The Engaged Digital Humanities Working Group, supported by the Department of English, is a group of PhD students, faculty, and librarians who focus on research, methodologies, and pedagogies of digital scholarship. We started gathering in Spring 2022 and 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 are listed below. To share news or reach out, please contact Lisa Yun at lisayun@binghamton.edu. For Fall 2025, contact Jennifer Stoever:
Fall 2025
Organizer: Jennifer Stoever
Contact: jstoever@binghamton.edu
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 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, and she is published in Sounding Out!
Le Li | PhD 2025 in Translation, Research, & Instruction
- works at the United Nations. She wrote her dissertation "Translation as Global Event: Networks and Politics of Cultural Capital" 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 for her work on the podcast Immigrants Wake America. She is published in Sounding Out! .
Zunaira Yousaf | PhD student in English
-works on digital archives for justice and postcolonial digital humanities. She was An IASH fellow (2023-24) and recipient of Excellence in Service Award (2024). With funding from Humanities New York, she developed a website Pakistani New Yorkers, a digital archive on the micro-histories of the Pakistani community in Broome County. Her interview, "Engaging in Community Building through Digital Storytelling," was featured in Digital Byte, BU Libraries’ newsletter. She is also a BU representative for Education USA (a U.S. Department of State network of international student advising centers) for PhD aspirants from Pakistan. Her interests include Digital Humanities, Environmental, Postcolonial, and Indigenous Literature.
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. 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. She is the incoming graduate assistant for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Mamen Rodriguez Galindo | PhD student in Comparative Literature
- works on representations of the Roma people and incorporates storymapping in her work. She was 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 2025 in English and Creative Writing
-works on memoir writing and poetry. She produced a hybrid poetry dissertation "Life at the Last Straw" with text and audio. 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, and she produces a podcast "Hi and Stuff" and publishes on Substack.
Saleha Malik | PhD student in English (Fulbright)
-is working on creating a digital archive for early period anglophone Pakistani authors and has published "Echoes and Imprints: Voices of Early Pakistani Anglophone Authors" with Punjab University Press.
Hena Sarkar | PhD student in English
-was awarded a fellowship by Humanities New York (2024-25) for her audio project “Hidden Curriculum,” which highlights the workers of Binghamton University. She pursues questions of body, space, and performance in her doctoral research on masculinity and dance in Bombay cinema.
Lisa Yun, PhD | Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies
- teaches digital/public/community engaged humanities, immigrant literatures, Asian American literature and culture, Afro Asian studies. She is a co-host/ co-producer of Immigrants Wake America podcast, supported by a Humanities New York grant. Lisa works with students on community engaged research and also directs a community engagement internship in NYC, now in its twelfth year. She received an Exemplary Community Engaged Teaching Award and a Chancellor's Award for Faculty Service. Her book The Coolie Speaks is a study of nearly 3,000 testimonies by Chinese who were indentured in Cuba in the nineteenth century. She also was the co-principal investigator of a $1.75 million Freeman Grant which led to founding the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies.
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
- studies and teaches American literatures, colonial encounters, ancient literacies, and new media. She is author of the award-winning book Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature (Duke UP, 2012). Her next book is titled Signs of Resistance, Signs of Resurgence: Indigenous Literacies and New Media in Native American Literatures. Her work has appeared in anthologies and scholarly journals like PMLA and American Literature, Early American Literature, Journal of Transnational American Studies, Modern Language Quarterly, Journal of American Studies, Mississippi Quarterly, and Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. She is co-editor of The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness (Duke UP, 2001, Reprint 2012) and is co-editing a new critical edition of Mary Rowlandson’s foundational captivity narrative, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, by Mrs. Mary Rowlandson with Caroline Wigginton.
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
-teaches contemporary literary cultures in the Caribbean and African diaspora; Caribbean women’s writing and cultural production; and Black women’s migrations. He was previously the Diversity in Digital Publishing Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University Digital Publications.
Monika Mehta, PhD | Associate Professor of English
-teaches new media and film studies; cinema in South Asia; theories of nation-state; feminist studies; postcolonial critique; and globalization and cultural production
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.