Author Biographies

Yasmin Faghihi Yasmin Faghihi is Head of the Near and Middle Eastern Department at Cambridge University Library. She is the editor of FIHRIST, the online union catalogue for manuscripts from the Islamicate world, as well as the Chair of the Board of Directors. She has been leading work on using and promoting standardized practices in text encoding for manuscript description and teaching to foster awareness about compatible approaches to data creation and use. Her digital humanities interests focus on the exchange of knowledge both as a historical and contemporary phenomenon, as well as how DH methodologies can impact the recognition of cultural diversity and offer new approaches to analysing cross-disciplinary frameworks.

Barbara Feichtinger Barbara Feichtinger is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Konstanz. Her research interests include (Christian) Late Antiquity, Augustean literature, literary theory, and Gender studies.

Amanda Furiasse Amanda Furiasse, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at Nova Southeastern University. Her research unfolds at the intersection of religion, AI, and medicine. She is co-founder of the Religion, Art, and Technology Lab and co-host of the Political Theology Network's Assembly Podcast.

Gilad Gutman Gutman is the head of research methodologies at the DHSS Hub, the center for digital humanities and social sciences at the Open University of Israel. In his research, Gutman examines the relation between space and power in early modern English tragedies, both through a historical analysis of territorial phenomena and behavior, as well as through a computational analysis of the figurative language of the body politic metaphor.

Huw Jones Huw Jones is Head of the Digital Library at Cambridge University Library and Director of CDH Labs at Cambridge Digital Humanities. His work spans many aspects of collections-driven digital humanities, from creating and making collections available for use in a research and teaching context. His work has a particular focus on text encoding, and he co-convenes the TEI strand at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School. He also teaches the collections and methodology core course on the Digital Humanities MPhil at Cambridge University.

Thomas E. Konrad Thomas E. Konrad is a doctoral student and Academic Staff Member in the Department of Literature, Art and Media Studies at the University of Konstanz.

Rachel Pierce Rachel Pierce has a PhD in gender and women's history and an MLIS in library and information science. Her research interests are grounded in a background as a women's and gender historian. She is also interested in photography, digitalization, and archives. These interests have led to research on the development of feminism within political institutions, gendered political journalism during the Cold War, and how gender, sex, sexuality, race, and class can be expressed in descriptive metadata for cultural heritage materials. She has also studied the relationships between digital and physical iterations of archives, with a focus on how classification and description systems do or do not articulate the relations between physical and digital materials and collections.

Sarah Potvin Sarah Potvin works as an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Texas A&M University. Her research, teaching, and service consider questions of public humanities, digital representation, humanities data, and scholarly communication.

Marie Puren Marie Puren is an Associate Professor of History and Digital Humanities at EPITA Paris. She is a member of the Laboratoire de Recherche de l'EPITA (LRE) and an associate researcher at the Centre Jean-Mabillon. Her work focuses in particular on heritage enhancement using digital humanities methods and tools. She is currently interested in the contribution of artificial intelligence to the promotion and exploitation of heritage collections.

Marie Revellio Dr. Marie Revellio is a Researcher and Lecturer in the Department of Literature, Art, and Media Studies at the University of Konstanz and received her doctoral degree in Classical Philology from the University of Konstanz. Her research focuses on Digital Humanities (mainly digital text analysis and NLP), literary theory of citation and intertextuality, processes of cultural hybridization, and Gender studies in Classics. In addition, she teaches courses in Latin Literature from the Classical period to Late Antiquity and in Digital Humanities.

Karolina Roman Karolina Roman is a doctoral student at McGill University’s Département de littératures de langue française, de traduction et de création (DLTC). She holds an MA in Translation Studies from the University of Ottawa. Her current research focuses on translation reception, literary prizes, and publishing networks in Québec and Canada.

Fernando Sanz-Lázaro Fernando Sanz-Lázaro is a research data engineer at the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He has a background in German, English and Spanish studies and holds a PhD in Romance Studies from the University of Vienna with a thesis on digital methods for the analysis of early modern Spanish plays.

Franziska Schropp Franziska Schropp is a doctoral student and Research Assistant in the Department of Literature, Art and Media Studies at the University of Konstanz.

Lisa Teichmann Lisa Teichmann is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN) at Université de Montréal. She holds a PhD from McGill University in German Studies and an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from Leiden University. Her current research focuses on the development of digital tools to visualize the transfer of translations between literary communities by using bibliographical data, Geographic Information System (GIS), social network analysis, machine learning, and web applications.

Pierre Vernus An Associate Professor of contemporary history at Université Lumière Lyon 2/Université de Lyon, Pierre Vernus is a member of the Laboratoire de recherche historique Rhône-Alpes (LARHRA) in Lyon. As part of the laboratory's Digital History research group, he has been contributing for many years to research into historical studies in a digital context from a collaborative and cumulative perspective, particularly focusing on Open Linked Data and the Semantic Web. He has coordinated or participated in several multidisciplinary research projects with a strong digital dimension, notably in collaboration with cultural heritage institutions.