Marisa Parham
PI & Faculty Director, NarraSpace XR at University of Maryland
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolMarisa Parham is a scholar-practitioner who blends literary scholarship, digital humanities, and immersive technologies to center marginalized experiences in XR, electronic literature, and experimental narrative. As Professor of English and Digital Studies at the University of Maryland, she directs NarraSpace XR, AADHUM, and the Immersive Realities Lab for the Humanities while serving leadership roles at MITH and the ACLS commission on diverse digital scholarship. Her work interrogates time, space, and bodily materiality in African American cultural texts, producing digital-interactive essays and projects—such as .break .dance and ConvocationAR—that have been anthologized and honored by the Electronic Literature Organization. Parham’s practice combines authorship, design, and programming with institutional DEI leadership, informed by a PhD from Columbia and decades of academic leadership across Five College DH, Amherst, and UMD. She is currently developing a book-length digital narrative, Black Haints in the Anthropocene, that links memory, environmental experience, and digitality, demonstrating a rare fusion of critical theory and production-grade digital storytelling.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), English and Comparative Literature, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in the City of New YorkB.A., B.A. at Washington University in St. Louis
Github Skills (8)
ecology9
digital-humanities9
creative-commons8
python7
edtech5
react2
javascript2
generative1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mp285/bha-s
May 2023 - Nov 2024
For yet another implementation chain / workflow idea for BHA
Contributions:2 reviews, 6 PRs, 62 pushes in 1 year 5 months
mp285/mp285.github.io
Mar 2017 - May 2023
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
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