Lisa Marie Rhody
(She/Her)
Deputy Director, Digital Initiatives
Lisa Marie Rhody is Deputy Director of Digital Initiatives and Director of Digital Fellowship Programs at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she is also an affiliated faculty member in the Liberal Studies, Digital Humanities, Data Analysis and Visualization, Comparative Literature, and the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate programs. She co-directs DHRIFT (dhrift.org), an open-source, open educational resource publishing platform for digital humanities and was Principal Investigator and Director of the twice NEH-funded Digital Humanities Research Institute. Currently, she serves as co-chair of the Modern Language Association’s AI and Research Working Group. Lisa is co-editor with Susan Schreibman of Feminist Digital Humanities: Intersections in Practice (2025).
Previously, Lisa was Associate Director of Research Projects at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, where she served as editor-in-chief of Digital Humanities Now and the Journal of Digital Humanities. In her current book project, Reading Against Models, Lisa proposes human-centered strategies for reading and interpreting how LLMs and GenAI encode and operationalize dominant narratives. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in English Language and Literature and is completing an M.L.S. at Queens College. She is a published poet, and her scholarship has appeared in differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Debates in the Digital Humanities, What We Talk About When We Talk About DH, and PMLA.
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Education
- M.L.S., Library and Information Science, Queens College, CUNY, expected 2026
- Ph.D., English Language and Literature, University of Maryland, 2012
- M.A., English Language and Literature, University of Maryland, 1999
- B.A., cum laude, English (writing), Denison University, 1995
Current Positions
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Rhody, Lisa Marie and Susan Schreibman, Eds. Feminist Digital Humanities: Intersections in Practice. University of Illinois Press, 2025. https://www.bibliopen.org/9780252048302 “Introduction,” “Teaching Feminist Text Analysis”
Rhody, Lisa Marie and Kalle Westerling. “Expanding Communities of Practice through DH Andragogy.” What We Teach When We Teach DH. Eds. Brian Croxall and Diane K. Jakacki. University of Minnesota Press, 2023.
“Beyond Darwinian Distance: Situating Distant Reading in a Feminist Ut Pictura Poesis Tradition.” PMLA 132 (3), 659-667.
“Why I dig: Feminist approaches to text analysis.” Debates in the Digital Humanities. Eds. Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. University of Minnesota Press, 2016, 536-539.
Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong and Lisa Marie Rhody. “Working the digital humanities: Uncovering shadows between the dark and the light.” differences: a Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 25 (1), 1-25.
“Topic Modeling and Figurative Language“ Journal of Digital Humanities 2 (1), 2012.
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Projects
AI Re-tales: Reading against algorithmic bias (interactive installation in-progress)
Reading Against Models: Humanistic Methods for Interpreting Artificial Intelligence (book in-progress)
Co-Director, DHRIFT (Digital Humanities Research Infrastructure for Teaching Technology), 2023-present
Principal Investigator and Director, Digital Humanities Research Institutes, dhinstitutes.org/ 2017 – present
Director of Development. PressForward pressforward.org, 2013 – 2015
General Editor, Digital Humanities Now. digitalhumanitiesnow.org, 2013-2015
Editor, Journal of Digital Humanities journalofdigitalhumanities.org, 2013-2015
Project Manager, Zotero. zotero.org, 2014-2015
Project Manager, WebWise, Institute of Museum and Library Services Conference, 2013 & 2014
Project Director, Review, Revise, Requery: Revising Ekphrasis. Winnemore Dissertation Fellowship http://mith.umd.edu/research/project/review-revise-requery/ January – May 2012
Site Manager and Research Assistant, Romantic Circles www.rc.umd.edu University of Maryland, July 2000 – July 2002, July 2005 – July 2007
Staff, Dickinson Electronic Archives archive.emilydickinson.org, January – October 2000.
Webmaster, Women’s Studies Database. mith.umd.edu/WomensStudies/ Department of Women’s Studies, Office of Information Technology (OIT), University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Fall 1998 – Summer 1999
Grants
Principal Investigator, Feminist Digital Humanities Edited Collection. PSC-CUNY Research Award, 2023
Principal Investigator and Co-Project Director with Stephen Zweibel, DHRIFT: Digital Humanities Research Infrastructure for Teaching. NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grants, January 2023 – April 2. 2025.
Principal Investigator and Project Director, Further Expanding Communities of Practice: Digital Humanities Research Institutes. dhinstitutes.org NEH Institutes for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities. August 2019 to September 2023.
Project Director, Feminist Interventions in Digital Humanities Practice. PSC-CUNY Research Award, 2019.
Project Director, The Algorithm and the Urn: Distant Reading Against the Grain. PSC-CUNY Research Award, 2018.
Principal Investigator, Expanding Communities of Practice: CUNY Digital Humanities Research Institutes. archive.dhinstitutes.org NEH Institutes for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities. March 2017 to present.
Project Director, The Algorithm and the Urn: Distant Reading Against the Grain. PSC-CUNY Research Award, 2017.
Co-Director of DH Community Development, Learning in the Public Square: An Open Platform for Humanities Education. NEH Implementation Grant, 2016-2018.
Co-Principal Investigator. PressForward 3: Establishing Sustainable Platforms and Communities of Open-Access Scholarship pressforward.org, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2015.
Co-Principal Investigator. PressForward 2: Implementing New Modes and New Platforms of Open-Access Scholarship. pressforward.org, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2014-2015.
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Experience
Public Interest Technology (DHUM/DADV 78000) The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY, Fall 2023.
Texts in Context. (MALS 70000) The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY. Spring 2020.
Methods of Text Analysis / Feminist Text Analysis (MADH 72500) The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY. Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2023
Archival Encounters (MADH 77600) The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY. Spring 2019, Fall 2020 co-taught with Duncan Faherty
Digital Humanities Methods and Practices (MALS 75500) The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY. Spring 2017.
Introduction to the Digital Humanities (MALS 75400) The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY Fall 2016.
Introduction to Academic Writing (ENGL 101) University of Maryland :Fall 1998, Fall 1999, Spring 2000, Summer 2004, Summer 2005 – 9 sections
Introduction to Poetry (ENGL 243) University of Maryland ,Fall 2002, Fall 2003 – 4 sections
Introduction to American Literature 1865-Present (ENGL 222) University of Maryland Spring 2003 – 2 sections
