An Interview with Ashley Caranto-Morford on Digital Humanities
Folks may not know this, but Speculating Canada is a Digital Humanities project (a way to engage with the digital in scholarship or teach through the digital). I have been very lucky to have Dr. Ashley Caranto-Morford to educate me about Digital Humanities (DH) and all of the complexities of DH.
In this interview, Ashley and I explore decolonial Digital Humanities, the impact of the digital on the environmental, the relationship between place and technology, futurity, artificial intelligence and the role and power of storytelling. It was such an engaging and enlightening conversation.
Dr. Ashley Caranto Morford (she/her) is a diasporic Filipina-British settler scholar and educator whose interdisciplinary work is accountable to and in relationship with Filipinx/a/o studies, Indigenous studies, critical race studies, anti-colonial methods and praxis, literary studies, digital media and communication studies, and digital humanities. Ashley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Liberal Arts at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Lenapehoking (colonially called Philadelphia). With Dr. Kush Patel and Arun Jacob, she is a co-creator and co-facilitator of the Pedagogy of the Digitally Oppressed collective. Building upon Paulo Freire’s writings on the pedagogy of the oppressed and aligning with Global South, Indigenous, Black, and women of colour feminist, queer, and disability justice work, the Pedagogy of the Digitally Oppressed collective fosters anti-colonial approaches to digital humanities teaching both in and beyond the post-secondary setting.
- www.ashleycarantomorford.com
- Pedagogy of the Digitally Oppressed: https://pedagogyofthedigitallyoppressed.hcommons.org/
Interviewed by Derek Newman-Stille, MA, PhD (ABD) (they/them)
