Research

transformative research

Community Engaged Research

My research explores the relationship between digital technologies, community engagement, and social justice issues using two central approaches: 1) critiquing cultural practices involving digital tools and 2) developing ethical frameworks for using digital technologies.

Software Extensions

“Multilingual” Omeka S theme. Ivy Rose (developer), Christina Boyles (project manager), Andrew Boyles Petersen (technical director). Theme provides for switchable multilingual sites, accessibility functionality, and improved CSS and other stylistic adaptability.

“Transcript” Omeka S module. Ivy Rose (developer), Christina Boyles (project manager), Andrew Boyles Petersen (technical director). Module allows for easy embedding of Vimeo videos, providing an interactive transcript UI, higher resolution video thumbnails, and improved accessibility.

“SimplePDF” Omeka S module. Ivy Rose (developer), Christina Boyles (project manager), Andrew Boyles Petersen (technical director). Module provides a document viewer for PDF files with a key focus on accessibility, allowing for screen reader usage in multiple languages and accessible PDFs.

“Page Blocks” Omeka S module. Ivy Rose (developer), Christina Boyles (project manager), Andrew Boyles Petersen (technical director). Module provides additional modular, customizable page elements for site designers.

“WebVTT Timing Duplicator”. App. Ivy Rose (developer), Christina Boyles (project manager), Andrew Boyles Petersen (technical director). App automates the conversion of VTT files from English to Spanish. Doing so results in interactive, bilingual transcripts for each oral history.

Refereed Journal Articles

“Post-custodial Praxis: Building Shared Context Through Decolonial Archiving.” Scholarly Editing. (2022). Authors: Christina Boyles, Andy Boyles Petersen, Elisa Landaverde, and Robin Dean. [link]

“dLOC as Practice: Decolonial Approaches to Listening and Remembering.” archipelagos.  (2022). Authors: Christina Boyles and Ricia Chansky. [link]

“Power and Precarity: Lessons from the Makers by Mail Project.” Digital Humanities Quarterly. 16.2 (Spring 2022). Authors: Christina Boyles and Andy Boyles Petersen. [link]

“Resilience, Recovery, and Refusal: The (Un)tellable Narratives of post-María Puerto Rico.” enculturation. 32 (2020): n.p. [link]

“Makers by Mail.” Reviews in Digital Humanities. 1.6 (July 2020): n.p. Authors: Christina Boyles and Andy Boyles Petersen. [link]

“The Puerto Rico Disaster Archive: Preserving the Cultural Legacy of Puerto Rico.” Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities. (Spring 2020): n.p. [link]

“Finding Fault with Foucault: Teaching Surveillance in the Digital Humanities.” The Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy (JITP). 16 (2019): n.p. [link]

“Writing Water, Writing Life: Silko as Environmental Activist.” Studies in American Indian Literatures. 30.2 (Spring 2019): 10-35. [proofs]

“Water is Life: Ecologies of Writing and Indigeneity.” Studies in American Indian Literatures. 30.2 (Spring 2019): 5-9. Authors: Christina Boyles and Hilary Wyss. [proofs]

“Precarious Labor in the Digital Humanities.” American Quarterly. 70.3 (Fall 2018): 693-700. Authors: Christina Boyles, Anne Cong-Huyen, Carrie Johnston, Jim McGrath, and Amanda Phillips. [proofs]

“Making and Breaking: Teaching Information Ethics through Curatorial Practice.” Digital Humanities Quarterly. 12.4 (Winter 2018): n.p. [link]

“Masochists and ‘Moonbrains’: The Rhetoric of Humor in Plath’s The Bell Jar.” Plath Profiles. 8.1 (Autumn 2015): 25-30. [proofs]

“The Duality of Seeing ‘Darkly’: Analyzing Bergman’s Karin in Through a Glass Darkly.” South Central Review. 31.1 (Spring 2014): 17-33. [proofs]

“‘…And the Gulf did not Devour Them…’: The Gulf as a Site of Transformation in Kingsolver’s The Lacuna and Anzaldúa’s Borderlands.” Southern Literary Journal. 46.2 (Spring 2014). 193-207. [proofs]

Refereed Book Chapters

“Graduate Student and Faculty Development in Multimodal Composing.” Professionalizing Multimodal Composition: Faculty and Institutional Initiatives. Eds. Shyam B. Pandy and Santosh Khadka. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2022. Authors: Wilfredo Flores, Teresa Williams, Christina Boyles, Kristin Arola, and Dànielle Nicole DeVoss. [forthcoming]

“Operationalizing Surveillance Studies in the Digital Humanities.” Debates in the Digital Humanities 2022. Eds. Matthew K. Gold and Lauren Klein. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. Authors: Christina Boyles, Andy Boyles Petersen, and Arun Jacob. [forthcoming]

“How to Multimodal: An Institutional-Infrastructural Exploration.” Multimodal Composition: Faculty Development Programs and Institutional Change. Eds. Shyam B. Pandy and Santosh Khadka. L:ondon: Routledge, 2021. Authors: Andrew Boyles Petersen, Christina Boyles, and Dànielle Nicole DeVoss.

“Intersectionality and Infrastructure: Toward a Critical Digital Humanities.” People, Practice, Power: Digital Humanities outside the Center. Eds. Siobhan Siener, Angel Nieves, and Anne McGrail. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021.

“Manifesto on Student-driven Research.” People, Practice, Power: Digital Humanities outside the Center. Eds. Siobhan Siener, Angel Nieves, and Anne McGrail. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. Authors: Chelsea Miya, Laura Gerlitz, Kaitlyn Grant, Maryse Ndilu Kiese, Mengchi Sun, and Christina Boyles.

“Counting the Costs: Funding Feminism in the Digital Humanities.” Feminist Debates in the Digital Humanities. Eds. Jacqueline Wernimont and Liz Losh. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018: 93-107. [proofs]

Refereed Lesson Plans

“Project Meme: Rethinking Composition in the Classroom.” Pupil Online Journal: Composition across the Disciplines. 1.1 (Fall 2013): 76-80. [link]