Author Biographies

Tomoyo Arisawa Tomoyo Arisawa is a PhD student in the Graduate school of Letters at Osaka University. She is studying on classical Japanese literature in the early modern period.

Jonathan Blaney Jonathan joined the IHR in 2007 as Project Editor for British History Online's project to complete the digitisation of the Calendars of State Papers. He now continues to work for part of the time on BHO, as well as spending time on Connected Histories and IHR web projects. ORCID ID: 0000-0002-5044-5038.

John Bradley John Bradley has a long history of work in the digital humanities that goes back to the 1970s with the creation of early batch-oriented text analysis tool COGS at the University of Toronto. He was principal developer of the TACT text analysis system for a personal computer system at U of Toronto in the 1980s, and in the 1990s began, with Geoffrey Rockwell, to explore the connection between tools like TACT and humanities scholarship. A move to the Centre for Computing the Humanities (now Department of Digital Humanities) at King’s College London in 1997 liberated him to work more exclusively on Digital Humanities issues, and resulted in a great deal of collaborative work with humanist scholars through projects such as the People of Medieval Scotland (www.poms.ac.uk), British Printed Images before 1700 (http://www.bpi1700.org.uk/index.html), Early Modern London Theatres (http://www.emlot.kcl.ac.uk) and Art of Making (http://www.artofmaking.ac.uk/) projects: over 20 projects in all. He began the Pliny project at CCH/DDH, work that has produced a stream of publications about scholarship and structure that goes back to 2007. After being officially made an academic in 2011 at KCL, John began to think about retirement, and retired from DDH in 2015. He is now a Visiting Senior Research Fellow with the department.

Christopher Donaldson Christopher Donaldson is Lecturer in Regional History at Lancaster University. He is co-I on the Leverhulme Trust-funded project Geospatial Innovation in the Digital Humanities (2015–2018); he is also an affiliate of the European Research Council-funded project Spatial Humanities: Texts, GIS, Places (2012–2016).

Kevin L. Ferguson Kevin L. Ferguson is Assistant Professor at Queens College, City University of New York, where he teaches college writing, contemporary literature, digital humanities, and film adaptation. His book project, Eighties People, examines new cultural figures in the American 1980s.

Simon Fuller Simon Fuller is a former post-graduate student in Computer Science at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He holds an M.A. in Philosophy and Literature, and is currently working in machine learning and data science.

Ian Gregory Ian N. Gregory is Professor of Digital Humanities at Lancaster University. He is PI on both the Leverhulme Trust-funded project Geospatial Innovation in the Digital Humanities (2015–2018) and the European Research Council-funded project Spatial Humanities: Texts, GIS, Places (2012–2016).

Yuta Hashimoto Yuta Hashimoto is a PhD student at Kyoto University studying history of science in the 19th century. He used to work as a programmer for three years and is engaging in several digital humanities projects in the field of history.

Yukio Hisada Yukio Hisada is a PhD student in the Graduate school of Letters at Osaka University. He studies the history of Japanese language in the early modern period.

Yoichi Iikura Yoichi Iikura is a professor in the Graduate school of Letters at Osaka University, where he works on classical Japanese literature in the early modern period.

SungKook Kang SungKook Kang is a research fellow in the Graduate school of Letters at Osaka University, where he works on classical Japanese literature in the early modern period.

Daniel Kobayashi-Better Daniel Kobayashi-Better is a PhD student in the Graduate school of Letters at Osaka University. He studies Japanese linguistics and the history of linguistics.

Patricia Murrieta-Flores Patricia Murrieta-Flores is Director of the Digital Humanities Research Centre at the University of Chester, UK; she is also European Research Council Senior Researcher on the The Past in its Place project (2014-2016) and an affiliate of the European Research Council-funded project Spatial Humanities: Texts, GIS, Places (2012–2016).

James O'Sullivan James O’Sullivan is the Digital Humanities Research Associate at the University of Sheffield’s Humanities Research Institute. James holds a Ph.D. in Digital Arts & Humanities, as well as advanced degrees in computing, literary, and cultural studies. He recently co-edited Reading Modernism with Machines (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) alongside Shawna Ross. For more, see josullivan.org.

Michele Pasin Michele Pasin is an information and data architect with a focus on enterprise metadata management and semantic technologies. Michele currently works for Springer Nature, where he has recently taken up the role of lead architect for the Scigraph project, an initiative whose goal is to bring together various preexisting linked data repositories, plus a number of other structured and unstructured data sources, into a unified, highly integrated knowledge discovery platform. Before that, he worked on projects like Nature’s subject pages (a dynamic section of the website that allow users to navigate content by topic) and the ontologies portal (a public repository of linked open data). He holds a PhD in semantic web technologies from the Knowledge Media Institute (The Open University, UK) and advanced degrees in logic and philosophy of language from the University of Venice (Italy). Previously, he was a research associate at King's College Department of Digital Humanities (London), where he developed on a number of cultural informatics projects such as the People of Medieval Scotland and the Art of Making in Antiquity.

Thea Pitman Thea Pitman is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies, in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, at the University of Leeds.

Elizabeth Polcha Elizabeth Polcha is a Ph.D. candidate in the English department at Northeastern University, specializing in early American and Caribbean literature. Elizabeth is a 2016-2017 Graduate Fellow for Northeastern's NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks. She also currently serves as the Textual Encoding Research and Metadata Lead for the Early Caribbean Digital Archive, and as a Research and Encoding Specialist for the Women Writers Project.

Judith Siefring Judith Siefring is the Head of Digital Research at the Bodleian Libraries' Center for Digital Research at Oxford University. ORCID ID: 0000-0002-4385-6576.

Edin Tabak Edin Tabak is an EU Marie Curie Fellow at University of Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Before this, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Internet Studies at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. His research interests include actor-network theory, information practices, and digital humanities. He taught social networks in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts at Curtin University, and he has founded courses on Information Behaviour and Digital Humanities at the University of Zenica.

Claire Taylor Claire Taylor is Professor of Hispanic Studies, in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, at the University of Liverpool.