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, she trains faculty on integrating digital tools and technologies into the classroom, providing technical, curricular, and pedagogical support.
Her first book, Digital Islamophobia: Tracking A Far-Right Crisis, which examines the spread of far-right Islamophobic digital communities in Germany and the United States, deploying feminist data analytic methods, has come out with De Gruyter in fall 2023. She was interviewed by New Books Network about the project.
Dr. Edwards has served as co-director of the $150,000 grant, Digital Humanities Across the Curriculum (DHAC), funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Report done and dusted.
She is a General Editor at Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ).
She is also writing a novel; a book about a dystopic floating prison with a hard-to-like heroine. Think Alien 3 meets Severance but make it flirtier. And yes, she's looking for an agent ;).
Her favorite thing she's written recently is about sex, censorship, capitalism, and commercial romance fiction. Ruby Dixon meets Roland Barthes in Typebar Magazine.
Listen to her interview on Post45 Contemporaries where she talks all things The Bachelor and data visualization.
And, once upon a time, she made a digital exhibition as lead archivist, entitled "25 Years of the Latino/a/x Issues Conference at BGSU."
Broadly, her research focuses on the intersection of digital media, technologies, and platforms, and culture 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.
Semi-recently, she was interviewed by Clarín, the largest newspaper in Argentina and second most circulated newspaper in the Spanish-speaking world, on Donald Trump's lackluster return to Twitter.
She is always available for workshops or to write or chat about digital culture, far-right politics, or social media.
