EDUCATION

2023 Ph.D. Digital Media Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA

Visual Culture, Digital Visual Culture, New Media, Black Feminist Thought, Postphenomenology

PUBLICATIONS

Zhao, Yuchen, Brandy J. Pettijohn, Amanda Y. Wang, Daniel P. Keehn, Angela Dai, Joy Dang, Janet H. Murray. “Exploring Location-based AR Narrative Design for Historic Sites.” Presence: Presence: Virtual and Augmented Reality Special Issue on Immersive Visual Storytelling. MIT Press. 2023.

Pettijohn, Brandy. “Applying Black Feminist Technopractice in Digital Storytelling at Cultural Sites”. 2022. International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS).

Bosley, Brooke, Takeria Blunt, Jihan Sherman, Brandy Pettijohn, Britney Johnson, Amber G. Johnson, Blaire Bosley, Susana M. Morris, Andre Brock. 2022. “Bringing Black Feminist’s Thoughts, Self-Definitions, and Creative Agency to Digital Media and Technology Design”. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

IN PROGRESS

Pettijohn, Brandi. “Black Feminist Art as Black Feminist Technopractice,” De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Scholarship: DS/DH at the Kitchen Table, edited by Anne Cong-Huyen & Kim Knight

Pettijohn, Brandy. “Black Feminist Postphenomenological Analysis of Cultural Sites" Feminist Postphenomenology, edited by Robert Rosenberger et al.

2023 - 2024 Postdoctoral Fellow: Literature, Media, and Communications

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

2021 - 2023 Research Assistant: Pickrick: An Augmented Reality Experience, Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

2022 Research Assistant: Project on Rhetorics of Equity, Access, Computation, and Humanities Lab

Georgia Institute of Technology

2021-2022 Research Assistant: Earthseed Afrofuturist Lab

Georgia Institute of Technology

2021 Interactive Mapping Research Consultant

Spelman College

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2024 Instruct of Record - School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology

LMC 3451 - Race, Gender & Digital Media

2022 Graduate Teaching Assistant - School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology, Lorraine, France

LMC 3318 - Graduate Teaching Assistant - School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Biomedicine and Culture

LMC 3402 - Graduate Teaching Assistant - School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Graphic & Visual Design

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2024

American Studies Association (ASA) - “Troubling the binary of trauma and resistance by visualizing the in-between-ness of the Black mundane in digital visual culture”

Disco Summit - University of Michigan

Topic: “Legibility and Community in Digital Studies”

Topic: “Digital Black Feminist Pleasure and Pain Online”

2023

American Studies Association (ASA) - “Building Digital Networks of Knowledge and Care: DISCO Scholars in Conversation”

International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS) - “Applying Black Feminist Technopractice in Digital Storytelling at Cultural Sites.”

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies South (a SEWSA Legacy) - Black Feminist Radical Remembering – The Design of Cultural Memory Spaces in a Time of Gentrification

2021

Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) - with Brooke Bosley & Dr. Susana Morris - A Different Archive: Honoring Cultural Memory in COVID-19

Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference - “Seeing Yourself Die - The Spectacle of Black Death in Hollywood Cinema”

2020

IAC Graduate Student Conference - “Networked Publics, Viral Stories, and The Birth Justice MovemenT

CERTIFICATIONS

2022

Center for Teaching and Learning Certification

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

ASSOCIATIONS SERVICE

2025 Studio Museum of Harlem - Educators Practicum

Art Papers - Writing and Publishing Symposium

Association of African American Museums Conference

2023 - PRESENT American Studies Association Conference (Lifetime Member)

2019 - 2023 National Women’s Studies Association Conference

2019 - 2023 Institute on Teaching & Mentoring Conference, Southern Regional Education Board

2023 Association of Internet Reachers Conference

2022 International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS)

2021 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference

INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE

2024 Spelman College - Staff Strategic Plan Focus Group Member

2023 Georgia Institute of Technology - Graduate Writing Group Lead

2022 Georgia Institute of Technology - Co-Founder - Black Women in Tech Speaker Series, with Dean Kaye Husbands Fealings, Dean of Ivan Allen College

2021 Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts - Graduate Student Advisory Board Member