Education

• Ph.D. in English literature, with focus in Queer Studies and Digital Humanities & Certificate in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (2019). The Graduate Center, The City University of New York (CUNY). 2023.
• M.A. in English Language and Literature, with focus on Modernist Literature and Digital Humanities. The University of Maryland. 2016.
• B.A. in English Language and Literature with minor in Art History. The Catholic University of America. 2011.

Experience

• Assistant Professor, School of Information, Pratt Institute. July 2024 - present.
• Digital Scholarship Specialist, Princeton University Library, Princeton University. August 2023 - June 2024.
• Advisor, MA Program in Digital Humanities, the Graduate Center, CUNY. 2021-2023.
• Lead Researcher, “Queerying Queer Archives,” Archives Unleashed Cohort program. June 2022-present
• Copy Editor, Feminist Digital Humanities, University of Minnesota Press. May 2021-August 2022
• Program Coordinator, The Digital Humanities Research Institute. May 2020-August 2021
• Digital Fellow, the Graduate Center Digital Initiatives, CUNY. August 2018 - May 2021

Publications

• Calado, Filipa. "Some Myths About Bias: A Queer Studies Reading Of Gender Bias In NLP." Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP), pages 338–346, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics. July 2025
• Calado, Filipa. "Re-encoding dominance: queer approaches to TEI markup" Digital Editing & Publishing in the 21^st Century. Ed. James O'Sullivan C21 Editions. April 2025.
• Calado, Filipa. "Encoding Queer Erasure in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray," in "Binary Modernisms: Re/Appropriations of Modernist Art in the Digital Age," special issue of Open Library of Humanities Journal, February 2022.
• Calado, Filipa. "Imagining What We Don’t Know:' Technological Ignorance as Condition for Learning," in The Journal for Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, May 2019.
• GCDI Digital Fellows' Blog, Tagging the Tower:
  • "The Digital Research Institute (DRI) Workshop Series," March 11, 2021
  • “Creating a Dissertation Blog with Open Source Tools,” September 29, 2020
  • "Introducing the Digital Archive Research Collective’s (DARC) Wiki,” February 27, 2020
  • "Toward the End of a Digital Project, Reflections on Starting Over," October 10, 2019
  • "Transforming TEI for the Web," April 29, 2019
  • "Using Voyant-Tools to Formulate Research Questions for Textual Data," November 1, 2018

Invited Talks and Panels

• Panelist, "What is the place of open knowledge communities in the development and use of AI?," Columbia University Libraries, Open Access Week Panel, October 2024. With Benjamin Zweig and Matthew K. Gold.
• Keynote speaker, "Impostors and Transphobes: The Function of Fear in Graduate School," Bridging Horizons, English Student Association Conference. The Graduate Center, CUNY. May 3, 2024.

Talks

• “Rethinking the Ethics of “Open” in the Shadow of AI" panel, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, July 18, 2025. With Matthew K. Gold, Lauren F. Klein, and Benjamin Zweig.
• “What Happens When 'Hacking' Becomes Easy? Teaching Python in 2025,” Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, July 16, 2025. With Patrick Smyth, Stephen Zweibel, and Rafael Davis Portela.
• "Reading Fear: A Meditation on Methodology in Machine Learning Experiments," Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) Conference, October 17, 2024.
• "Plausibility and Passing: Using LLMs to Study Anti-Trans Discourse," Design Justice in AI Institute. July 3, 2024. See video.
• "Collaborative Work in Digital Scholarly Editing" panel, Modern Language Association (MLA) Conference, January 6, 2023.
• "Sex, Flesh, and Skin: Mediation Across the Stack," On the Margins Conference, December 15-16, 2022.
• "Hypertext Erotics in Caitlin Fischer’s These Waves of Girls," The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) Conference, May 30, 2022.
• "Queer Encoding," DH Unbound 2022. The Association for Computers and the Humanities & Canadian Society for Digital Humanities, May 19 2022.
• "Encoding Queer Erasure with TEI," MLA Conference, January 2022.
• "Quantifying Gender in Virginia Woolf's 'Orlando'," Association for Computing in the Humanities (ACH) Conference, July 23, 2021.
• "Flash Obsolescence and the Dissolution of Electronic Literature," The End Times: Approaches to the Apocalypse, English Student Association (ESA) Conference, CUNY Graduate Center. March 12, 2021.
• "Developing Communities of Practice through Digital Pedagogy," 19^th Annual CUNY IT Conference, December 2020.
• "The Routinization of Reading: Using Digital Annotation in the Composition Classroom," North East Modern Language Association (NEMLA). March 2019.

