Amy E. Earhart is Associate Professor of English and affiliated faculty of Africana Studies at Texas A&M University. A 2020 Texas A&M University Presidential Impact Fellow and a 2019 Texas A&M University Arts & Humanities Fellow, Earhart has participated in grants and fellowships received from the NEH, ACLS, and the Mellon Foundation. In 2020, Earhart received a NEH-Mellon Fellowship for Digital Publication for her book length digital project “Digital Humanities and the Infrastructures of Race in African-American Literature.” Post tenure she has taught 6 graduate and 48 undergraduate courses, many of which incorporate high impact learning experiences, and her teaching has been recognized by the Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award-Teaching and the Montague-CTE Scholar Teaching Award. Her teaching extends beyond the university classroom, with outreach to support middle and high school teachers and the larger community. Throughout her time at A&M, she has actively served her department, the college and the university, as well as her profession through local, national, and international service.
Involved with digital humanities scholarship since 2003, Earhart’s scholarship has focused on examining infrastructures of technology and their impact and replication of “race,” building infrastructure for digital humanities work, embedding digital humanities projects within the classroom, and tracing the history and futures of dh, with a particular interest in the way that dh and Black studies intersect. Her digital projects are constructed to expand access to Black humanities materials, as is the case with projects The Millican Massacre, 1868, DIBB: The Digital Black Bibliographic Project, and “Alex Haley’s Malcolm X: ‘The Malcolm X I knew’ and notecards from The Autobiography of Malcolm X” (a collaborative project with undergraduate and graduate students published in Scholarly Editing).
Earhart has published scholarship on a variety of digital humanities topics, with work that includes a monographs Digital Literary Redlining: African American Anthologies, Digital Humanities, and the Canon (Stanford UP 2025), Traces of Old, Uses of the New: The Emergence of Digital Literary Studies (U Michigan Press 2015), a co-edited collection The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age (U Michigan Press 2010), and a number of articles and book chapters in volumes including the Debates in Digital Humanities series, DHQ, DSH: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Digital Studies/Le champ numérique, and Textual Cultures.
She is at work on a monograph "The Millican Massacre: Networked Racial Violence and Archival Restitution.”