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Title
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Marlas Yvonne Whitley
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Description
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Marlas Yvonne Whitley (she/her) is a graduate student and aspiring public intellectual. She completed her bachelors in English at UNC-Greensboro, and her Masters in Rhetoric and Composition at NC State University. She will continue her studies at New York University this fall, earning a PhD in English and American Literature. Her emerging work in the digital humanities have begun by experimenting with an English composition critical pedagogy through teaching the Virtual Martin Luther King, Jr. project at NC State, where students of the First Year Writing course can deepen their understanding of rhetoric, learn the exciting extents of what English studies can do, and engage meaningfully with Black history local to the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina. Being interdisciplinary, Whitley’s work is also situated in Black Women’s Studies, 19th and 20th century Black media, rhetoric and theories of affect and commodification.
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Date Accepted
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2023
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Track
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Introduction to Digital Humanities (DH)
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