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Digital Humanities Project

I am a practitioner of the digital humanities and believe DH offers vital tools for exploring and showcasing academic work. Below I detail some published and in-progress DH projects.

  • The Archivist video game, Itch.io and Steam, (forthcoming). The Archivist is an in-progress Unity-made video game meant to explore the inherent impossibility of giving a voice to voices that have been violently suppressed in the traditional archive. The central gameplay loop is reading through colonial-era documents, gathered from primary sources like Runaway Slaves in Britain: Bondage, Freedom and Race in the Eighteenth Century. The player will try (and fail) to fully recover the lives of the enslaved in the eighteenth-century anglophone Caribbean through their engagement with the colonial British archive. The goal of The Archivist is to educate players on how the colonial archive upholds Eurocentrism and white supremacy and allow the player to experience the affective horror of reading through the archive of the enslaved. How do you recover Black and indigenous voices that have been erased? The Archivist aims to explore, but not answer, this question.

  • Black Omniscient Technological Skepticism in Contemporary Black Literature and Music, Youtube, May 2023. A video essay exploring how Black writers acknowledge, critique, and respond to the growing import of emergent technologies in contemporary life. This video attempts to find an answer by surveying various moments of Black omniscient technological skepticism in contemporary Black literature and music.

  • Race in Video Games iOS Application, Apple Appstore, May 2022. A free and publicly available iOS application that introduces users to the history of racial representation in video games.

  • Westworld: A Climate Change Adaptation, Itch.io, May 2020. This free-to-play Twine game re-imagine the first seasons of the HBO science-fiction series Westworld through an ecocritical lens.

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