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Marina del Sol, PhD (She/Her)

Inaugural Honors Faculty Fellow

  • COAS Honors Program
  • College of Arts & Sciences
  • Director, Writing Across the Curriculum Program
    Certified WAC Instructor
  • Master Instructor
    English, Writing Instructors and Lecturers

Biography

Marina del Sol received her Ph.D. from the Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies at The University of Texas at Austin and her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. As a Master Instructor in the English Department at Howard University, she teaches critical writing courses that focus on language, identity, and the public sphere.  She also serves as the Director of the Writing Across the Curriculum Program for the College of Arts and Sciences. 

Dr. del Sol’s research centers around citizenship, bias, and cultural representation, and she has a strong commitment to projects that examine the theoretical implications and power dynamics of digital humanities work, including issues related to bias in archives.  She is particularly interested in how language, identity and power operate within techno-social systems. 

Education & Expertise

Education

Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
M.A., The University of Texas at Austin
B.A., University of California, Berkeley

Expertise

Digital Humanities

Writing Studies

Cultural Studies

Ethnography & Representation

Academics

Academics

Writing, Literacy, and Discourse

Persuasive Writing and Research

Digital Storytelling and Data Visualization

Honors Writing Intensive

Research

Research

Specialty

Digital Humanities, Otherness, Trauma & Narrative, Ethnographic Writing, and Writing Studies.

Funding

2024    Grantee, Grants-in-Aid Program, US Latino Digital Humanities Center (USLDH), The University of Houston. Total funding: $7,500

2024    Digital Humanities Mentor, Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium.  Total funding: $2,500

2023    Digital Humanities Mentor, Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium.  Total funding: $2,500

2022    Digital Humanities Scholar, Digital Publishing Program, Black Book Interactive Project, Project on the History of Black Writing, The University of Kansas.  Total funding:  $2,275

2022    OER Course Developer, BisonOpen Summer Academy, Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Assessment, Howard University. Total funding:  $2,000

2022    Digital Humanities Mentor, Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium.  Total funding: $2,500

2021    Digital Scholarship Fellow, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin.  Total funding: $3,000

2021    Expert Specialist, “Ensuring Scholarly Access to Digital Records,” funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and hosted by Virginia Tech and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).  Online.  April 9 - May 7, 2021.  Total funding:  $1,000

2021    Scholar, NEH Summer Institute Hurston on the Horizon: Past, Present, and Future, Project on the History of Black Writing, The University of Kansas.  Online. July 11-30, 2021. Total funding:  $2,850

2021    Advanced Online Student Engagement, UNCF.  Total funding:  $200

2020    Online Course Developer, HU-Teach, Office of Faculty Development, Howard University.  Total funding:  $3,000

2019    Digital Humanities Scholar, Black Book Interactive Project – Extending the Reach (BBIP-ER) Scholar Program, The University of Kansas.  Total funding:  $2,275

2019    Assessment Research Fellow, Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, Howard University. Total funding:  $1,500

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