About
Katelin Ten
Scholar·
Artist·
Designer
Katelin is a multidisciplinary scholar-artist, architectural designer, and instructor focusing on Black diasporic methodologies and artifacts in the Technosciences. Based in New York City.
Leadership & Program Development
Research & Professional Experience
Approach
Building expressive, community-centered spaces at the intersection of Black studies, digital humanities, and hands-on making. Moving from abstract frameworks toward analysis grounded in material conditions — mapping real constraints and lived experience rather than theorizing from a distance.
Mediums &
Areas of
Inquiry
AR / VR / XR
Electronic Literature
Archival Practice
Creative Computing
Digital Storytelling
Fabrication & Making
Web Development
Data & Media Studies
Zine-making
Visual Branding
Carpentry & Robotics
Curatorial Work
Technical
Skills
HTML · CSS · JavaScript · Python 3
Figma · Adobe XD · Premiere Pro
Lens Studio · Twine · RiTa.js
GitHub · Notion · Powertools
Microsoft Office · Slack
Robotics · Carpentry · UI/UX Design
Writing
Beauticians as Cultural Engineers — Essay · anteaesthetics · media studies
CP Time: Blackness and the Articulations of Space-Time in African American Literature and Culture — National McNair Conference, UMD (2023)
Research on cultural memory, survival strategies, and Black temporality — McNair Summer Research Institute Symposium (2021–2022)
Education &
Affiliations
University of Maryland, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences — May 2023
Bachelor of Arts, African American Studies · College Park, MD
McNair Scholar, Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program — Initiated 2021
Rutgers English Diversity Institute Fellow (REDI) — Initiated 2023
Member, The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) — Initiated 2024
Affiliate Faculty, Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute (AIM), UMD — Initiated 2025
Terms
Created &
Redefined
Digital Storytelling (2024)
Computational Literacy (2025)
CP Time (2024)
Awarded By
Rutgers University English Diversity Institute Fellow (2023)
Alford Family Scholarship in Honor of Val Skeeter (2022)
The John B. and Ida Slaughter Fellowship (2022)
McNair Scholar (2021)
Distinguished Dean's List of Outstanding Students (2020–2022)
Keywords
Digital and Techno-science(s) · Black Literary and Cultural History · Media Studies · Energy & Environmental Humanities · Design · Digital & Data Storytelling · Afrofuturism · Carceral Studies · African Diasporic E-Lit · Creative Computing · Abolitionist Practice
Talks &
Presentations
Invited Guest Lecturer — ENGL759F:
Computers Killed the Creative Writing Star
Presenter at National McNair Conference, UMD (2023)
McNair Summer Research Institute Symposium (2021–2022)
DH 2024 — Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Annual Conference
Teaching the Arts in the Age of A.I. — Symposium
Teaching
Invited Guest Lecturer:
ENGL759F: Computers Killed the Creative Writing Star
DH Teaching Assistant:
HIST 419O / AASP 478G: Plants & Diaspora
ENGL378W: Deep Time: Memory, Media & Ecological Imagination
ENGL295: Introduction to Digital Storytelling and Poetics
ENGL378P: Videogames and the Boundaries of Narrative
Collaborations
Witness Unhurried
Christiana — Sharpness and Duty
Virtual exhibit & reading featuring Nikki Finney
Agua de Coco — Yereni Butcher
WOVEN DIASPORA — Tekoa Sultan-Reisler
Carla J. Thomas McGinnis