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.
She also has extensive experience in project management; developing research agendas, managing budgets, leading assessment activities, and of course, writing lots of reports.
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 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 ;).
Her favorite thing she's written recently is on celebrity vampires in Polygon.
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 race and gender 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.
She was part of the NEH-supported Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing: Resources and Roadmaps Institute at Brown University as part of the 2022 scholarly cohort and is back for a cameo this summer presenting on digital scholarly projects in the classroom.
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 increasingly cozy relationship with President Javier Milei.
She is always available for workshops or to write about digital culture, far-right politics, or social media.