Rachel Yim Schlotfeldt is a Ph.D. candidate in English Literature at the University of
Washington. She received her M.A. in Digital Humanities from University College London and
a B.A. in English from the University of Washington. Her research focuses on the material labor and
production of technology, exploring questions of racialized and gendered embodiment in Asian
American speculative fiction. Her work has been supported by the Digital Humanities Summer
Fellowship, the Hilen Research Fellowship, and the Susannah J. McMurphy Dissertation
Fellowship from the University of Washington. She has worked as the Digital Humanities
Program Coordinator for the Simpson Center for the Humanities; an Instructor in English,
American Ethnic Studies, and Information Studies; and as the Communications Manager for Girls Inc. of Alameda County.