Steering Committee Members 2026-2027
Amalia Herrmann, Chair
Amalia Herrmann is Digital Pedagogy Coordinator and a Senior Continuing Lecturer in Humanities Core, UCI's year-long, writing-intensive introduction to the Humanities for first-year students. She helps develop curricular materials and collaborative teaching practices with a focus on critical digital literacies, digital humanities pedagogy, and digital accessibility.
Braxton Soderman
Braxton Soderman is an associate professor in the Film and Media Studies department. Soderman's book Against Flow: Video Games and the Flowing Subject critically examines the use of psychological flow theory within video games. His second book, Intellivision: How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted Barbie, with UCI Professor Tom Boellstorff, tells the story of the Intellivision game system (1979-1984).
Haerin Do, DHX Graduate Student Fellow
Haerin Do is a Ph.D. candidate in Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her research examines modern and contemporary Korean art and digital media studies with a particular focus on Nam June Paik’s largely understudied laser works from the mid-1990s through the early 2000s. While working for Nam June Paik Art Center in South Korea, she contributed a chapter, “Laser Experiments at Baroque Lab,” for the exhibition catalog and curated the VR exhibition Exposition of Music, Do It Together.
SueJeanne Koh, Humanities Center
