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Marisa Parham
Visiting Professor of English / Director of the African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities Initiative
University of Maryland

Monday, March 1, 2021
Time: 3:30 PM

Title: Interactivities: difference, computation, textuality

This talk examines what might be made possible at the intersection of Black expressive traditions, digital humanities, and electronic literature. Dr. Parham will discuss her recent projects, such as “.break .dance digital project,” an experimental digital project that uses Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade as a keystone text to ground musings about time, code, and internet experience, and her other projects collected at <https://mp285.com/sections/portfolio>. She will discuss the underlying rationale for these projects and why they are needed now.

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