DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly
Author Biographies
ETCL Research Group
Suzanne Conklin Akbari Suzanne Conklin Akbari is Professor of Medieval Studies at the Institute for
Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ). Her books are on optics and allegory (Seeing Through the Veil), European views of Islam
(Idols in the East), travel literature (Marco Polo), Mediterranean Studies (A Sea of Languages), and somatic history (The Ends of the Body), plus How
We Write (2015) and How We Read (2019).
She co-edits the Norton Anthology of World
Literature and co-hosts a literature podcast called The Spouter Inn.
Alyssa Arbuckle Alyssa Arbuckle is the Associate Director of the Electronic Textual
Cultures Lab (ETCL) at the University of Victoria, where she serves as
the Project Manager for the Implementing New Knowledge Environments
(INKE) Partnership, and is a member of the Directorial Group and the
Operational Team for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI).
Alyssa is also an interdisciplinary PhD Candidate at the University of
Victoria, studying open social scholarship and its implementation.
Alexander Babbitt Alexander Babbitt has his bachelor’s degree in English from Michigan
State University. While at Michigan State University, he studied the
relationship between cognitive science and the humanities, with an
emphasis on interdisciplinary pedagogy. Currently, he is an Elementary
School teacher in Brooklyn, NYC. His current interests are centered
around creating accessible and interdisciplinary instruction for
childhood education.
Christine Barats Christine Barats is a Professor in Information and Communication Studies at the
University of Paris Descartes and a member of the Cerlis (
http://www.cerlis.eu/team-view/barats-christine/). Her work has
focused on the politicization and media coverage of immigration in France as
well as on the discourse aimed at the integration of information and
communication technologies (ICT) in higher education and research (ESR) and the
discourses on evaluation in ESR. In parallel, she examines the methodological
issues related to the analysis of web-based corpora and text statistics tools.
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8097-6622
Clarisse Bardiot A historian of contemporary theatre, specialized in digital humanities and
digital performances, Clarisse Bardiot is an associate professor at the
Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France. Her research focuses on digital
humanities, the history and aesthetics of contemporary performing arts, the
relationship between art, science and technology, the preservation of digital
works, and experimental publishing.
www.clarissebardiot.info Kathi Inman Berens Kathi Inman Berens is Associate Professor of English at Portland State
University.
David J. Birnbaum David J. Birnbaum is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the
University of Pittsburgh. He has been involved in the study of electronic text
technology since the mid-1980s, participates actively in electronic text
technology conferences, and has served on the board of the Association for
Computers and the Humanities, the editorial board of Markup languages: theory and practice, and the Text Encoding
Initiative Technical Council. Much of his electronic text work intersects with
his research in medieval Slavic manuscript studies and Russian poetry, but he
also often writes about issues in the philosophy of markup.
Mark-Jan Bludau Mark-Jan Bludau is research associate at the UCLAB at the University of Applied
Sciences Potsdam. His main field of interest lies in information visualization
with focus on interaction techniques and the visualization of cultural heritage
data. ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6300-8833
Viktoria Brüggemann Viktoria Brüggemann is a research associate at the UCLAB at the University of
Applied Sciences Potsdam. As a cultural scientist, her research emphasis is on
cultural history and museums, with a focus on different ways of knowledge
sharing in the (digital) present. ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3858-0269 Elizabeth Callaway Elizabeth Callaway is an assistant professor in the Department of English at
the University of Utah and affiliated faculty with the Environmental Humanities
Graduate Program. She has published articles on biodiversity, climate change,
and the speculative ecosystems of science fiction. Her current book project,
titled Eden’s Endemics: Narratives of Biodiversity on
Earth and Beyond, is forthcoming at University of Virginia
Press.
Poom Chiarawongse Poom Chiarawongse is a Software Engineer at Asana, located in the San Francisco
Bay Area. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Brown University and has
previously worked as a Data Science Intern at the Center for Computation and
Visualization at Brown University.
