Andrew W. Smith, M.S., is a research professor, game designer, quantum artist, and creative technologist who builds experiences for people to play with ideas. His work uses games, interactive writing, archives, and immersive media to explore memory, Black life, environmental futures, and the worlds we make with technology. His recent projects include LiteraryDJ, a remix platform for music, computational poetry, natural language processing, and quantum computing; Energy, a board game about climate change and energy policy; BlackType, an emerging typography and design project; and Material Condi...

Christin Washington is a PhD Candidate in the Department of American Studies and a Flagship Fellow at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is also the Assistant Director of the African American Digital & Experimental Humanities (AADHum) research and design lab. Christin’s scholarship stretches media and modes of digital storytelling (i.e. photography, photogrammetry, laser scanning, virtual reality) to articulate cultural memory across black geographies. Her current research project, 9Night and Good Mourning, uses speculative mapping to look at Caribbean women’s lives in the context o...

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...

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.

Dr. Marisa Parham is Professor of English & Digital Studies 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. S...