Current Projects

WORKS-IN-PROGRESS

Book project: Manos de Obra: Class, Race, Gender, and Colonial Affect-Culture in Mexican American Literature.

Article: “(Digital) Methodology of the Oppressed: Decolonial Theory and US Latinx Digital Humanities”

Co-editor, with Dr. José F. Aranda and Elena Valdez, Taller Americano de Traducción Rice University. Translation book series.

Co-translator, Un matrimonio como hay muchos: Novela contemporánea (1848), Taller Americano de Traducción Rice University. Project Director: Dr. Kirsten Silva-Gruez.

DIGITAL HUMANITIES

Alonso S. Perales Collection Twitter Bot (@AlonsoSPerales). Co-creator with Theresa Mayfield. https://twitter.com/AlonsoSPerales

“Alonso S. Perales Correspondence.” Co-creator with Theresa Mayfield. https://recoveryapp.github.io/ASPCorrespondence

“Are We Good Neighbors?: Mapping Discrimination Against Mexican Americans in 1940s Texas.” https://arcg.is/1C1bbv

Open source toolkit: DLF Teach Toolkit 2.0 on Immersive Pedagogy: Lesson Plans on Immersive Pedagogy. Digital Library Federation. Co-editor, with Alex Wermer-Colan, Emma Slayton, Mackenzie Brooks, Melanie Hubbard, Heidi Winkler, Jessica Linker, Neil Weijer, and Chris J. Young. https://dlfteach.pubpub.org/dlfteach-toolkit-2

Guest Editor, Special issue, Reviews in Digital Humanities: Latinx Digital Humanities. Vo1. 1. No. 12, 2020. https://reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v1-n12

Project Manager. Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Blog

Project Manager. Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Digital Collections. usldhrecovery.uh.edu

COMMITTEES

Conference committee member, Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Conference 2022

Executive committee member, The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH)

Co-Chair with Tanya Clement, Program committee, The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) Conference 2021

Local committee member, The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) Conference 2021

Steering committee member, The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) Conference 2021

RECENT GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage, Rare Book School, University of Virginia

Principal Investigator, “Immersive Pedagogy: A Symposium on Teaching and Learning with 3D, Augmented and Virtual Reality.” The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), 2019.