Karen McCarthy joined the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship as an educational analyst, instructional designer, and technologist. Although her office is in ECDS, she is working with the National Ebola Training and Education Center.
Karen has worked in one capacity or another at the ECDS for about 2.5 years, as everything from graduate student intern, to digital humanities fellow, to digital special projects coordinator.
Born in Ypsilanti, MI (that’s IP-suh-lan-tee, *not* YIP-suh-lan-tee), Karen says, “Now that I’ve lived in Atlanta, you’ll never make me go back to Northern winters.”
All of Karen’s degrees are in philosophy. She received her BA (with a women’s studies minor) from Eastern Michigan University, her MA (thesis title: The World in Common: Hannah Arendt, Jean-Luc Nancy, and a Re-Housing of the Political Self) from the University of Toledo (OH), and her second MA from Emory University, where she is finished with everything but her dissertation.
Karen likes to buy yarn with the intention of knitting things, and she also enjoys reading detective novels by women set in the inter-war years in London about women who solve crimes while being members of a profession not ordinarily open to women at that time. “This does not limit my options nearly as much as one would think,” she said.
Karen’s favorite obscure fact is that she was a member of the Wizard Rock Album of the Month Club for two consecutive years.
“I consider myself incredibly lucky to have this opportunity,” said Karen. “The people I work with are fantastic as co-workers and people. It’s because of Emory, and LITS in specific, that I have found what is a dream career in a fun, collaborative, and amazingly supportive environment.”
You can reach her at Karen [dot] L [dot] McCarthy [at] emory [dot] edu
Leave a Reply