Soohyun Cho Soohyun Cho is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Michigan State University,
specializing in crime fiction, cognitive approaches to literature,
disability studies, and digital humanities. Her current project focuses
on the intersection of disability studies and popular culture studies,
exploring the tradition of detectives with non-normative minds. Her
ongoing digital experiment investigates the reader's experience with
Kindle. In her time at MSU, Soohyun has served as a lab lead as well as
a Graduate Research Assistant in the DHLC Lab.
Rebekah Cummings Rebekah Cummings is the Digital Matters Librarian at the University of Utah J.
Willard Marriott Library. Prior to her work as a digital humanities and data
management librarian at the Marriott Library, Rebekah was the Assistant
Director of the Mountain West Digital Library, one of the inaugural service
hubs for the Digital Public Library of America. She holds an MLIS from the
University of California, Los Angeles with a specialization in data
curation.
Costis Dallas ORC-ID: 0000-0001-9462-0478
0000-0001-9462-0478 Costis Dallas Faculty of Information, University of
Toronto; Digital Curation Unit, IMSI-Athena Research Centre
costis.dallas@utoronto.ca Costis Dallas is Associate Professor in the Faculty
of Information at the University of Toronto, and a Research Fellow of the
Digital Curation Unit, "Athena" Research Centre. His
research focuses on digital cultural memory, cultural ontologies, and
information practices and knowledge work in digital curation and communication
infrastructures. He is principal investigator of "Connective Digital Memory in the Borderlands: a Mixed-methods Study of
Cultural Identity, Heritage Communication and Digital Curation on Social
Networks in Lithuania", and of "E-CURATORS —
Pervasive Digital Curation Activities, Objects and Infrastructures in
Archaeological Research and Communication: Process Modeling, Multiple-Case
Studies, and Requirements Elicitation". He serves as chair of
DARIAH’s Digital Methods and Practices Observatory Working Group (DiMPO).
Catherine DeRose Catherine DeRose is the Program Manager for the Digital Humanities Lab at Yale
University, where she consults on digital humanities projects, teaches
workshops on data analysis and visualization, and directs the Digital
Humanities Teaching Fellows program. She received her PhD in English from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Michelle Doran ORC-ID: 0000-0001-7850-6886
Michelle Doran is a postdoctoral Research Fellow at Trinity Long Room Hub,
where she is contributing to the CHIST-ERA PROVIDEDH (PROgressive VIsual
Decision-making in Digital Humanities) project and Project Officer for the
Trinity Centre of Digital Humanities. She holds a PhD in Medieval Irish
Studies, and her principal research interests lie in the field of humanities
research and the underlying epistemological and ideological premises. She is
module coordinator of the Digital Scholarship and Skills workshop series hosted
by the Trinity Long Room Hub and facilitates a number of workshops on the
subjects of Digital Humanities, Data Management Planning and Digital Scholarly
Editing.
Marian Dörk Marian Dörk is a research professor for information visualization at the
Institute for Urban Futures of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. He
co-directs the UCLAB, a transdisciplinary research space at the intersection
between interface design, computer science, and the humanities. ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3469-7841 Jennifer Edmond ORC-ID: 0000-0001-9991-1637
Jennifer Edmond is Associate Professor of Digital Humanities and the
co-director of the Center for Digital Humanities at Trinity College Dublin.
Jennifer also serves as President of the Board of Directors of the pan-European
research infrastructure for the arts and humanities, DARIAH-EU. Jennifer
coordinated the €6.5m CENDARI FP7 (2012-1026) project and is a partner in the
related infrastructure cluster, PARTHENOS. She was also coordinator of the
2017-2018 ICT programme-funded project KPLEX, which investigated bias in big
data research from a humanities perspective, and is currently a partner on the
CHIST-ERA project PROVIDE-DH, which is investigating progressive visualisation
as a support for managing uncertainty in humanities research.
