About

Amy E. Earhart is an Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University, with a focus on digital humanities, examining the impact of technology on 'race' and its replication, and building digital humanities infrastructure. Her work intersects with Black studies and aims to expand access to Black humanities materials.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Political Science
• Social Science
• Art
• Humanities
• Psychology
• Geography
• Art history
• Law
• Social psychology

Selected publications

• DALA, The Database of African American and Predominantly White American Literature Anthologies

  Journal of Open Humanities Data · 2025-01-01

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  DALA collects over 100 years of American and African American literature anthology data. Focusing on author inclusion, the data includes gender and race designations of authors and their inclusion in literary anthologies to chart the shifting literary canon over time. Originally constructed in Google Sheets, the data is reposited as .csv files at the Texas Data Repository and will be of use for scholars interested in author reputation, the canon, and gender and identity questions. The dataset allows researchers to track individual authors and editors as well as identity trends across all generalist American and African American literature anthologies.

  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• Bringing Response to Intervention and Professional Development Together

  Scholars' Bank (University of Oregon) · 2021-09-13

  dissertationOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  This descriptive, exploratory case study examined changes in teacher understanding and practice after completing fourteen online, self-paced professional development modules. The modules included instruction on response to intervention, data-based decision making, and reading instruction from the easyCBM® Data for RTI project. The two-year study included 39 kindergarten through fifth grade teachers and two elementary school reading specialists from a semi-rural school district in the Pacific Northwest. Some participants completed the training twice, returning as repeat participants in the second year. Data were collected via pre- and post-tests of the T-RTI (a test of teacher knowledge and skills related to the implementation of Response to Intervention), focus groups, and repeated surveys made up of open-ended narrative-response questions. Teacher response to the format and content of the lessons was overwhelmingly positive, and they recommended that all school staff complete the professional development to improve instruction and provide common language and understanding of response to intervention in schools. Recommendations for future research include examining the connection between teacher completion of the lessons and student outcomes.

  Publisher

• ENGL 393/AFST 393: Africana Literature and Culture: Digital Diaspora

  OakTrust (Texas A&M University Libraries) · 2021-03-11

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  In the 1990s we heard much of the democratization of knowledge emerging from the developing
\ntechnological infrastructure, particularly the emerging internet. There was great hope that the
\nfree access materials on the web would allow those previously cut off from intellectual capitol to
\ngain materials and knowledge that might be leveraged to change social position. As we move
\ninto web 2.0, however, it is increasingly clear that the digital divide apparent in technology
\nclearly replicates the divisions existing in society. Projects as diverse as openJournals and the
\nOne Laptop per Child seek to address the disparities, but it is clear that many of the same
\nchallenge are alive and well in the digital age. In addition, the academic and museum
\ncommunities’ decisions about what is digitized and how it is digitized continue to enforce such
\ndisparities. This is particularly apparent when we examine the way in which representative
\nliterature of the African Diaspora is digitized.This course will look at the previously mentioned issues within the context of the African
\nDiaspora. The course will explore the digital divide within the diasporic community, looking at
\nthe way in which infrastructure issues, such as wireless and laptop accessibility, impact access to
\ninformation. We will then examine the way in which cultural artifacts are digitized, paying
\nparticular attention to a diverse group of objects that represent the cultural heritage of the African
\nDiaspora, from Literary Renaissance, to the Slave Trade, to Resistance movements. In addition
\nto these explorations, we will consider the way in which community is both challenged and
\nexpanded with such developments.

  Publisher

• The Digital Black Atlantic

  Debates in the digital humanities · 2021 · 17 citations

  • Geography

  This timely collection of essays about the relationship between digital humanities and Black Atlantic studies offers critical insights into race, migration, media, and scholarly knowledge production. It spans the African diaspora’s range—from Africa to North America, Europe, and the Caribbean—while its essayists span academic fields—from history and literary studies to musicology, game studies, and library and information studies.

  PublisherDOI

• An Editorial Turn:

  University of Minnesota Press eBooks · 2021-03-16

  editorial1st authorCorresponding
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• Citational politics: Quantifying the influence of gender on citation in <i>Digital Scholarship in the Humanities</i>

  Digital Scholarship in the Humanities · 2020 · 12 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Sociology
  • Humanities
  • Political Science

  Abstract Using citation analysis, we consider the role of gender in citation practices in conference special issues of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. Our examination of citations in Digital Humanities conference special issues from 2006 to 2015 demonstrates gender bias in citational practices. This bias is consistent with broader trends in citational politics across the academy more broadly but is a threat to equity and justice within the scholarly community. We further offer proposals for improving citational practices to resist gender bias. Quantifying the impact of gender on citations, we argue, is one approach to understanding gender inequalities within digital humanities communities and to generating solutions to promote the broadest representation of digital humanities scholarship in scholarly communications.

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• Review: Women of the Early Harlem Renaissance

  2020

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Art
  • Art history
  PublisherDOI

• Bauer, Ralph, gen. ed. Early Americas Digital Archive

  Renaissance and Reformation · 2020-04-30

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding
  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• Bodies of Information

  Debates in the digital humanities · 2019-01-01 · 15 citations

  book

  Can the digital humanities complicate the basic assumptions of tech culture, or will this body of scholarship and practices simply reinforce preexisting biases? *Bodies of Information* addresses this question by assembling a varied group of leading voices, showcasing feminist contributions to topics including ubiquitous computing, game studies, new materialisms, and cultural phenomena like hashtag activism, hacktivism, and campaigns against online misogyny.

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• Digital Humanities Within a Global Context: Creating Borderlands of Localized Expression

  Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences · 2018-04-10 · 14 citations

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding
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Frequent coauthors

• Sarah Potvin

  5 shared

• Maura Ives

  Texas A&M University

  5 shared

• Roopika Risam

  Dartmouth College

  5 shared

• Angel David Nieves

  University of Maine

  4 shared

• Toniesha L. Taylor

  Texas Southern University

  4 shared

• Jesse Karlsberg

  Emory University

  3 shared

• Rebecca Hankins

  3 shared

• Lauren Tilton

  3 shared

Education

• Ph.D., English

  Texas A&M University

• M.A., English

  Texas A&M University

• B.A., English

  Texas A&M University

Awards & honors

• 2020 Texas A&M University Presidential Impact Fellow
• 2019 Texas A&M University Arts & Humanities Fellow
• Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Awa…
• Montague-CTE Scholar Teaching Award