- Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track
Biography
Diamond Beverly-Porter is an artist, game designer, and professor. She believes in the transformative power of storytelling, play, and critical making. Diamond combines the intersections of play, interactivity, virtual spaces, and technology to drive creative expression, merging these passions into a unified mission. She creates the games and interactive media she wanted when she was younger. With the connection that art innately creates with its audience, Diamond is deeply interested in communication across mediums that acknowledge and play with existing power relations, their destruction, and the narratives that emerge from these dynamics.
Diamond received her Bachelor of Science from Tarleton State University and Master of Fine Arts in Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication from the University of Texas at Dallas. She is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Washington State University. Additionally, she serves as the Research & Supportive Outreach Lead for The Smart Project, a South Dallas non-profit organization, making the arts accessible for youth.
Diamond is a 2025 Artist Trust Fellow and recipient of the Fellowship Award for Black Artists, with publications in Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures Journal, the upcoming 6th edition of Race/Gender/Class/Media, and several forthcoming articles. Her recent game project, Affirmations: The Politics of Liberation and the Exploration of Healing in Digital Games, has been presented at HASTAC, the Global Digital Humanities Symposium, the Electronic Literature Conference, and exhibitions including The FKM Gallery in Minneapolis, with a solo exhibition forthcoming. She has also been a featured panelist at Ann Arbor Art + Feminism 2023, speaking on community building, gender and feminism, and collective memory in digital spaces.