About If, Then
Started during the fall of 2020, If, Then: Technology and Poetics is a working group and workshop series that meets monthly over Zoom. In this space, we bring together writers, coders, and scholars investigating the relationships between humans and machines and the works of art, literature, and visual knowledge they produce together. Our group is interdisciplinary and interinstitutional, consisting of faculty, staff, and graduate students from departments ranging from English to Architecture to Computer Science, alongside independent scholars, poets, and creative practitioners and technologists. Check out our archive of past sessions here.
Who We Are
If, Then-ers at the January 2022 Open MicDr. Carly Schnitzler is the founder and co-director of If, Then and a lecturer in the University Writing Program at Johns Hopkins. Her teaching and research center on digital rhetoric, creative computation, and the public humanities. Drop her a line at cschnit1 [at] jh [dot] edu!
Dr. Lillian-Yvonne Bertram joined If, Then as a co-director in the spring of 2021, after hosting the group’s first large event the previous fall. They direct the MFA program at the University of Maryland College Park and their books include Negative Money, Travesty Generator and But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise.