with the Group for Experimental Methods in Humanistic Research (Manan Ahmed, Alex Gil, Roopika Risam, Moacir P. de Sá Pereira), Borderlands Archives Cartography (Sylvia Fernández, Maira Álvarez), Merisa Martinez, Linda M. Rodriguez, and Rachel Hendery, and presents data visualizations of the geographical and financial landscape of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the United States.
Social Justice and the Digital Humanities was created as the culminating project in the HILT 2015 De/Post/Colonial Digital Humanities course I taught with micha cárdenas. Designed as an invitation to discuss and implement digital humanities methods that put justice and equity at the center of digital scholarship, the project offers users a series of creative and critical precepts for project design around access, material conditions, method, and ontologies and epistemologies for scholarship.
The Harlem Shadows Project, which I direct with Chris Forster, is an open access critical edition of Claude McKay’s 1922 poetry collection Harlem Shadows. The project seeks to aggregates the most comprehensive set of documents related to the collection and make them available to readers of McKay.
Editorial Work
Reviews in Digital Humanities is a peer-reviewed journal for digital scholarship that I co-edit with Jennifer Guiliano. The journal was launched in 2019.
“Digital Humanities and South Asian Studies” is a special issue of South Asian Review that I co-edited with Rahul Gairola. The issue was published in 2019.
“Gender and Digital Labor” is a special issue of First Monday that I co-edited with Carolyn Elerding and Radhika Gajjala. The issue was published in 2018.
“Gender, Globalization, and the Digital Humanities” is a special issue of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology that I edited. The issue was published in 2015.
Selected Articles and Book Chapters
“Telling Untold Stories: Digital Textual Recovery Methods.” Research Methods for Digital Humanities, edited by Lewis Levenberg, David Rheams, and Tai Neilson, Palgrave MacMillan, 2018, pp. 309-18. [Link]
“Decolonizing Digital Humanities in Theory and Praxis.” Routledge Companion to New Media and Digital Humanities, edited by Jentery Sayers, Routledge, 2018, pp. 78-86. [Link]
“Diversity Work and Digital Carework in Higher Education.” First Monday, vol. 23, no. 3, 2018. [Link]
“Transforming the Landscape of Labor at Universities through Digital Humanities” (with Susan M. Edwards). Digital Humanities, Libraries, and Partnerships, edited by Robin Kear and Kate Joranson, Chandos, 2018, pp. 3-17. [Link]
“Now You See Them: Self-representation and the Migrant Selfie.” Popular Communications, vol. 16, no. 1, 2018, pp. 58-71. [Link]
“Postcolonial Studies in the Digital Age.” The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postcolonial Writing: New Contexts, New Narratives, New Debates, edited by Jenni Ramone, Bloomsbury, 2017, pp. 105-24. [Link]
“Building an Ethical Digital Humanities Community: Librarian, Faculty, and Student Collaboration” (with Justin Snow and Susan M. Edwards). College and Undergraduate Libraries, vol. 24, no. 2-4, 2017, pp. 337-49. [Link]
“Other Worlds, Other DHs.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, vol. 32, no. 2, 2017, pp. 377-84. [Link]
“Navigating the Global Digital Humanities: Insights from Black Feminism.” Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, University of Minnesota Press, 2016, pp. 359-67. [Link]
“Beyond the Margins: Intersectionality and the Digital Humanities.” Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 2, 2015. [Link]
“Toxic Femininity 4.0.” First Monday, vol. 20, no. 4, 2015. [Link]
“Rethinking Peer Review in the Age of Digital Humanities.” Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, vol. 4, 2014. [Link]