DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly
Author Biographies
Suzanne Akbari Suzanne Conklin Akbari is Professor of Medieval Studies at the Institute
for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Her books are on optics and
allegory (Seeing Through the Veil) and
European views of Islam and the Orient (Idols in
the East), plus edited volumes on travel literature,
Mediterranean Studies, and somatic histories. Her most recent
publication is Practices of Commentary: Medieval
Traditions and Transmissions (The Medieval
Globe 8.2 [2022]). Akbari is co-PI on "The
Book and the Silk Roads," and "Hidden
Stories: New Approaches to the Local and Global History of the
Book." She co-hosts a literature podcast called The Spouter-Inn.
Paul Longley Arthur Paul Longley Arthur is Vice-Chancellor’s Professorial Research
Fellow and Chair in Digital Humanities and Social Sciences at
Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. He speaks and
publishes widely on major challenges and changes facing
twenty-first-century society, from the global impacts of
technology on communication, culture, and identity to migration
and human rights.
Alexandra Atiya Alexandra Atiya is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Medieval Studies at
the University of Toronto. Her research and teaching focuses on
late-medieval English and Iberian drama as well as contemporary
literature and digital humanities. Atiya has also been a research
assistant for "The Book and the Silk Roads"
and "Hidden Stories: New Approaches to the Local and
Global History of the Book" since 2021.
Alejandro Benito Santos
Eugenio Biagini Eugenio Biagiani has taught at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Princeton and Cambridge, where he is Professor of Modern and
Contemporary History and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. His work contextualizes political history in its
wider cultural and social contexts.
Nathaniel Corley Nathaniel Corley studied Art and the History of Art at Amherst College, where he specialized in applying computational
methods to the study of Renaissance artworks.
Steve Delamarter Steve Delamarter is Emeritus Research Professor in Residence at George
Fox University, and serving as co-director of the Textual History of the
Ethiopic Old Testament (THEOT) Project. Founded in 2012, this project
employs a method and workflow that fully integrates statistical and
philological analyses to tell the story of the transmission history of
the Ethiopic Old Testament. In 2005, Delamarter founded the Ethiopic
Manuscript Imaging Project (EMIP) and has located and digitised just
over 12,000 manuscripts since then. He has worked since then to create
metadata and make the images and metadata available in Beta maṣāḥǝft, a
digital manuscript studies environment operated by the University of
Hamburg’s Hiob Ludolf Centre for Eritrean and Ethiopian Manuscript
Studies.
Eyob Derillo Eyob Derillo is currently working at the British Library as Reference
Specialist in the department of Asia and Africa Studies, where he has
served as curator for Ethiopic and Ethiopian collections. In 2018 he
curated the British Library’s exhibition African
Scribes: Manuscript Culture of Ethiopia which was the first
exhibition to be held at the Library devoted entirely to Ethiopian
manuscripts. He also co-curated the British Library’s highly acclaimed
exhibition Harry Potter: History of Magic.
Eyob is also completing his doctorate at SOAS (Department of Religions
and Philosophies). His research focuses on the nature and historical
development of the concept of Ethiopian ‘magic’ and its use within a
specifically Christian context.
Michelle Doran
Jennifer C. Edmond
Marlene Ernst
Victoria Beatrix Fendel Victoria Beatrix Fendel did her Bachelor of Arts (Classical Civilisations) and Master of Arts (Greek, Ancient Near East Studies) at the University of Basel, Switzerland (2009–2015).
She moved to the University of Oxford, UK, for her DPhil in Classical Languages and Literature (2015–2018),
which is published in the Oxford Classical Monographs Series (Coptic Interference in the Syntax of Greek Letters from Egypt, OUP 2022).
She completed her MPhil in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge (2018–2019) with a focus on French linguistics.
She is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Oxford (2020–2023).
Julie Fox-Horton JULIE FOX-HORTON, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Division of Cross-Disciplinary
Studies at East Tennessee State University. Her research interests include inquisition studies
in late medieval and early modern Venice at the intersection of witchcraft trials and archives
of authority. She teaches interdisciplinary studies at the undergraduate and graduate level, as
well as coordinates and teaches in the Archival Studies Graduate Certificate program.
Sebastian Gassner
Patrick Geoghegan Patrick Geoghegan is a Professor in History at Trinity College Dublin and is an expert in constitutional
nationalism and republicanism in modern Irish history. The presenter of the award-winning programme,
Talking History, on Irish radio, he was a special adviser to the
Taoiseach between 2017 and 2020.