Randa El Khatib Randa El Khatib is the Assistant Director (Open Knowledge Initiatives) of
the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL) and the Associate Director of
the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI). She is also the Managing
Editor of Early Modern Digital Review and a
doctoral candidate in English at the University of Victoria. Her
research focuses on early modern literature, geospatial humanities, and
open scholarship.
Lawrence Evalyn Lawrence Evalyn is a PhD Candidate in the Department of English at the
University of Toronto. His dissertation, "Print Politics in
the Digital Archive, 1789-99," examines digital infrastructures in
eighteenth century studies.
Andreas Fickers Andreas Fickers is the director of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and
Digital History (C²DH) and head of the DH-Lab. He studied history, philosophy
and sociology and is currently Professor for Contemporary and Digital History
at the University of Luxembourg. He's head of the FNR funded Doctoral Training
Unit "Digital History & Hermeneutics" (DTU) and
coordinates the Trinational doctoral school together with Prof. Dr Dietmar
Hüser (Universität des Saarlandes) and Prof. Dr Hélène Miard-Delacroix
(Université Paris-Sorbonne). He's also prinicipal investigator of the Impresso
project and was co-editor of VIEW, the Journal of European
Television History and Culture. He's currently the Luxembourg
national coordinator of DARIAH-EU and member of the joint research board of
Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA).
Abbey Gaterud Abbey Gaterud was Publisher of Ooligan Press and Instructor at Portland State
University for eleven years. She is now Director of Chemeketa Press at
Chemeketa Community College.
Klaudia Grabowska ORC-ID: 0000-0003-1521-9200
Klaudia works towards opening up heritage resources and bringing them back to
Commons. She co-funded a "Kierunek Zwiedzania"
research group interested in finding a common ground for cultural institutions
and their audiences. She has coordinated Creative Commons Poland since 2009 and
the Coalition for Open Education. Institute for Open Leadership Fellow (2015)
and Mentor (2016).
Jo Guldi Jo Guldi is an Associate Professor of History at Southern Methodist University.
Born in Dallas, Texas, She received her AB from Harvard University, and then
studied at Trinity College, Cambridge before completing her PhD in History at
the University of California, Berkeley, after which she continued on to
postdocs at the University of Chicago and the Harvard Society of Fellows. She
was also previously Hans Rothfels Assistant Professor of History at Brown.
Tim van der Heijden Tim van der Heijden is a post-doctoral researcher at the Luxembourg
Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) of the University of
Luxembourg. He holds a PhD in Media History from Maastricht University
and a research master’s degree in Media Studies with distinction from
the University of Amsterdam. Between 2017 and 2019, he worked as a
coordinating post-doc of the FNR funded Doctoral Training Unit "Digital History and Hermeneutics" (DTU). He is
currently a researcher within the project "Doing
Experimental Media Archaeology" (DEMA), which explores the
heuristic potential of hands-on experimentation with analogue media
technologies as a practical and sensorial approach to media
historiography.
C. E. M. Henderson Cai Henderson is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto’s Centre for
Medieval Studies. Cai currently works on cognition and theories of the mind in
late medieval English literature and text technology.
Jessica Kane Jessica Kane is the Associate Director of Community-Based Learning at
Albion College. Her professional work focuses on supporting authentic,
equitable campus-community partnerships to enhance civic engagement and
positive social change. Her scholarly work focuses on gender, genre, and
narrative authority in eighteenth-century British literature. The link
between the two is an emphasis on how the relationships we create and
stories we tell can change the world.
Ingrida Kelpšienė ORC-ID: 0000-0003-3741-9510
Ingrida Kelpšienė is a researcher at Vilnius University Faculty of
Communication completing a PhD on the role of social networking sites in
cultural heritage communication. She holds a MA in History and Cultural
Heritage, and two BAs, in Archaeology and Economics. She has a background in
archaeological fieldwork and has been implementing digital heritage projects
and conducting research in the field of digital humanities for over a decade.
Her current research is focused on social media practices and aims to explain
how heritage communication and interpretation is shaped by people
participation, community engagement and public interactions with digital
heritage resources on social networks.
