Today’s conversation is with Marisa Parham, who teaches in the Department of English at University of Maryland where she is also Director of African American and Experimental Digital Humanities and Associate Director of Maryland Institute for Technology and the Humanities. Along with numerous articles in scholarly and public facing venues, she is the author of Haunting and Displacement in African American Literature and Culture and co-editor of Theorizing Glissant: Sites and Citations. In this conversation, we discuss the formation of Black Studies between and beyond disciplines, the relation between skill acquisition and expressive culture in the field, and the centrality of collaborative, experimental work in the study of Black life.