Amy S. Li ☚

communications specialist and science fiction expert

  • About Amy ⇣
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  • Teaching and Pedagogy ⇣
    • Shelley, Atwood, Le Guin
    • Diversity in Science Fiction
    • Food, Feelings & Film
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communications specialist and science fiction expert

About Amy

Amy S. Li, PhD, is currently the Communications Specialist postdoctoral fellow (2020-2021) at the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS). She graduated with her PhD in English (with a focus on science fiction and embodiment) in May 2020. She was previously the 2019-2020 Emory Libraries/ECDS Graduate Fellow in Digital Humanities, and she graduated from Cornell University in 2014 with a B.A. in English, a B.A. in Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, and a minor in Music.

Born in Boston, she grew up in Ithaca, NY, and now resides in Atlanta, GA.

Her research interests include science fiction literature and media, with a particular focus on gender, feminism, disability, race, and embodiment (e.g. the portrayal of female bodies and representation of prosthetics in cyberpunk literature). Her dissertation project analyzes Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), episodes from the television shows Orphan Black (2013-2017) and Black Mirror (2011-present), the cyberpunk short stories of William Gibson and “porridge sf” stories of Xia Jia, and hit films Ex Machina (2014) and Get Out (2017). See Research page for more information.

She has taught three courses in the English department at Emory: ENG210W: Major Authors – “Shelley, Atwood, Le Guin”; ENG181: Writing About Literature – “Diversity in Science Fiction”; and ENG101: Expository Writing – “Food, Feelings, & Film.” See Teaching page for more information.

As the 2019-2020 Digital Humanities Fellow for Emory Libraries and Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, she worked on a project to digitize punk fanzines from the Stuart A. Rose Library‘s Atlanta Punk Periodical collection. She was also an Associate Editor of Atlanta Studies, an online, open-access peer-reviewed journal. 

From 2018-2020 she served as the ECDS Social Media Coordinator, managing the center’s social media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn) which she still maintains as the ECDS Communications Specialist. In this 2020-2021 postdoctoral fellowship role, she handles internal and external communications and digital outreach. She also writes, edits, publishes, and makes/edits graphics for the ECDS blog. From 2017-2019 she worked as a digital scholarship assistant at the ECDS, where she successfully completed her digital scholarship internship and provided walk-in consultation help with video editing (Final Cut Pro, iMovie, Adobe Premiere Pro), podcast and audio editing (Audacity), graphics and photo editing (Adobe Photoshop), website design (WordPress), and other digital scholarship/pedagogical projects for Emory faculty, students, and staff.

In her spare time she has self-published a free monthly zine called RIOT GRRRD, available in print and digital form (request past editions at: riotgrrrd@hotmail.com), which focuses on subversive and collaborative media, music, art, and politics. She has also co-created a popular education/educational entertainment project called “Badaptations” which analyzes book-to-film adaptations. See Projects page for more information.

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Amy S. Li, PhD, is the Communications Specialist postdoctoral fellow (2020-2021) at the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS). In May 2020 she graduated with her PhD in English from Emory University, where her primary research focus was on representations of embodiment in science fiction. She has taught several courses on science fiction literature/film and diversity.

As the ECDS Communications Specialist she manages the center’s social media platforms and oversees communications strategies for the center. She writes, edits, publishes, and designs graphics for posts on the ECDS blog. As a former digital scholarship intern and assistant at the ECDS, she has facilitated consultations with Emory faculty, students, and staff.

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Past Courses

  • ENG 210W (Major Authors): Shelley, Atwood, Le Guin (Spring 2019)
  • ENG 181 (Writing About Literature): Diversity in Science Fiction (Spring 2017)
  • ENG 101: Food, Feelings & Film (Fall 2016)

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