Marisa Parham is professor of English at the University of Maryland, where she is director of the African American Digital Humanities initiative (AADHum) and associate director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). She also codirects the Immersive Realities Lab for the Humanities (irLhumanities). Her recent work includes “Sample | Signal | Strobe: Haunting, Social Media, and Black Digitality” and the interactive long-form scholarly essay .break .dance.