About
The Engaged Digital Humanities Working Group, supported by the Department of English, is a group of twelve members who are PhD students, faculty, and librarians who focus on research, methodologies, and pedagogies of digital scholarship. We have particular interest in practicing digital humanities as a mode of research that shapes – and is shaped by – social justice, public humanities, community engagement, ethnic studies, intersectional feminism, and de- and post-coloniality. Our members come from six countries and among us speak seven languages. We will hold occasional open events in 2023-24.
Our members are listed below. To share news or reach out, please contact co-organizers Lisa Yun, Zunaira Yousaf, Nicoletta LaMarca-Sacco (emails and info are below).
Our members:
Shruti Jain | PhD student in English
-works on podcasting, digital archiving, and is writing a dissertation on British Empire and relationalities of race and caste. She was a fellow for Humanities New York and is the Graduate Assistant for the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities. She recently received the Graduate Student Excellence Award in Service and Outreach especially for her work on Immigrants Wake America, which is profiled in "Lights, Camera, Podcast" in Library Connections.
Le Li | PhD student inTranslation, Research, & Instruction
- works on podcasting, public humanities, and is writing her dissertation on network theory and the politics of translation. She was awarded a public humanities fellowship by Humanities New York and the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities. Her recent article, on the podcast Immigrants Wake America, is co-written with Shruti and is published in Sounding Out!
Zunaira Yousaf | PhD student in English
-works on digital archives for justice and postcolonial digital humanities. She is building a digital archive on the micro-histories of the Pakistani community in Broome County and was interviewed for "Engaging in Community Building through Digital Storytelling" by Ruth Carpenter in Digital Byte. She is also a BU representative for Education USA (a U.S. Department of State network of international student advising centers) and advises student applicants from Pakistan.
Liyang Dong | PhD student in English
-was awarded a public humanities fellowship by Humanities New York / Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (2022-23) for her research on "Immigrant Detainees and Survivors." She is working on her dissertation about undocumented immigrants from the ship Golden Venture. Using storymapping, she is recreates the journey of her subjects. She was interviewed for "The Golden Venture: A Research Journey" by Ruth Carpenter in Digital Byte. She is also a mentor and workshop leader for the Binghamton Poetry Project.
Mamen Rodriguez Galindo | PhD student in Comparative Literature
- works on representations of the Roma people and incorporates storymapping in her work. She is the graduate assistant for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and is on the production team for the podcast Immigrants Wake America.
Nicoletta LaMarca-Sacco | PhD student in English and Creative Writing
-works on memoir writing and poetry. She is co-director of the Binghamton Poetry Project, and she organizes Common Ground, a series of creative writing readings by student authors. She has published articles in Newsweek, New York Magazine, Parents Magazine, among other venues.
Lisa Yun, PhD | Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies
- teaches digital & public humanities for justice and is advisory member for the Digital Humanities Research Institute and the Data & DIgital Studies Minor, and steering member for the Digital Scholarship Committee for BU Libraries.
Jennifer Stoever, PhD | Associate Professor of English
-teaches the politics of sound, listening, and the sonic color line.
Birgit Brander Rasmussen, PhD | Associate Professor of English
-teaches new media and Native American studies.
Bridget Whearty, PhD | Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies
- works on digitization, old and new media, labor ethics, and the LGBTQ+ Middle Ages.
Warren Harding, PhD | Assistant Professor of English
-engages practices of reading, Black feminist literary and cultural criticism, and literary fieldwork in contemporary Caribbean and Afro-diasporic literary cultures. Before arriving to Binghamton, he was the Diversity in Digital Publishing Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University Digital Publications.
Ruth Carpenter | Digital Scholarship Librarian, The BU Libraries
-offers support for digital humanities projects in the classroom and for personal research including tools and methods for web publishing, data visualization and project management. They write the Digital Byte blog series, is the co-organizer of the Digital Humanities Research Institute and is a co-coordinator for Dear Data Binghamton.
We express gratitude to:
Amy Gay | Senior Digital Humanities Outreach Manager, ITHAKA
(formerly Assistant Head of Digital Initiatives for Digital Scholarship, Binghamton University)
-for her invaluable work in building digital scholarship at Binghamton University. She oversaw programming and services for the areas of digital scholarship and scholarly communications. She co-organized the Digital Humanities Research Institute and the led the Digital Scholarship Center.