Project Coordinators

The White Violence, Black Resistance Project is developed by Toniesha Taylor and Amy Earhart.

Toniesha L. Taylor is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Prairie View A&M University. Taylor works with digital humanities, womanist rhetoric, African-American Communication, Intercultural Communication and Popular Culture. She has contributed her work to a number of edited volumes including her essay "Transformative Womanist Rhetorical Strategies: Contextualizing Discourse and the Performance of Black Bodies of Desire," in A. Crémieux, X. Lemoine & JP Rocchi (Eds.) Black Being, Black Embodying; Contemporary Arts & The Performance Of Identities. London: Palgrave. Taylor's work in the area of popular culture and African American media imagery appears in Bell & Jackson's well received Interpreting Tyler Perry: Perspectives on Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality.

Taylor has been invited to discuss her research on the Prairie View Women's Oral History Project as well as her work on African American communication using digital humanities methods at a number of universities. Taylor has recently begun work on the Barbra Jacket Project, a sponsored digital humanities project focusing on the Track and Field coaching career of Hall of Fame Coach Barbra Jacket.

Amy E. Earhart is an Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University. Earhart works with digital humanities, Africana and African-American literature, and 19th-century American literature and culture. Her work has appeared in DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly, the Emily Dickinson Journal, Scholarly Editing, The Oxford Handbook to Transcendentalism, American Documentary Editing, theChronicle of Higher Education/Prof Hacker, Textual Cultures, Debates in Digital Humanities, Scholarly Editing, among other venues. She has co-edited a collection of essays titled The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age with Andrew Jewell (U Michigan 2010). Forthcoming work includes a monograph titled “Traces of the Old, Uses of the New: The Emergence of the Digital Humanities” (forthcoming U Michigan) and "The Digital Humanities as a Laboratory" in Humanities and the Digital. Her digital projects include the development of the 19th-Century Concord Digital Archive in partnership with the Concord Free Public Library, The Millican "Riot," and editing the Emerson Society and the American Transcendentalism website.

Earhart has received an NEH Summer Stipend for her Digital Concord project and was a workshop leader in the NEH funded NINES Summer Workshop: Evaluating Digital Scholarship. She was also a co-PI of the research grant that funded the Institute of Digital Humanities, Culture, and Media, 1 of 8 landmark research areas selected by TAMU for such funding. She serves on the Executive and Americanist boards of NINES, was a founding co-coordinator of the Digital Americanist group of the American Literature Association, and is a member of the MLA Computer Studies in Language and Literature discussion group. Earhart is the 2013-2014 recipient of the Montague-CTE Teaching Award.