Dr. Amy Earhart

Biography

Amy E. Earhart is an Associate Professor of English and an affiliated faculty member of Africana Studies at Texas A&M University. She is a 2020 Presidential Impact Fellow and a 2019 Arts & Humanities Fellow. Her research interests encompass Race and Ethnicity Studies, African American Literature, Digital Humanities, and the historical and cultural analyses of 19th and 20th-century American literature. Earhart has significantly contributed to the field through her involvement in digital scholarship since 2003 and is particularly focused on the infrastructures of technology shaping the discourse on race. She has developed several digital humanities projects designed to promote access to African American literature and has published widely in digital humanities topics, including her monographs 'Digital Literary Redlining' and 'Traces Old, Uses New.' As an educator, she is dedicated to incorporating high-impact learning experiences in her teaching. She has taught numerous graduate and undergraduate courses and has received several teaching awards for her commitment to student success. Her service expands beyond the university as she actively contributes to local and national organizations, reflecting her dedication to enhancing the field of digital humanities and African American literary studies.

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