Margy Adams

Marguerite (Margy) Adams is a Black feminist literary scholar, Centennial Scholar, and PhD candidate in the department of English at Emory University. She combines Black performance theory, sound studies, and humor studies to investigate literary and cultural constructions of race, queerness, gender, and language in Black American and Afro-Caribbean literature, giving specific attention to how knowledge is produced through and around laughter. As a digital and public humanist, Margy’s scholarship also considers the ways digital technologies cohere with Black compositional practices and what their practical interfaces reveal. Margy works at Emory’s Center for Digital Scholarship as a digital scholarship associate with specializations in aural and visual design, and she also co-created and co-runs Emory’s Black Feminist Working Group.