Jessica Marie Johnson on the connections between the slave trade and digital humanities today
Channel: Jill Walker Rettberg
Date: 2020-08-22

Jessica Marie Johnson is a historian and a key figure in Black Digital Humanities. Jill Walker Rettberg interviewed her about her paper "Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads", where she discusses the role slavery’s eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Atlantic archive plays in relation to the digital humanities’ drive for data. The interview was originally made for Prof Rettberg's class Digital Humanities in Practice at the University of Bergen (DIKULT207), where students are reading Prof Johnson's paper.

Johnson, Jessica Marie. “Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads.” Social Text 36, no. 4 (137) (December 1, 2018): 57–79. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7145658.