Introducing the Spring 2022 Black Beyond Data Reading Group Speakers
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Begins February 2022
Last Friday of the Month | 12 PM EST
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Meet the Speakers:
André Brock is an associate professor of media studies at Georgia Tech. He writes on Western technoculture, Black technoculture, and cybercultures; his scholarship examines Black and white representations in social media, videogames, weblogs, and other digital media. He has published innovative and groundbreaking research on Black Twitter and on digital research methods. His first book, titled Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures, was published with NYU Press in 2020 and theorizes Black everyday lives mediated by networked technologies.
Kenton Rambsy is an Assistant Professor of African American literature at the University of Texas at Arlington. His areas of research include 20th and 21st century African American short fiction, Hip Hop, and book history. He is a 2018 recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship and author of two digital books #TheJayZMixtape and Lost in the City: An Exploration of Edward P. Jones's Short Fiction (2019). His on-going Digital Humanities projects use datasets to illuminate the significance of recurring trends and thematic shifts as it relates black writers and rappers. His forthcoming book, The Geographies of African American Short Stories (May 2022) illuminates an important, though often understudied, mode of literary art by interpreting writers’ depictions of characters navigating distinct social and physical environments.
Kimberly D. Deas is a Chemical Informaticist for a major DC organization and is a PhD Candidate in Health Informatics. Her research interests are in HIV and Health Disparities using AI/Machine Learning, and she also works as a Data Science Consultant and Data Educator.
Stacie Williams is the inaugural Division Chief for Archives and Special Collections at the Chicago Public Library. She has managed digital scholarship programs at the University of Chicago Library and Case Western Reserve University, and is a member of the independent Blackivists (https://www.theblackivists.com/) collective, which works to preserve Chicago-area Black history. She has worked previously at Harvard University, the University of Kentucky, and the Lexington (KY) Public Library.