Markus Gerstmeier
Dominik Gerstorfer
Michael Gervers Michael Gervers is Professor of Medieval History at the University of
Toronto, where he focuses on digital diplomatics and the international
integration of databases. Working in collaboration with Dr. Gelila
Tilahun, he has been a pioneer in the application of statistics to the
analysis of medieval charters, including topic modeling and network
analysis. He is currently investigating the diplomatic differences
between Anglo-Saxon and Norman charters, while simultaneously testing
methods to confirm the dating of the former. He is also working with
colleagues in France on Handwritten Text Recognition technology (HTR),
training the open source software eScriptorium to read medieval Latin scripts. In 2017, he
established the regular teaching of Old Ethiopic (Ge’ez) at the
University of Toronto.
Alexandra Gillespie Alexandra Gillespie is Vice-President of the University of Toronto and
Principal of the University of Toronto Mississauga, where she has worked
as Professor of English and Medieval Studies for the past twenty years.
Her research ranges widely: from the poetics of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales to the history of text
technologies, from scientific approaches to book history to literary
theory and philosophy. On these topics she has published more than fifty articles and six co-edited volumes,
including most recently The Unfinished Book
(Oxford, 2021) with Deidre Lynch. Her first monograph, Print Culture and the Medieval Author (Oxford,
2006) remains one of the most cited in the field; her current project
extends this work in new directions in a study of Chaucer’s Books.
Evelyn Gius
Samuel Grieggs Samuel Grieggs is currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science and
Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on
using computer vision and machine learning to create tools that benefit
humanities researchers, as well as studying and improving how machine
learning models handle novelty. Samuel earned his undergraduate degree
in Computer Science from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2017. In
the fall of 2023, he will return to IUP as an Assistant Professor of
Computer Science.
Corinne Guimont Corinne Guimont is the Interim Director of Publishing Services and Digital
Scholarship Coordinator at the University Libraries at Virginia Tech. She focuses
on new forms of research and publishing in the arts and humanities. With a
background in Information Science, Digital Humanities, and commercial e-textbook
publishing, Corinne works with faculty and students to create digital publications
utilizing a variety of tools and platforms.
Hugh Hanley Hugh Hanley earned his PhD at the University of Cambridge. While completing his thesis on public
intellectuals in Ireland, he worked as a Research Associate on the project
"Impacting Parnell’s Speeches" (2021-22). His research has appeared
in Irish Studies in International Affairs,
The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, and
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities.
Lydia Hearn Lydia Hearn has over forty years of research experience in
Australia, Colombia, Egypt, the Netherlands, the UK, and the
United States. Much of her focus has been on open collaborative
development aimed at translating policy into practice through
equity and inclusion
Matthew T.Ireland Matthew Ireland is a computer scientist, working primarily on the design and analysis of electronics in high-speed systems.
He is director and CTO of the start-up company AAI Robotics Ltd, and has affiliations at Sidney Sussex College and Churchill College, Cambridge.
Matthew has extended interests in the wider application of computational thinking, including in the automated analysis of music and language.
Janina Jacke
Jarod Jacobs Jarod Jacobs received his PhD from the University of Manchester in 2015.
Jacobs’ academic work centres around statistics and language, with a
specific focus on biblical texts. His book, entitled Statistics,
Linguistics, and the Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls, was published in
OUP’s Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement Series in 2018. He is
currently working as a Manager of Data Engineering at Providence Health
& Services’ Analytics Center of Excellence, where he applies his
experience with machine learning models and language processing to tell
the story of (un)structured data.
Aneirin Jones Nye Jones is the technical specialist on the John Stevens Henslow Correspondence Project
and the Charles Stewart Parnell Speeches Project. He has extensive experience in the use
of TEI for the digital transcription of historic texts and the application of computational
techniques in relation to these texts, exploring the application of quantitative research
methods alongside traditional qualitative analysis.
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 to their use in a research and teaching context. He has a
particular focus on text encoding, and 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.
Alex Kinnaman Alex Kinnaman is the Digital Preservation Coordinator at Virginia Tech University
Libraries. She designs and manages the digital preservation system, its policies,
and documentation, and works closely with developers to incorporate digital
library tools for preservation activities. Alex focuses on solving preservation
challenges with 3D and VR objects, DH and digital scholarship, and audio/visual
materials. She also works one-on-one with project managers and faculty researchers
on integrating good preservation practices throughout project lifespans.
