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.

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.

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.

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.

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.