Cassandra Hradil is an artist, educator, and organizer. She is the assistant director for teaching and pedagogy at the African-American Digital and Experimental Humanities Lab and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her work finds practical and creative ways to make data and computation more approachable, while also digging into the histories, materialities, and subjectivities that shape our computational experiences. Cassandra's latest research focuses on the historical and contemporary relationship between textiles and computing technologies, with outputs ranging from essays to zines to swatches of knitted fabric. Her writing has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, The Journal of Interactive Pedagogy and Technology, Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship, Urgency Reader, and TheWrong Biennale.
Cassandra is a proud member and director of organizing at United Academics Maryland (AAUP-AFT), the union for all faculty at UMD College Park. She holds an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design.
