public
humanities
Public Humanities is the work of promoting and producing humanistic knowledge with the general public. Some of the most common varieties include translation, cultural organizing, public programming, or other audience-oriented humanistic activities. Digital Humanities use computational technological tools and platforms to explore humanities subjects. I work at the intersection of these two fields. To learn more about this interdisciplinary space, visit the links below:
Guidelines for Assessment of Digital Scholarship in Tenure and Promotion, Association of Computers and Humanities.
Criteria for Social Media-Based Scholarship in Health Professions Education, Postgraduate Medical Journal.
PROJECTS
Finds from the Archive; National Humanities Center Podcasting Institute –podcast producer
Finds from the Archive is a podcast about archives, stories, and everything in between. When we say ‘archive’ we mean stacks of books and boxes in library basements waiting to be explored, but also private collections and so much more.
Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts
CoFigurations Roundtable Series – organizer
From hypertext and social networks to the 3D worlds of video games and virtual reality, we wander and explore realities paralleling — and mirroring — our own. Often this engagement occurs through frameworks of interaction and play. In 2022, this roundtable series brought together a group of specialists to discuss the futures of virtual media and care infrastructure.
Making Anime in Latin America – workshop organizer
Continuing to support Latin American creators, I organized a workshop with Pablo Monreal, an anime producer from Chile. The event was sponsored primarily by the Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese Graduate Student Organization. Additional sponsors include the University Park Allocation Committee, the Department of Comparative Literature, and the Liberal Arts Collective.
Unraveling the Anthropocene: Race, Environment, Pandemic – podcast producer
As a member of the Liberal Arts Collective at PSU, I have spent the 2020-2021 season recording and producing episodes for the Unraveling the Anthropocene podcast series.
Listen on Spotify, Google podcasts, or Apple podcasts
Mentoring for the Future of Literary Studies – summer program leader
The goal of this program is to diversify the pool of applicants to graduate education programs in literature and its associated fields. The program serves primarily for BIPOC scholars and applicants from disadvantaged communities. I am among the main organizers for the 2021 program.
A Comics Talk with Maliki – guest talk organizer
In support of the celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month in State College, PA, I invited the comics artist Marcela Trujillo to give a guest talk on the experience of making autobiographical comics as a Latin American living in the United States. The talk welcomed an international audience, as it was offered via Zoom.
