The 9th Digital Humanities Utah Symposium (DHU9) was held on February 21 & 22, 2025, at Utah Tech University (St. George, UT).
DHU welcomes humanities scholars from across the Intermountain West and beyond. We especially invite early career scholars, graduate students, newcomers to the digital humanities (DH), and members of traditionally underrepresented groups to join us.
DHU 9 Keynote: “Digital and Public Humanities in Transnational Community-Engagement Scenarios“
Sylvia Fernandez, University of Texas at San Antonio
Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla is a transfronteriza originally from El Paso-Cd. Juárez border region. Her research, teaching and community work leverages theory of the flesh, interdisciplinary studies and digital technologies to analyze, design and develop scholarly and creative digital and public work through ethical and inclusive practices. She is an Assistant Professor in Public and Digital Humanities in the College of Liberal and Fine Arts and principal investigator leading the establishment of a Transborder Digital Humanities Center–Consortium, a Mellon Foundation-funded initiative that fosters digital humanities scholarship on borderlands and their transborder and transnational dynamics. Formerly, Fernández was an Assistant Professor in the Digital Technology and Culture Program at Washington State University and the Public and Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Hall Center for the Humanities, Institute of Digital Research in the Humanities (IDRH) and The Commons at the University of Kansas. She earned a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies (Literature) and served as Teaching Assistant in the Spanish as a Second Language and Spanish as a Heritage Language programs and Research Assistant with Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Program.
DHU9 Organizing Committee:
Dr. Randy Jasmine (Committee Chair; Professor, English), Dr. Lacy Hope (Assistant Professor, English), Dr. Nancy Ross (Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences), Dr. Jim Haendiges (Professor, English), Dr. Amanda Scott (Assistant Professor, English), Brett Stanfield (Graduate Student, Technical Writing & Digital Rhetoric), Owen Johnson (Undergraduate Student, English)
Land Acknowledgement
The University acknowledges Indigenous Peoples as the original stewards of the land on which the University is built. We recognize the ancestral homelands of the Paiutes (Nung’wu), the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah (Cedar Band, Kanosh Band, Koosharem Band, Indian Peaks Band, and Shivwits Band), and the Kaibab Paiute Tribe. Aligning with the University’s core value of “Inclusion,” it is an institutional responsibility to recognize and acknowledge the people, culture, and history of the many diverse Indigenous Peoples connected to this land on which we gather.