Himadri Agarwal is a researcher, game designer, translator, and artist working at the intersections of literature, interactive media, and disability studies. She is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Maryland, College Park, where her research explores slow games, alternative forms of play and gaming that center rest, reflection, and accessibility. Her creative practice includes making small, personal games and interactive exhibits using accessible platforms such as Twine and Bitsy, often drawing on personal topics and everyday life. She has taught courses on digital studies and st...

Dr. Jeffrey Moro is a Assistant Clinical Professor with the African American Digital and Experimental Humanities (AADHum) Initiative at the University of Maryland. His research focuses on how media technologies facilitate our cultural understanding of the natural world, with particular interests in the creative and technical applications of environmental data in contemporary cultural production. He has published in the journals Amodern, Media Fields, ISLE, and Qui Parle, and is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is currently at work on a book project titled Atmospheri...

Elizabeth “Lisa” Abena Osei focuses on Postcolonial Studies and African Literature, and specifically on Black Speculative Fiction at the University of Maryland, College Park. Lisa Abena Osei holds an MA in Comparative English Studies, Literature and American Culture from Heinrich-Heine Universität, Düsseldorf, and an MPhil in English Literature from the University of Ghana. She has published peer-reviewed articles on Black speculative fiction, specifically Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism, in The Journal of African Literature Association (JALA), Critical Studies in Media and Communication jour...

Dr. Marisa Parham is Visiting Professor of English at the University of Maryland, where she serves as director for the African American Digital & Experimental Humanities (AADHum), and is the associate director for the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). She also co-directs the Immersive Realities Lab for the Humanities, which is an independent workgroup for digital and experimental humanities (irLhumanities). Parham’s current teaching and research projects focus on texts and technologies that problematize assumptions about time, space, and bodily materiality. She is par...

Cassandra Hradil, M.F.A., is the assistant director for teaching and pedagogy at AADHUM and MITH. Cassandra previously worked as a digital humanities specialist at Penn Libraries and the Price Lab for Digital Humanities. She loves finding practical and creative ways to make data and computation more approachable, while also digging into the histories, materialities, and subjectivities that shape our computational experiences.Cassandra holds an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design.