Julian C. Chambliss is a Professor of English and the Val Berryman Curator of History at the MSU Museum at Michigan State University. He is a co-director of the Digital Humanities and Literary Cognition Lab (DHLC) and faculty lead for the Graphic Possibilities Comic Research Workshop in the Department of English. His research explores race and identity in the context of Popular Culture, Afrofuturism, and Digital Humanities. His documentary on Afrofuturism, entitled Afrofantastic: The Transformative World of Afrofuturism (2023), is available through PBS.org.
Soohyun Cho is an Assistant Professor of Integrative Studies in the Arts and Humanities (IAH) at Michigan State University. As an affiliate faculty for the Digital Humanities and Literary Cognition (DHLC) Lab, Cho integrates her expertise in health/medical humanities to explore the impact of art and cultural engagement on health. Her current comparative study investigates neurodivergent detective figures in Anglophone and East Asian popular culture, bridging digital humanities, media studies, disability studies, and literary cognition. As an interdisciplinary scholar, she has designed accessible art events and created community-engaged pedagogy.
Ben Van Dyke works across experimental art, design, pedagogy, time-based media, writing, and community organizing. No single discipline holds him for long; the questions that matter keep slipping out of their traditional assignments and he ceremoniously lets them go. Deep down, he wants to know what makes people tick, how desire, fear, habit, and hope move through human bodies, classrooms, screens, and streets, and how designed systems nudge those forces into obedient roles or release them toward freer forms of life.
His work emerges as exhibitions, lectures, workshops, and organizing projects across five continents, each one testing the limits of legibility with every medium carrying a question about power and perception. He’s betting all the money on the possibility that experimental practices, pursued with mischief and curiosity, are the canary in the mine
Lynn L. Wolff’s teaching and research interests encompass modern German literature and culture, in particular the relationship between literature and historiography, the representation of the Holocaust, theories of translation, and practices of intermediality. These interests are reflected in her first monograph W.G. Sebald’s Hybrid Poetics: Literature as Historiography (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2014), which explores the emergence of a new hybrid discourse of literature as historiography while illuminating the interplay of aesthetics, epistemology, and ethics in twentieth-century literature in German. It is the first monograph to examine Sebald’s œuvre in its entirety, including unpublished archival material held at the Archive of German Literature in Marbach and the Harvard Houghton Library.