Visiting Faculty Fellow
Kathryn Wymer is Professor of English in the Department of Language and Literature at North Carolina Central University, where she also serves as the Digital Humanities Lab coordinator. As a member of the Digital Humanities Collaborative of North Carolina, she has served as Secretary for the organization as well as helping to organize several Digital Humanities Institutes. In addition to extensive work in digital humanities her other areas of interest include gender studies, medieval studies, and the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL).
Professor Wymer will be collaborating with faculty and staff at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute's Digital Humanities Initiative, including Professor Victoria Szabo and colleagues from Data and Visualization Sciences, Digital Scholarship & Publishing, and Trinity Technology Services. Her project will focus on ephemerality and loss in digital projects. She plans to draw on affect theory to focus especially on how the swiftly changing nature of digital media influences out interactions with digital humanities projects. An important aspect of this project will investigate the impact that ephemerality and loss can have on academic programs devoted to digital work, and particularly whether there is disparate impact on members of marginalized communities wishing to engage with the digital humanities.
Professor Wymer's first book is Introduction to Digital Humanities: Enhancing Scholarship with the Use of Technology, published in 2021. In addition to numerous refereed publications in academic journals and refereed book chapters, her work also includes a commitment to public scholarship and to advocacy for LGBTQ individuals.