Alex D. Ketchum Alex Ketchum, PhD is the Faculty Lecturer of the Institute for Gender,
Sexuality, and Feminist Studies of McGill University. She is the Director of
the Just Feminist Tech and Scholarship Lab. Her doctorate from McGill's
Department of History was supported by the FRQSC (Fonds de Recherche du
Quebec). Ketchum's dissertation focused on feminist restaurants, cafes, and
coffeehouses in the United States and Canada from the 1972-1989. She has a MA
in History and Women and Gender Studies also from McGill University and a
Honors BA in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Wesleyan University.
Her work integrates food, environmental, technological, and gender history. For
more, see:
http://www.alexketchum.ca.
Aleksandra Kil Aleksandra Kil is a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies and a member of the
Laboratory of Contemporary Humanities at the University of Wrocław (Poland).
Her research areas include media theory and philosophy of the humanities. In
her current work she studies index cards as an apparatus of making knowledge in
the analog humanities.
Julia King Julia King is a PhD Research Fellow at the Department of Foreign Languages at
the University of Bergen, Norway. In addition to completing a dissertation
titled "Mapping Book and Manuscript Exchange Around Syon
Abbey, 1415-1539," she is responsible for database design and network
analysis for the Norwegian Research Council-funded project, "ReVISION: Re-assessing St. Birgitta of Sweden and her
Revelations in Medieval England: Circulation and Influence,
1380-1530."
Marta Kołodziejska ORC-ID: 0000-0002-6868-3050
Marta Kołodziejska is currently a post-doc at the Institute of Philosophy and
Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She is a sociologist of religion,
and her research is focused on the transformations of religion and spirituality
through digital media. She is currently researching how Christian minority
Churches in Poland and the UK construct their identity through media. Marta is
a qualitative researcher, working in the frameworks of discourse analysis and
the sociology of knowledge approach to discourse.
Jessie Labov ORC-ID: 0000-0002-3647-4393
Jessie Labov is a
Resident Fellow in the Center for Media, Data and Society at Central European University
(CEU), as well as the Director of Academic and Institutional Development at
McDaniel College Budapest. At CEU, she worked as a member of the Digital
Humanities Initiative, and the Text Analysis Across Disciplines Initiative, and
is now directing a CEU Summer University course in digital history (2019 and
2020). Her research in DH is concerned with issues of canon formation, text
mining, and visualizing the receptive pathways of literary journals. She is
currently vice-chair of the COST Action NEP4DISSENT.
Ashley S. Lee Ashley Lee is a Senior Data Scientist at Brown University’s Center for
Computation and Visualization. She holds an academic background in biology and
data science and her professional experience has included work in machine
learning, data visualization, and software engineering.
Peter Leonard Peter Leonard is the Director of the Digital Humanities Lab at Yale University.
He received his BA in art history from the University of Chicago and his PhD in
Scandinavian literature from the University of Washington. Before coming to
Yale in 2013 as the first Librarian for Digital Humanities Research, he served
as a postdoctoral researcher in text-mining at UCLA, supported by a Google
Digital Humanities Research Award.
Jessica Lockhart Jessica Lockhart is Project Manager of the Book and the Silk Roads and a
sessional instructor at the Department of English and Drama, University of
Toronto Mississauga with teaching interests in global literatures of the
premodern world, as well as medieval literatures of the British Isles.
James W. Malazita James W. Malazita is an Assistant Professor in Science & Technology
Studies and in Games & Simulation Arts & Sciences at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication,
Culture, and Media from Drexel University. His research brings feminist
technoscience studies into the analysis of game engines, computer
science, and digital culture. He is the founder and director of
Rensselaer's
Tactical
Humanities Lab, a research space for combining technical
practice with critical thought and social justice.
