Caleb Hurley

Since joining AADHum in summer 2023, Caleb has worked with Dr. Jeffrey Moro as a teaching assistant for Archaeologies of Gaming and Electronic Literature and supported our office operations - including prompting our wall robot to draw a spirographic image of Nina Simone! He has also helped facilitate workshops, including our creative computing workshop at Hyattsville Library in October 2024, which you can read more about here.

Caleb Hurley is a graduate from the University of Maryland, College Park with an Honors English and Literature B.A. with a Creative Writing minor. For his honors thesis he composed a collection of six short stories titled, "Black Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground", which explores the social, political, and physical deaths of Black people (specifically African American men) and how those experiences cascade from father to son, casting Black people as the quintessential absurdist figure. He has a great passion for all narrative forms including literature, film, music, and video games. He believes in the preservation of these forms as our shared cultural record. He plans to continue expressing his curiosity for the world through future narrative endeavors as he has a foundational belief in the power of storytelling. A belief that storytelling has the greatest potential for: social, cultural, and artistic innovation, while also building community.