Brown is a public historian and a scholar of African American literature and culture.

Jacob Greene researches emerging modes of digital and location-based writing.

Stephanie Fitzgerald is a literary historian focusing on American Indian and Indigenous literatures and histories of the book.

Dr. Ferrando explores plants, animals, and water in modern Italian poetry; environmental and experimental noisescapes; and the digital humanities. She founded Navigli Project, a digital interactive map of Milan's waters.

Perkins specializes in social inequality, social movements and the environment through a focus on environmental justice.

Critically acclaimed performer, author and social engagement artist, RobertFaridKarimi, designs interactive immersive game-performance experiences to spark players to imagine worlds of mutual community nourishment.