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2026 Participants: Martin Bartelmus * David M. Berry * Gregory Bringman * David Cao * Claire Carroll * Sean Cho Ayres * Hunmin Choi * Jongchan Choi * Lyr Colin * Dan Cox * Christina Cuneo * Orla Delaney * Adrian Demleitner * Pierre Depaz * Mehulkumar Desai * Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal * Koundinya Dhulipalla * Kevin Driscoll * Iain Emsley * Leonardo Flores * Jordan Freitas * Aide Violeta Fuentes Barron * Erika Fülöp * Tiffany Fung * Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo * Gregor Große-Bölting * Dennis Jerz * Joey Jones * Titaÿna Kauffmann * Haley Kinsler * Charu Maithani * Judy Malloy * Eon Meridian * Collier Nogues * Stefano Penge * Marta Perez-Campos * Arpita Rathod * Abby Rinaldi * Ari Schlesinger * Carly Schnitzler * Arthur Schwarz * Haerin Shin * Jongbeen Song * Harlin/Hayley Steele * Daniel Temkin * Zach Whalen * Zijian Xia * Waliya Yohanna * Zachary Mann
CCSWG 2026 is coordinated by Lyr Colin-Pacheco (USC), Jeremy Douglass (UCSB), and Mark C. Marino (USC). Sponsored by the Humanities and Critical Code Studies Lab (USC), the Transcriptions Lab (UCSB), and the Digital Arts and Humanities Commons (UCSB).
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Please reply here with a brief introduction of yourself and your interests in Critical Code Studies. Some of us are first-timers, others have been attending since 2010. In addition to your general profile, consider briefly sharing new publications or projects, new ideas in progress, or simply new questions. Feel free to also give us a preview of a code critique you plan to post.
The "Introduce Yourself" thread is a great tradition of this Working Group. For a sense of everyone who has come before, browse the self-introductions from 2024, 2022, 2020, and 2018....
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I am Yohanna Joseph Waliya, a PhD Scholar at the University of Lagos. He obtained M.A. French Literature (Twitterature;Twitterbot poetry) at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. I am a Nigerian digital poet, distant writer, ludokinetic writer, novelist, playwright, python programmer, winner of the Janusz Korczak Prize for Global South 2020, Electronic Literature Organization Research Fellow, UNESCO Janusz Korczak Fellow 2020, Creator & Curator of MAELD and ADELD [2022 Emerging Open Scholarship Award: Honourable mention by The Canadian Social Knowledge Institute (C-SKI)], Executive Director of AELA& ADELI (https://african-elit.org ), International Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference on Web and Social Media [ICWSM ] Scholar 2021-2022, and HASTAC Scholar 2021-2023. He writes in English and French. Among his works are : La récolte de vie (play), Monde 2.0 (play), Hégémonie Disparue (novel), Quand l’Afrique se lèvera (novel), Homosalus (digital poetry), Momenta (digital poetry), @TinyKorczak (Twitterbot-poetry), Climatophosis (digital poetry: The best use of DH for Fun 2020), Inferno 2.0 (ludokinetic poetry) etc. I am also a lecturer at the Nigeria French Language Village, Ajara-Badagry, Lagos. My research interests cover distant writing, distant reading, digital poetry, Metaversal literature, Twitterbot-poetry, Twitterature, Digital Humanities and language discourse, training Artificial Intelligence to speak Nigerian Pidgin English. Presently I am researching Neurocomputational poetics and digital poetry. I have been attending CCSWG since 2018.