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Digital Narratives: Teaching, Telling Our Stories & Connecting to the Past
Saturday, March 26, 2022
3:20 pm to 4:20 pm
This panel will offer the perspectives of four women writers of color using digital humanities and digital archives to recover, document, and promote the voices and histories of underrepresented artists, writers, and activists. We will also discuss how we can use digital tools to tell stories in new and compelling ways. In addition, we will describe the challenges we face as women of color in the predominately white field of digital humanities and how we navigate through these obstacles.
Participants
Erika Abad
Linda Garcia Merchant
Olufunke Ogundimu is a PhD student in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a research associate at the African Poets Digital Portal. She is a graduate of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas MFA program, a 2018 Caine Prize for African Writing finalist, and a Pushcart Prize winner.
Claire Jimenez is a Puerto Rican writer from New York City who received her MFA from Vanderbilt University. A PhD student at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, she is the author of Staten Island Stories and a coprincipal investigator for the Puerto Rican Literature Project.
