I am a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Riverside in the Department of English. My scholarship focuses primarily on race, gender, and power in videogame culture and my dissertation is a theoretical study of race in games. However, I am also interested in the potential of the digital humanities (DH) as an intervention into scholarship and theory. I'd like to expand my work to more practical expression and to create new kinds of theory leveraging digital technologies. I am currently working on a computer art project which experiments with using a videogame as a platform for understanding racial logics in contemporary culture. That being said, I am also a bit wary of DH and its lack of critical dialogue. I would like to see DH be much more politically mindful and inclusive.
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