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.

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...