MITH Fellow Merle Collins (Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Maryland) will present aspects of her digital humanities work during a plenary address to a conference on “The African Presence and Influence on the Cultures of the Americas: Griots of the New World” at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York this week. Her lecture is entitled “From Africa to the Caribbean: Approaching an Understanding and Appreciation of the Grenada Saraka.”