PEOPLE.
Faculty / Staff.
Director. Krista Caballero
is an interdisciplinary artist exploring issues of agency, survival, and environmental change in a more-than- human world. Moving freely between emerging media and traditional craft, her work creates situations for encountering alternative systems of knowing and perceiving. In 2010 she created Mapping Meaning, an ongoing project that brings together artists, scientists and scholars to explore issues of ecological complexity and long-term sustainability through experimental workshops, exhibitions, and transdisciplinary research.
Caballero received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University and in 2009 attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been presented across the United States as well as internationally in exhibitions and festivals such as the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) in Dubai, Futurescapes Symposium in Trondheim, Norway, “Paradoxes in Video” at Mohsen Gallery in Tehran, and Balance-Unbalance International Festival in Queensland, Australia. Birding the Future, a collaborative project with sound artist Frank Ekeberg, was recently awarded a Norwegian Arts Council grant.
Education.
M.F.A. School of the Museum of Fine Arts / Tufts University
B.A. Westmont
Associate Director. Jarah Moesch
is an artist-scholar whose work explores issues of justice through the design, production, and acquisition of embodied knowledges. Jarah is a postdoctoral fellow and associate director of DCC. Jarah’s research incorporates cultural studies, art, and design practices with physical computing and other multimodal processes as experimental research towards the development of new design models for justice.
Jarah’s artwork ranges from traditional forms of art to contemporary new media practices, and tactical social interventions. This multi-modal work explores the tangled relationship between technologies, systems, and embodied knowledges through the performance of everyday life. Jarah’s artwork has been shown across the United States as well as internationally in festivals and exhibitions.
Education.
PhD, American Studies, University of Maryland
MFA, Integrated Media Arts, Hunter College
BA, Radio, Television, and Film, University of Maryland
Areas of Expertise. Queer theory, cultural studies, embodied design, speculative worlding, emerging media, non-linear art, digital humanities, performance art and installationGraduate Assistant. Joseph Meyer
is pursuing a PhD in American Studies. He holds a BA in American Studies and History from California State University, Fullerton, and an MA in American Studies also from CSUF. He previously worked as an Editorial Assistant for American Quarterly. His research interests are broadly based around the internet in general, but specifically upon how communities are formed within a digital space and how those communities impact formations of identity.
Areas of Expertise. Education, Games, Music, Social Media, Community Engagement / Public Education, Sustainability
Graduate Assistant. Kelsey Hughes
is pursuing her master's degree in Library and Information Science. She received her Bachelor's degree in journalism with minors in French and LGBT Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2014. She was also a student in the DCC program herself while an undergraduate. Prior to joining DCC as a graduate assistant, Kelsey worked with Prince George's County Memorial Library System, where she focused on technology and life skills-building library programming for children and teens. Previously, she has worked as a digital media assistant for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. She is interested in considering and reimagining the future of the public library in the information age and the role of Makerspaces as hubs for learning and creating.
Areas of Expertise.Working with children and teens, STEM education and maker culture, creative educational programming, readers' advisory, determining user's information needs and behaviors
Graduate Assistant. DB Bauer
is a Graduate Assistant for DCC pursuing a PhD in Women’s Studies and the graduate certificate in Digital Studies in the Arts and Humanities. DB’s work explores the relationship between digital technologies and humans, often centralizing issues of gender, affect, speculative material culture, expressive arts, and maker practices, specifically 3D printing.
Faculty. Alexis Lothian
is an interdisciplinary scholar of queer and feminist media and cultural studies. She is core faculty in the Department of Women’s Studies, where she also teaches LGBT studies courses, an affiliate faculty member in American Studies, and core faculty in DCC. Her scholarship and teaching are situated at the intersection of queer studies, speculative fiction, and social justice in digital culture.
Lothian is completing her first book, Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and the History of Queer Time, which explores alternative futures dreamed up by feminists, queers, and people of color in the US and UK from the late 19th to the early 21st century, and also works on digital artistic forms used within fan communities to engage critical readings of media texts and to participate in social justice activism. Her work has been published in venues that include Poetics Today, Debates in Digital Humanities, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Cinema Journal, Camera Obscura, Social Text Periscope, Journal of Digital Humanities, Extrapolation, and the feminist science fiction publisher Aqueduct Press; she edited a 2013 special issue of Ada: a Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology on feminist science fiction. She is a founding member of the #transformDH digital humanities collective and the editorial team of the open access journal Transformative Works and Cultures. In the world of feminist science fiction fandom, she is part of the James Tiptree, Jr Award Motherboard; at the feminist science fiction convention WisCon, she co-chairs the academic track and is a member of the anti-abuse team.
In DCC, Lothian regularly teaches a 106 section on Gender, Race, and Labor in the Digital World, in which students study the operation of power structures and social justice movements online, and a 208 section on Media, Culture, and Identity, in which students learn about and practice creative genres developed by members of marginalized communities, including zines, fan remix video, and indie games. She hopes to design a DCC class on science fiction at some point in the not too distant future.
Education.
PhD in English with Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies, University of Southern California, 2012
MA in Sexual Dissidence and Cultural Change, University of Sussex, 2005
MA (Hons) in English Language and Literature, University of Edinburgh, 2003Campus Address.
Department of Women’s Studies, 2101F Woods HallFaculty. Evan Golub
is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland and an Assistant Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab. He has been involved in the creation of, or modification of, numerous courses across the curriculum at the University. His research interests have ranged from artificial intelligence and concurrent programming to theoretical computer science but currently focus on children and technology, educational classroom technologies, ubiquitous computing, and creativity support tools. In these areas he works to understand how technology can be utilized by users across the spectrum of skill and experience bases to achieve a variety of goals. He disseminates hi results through submissions to journals and conferences. His research approach commonly incorporates student involvement; at both the graduate and undergraduate level. He sees his work with students not only as part of his role as educator, but also a valuable part of both the creative and research processes. He has co-authored a textbook on Information Technology, and authored a Visual C++ workbook and Student Response System faculty guidebook, and is an avid photographer and photojournalist.
Education
Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park
M.S. University of Maryland, College Park
B.S. Brooklyn College, CUNYAreas of Expertise. Human-Computer Interaction, Intergenerational Design Teams, Educational Technology
Faculty. Michelle Markey Butler's
career has a foot in two related but different worlds. On the one side, academia. She teaches at the University of Maryland, usually Tolkien, Harry Potter, or medieval literature and history. She did her dissertation research on direct address in medieval and early modern drama, has published articles in that area, and someday, by golly, she will finish that book about the transition from direct address to soliloquy. Her current research looks at memes and other pop culture forms as literary criticism. On the other side, fiction. Her debut novel, Homegoing, was released by Pink Narcissus Press in 2014. A second, co-authored novel, The Last Abbot of Linn Duachaill, released in 2015.
Past Faculty / Staff.
Jason Farman. Hasan Elahi. Matt Kirschenbaum. Tanya Clement. Porter Olsen. Shiva Prakash. Chau Pham. Leah Flake.
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