Nadejda I. Webb (she/her/they) is the Assistant Director of LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Center for Digital Humanities. She recently founded the We Live Language (WLL) lab within Black Beyond Data, a Computational Humanities and Social Sciences ecosystem. The WLL lab is centered on the writings and spoken word of Afro-diasporic poets, authors, and philosophers, exploring the intricate relationship between language and power.

Webb’s teaching and research interests encompass 20th and 21st-century African-American and Post-Colonial literature, as well as digital humanities, imaginaries, and belonging.

Webb’s research has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the American Council of Learned Societies, Columbia University’s Center for Oral History, the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins, the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, and Vanderbilt University.

She holds a B.A. in English Language and Literature from CUNY Hunter College and a joint Ph.D. in English and Comparative Media Analysis and Practice from Vanderbilt.