Maciej Maryl ORC-ID:0000-0002-2639-041X
Maciej Maryl Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences,
Poland maciej.maryl@ibl.waw.pl Maciej Maryl, Ph.D., assistant professor and at
the founding Director of the Digital Humanities Centre at the Institute of
Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is a member of Teksty Drugie and OpenMethods Editorial Boards, DARIAH-PL Steering Board, OPERAS Core
Group and ALLEA E-humanities Working Group. He is a vice-chair of DARIAH
Digital Methods and Practices Observatory (DiMPO) working Group. He is
currently chairing a COST Action NEP4DISSENT. More info: http://maryl.org/
Cody Mejeur Cody Mejeur is Visiting Assistant Professor of Game Studies at University at
Buffalo, SUNY. Their work uses games to theorize narrative as an embodied and
playful process that constructs how we understand ourselves and our realities.
They have published on games pedagogy, gender and queerness in games, and the
narrative construction of reality. They currently work with the LGBTQ Video
Game Archive on preserving and visualizing LGBTQ representation. They are
editor at One Shot: A Journal of Critical Games & Play, and serve as
Diversity Officer for the Digital Games Research Association.
Nirmala Menon Dr. Nirmala Menon leads the Digital Humanities and Publishing Research
Group at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indore, India. She is
a faculty member of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS),
Discipline of English, IIT Indore. She is the author of Migrant Identities of Creole Cosmopolitans:
Transcultural Narratives of Contemporary Postcoloniality
(Peter Lang Publishing, Germany, 2014) and Remapping the Postcolonial Canon: Remap, Reimagine,
Retranslate (Palgrave Macmillan, UK 2017). She has published
in numerous international journals and speaks, writes and publishes
about postcolonial studies, digital humanities and scholarly publishing.
Her primary area of research is Postcolonial Literature and Theory. Her
focus is on the comparative study of twentieth century postcolonial
literatures in English, Hindi and other languages. She is one of the
founders of Digital Humanities Alliance for Research and Teaching
Innovations or DHARTI. Currently, the secretariat of the DHARTI is
hosted at IIT, Indore.
Laura Mitchell Laura Mitchell is the Academic Administrative Assistant at St. Thomas More
College, University of Saskatchewan. Her role covers research facilitation and
grant administration for the college.
Rachel Noorda Rachel Noorda is Director of Publishing and Assistant Professor of English at
Portland State University.
Mila Oiva Mila Oiva is a Cultural Historian, digital humanist and expert on Russian
and Polish history. She is currently finalizing her work as a
postdoctoral researcher at the University of Turku in Finland and
starting as a senior research fellow at the CUDAN ERA Chair, Tallinn
University, Estonia. Her research focuses on computer-assisted analysis
of transfer and circulation of knowledge, ranging from the 19th century
press through the Cold War era trans-systemic interactions to the 21st
century internet discussions.
Urszula Pawlicka-Deger Urszula Pawlicka-Deger held a postdoctoral
researcher position in the Department of Media at
Aalto University, Finland before joining King’s
Digital Lab at King’s College London, UK as a
Marie Curie Fellow. Her research interests include
the epistemology of a humanities laboratory, the
process of knowledge production intertwined with
technologies, and the infrastructural influences
on humanistic work. Pawlicka-Deger was a Fulbright
scholar in the Creative Media and Digital Culture
at Washington State University Vancouver, US
(2014-2015), and a visiting researcher in the
Department of English at Stony Brook University,
US (2015-2016). She was awarded the Willard
McCarty Fellowship at the Department of Digital
Humanities at King’s College London, UK (2019),
where she was also a keynote speaker for the event
"Humanities Laboratories:
Critical Infrastructures and Knowledge
Experiments" organized in conjunction with
the Critical Infrastructure Studies Initiative. In
addition, she was awarded the Vanguard Fellowship
at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the
University of Birmingham, UK (2019), where she
organized the "Rebuilding
Laboratories" workshop to initiate an
interdisciplinary discussion on laboratories from
the perspective of digital humanities, science and
technology studies, and natural science. Over the
years, she has published peer-reviewed scholarly
articles and monographs and presented the research
outcomes at international meetings. Her last
publications related to the concept of a
laboratory include "Data,
Collaboration, Laboratory: Bringing Concepts from
Science into Humanities Practice" released
in English Studies
(2017) and the forthcoming article "Laboratory: A New Space in Digital
Humanities" in Institutions, Infrastructures at the Interstices.