Thomas Kirchmair Thomas Kirchmair is a PhD candidate in the Advertising and Media Psychology
Research group within the Department of Communication at the University of
Vienna with backgrounds in Communication Science, Digital Humanities and
Germany Philology. Prior, he worked at the Austrian Centre for Digital
Humanities and Cultural Heritage of the Austrian Academy of Sciences on the
projects "Visiting Vienna" (Pl: Nina Rastinger) and
"Vienna Time Machine" (Pl: Claudia Resch). His
research interests include the manual and automated analysis of textual data,
ranging from corpus linguistics to machine learning approaches. He employs
quantitative methodologies to different social science and humanities topics,
currently focusing on digital hate and green advertising.
Arthur Koehl Arthur Koehl is a Hydrologic Sciences Master's student at UC Davis,
specializing in applying computational methods to domain research. He
worked for several years as a data scientist at the UC Davis Datalab. In
his work at the DataLab he developed tools for information retrieval in
mixed text and image digital archives. His research spans digital
humanities, environmental sciences, and computational social
sciences.
Michał Kozak
Christine Kwon Christine Kwon is currently pursuing PhD in Human Computer Interaction at
Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on learning sciences,
specifically building educational technologies for underserved
communities. At the time of this research, she was an undergraduate
student at the University of Notre Dame where she earned her bachelor’s
degree of science in mathematics with a concentration in computing.
Jessica Lockhart Jessica Lockhart is Head of Research for the Old Books New Science lab at
the University of Toronto, under the direction of Alexandra Gillespie.
Her research facilitates collaborations concerning the humanistic and
scientific study of premodern book technologies. Lockhart has authored
or co-authored articles in Chaucer Review
(2015), Digital Humanities Quarterly
(2020), Digital Philology (2022), and the
volume Cultural Translations in Medieval
Romance (2022), and is co-editing with Michelle Brown a special
issue of Ancient Narrative (2023), alongside other publications emerging
from the lab’s research. Lockhart earned a PhD in Medieval Studies from
the University of Toronto in 2017.
Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky is a senior lecturer in the department
of Hebrew Literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,
Israel, and the founder of BGU Literary Lab, which he heads. His
areas of expertise are Hebrew literature (with an emphasis on
Talmudic literature), literary theory (with an emphasis on
narratology), and computational literary studies. Most of his
research projects and publications combine these three areas. His
recent book (and the second one so far), Words to Count: First Steps in Computational Literary
Studies (the Open University of Israel Press, 2022)
was the first book-length in the field in Hebrew.
Cezary Mazurek
Ophir Münz-Manor Ophir Münz-Manor is an associate professor of Rabbinic Culture in
the Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies at the
Open University of Israel. He is a specialist in Jewish liturgy
and liturgical poetry from Late Antiquity and the early Middle
Ages. His studies focus on the intersections with contemporary
Christian texts as well as questions of ritual, performance and
gender in late antique Near Eastern cultures. In recent years
Prof. Münz-Manor has embarked on several projects that combine
traditional literary analysis with quantitative and computerized
methods from the realm of Computational Literary Studies and the
Digital Humanities. His recent books publications include: Psalms In/On Jerusalem, De Gruyter
2019 (with Ilana Pardes) and El’azar Birabi
Qilir’s Piyyutim for Hannukah: A Critical Edition Based on
Manuscripts from the Cairo Genizah, Ben Zvi
Institute 2022 (Hebrew).
Chandni Nagda Chandni Nagda is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include
probabilistic modeling and machine learning for climate science
applications.
Samuel Pizelo Samuel Pizelo is a scholar, programmer, and game designer completing a
PhD at the University of California, Davis. He has held research
appointments at the UC Davis DataLab and the UC Davis Science and
Technology Studies program. In addition, he has co-convened multi-campus
research clusters in the digital humanities, new media and technology,
and ecological game design. His dissertation, “Modeling Revolution: A
Global History of Games as Model Systems,” tells a new history of games
that foregrounds their role as model systems. For more information, see:
www.samuelpizelo.com.
