Author Biographies

Paul Barrett Paul Barrett is an Associate Professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies and in the Culture and Technology Studies programs at the University of Guelph. He is the author of Blackening Canada, 'Membering Austin Clarke, and Future Horizons: Canadian Digital Humanities.

Sarah Ciston Sarah Ciston builds critical–creative tools to bring intersectional approaches to machine learning. Author of "A Critical Field Guide for Working with Machine Learning Datasets", they have recently been named an AI Newcomer by the German Informatics Society and an AI Anarchies Fellow at the Akademie der Künste Berlin. They hold a PhD in Media Arts and Practice from the University of Southern California and are the founder of Code Collective: an approachable, interdisciplinary community for co-learning programming. They are currently the Critical AI technical writer for p5.js (Processing Foundation), supported by Google Season of Docs.

Jeremy Douglass Jeremy Douglass is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is director of Digital Arts and Humanities Commons, an interdisciplinary co-working space for digital scholarship, pedagogy, and creative practice, and of the Center for Digital Games Research. He is co-author, with Jessica Pressman and Mark C. Marino, of Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone’s Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit} (Iowa University Press 2015), and co-author, with Montfort et. al, of 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 (MIT Press, 2012). Douglass conducts research on interactive narrative, electronic literature, and games, with a focus on the methods of software studies, critical code studies, and cultural analytics. His work has been supported by the NEH Office of Digital Humanities, MacArthur Foundation, Mellon Foundation, ACLS, Calit2, HASTAC, and NERSC.

Zach Mann Zachary M. Mann is Associate Director of the Levan Institute for the Humanities and Program Coordinator for the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Southern California. He holds a PhD in English Literature from USC, where his research focused on the history of punch card systems and intellectual labor, from eighteenth-century France to the heyday of IBM computers. He has been a member of the Humanities and Critical Code Studies Lab at USC since 2019.

Mark C. Marino Mark C. Marino, Director, is a Professor (Teaching) of Writing at the University of Southern California, where he directs the Humanities and Critical Code Studies Lab. He is also a 2023-24 Generative AI Fellow. He is one of the founders of the sub-field of Critical Code Studies and has taught courses in it, published case studies of it, and authored the book, entitled Critical Code Studies (MIT 2020), which offers case studies and methods of CCS. Since 2008, he has been the Director of Communication of the Electronic Literature Organization (https://eliterature.org). He was one of ten co-authors of 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 (MIT 2013) and was a collaborator with Jessica Pressman and Jeremy Douglass on Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone's Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit} (Iowa Press 2015). He is currently finishing a multi-authored study of the first chatbot, ELIZA, forthcoming from MIT Press.

Lee Mordechai Lee Mordechai is a Senior Lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s History Department. Much of his work concerns Late Antiquity and he has worked on FLAME for about a decade.

Ilia Curto Pelle Ilia Curto Pelle is a first-year PhD student at the History department of Princeton University. His primary interest lies in the study of economic networks and exchange in the Eastern Mediterranean between the 5th and 10th centuries. He has also worked with the FLAME Project in the roles of Assistant Coordinator and Project Manager since the start of 2020.

Mark Pyzyk Mark Pyzyk is Data Analyst and Facilitator at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, CA. He is also Co-Director of the Coin Finds of Ukraine project, which digitizes classical Greek coin finds on the territory of modern Ukraine. His interests span technology (ancient and modern), the digital humanities, numismatics, and ancient Greek social/political history. Recent publications include "Coercive Labouring Economies—10,000 BCE to 500 CE" (A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking, Bloomsbury 2024) and “Digital Technology in Historical Research: Contemporary Scholarly Current” (Eastern European Historical Herald, 2024).

Alan Stahl Alan Stahl is Curator of Numismatics at Princeton University and teaches in the departments of Art & Archaeology, Classics and History. One of his first publications was in Computers and the Humanities in 1978.