This lab engages students in cultural analysis anchored in the theories and pedagogy of digital humanties. Building on Dr. Kim Gallon's vision of digital humanities as a “technology of recovery," our projects explore cultural and historical moments that have been lost or silenced. The overarching goal of the lab is to illuminate what Saidiya Hartman has described as "beautiful experiments," everyday practices that create pleasure and purpose even within environments of constraint.

Quilt by Mary Lee Bendolph, 2002

Happening Now

Beauty Is A Method Project

In a 2019 essay, Christina Sharpe asked us to consider "what beauty as a method might mean or do: what it might break open, rupture, make possible and impossible." This project explores some possibilities

Portrait of Abner Coker,

Happening Now

Joshua Johnson's Baltimore

After achieving his freedom in 1782, Joshua Johnson established a successful portrait painting business, describing himself in advertising as a "self-taught genius." This project explores the social world behind the paintings.

contact information 

The Limner Lab is coordinated by Nina Brown
Community College of Baltimore County, nbrown2 at ccbcmd.edu