Debates in the Digital Humanities
(University of Minnesota Press, 2021).
Craig Pearson Craig Pearson has bachelor's degrees in Neuroscience and Biochemistry
& Molecular Biology from Michigan State University, with an
additional major in English and, as a Marshall Scholar, he earned a PhD
in clinical neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. He is now a
medical student at Washington University School of Medicine. His
interests include art, fiction, and narrative medicine, and he has
contributed to several collaborative projects that showcase the
perspectives of people with different abilities and health status.
Natalie Philips Natalie Phillips is an associate professor of English and affiliated
faculty in Cognitive Science at Michigan State University. As founder
and co-director of the Digital Humanities and Literary Cognition lab
(DHLC), she is devoted to pioneering interdisciplinary experiments that
foreground the humanities as they explore the complex cognitive systems
involved in our engagement with literature, music and the arts.
Alongside her first book, Distraction (JHUP), her work in
eighteenth-century literature, cognitive approaches to fiction, literary
neuroscience, and the history of mind has appeared in high-impact
volumes from Oxford University Press, MIT Press, Routledge, among
others, and has been supported by grants including the American Council
of Learned Societies, the Mellon foundation, the Wallenberg foundation,
and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Hined Rafeh Hined A. Rafeh is a PhD candidate in Science & Technology Studies and
a Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Research Fellow at Rensselaer
Polytechnic. Her research explores genetic testing, technoidentities and
critical scientific engagement. Her dissertation is on the regulation
and commercialization of genetic health tests, and how genetic tests
construct and are shaped by notions of risk, diagnosis, and
identity.
Geoffrey Rockwell Geoffrey Rockwell is a Professor of Philosophy and Digital Humanities at
the University of Alberta where he is also the Director of the Kule
Institute for Advanced Study and Associate Director of AI for Society
signature area. He publishes on textual visualization, text analysis,
pachinko, ethics and technology and on digital humanities including a
co-authored book with Stéfan Sinclair titled
Hermeneutica from MIT Press (2016). He is co-developer with
Sinclair of Voyant Tools (
voyant-tools.org), an award winning suite of text analysis
tools. He is currently the President of the Canadian Society for Digital
Humanities (CSDH-SCHN).
David S. Roh David S. Roh is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Digital
Matters Lab at the University of Utah, where he specializes in Digital
Humanities and Asian American literature. He is the author of Illegal Literature (University of Minnesota Press),
and coeditor of Techno-Orientalism (Rutgers
University Press). His current book project, Mediating
Empire, is under advance contract with Stanford University Press.
His work has appeared in Law & Literature, Journal of
Narrative Theory, MELUS, and Verge.
Valérie Schafer Valérie Schafer has been a Professor in Contemporary European History at the
C²DH (Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History) at the University
of Luxembourg since February 2018. She previously worked at the CNRS in France
and is still an Associate Researcher at the Center for Internet and Society
(CNRS UPR 2000). She specialises in the history of computing,
telecommunications and data networks. Her main research interests are the
history of the Internet and the Web, the history of European digital cultures
and infrastructures, and born-digital heritage (especially Web archives). She
is Vice-Chair of the ECREA Communication History Section, a member of the
Management Committee of the "Tensions of Europe"
network, and General Secretary of the Society for the History of Media (SPHM).
She is a co-founder of the journal Internet
Histories. ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8204-1265
Lynne Siemens Lynne Siemens is an Associated Researcher in the Electronic Textual
Cultures Lab and an Associate Professor in the School of Public
Administration, University of Victoria. Her research interests include
academic entrepreneurship, teams, collaboration and project management
with a focus on knowledge mobilization and transfer at individual,
organizational and community levels.
