HTLab: Telling Intercultural Tales

The Digital Storytelling project Intercultural Tales began in 2015 with a desire for connection. UMBC professors Dr. Tania Lizarazo and Dr. Thania Muñoz D. wanted to use storytelling in their community-engaged scholarship, but also sought to build personal relationships in their newfound city of Baltimore. Their collaborative project, funded by a Hrabowski Innovation Fund Grant, teaches UMBC students how to craft digital stories about their communities--stories of immigration, identity, and belonging.

In this virtual HT Lab, Drs. Lizarazo and Muñoz D. will teach participants how to use digital stories as part of a community-building exercise in the context of online learning.

Participants will explore three fundamental stages of digital storytelling: 

Please register for this HTLab by Monday, September 21. You will be sent a link to the Google Meet session prior to the lab. Questions? Contact Ally Kocerhan at alko1@umbc.edu. 

Dr. Tania Lizarazo is an Assistant Professor at UMBC contributing to the Global Studies Program, the Spanish Area, and the MA in Intercultural Communication. She is Affiliate Faculty of Gender, Women’s + Sexuality Studies, and Language, Literacy & Culture. Her research interests include digital storytelling, Latin American cultural studies, transnational feminisms and performance studies. 

Dr. Thania Muñoz D. is an Assistant Professor of Spanish, Latin American literature and Latinx studies at UMBC, core faculty of the INCC MA program, Affiliate Faculty of Language, Literacy and Culture and  Gender + Women’s Studies. She is interested in Spanish-language materials that focus on immigration from Latin America to the United States, from the 20th Century to the present.