Tag: HASTAC Scholars

  • HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Rachael Mulvihill

    Rachael V. Mulvihill is a PhD Candidate in the Literary and Cultural Studies program at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research examines utopian and dystopian representations of capitalism across contemporary fiction, film, and media. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History and Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association. Why did you apply…

  • HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Grace Dignazio

    Grace Dignazio is an interdisciplinary scholar and MFA candidate in Creative Writing at The New School in New York City. Her digital humanities research focuses on hybrid poetics, electronic literature, and the intersections of technology and desire. Her writing has appeared in Public Seminar, LIT Magazine, The Inquisitive Eater, and The Blunt Space, among others. She…

  • HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Elisa Castro

    Elisa is a post-graduate fellow with the Transborder Digital Humanities Consortium at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where her research focuses on migration, archival studies, and transborder digital humanities. Born in San Antonio, Texas, with roots in Viesca, Coahuila, she examines Coahuila–Texas migration through a transnational perspective using community-centered archives, GIS mapping, and…

  • HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Ame Min-Venditti

    Ame Min-Venditti (they/them/elle) is a scholar motivated by water stories, sharing and learning from ancestral wisdom to create just and peaceful futures. Ame is a participatory action researcher engaging in community-centered work on water’s relationships to humans and our more-than-human world. They have used methods such as participatory scenario planning, photovoice, and opinion writing pedagogy…

  • HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Zhihui Zou

    Zhihui Zou HASTAC Scholar History and Computer Science Student at Duke University Zhihui Zou is a History and Computer Science student at Duke University. His historical research focuses on the oil industry in Los Angeles between 1892 and 1930, and his digital humanities research focuses on Named Entity Recognition and UI/UX development. He currently leads…

  • HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Nazua Idris

    Nazua Idris HASTAC Scholar (2023-25) Doctoral Candidate in Literary Studies, Department of English, Washington State University Nazua’s (She/her) research focuses on the intersections of the nineteenth and early twentieth-century global Anglophone literatures, long nineteenth-century British literature, scholarly textual editing, decolonial digital humanities, and decolonial and digital pedagogies. Nazua obtained BA (Hons) in English and MA in English Literature…

  • HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Alexandra Thrall

    Alexandra (Allie) Thrall is a doctoral student in Baylor University’s Department of Curriculum & Instruction. Allie’s research focuses on investigating the sociotechnical arrangements that could undermine or support justice-oriented teaching and learning. Formerly, Allie taught 4th-12th grades and served as a school administrator. Allie has an M.Ed. in Curriculum & Instruction from the University of…

  • HASTAC Scholar Spotlight: Hiranya Mukherjee

    1) Why did you apply to HASTAC? As I was nearing the end of my Master’s program in English Literature, I was apprehensive about leaving the university circle and setting forth into the world outside academia. In the five consecutive years that comprised my Bachelor’s and Master’s programs in Literary Studies, I had grown accustomed…

  • Scholar Spotlight: Catherine A. Evans

    Why did you apply to HASTAC? HASTAC’s accessible, welcoming, and intentional approach drew me to apply as I looked beyond my institution for further opportunities to meet other early career researchers who value collaborative cross-disciplinary research. My work at Carnegie Mellon has ranged from learning with labor activists to designing and delivering accessible educational materials…

  • Review: The New College Classroom

    This volume by Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis situates itself as a guidebook to rethinking and restructuring traditional teaching, and subsequently learning, practices for a modern, diverse, and equitable college classroom. The authors set out to provide practical answers to an essential question—namely, how can we “teach for every student—not only for the ones…