Welcome to new DHC Faculty Director Lisa Blackmore

We’re delighted to announce UVA Library’s Digital Humanities Center (an umbrella under which Scholars’ Lab sits) has a new Faculty Director joining our team this week: Lisa Blackmore!

After an international, competitive search, Dr. Blackmore joined UVA’s College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences as Professor of Spanish, and is a new member of the Environmental Humanities cohort as well.

Scholars’ Lab staff are especially excited about Blackmore’s leadership, curation, and collaboration given her commitment to social justice and care as core aspects of effective scholarship; experience facilitating collaborative and generative community events; and deep expertise bridging public humanities, environmental sciences, data, art, and history in her impactful work. Since 2018, Blackmore has been the founder/director of entre—ríos (Between Rivers), an international digital platform focusing on bodies of water in Latin America. Her research is in the field of environmental humanities, with a focus on cultural histories of human-river relations, ecocritical analysis of art and literature, and creative collaborations between art, science, and communities.

Blackmore joins the directors of Scholars’ Lab and IATH partnering on the Library’s digital humanities initiatives, and will lead new and help sustain existing strategic initiatives leveraging this partnership. You can read more about her work and plans in UVA Library’s announcement.