Emily Lynell Edwards, depicted above thinking about her latest edits, is an Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and Educational Technologist at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to teaching students the wonders of digital humanities, data criticism, and AI-generated art, she trains faculty on integrating digital tools and technologies into the classroom, providing technical, curricular, and pedagogical support.
Dr. Edwards currently serves as co-director of the $150,000 grant, Digital Humanities Across the Curriculum (DHAC), funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
She is also a General Editor at Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ).
The ink is now dry on her book contract with De Gruyter, a monograph on the spread of far-right Islamophobic digital communities in Germany and the United States that deploys feminist data analytic and investigative methods. She will certainly post about it when it comes out (fingers crossed 2023).
She also has a novel in the works; a book about artificial intelligence and digital archiving in a futuristic corporate-techno dystopia featuring a hard-to-like heroine on a rather dangerous work contract. Who said metadata was boring! And yes, she's looking for an agent ;).
On top of all that, she's conducting another research project, co-developed with Robin Hershkowitz, entitled "Historicizing Aughts-Era Mormon Mommy Blogging Media Landscapes" and is funded by an Archives Unleashed Project grant of $9,000 (CAD).
Broadly, her research focuses on the intersection of digital media, technologies, and platforms, and race, gender, and immigration in global contexts. Her work has appeared in journals such as New Media & Society, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and Glocalism: Journal of culture, politics and innovation.
This past summer she attended the NEH-supported Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing: Resources and Roadmaps Institute at Brown University as part of the 2022 scholarly cohort.
She is also a mentor with the Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon), funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, where she counsels and supports faculty working at the intersection of digital humanities and ethnic studies.
Semi-recently she was interviewed by Clarín, the largest newspaper in Argentina and second most circulated newspaper in the Spanish-speaking world, on Elon Musk’s recent troubles.
She is always available for workshops or writings about the vagaries of digital culture, far-right politics, and social media.
