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...

Katelin Ten is a post-baccalaureate at African American Digital & Experimental Humanities (AADHum). She recently graduated from the University of Maryland College Park where she was a McNair Scholar and majored in African American studies. The landscape of her work is the dream-like space after tragedy: The zone of remembering, with a focus on texts and media that historicizes memory and amnesia. Katelin explores the digital as a tool of remembrance and a theoretical perspective that helps understand how time, space, collective memory and forgetting works in Black Atlantic life, culture, and i...