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Alex Gil serves as Senior Lecturer II and Associate Research Faculty of Digital Humanities in Yale University's Department of Spanish and Portuguese, where he teaches digital humanities courses and leads project-based learning initiatives. Previously, he spent ten years as Digital Scholarship Librarian at Columbia University, co-founding the Butler Studio and the Group for Experimental Methods in Humanistic Research.
His research centers on Caribbean culture and history through digital humanities lenses, with specialized focus on technology design for varied infrastructural and socio-economic contexts. He critically examines ownership models and material preservation of cultural/scholarly records, advocating for equitable digital scholarship practices that address infrastructural disparities in knowledge production.
Gil actively shapes the field as senior editor of archipelagos journal, internationalization editor for Digital Humanities Quarterly, and co-organizer of The Caribbean Digital conference series. His grant leadership includes the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective, which supports collaborative research across the region.
He has significantly contributed to major digital humanities projects including Torn Apart/Separados (migrant detention analysis), In The Same Boats (Caribbean diaspora mapping), and Wax (digital publishing platform), while preparing a forthcoming critical edition of Aimé Césaire's "…..Et les chiens se taisaient" for Duke University Press.
