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...

Andrew W. Smith, M.S., is a developer, designer, and writer. His work brings immersive and interactive technologies such as games, natural language processing, quantum computing, AR, and VR into conversation with topics such as memory, environmental futures, Black life, and virtual worlds.Andrew has held residencies and fellowships with Snap Inc., the University of Maryland College Park, and Amherst College. He was part of the inaugural 2024-20245 cohort of Arts for All Faculty Fellows at UMD. Additionally, he currently works with the Immersive Realities Labs for the Humanities, an independent...