“The quandary before me—a blessing or a vexation, depending on one’s perspective—is a deceptively simple one: how do we read?”
“Literary scholars such as myself are often guilty of naming everything a “text” that can be “read,” and despite recognizing the temptation for what it is, I nonetheless find the question of how (and why) we read (whether literary text the world around us, or the dreams we collectively share with others) a compelling one. This is in no small part because the reading methods we deploy are the same we use to make, create, and build the world around us. But I find the question an urgent one for the simple reason that it offers us an entry point into asking how do we study? That, perhaps, is at the crux of what we call Black digital humanities.”
Co-authored with Kimberly Bain, Ph.D.
Citation (Chicago)
Bain, Kimberly and Elizabeth Murice Alexander. “The Street Finds Its Uses: A Black Digital Humanities Call and Response.” Studies in Romanticism 61, no. 1 (2022): 161-174. https://doi.org/10.1353/srm.2022.0016