Team

AADHum's work is organized and executed by a core team of faculty, staff, and students, both at the graduate and undergraduate level. We are part of University of Maryland's College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU), and are also part of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)!

Dr. Jeffrey Moro

Dr. Jeffrey Moro

Assistant Clinical Professor of Digital Humanities and Digital Studies

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 Atmospheric Media, which explores media techniques and technologies for computing the air and their consequent relationships to climate change. Before joining AADHum, he completed a PhD in English with a certificate in Digital Studies at the University of Maryland and worked as a Post-Baccalaureate Resident with Five College Digital Humanities, serving Amherst, Hampshire, Mt. Holyoke, and Smith Colleges, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He is also a founding member of the Immersive Realities Labs for the Humanities, an independent workgroup for digital and experimental humanities research.

Publications

  1. Dr. Jeffrey Moro . “Counting Feeling: Affect Theory and Sentiment Analysis in TextBlob.” Digital Humanities Quarterly , March 2026.

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  2. Dr. Jeffrey Moro . “Measuring the Sky from the Curve of the Earth.” Media Matters in Landscape Architecture , Nov 2025.

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  3. Dr. Jeffrey Moro . “As Above, So Below: Astrological Data in the Age of Co–Star.” ASAP/Review , Oct 2025.

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  4. Dr. Jeffrey Moro . “Introduction: Algorithms and the Occult.” ASAP/Review , Oct 2025.

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  5. Dr. Jeffrey Moro . “Sensing Sferics: Electromagnetic Noise and Environmental Signal.” Journal of Environmental Media , April 2024.

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  6. Dr. Jeffrey Moro . “Review of Climatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control, by Yuriko Furuhata..” Journal of Environmental Media , April 2023.

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  7. Dr. Jeffrey Moro . “Air-conditioning the Internet: Data Center Securitization as Atmospheric Media.” Media Fields, no. 16 , April 2021.

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  8. Dr. Jeffrey Moro . “Grid Techniques for a Planet in Crisis: The Infrastructures of Weather Prediction.” Amodern, vol. 9 , April 2020.

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