Joycelyn Wilson is an associate professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. Her research explores expressive traditions — particularly hip hop — as cultural, design, and methodological frameworks for understanding media, technology, and creative innovation. Working across Black media studies, design theory, digital humanities, and creative technologies, she examines how creative practices shape technological imagination, curriculum development, archives, and institutional systems.

Wilson’s scholarship engages questions of remix, cultural memory, critical making, and race and technology, with an emphasis on public-facing and collaborative research. Her current book project, Hacking Hip Hop: Design Remix Logic in Research, Teaching, and Practice, advances a hip hop–inspired framework for design and creative inquiry that blends theory, cultural analysis, and narrative.

At Georgia Tech, Wilson teaches interdisciplinary, project-based courses that integrate media studies, digital storytelling, interactive media, archives, and emerging technologies. She mentors undergraduate and graduate students across media, design, music, and technology pathways and leads collaborative research initiatives that extend her work into public humanities and digital platforms. She was a 2011–2012 HipHop Archive Fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. She holds a Ph.D. and BS from the University of Georgia and a master’s degree from Pepperdine University.