Courses

• How To Build A Bot, Pratt Institute, School of Information. Summer 2025.
• Programming Cultural Heritage, Pratt Institute, School of Information, Fall 2024 - Present.
• Foundations of Information, Pratt Institute, School of Information, Fall 2024 - Present.
Computational Fundamentals: Python, the Graduate Center, CUNY. Spring 2023.
• Foundations of Data Science, City College, CUNY. Spring 2023.
• Critical Thinking, New York University. Spring 2023, Fall & Spring 2022, Fall 2021.
• Coding Natural Language, The New School. Fall 2022.
• Introduction to the Digital Humanities, New York University. Spring 2022.
• English 326: Latinx American Literatures in the US Hunter College, CUNY. Spring 2020.
• English 220: Introduction to Writing about Literature, Hunter College, CUNY. 2017-2020.
• English 101: Academic Writing, The University of Maryland, College Park. 2015-2016.

Workshops and Institutes

• "Web APIs with Python", Co-instructor. Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI). June 2024.
• "Python for Working With Text" workshop series, Instructor. Princeton University Library. September 2023 - May 2024.
• “HTML, CSS, and Github Pages,” Instructor. Pre-Semester Summer Institute, The Graduate Center Digital Initiatives (GCDI), CUNY. August 2022.
• “Text Analysis with a Zine Corpus,” Co-instructor. NYCDH Week. February 10, 2022.
• “Introduction to git and Github,” Instructor. The Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (ITP) Certificate Program, CUNY. March 11, 2021.
• “Introduction to Python,” Instructor. Graduate Center Digital Initiatives (GCDI), CUNY. January 2020 & 2021, July 2021.
• “Text Analysis with Python,” Co-instructor. GCDI, CUNY. January 2020 & 2021.
• "Web Scraping with BS4,” Instructor. GCDI, CUNY. Marc
• “Tools for DH,” Instructor. GCDI, CUNY. September 2018, 2019 & 2020.
• “Getting Started with TEI,” Instructor. GCDI, CUNY. March 2019 & 2020.
• “Digital Annotation with Hypothes.is,” Intructor. Interactive Technology and Pegagogy Certificate Program, CUNY. November 2019.
• “HTML/CSS,” Instructor. Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program, CUNY. March 2018, August 2022.

Fellowships and Grants

• Pratt Institute, School of Information Startup Grant, Fall 2024.
• Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCON) Teaching Fellowship, Spring 2023.
• Open Knowledge Fellowship, Mina Rees Library, Spring 2023.
• Louise Lennihan Arts & Science Grant, the Graduate Center, CUNY, Spring 2022.
• Catalyst Research Grant, the Graduate Center, CUNY, Fall 2021.
• Alumni and Faculty Dissertation Year Fellowship, English, the Graduate Center, CUNY, Spring 2021.
• Doctoral Student Research Grant, the Graduate Center, CUNY, Fall 2020 & Spring 2022.
• COVID-Affected Research Agenda Grants, the PublicsLab, the Graduate Center, CUNY, Fall 2020.
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, the University of Maryland, College Park., Fall 2014 – Spring 2016.

Honors

• Most Distinguished Dissertation of the Year. The Graduate Center, CUNY, Department of English. 2024.

Service

• Reviewer, Social Text Collective, 2024 - present.
• Committee Member, Diversity Committee, School of Information, Pratt Institute, 2025 - 2026.
• Committee Member, Faculty Search Committee, School of Information, Pratt Institute, 2024 - 2025.