Dr. Elizabeth M. Alexander | brown bag talk

Dr. Alexander designs and develops across digital and print media, with a critical and creative research practice focused on Black women’s technoculture, the embodied lifecycles of cultural and personal data, and the Southwest Side of Chicago.

They have held a Mellon Editorial Fellowship at Northwestern University Press, co-produced the episode “Growing a Greater Englewood” with Change Agents the Podcast, and is a member of the Immersive Realities Lab for the Humanities digital experimental workgroup, among other fellowships & projects.

Currently, they’re working on Erotic Data Poetics, a hybrid book project exploring womanist poetics as a framework for collecting, analyzing, and using data.

Elizabeth earned their doctorate in Literatures in English from Cornell University in 2021.