Digital Humanities Faculty

Professor of English and Africana Studies; Graduate Program Director

Professor Aljoe’s research focuses on 18th and early 19th Century Black Atlantic and Caribbean literature with a specialization on the slave narrative and early novels. In addition to teaching in these areas, she has published articles on these…

Dean’s Professor of Civic Sustainability; Professor of English

As Dean’s Professor of Civic Sustainability, Ellen’s research explores the perseverance of people made possible with reading and writing. She’s currently co-leading a team that is developing a digital archive to support the translat…

Distinguished Professor of English

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon teaches courses in the fields of early American literature, Atlantic theatre and performance, and transatlantic print culture. She is the author of New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849 (D…

Text Mining Specialist, Research Data Services, Northeastern University Library

Lawrence Evalyn studies infrastructure and gender in the histories of digital texts. He is currently writing a monograph on the history of mass digitization, exploring when and why women’s writing and authorless writing from the eighteenth cent…

Professor of the Practice in English; Director, Digital Scholarship Group

Julia Flanders is a professor of the practice in English and the director of the Digital Scholarship Group in the Northeastern University Library. She also directs the Women Writers Project and serves as editor in chief of Digital Humanities Quarterl…

Professor of English and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Director of the Humanities Center

K.J. Rawson works at the intersections of the Digital Humanities and Rhetoric, LGBTQ+, and Feminist Studies. Focusing on archives as key sites of cultural power, he studies the rhetorical work of queer and transgender archival collections in brick-an…