Kelley specializes in nineteenth-century U.S. and Latin American literary studies, Latinx studies, digital humanities, and comparative media studies  as an Assistant Professor of English at Pace University. In her research and teaching, she explores the role of media change past and present in enabling and inspiring shifts in the way we tell stories about current affairs. Kelley is also the co-founder and co-director of Babble Lab, a digital humanities center at Pace that seeks to reimagine how we teach the humanities through the use of data, design, and code and through the study of the new media of the present and the past. She is currently completing a book called Electrifying News: A Hemispheric History of the Present in Nineteenth-Century Print Culture.

Whitney is a distinguished user experience researcher. She has written three books on usability – Storytelling for User Experience: Crafting stories for better design (with Kevin Brooks), Global UX: Design and research in a connected world (with Daniel Szuc), and A Web for Everyone: Designing accessible user experiences (with Sarah Horton). She is also the director of the Usability in Civic Life project. More information about her current projects and experience can be found here.