Ray Siemens Ray Siemens (
http://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/) directs the Electronic Textual
Cultures Lab, the Implementing New Knowledge Environments project, and
the Digital Humanities Summer Institute. He is Distinguished Professor
in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria, in English
and Computer Science, and past Canada Research Chair in Humanities
Computing (2004-15); in 2019-20, he is also Leverhulme Visiting
Professor at Loughborough U (2019-20) and Global Innovation Chair in
Digital Humanities at U Newcastle (2019-22).
Stéfan Sinclair Stéfan Sinclair was an Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at
McGill University. His primary area of research was in the design,
development, usage and theorization of tools for the digital humanities,
especially for text analysis and visualization. He led or contributed
significantly to projects such as Voyant Tools, the Text Analysis Portal
for Research (TAPoR), the MONK Project, the Simulated Environment for
Theatre, the Mandala Browser, and BonPatron. In additional to his work
developing sophisticated scholarly tools, he had numerous publications
related to research and teaching in the Digital Humanities, including
Visual Interface Design for Digital Cultural Heritage, co-authored with
Stan Ruecker and Milena Radzikowska (Ashgate 2011) and Hermeneutica with
Geoffrey Rockwell (MIT Press 2016). He was active in the digital
humanities community serving as President of both the Association for
Computers and the Humanities (ACH), VP of the Canadian Society for
Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude de médias interactifs
(SDH/SEMI) and an editor of Digital Humanities Quarterly (Digital
Humanities Quarterly). We grieve his untimely passing on August 6th,
2020. An obituary is available at
https://csdh-schn.org/stefan-sinclair-in-memoriam-2/.
Elena Spadini Elena Spadini is post-doctoral researcher at the University of Lausanne, where
she is developing a digital edition of Gustave Roud’s complete works. Elena
holds a PhD in Romance Philology from Sapienza Università di Roma and
specialized in Digital Humanities at the École nationale des chartes. From 2014
to 2017 she was a Marie Curie fellow in the ITN DiXiT (Digital Scholarly
Editions Initial Training) program. Elena has also co-edited a volume on
digital scholarly editing and published in international journals about digital
editing, Romance philology, textual variation, and manuscripts.
Shanmugapriya T Shanmugapriya T is a doctoral scholar at Indian Institute of Technology
Indore, India. She has completed her Master degree from Bharathiar
University and worked on a post-graduate project titled "Virtual Spaces and Existential Territories of Aya
Karpansika’s Digital Poetry". Her doctoral research is
focused on the impact of technological devices and digital technologies
in/on post-independence Indian English literature in terms of narrative,
publishing and practice. She is interested in interdisciplinary research
such as Literature, Digital Culture, and Environmental History, and
currently working in the DH topics that include text mining,
geographical text analysis, digital literary works and all forms of
digital creativity. She has also been part of the Digital Humanities and
Publishing Studies Research Group (DHPSR) at IIT Indore. She is also
co-editing the first anthology of Indian Electronic Literature.
Ezra J. Teboul Ezra J. Teboul is an artist, researcher and organizer whose work focuses
on making accessible the human and non-human labor in electric sound. He
holds a PhD in electronic arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
has published various chapters and articles between hacking, history and
sound art, and released records under the name
Passive Tones with Karl Hohn. Various re/construction
projects of electronic music systems can be found at
redthunderaudio.com.
Caroline Winter Caroline Winter is the Open Scholarship Facilitator at the Electronic
Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL). She is also a PhD candidate in English at
the University of Victoria, where she studies British Romantic
literature and digital humanities. Her other research interests include
Gothic literature, women’s writing, literature and economics, and book
history.
Andras Zsom Andras Zsom is a Lead Data Scientist and Adjunct Lecturer in Data Science at
Brown University. He completed his diploma at the Eotvos Lorand University in
Budapest, Hungary; then he completed his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for
Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany. He was a postdoctoral associate at MIT before
joining Brown.