Nina C. Rastinger Nina C. Rastinger is a PhD student at the Austrian Centre for Digital
Humanities and Cultural Heritage of the Austrian Academy of Sciences with a
background in German Philology and Psychology. Her doctoral project, supported
through the Austrian Academy of Science’s DOC programme, explores periodically
published lists in historical newspapers. She is currently leading the City of
Vienna funded project "Visiting
Vienna - digital approaches to the (semi-)automatic analysis of the
arrival lists found in the Wien[n]erisches
Diarium" and has participated in various research
and infrastructure projects, e.g. "Das Wien[n]erische Diarium:
A digital data treasury for the humanities" or "Digital Transformation of
Austrian Humanities (DiTAH)". Her areas of interest include
corpus linguistics, early modern periodicals, and digital research
workflows.
Malte Rehbein
Claudia Resch Claudia Resch is head of the research unit Literary and Textual Studies at the
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage at the Austrian
Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Her DH research focuses on German literature and
the application of literary and linguistic computing in a corpus-based approach
to textual issues. She publishes on early modern DH, historical corpora,
digital editions and text stylistics. The Austrian Baroque Corpus, a
historical thematic corpus, and the digital newspaper collection Wien[n]erisches
Digitarium are results of her research proposals. In 2020, Claudia
Resch completed her habilitation thesis on German historical corpora and
received the venia docendi for the academic discipline of Digital Philology.
From 2012 to 2017 she was a lecturer at the Department for German Philology of
the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich; since 2017, she has been teaching
at the University of Vienna, currently at the Department of History, the
Department of German Studies, and the Department of European and Comparative
Literature and Language Studies.
John Ryan John Charles Ryan is adjunct associate professor at Southern Cross
University, Australia; adjunct senior research fellow at the
Nulungu Institute, Notre Dame University, Australia; and adjunct
faculty member in Earth and Environmental Sciences at Susquehanna
University in the US. His research focuses on Aboriginal
Australian literature, Southeast Asian ecocriticism, the
environmental humanities, ecopoetics, and transdisciplinary plant
studies. His recent publications include Environment, Media and Popular Culture in Southeast
Asia (Springer, co-edited) and Introduction to the Environmental Humanities
(Routledge, coauthored). In 2023, he undertook visiting research
fellowships at the University of Oulu, Finland, and Xi’an
Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China.
Walter Scheirer Walter J. Scheirer received the M.S. degree in computer science from
Lehigh University, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree in engineering from the
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO, USA, in 2009. He is the
Dennis O. Doughty Collegiate Associate Professor with the Department of
Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame. Prior to
joining the University of Notre Dame, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with
Harvard University from 2012 to 2015, and the Director of Research and
Development with Securics, Inc., from 2007 to 2012. He serves as the
Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Community on Pattern
Analysis and Machine Intelligence and serves on the board of the
Computer Vision Foundation. His research interests include artificial
intelligence, computer vision, machine learning, and digital
humanities.
Aleyda Rocha Sepulveda
Lynne Siemens Lynne Siemens is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Administration
at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Her research is varied
and crosses disciplinary lines with a focus on knowledge transfer and
mobilization at individual, organizational, and community levels. She is a
co-facilitator of the Implementing New Knowledge Environments Partnership’s
(Open Social Scholarship) Policy cluster.
Carl Stahmer Carl Stahmer is a digital humanist. As executive director of the UC Davis
DataLab, he leverages his expertise as a computer programmer and system
architect to tackle complex problems in the humanities and beyond.
Stahmer received his PhD in English from UC Santa Barbara. He is a
professor in English at UC Davis and was head of the former Data and
Digital Scholarship unit in the Library. He is a member of the teaching
faculty at the Rare Book School, University of Virginia. His research
interests include applications of natural language processing, computer
vision, and library science
Roberto Therón
Gelila Tilahun Gelila Tilahun is a research fellow at the DEEDS Centre and the
Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Toronto.
She works in the area of statistical and computational text analysis
methods. Her focus is on understanding changes in document production
over time and how charter language changes in response to large-scale
historical events. Previously, she worked in the bioinformatics research
area applying text mining and language model techniques to identify
regulatory elements in the non-coding regions of the DNA that are
involved in gene expression.
Eveline Wandl-Vogt
Kimberly Woodring KIM WOODRING, MA, MLIS, is an Adjunct Professor of History at East
Tennessee State University. Her research interests include romanization in Roman Britain,
burial and funerary practices in Roman Britain, Digital History/Humanities, and Archival
Studies. She teaches history courses at the undergraduate and graduate level, as well as
teaches for the Division of Cross-Disciplinary Studies and the Archival Studies Graduate
Certificate program.
Jerzy Wójcik Dr. Jerzy Wójcik is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Linguistics, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. His current research interests include employing digital humanities tools in analysing early English texts.