HT Lab: Digital Humanities Panel with Roopika Risam

The Inclusion Imperative Program at UMBC’s Dresher Center for the Humanities and the Media and Communication Studies Department invite you to a panel on digital humanities and difference.

This panel will explore the role of digital humanities research as a teaching tool, now and in the future. Digital humanities is often defined as the thoughtful application of digital tools and methodologies to humanistic inquiry. Keynote speaker Roopika Risam, Assistant Professor of English and Secondary English Education at Salem State University, will discuss her latest project, Mapping W.E.B. DuBois. This project combines the study of literature with approaches to digital and technological literacy, supporting efforts to make humanities teaching more inclusive.

Four faculty panelists from a range of fields will also discuss how they came to digital humanities, their current research, how they integrate digital humanities into the classroom, and future directions for a diversity-focused and inclusive digital humanities curriculum.

Keynote:
Roopika Risam, Assistant Professor of English and Secondary Education, Salem State University

Panelists:

Drew Holladay, Assistant Professor, English

Tania Lizarazo, Assistant Professor, Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication

Bryce Peake, Assistant Professor, Media and Communication Studies

Anne Rubin, Professor of History and Associate Director, Imaging Research Center

Lunch will be provided.

Sponsored by the Dresher Center for the Humanities, the Media and Communication Studies Department, and the Dresher Center Digital Humanities Faculty Working Group.

The Inclusion Imperative Program is funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.