Sonya Donaldson, Ph.D. Email and Phone Number

African Diasporic Literatures, African American Literature, Digital Humanities, Music and Film StudiesRecipient of the Virginia Humanities Fellowship (2019); Visiting Scholar at the University of Virginia's Scholars' Lab (2019-2020).

I teach courses in World Literature and African Diasporic Literatures. Currently working on a book manuscript for publication. Recipient of the Career Enhancement Postdoctoral Fellowship (formerly the Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship) 2016-2017.

Conducting research toward the development of "Singing the Nation Into Being: Anthems and the Politics of Performance," a digital humanities project on James Weldon Johnson's "Lift Every Voice and Sing."

Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship for Junior Faculty

Visiting Assistant Professor of African Diasporic Literature; teaching Literature, Black Feminisms, Speculative Fiction.

Develop and write articles on the law and technology as they relate to corporate governance.

Taught courses in twentieth-century English literature and composition; designed and taught courses on African diasporic literatures, black feminisms, speculative fiction, and technology and culture.

Tech & Sensibility is a blog that examines the intersection of technology, education, business and culture. It emerged from my experience as a technology journalist and academic with a keen interest in the impact of tech on culture.

Aggregated content and wrote short articles on start-ups, innovation, and technology and the law for the online publication.

• Responsible for the magazine’s technology coverage.• Edited the monthly business tech section, Techwatch.• Develop ideas for feature articles across platforms.• Managed a diverse team of freelance writers.• Evaluated products and write reviews.• Wrote the monthly Cyberwise column.• Trained print and online staff in use of new-media technologies.• Hosted panel discussions for the BE’s annual entrepreneurs’ conference.• Appeared on Black Enterprise Business Report.• Wrote feature articles on a variety of topics (entertainment, medicine, etc.).

• Responsible for the magazine’s technology coverage. • Developed a small, in-house test lab for hardware and software evaluations and established magazine testing standards for reviews.• Evaluated products and wrote reviews.• Managed a diverse team of freelance writers.• Planned, coordinated, and hosted panel discussions at company’s annual entrepreneurs’ conference.• Guest on local and national television and radio programming.

• Responsible for small business and technology coverage.• Developed ideas for column and feature articles.• Managed a diverse group of freelance writers.

Copy Editor, Yahoo! Internet Life• Copy-edited articles for pop-culture/tech magazine.• Wrote clever captions and headers.1997-1998 Copy Editor, Windows Sources/WindowsPro magazine• Copy-edited articles for the technical publication.• Maintained consistent copy style.• Helped develop copy-editor’s guidelines.