Research

AADHum continues to deepen its commitments to broadening the landscape of Black digital humanities, while also highlighting the numerous places where Black DH intersects with electronic literature, digital storytelling, computational poetics, and public humanities more generally. Through our own boundary-pushing research collaborations with leading scholars in the arts and humanities, AADHum serves as a vibrant center for Black DH research both in the greater Washington, DC area as well as nationally and internationally.

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VerseViz

VerseViz is an audio-reactive poetry visualizer that renders the reader's voice into live imagery. Drawing from Maryland Poet Laureate Lucille Clifton's anthology How to Carry Water, the installation invites campus participants to read Clifton's poems aloud — their volume, pitch, and cadence modulating color, form, and motion across a projected display. VerseViz attends to poetic recital as a site of embodied interpretation, remediating Clifton's poetics of transformation into a shared multimedia encounter at the intersection of literary study, digital humanities, and immersive media.

VerseViz

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