DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly
Author Biographies
Mark Anderson Mark Anderson was Professor of Computer Programming at Edge Hill University until
2017. He currently works as a consultant.
Solvegia Armoskaite Solvegia Armoskaite is a linguist who enjoys interdisciplinary collaborations on
anything to do with language. Her current research focuses on emotion in language. The
need to use digital means to capture emotional nuance drew her to this project.
Taylor Arnold Taylor Arnold is Associate Professor at the University of Richmond.
Nikolay Banar Nikolay Banar is a Ph.D candidate at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). His
scientific interests lie with the intersection of machine learning and humanities.
John Bell John Bell is the Associate Director of the Media Ecology Project at Dartmouth
College, where he is also a Lecturer in Film & Media Studies, Program Manager for
Research Computing's Digital Humanities Program, and Director of the Data Experiences
and Visualizations Studio. Bell is an artist and programmer whose research focuses on
digital collaboration. In addition to his work at Dartmouth, Bell is an Assistant
Professor of Digital Curation at the University of Maine.
Andrea Bellandi Andrea Bellandi holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, and is a researcher at the Institute for
Computational Linguistics A. Zampolli - CNR of Pisa. He works at the TALMUD
Project. His main research interests are the development of computer-aided translation
systems, the knowledge representation, the development of ontologies in the domain of
the literary computing.
Abdelkrim Beloued Abdelkrim Beloued is an R&D engineer at the INA's research and innovation
department since 2008. His research interest has focused on the semantic annotation,
authoring and publishing of audiovisual archives. The main achievement of this work is
Okapi; a collaborative platform for content description and authoring. He is also
interested in linked open data topics, especially the semantic interoperability and
linking of ontologies and data.
Giulia Benotto Giulia Benotto was educated at the University of Pisa, where she
graduated in Digital Humanities (with specialization in Language
Technology) and she got a Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics. After
different experiences in both industry and research, she is now working
in Extra Group as NLP Expert with a huge focus on developing
conversational agents.
J.J. Bersch JJ Bersch is a PhD Candidate in Film at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also
works in data curation and post-production at the Media History Digital Library. His
research is primarily interested in the industrial, cultural, and aesthetic
implications of crossover between the entertainment and advertising industries. He is
currently writing a dissertation entitled "Pack Your Product’s
Bags, It's Going Hollywood: Explaining the Mainstream Emergence of Cinematic Product
Placement in the 1980s."
JJ Bersch JJ Bersch is a PhD Candidate in Film at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also
works in data curation and post-production at the Media History Digital Library. His
research is primarily interested in the industrial, cultural, and aesthetic
implications of crossover between the entertainment and advertising industries. He is
currently writing a dissertation entitled "Pack Your Product’s
Bags, It’s Going Hollywood: Explaining the Mainstream Emergence of Cinematic Product
Placement in the 1980s."
Joe Bolton Joe Bolton received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Programming from Edge Hill
University in 2014. He is currently Head of Software and IT at Business Insight 3.
John Bonnett John Bonnett is Associate Professor of History at Brock University in St. Catharines,
Canada. He is a former Tier II Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities
(2005–2015), and is the author of Emergence and Empire,
an award-winning monograph devoted to the writings of the communication theorist
Harold Innis.
Federico Boschetti Federico Boschetti graduated in Classics at the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice in 1998. He got
his PhD in Classical Philology jointly at the University of Trento and the University
of Lille III in 2005 (thesis: "Essay of computer-assisted
linguistic and stylistic analyses of the Aeschylus’ Persae"). He also got a
PhD in Cognitive and Brain Sciences – Language, Interaction and Computation at the
University of Trento in 2010 (thesis: "A Corpus-based Approach to
Philological Issues"). Since 2011 he has been a researcher at the Institute
of Computational Linguistics A. Zampolli of the CNR of Pisa. His research
interests are: Digital Philology, Collaborative and Cooperative Philology, Historical
OCR and Distributional Semantics applied to ancient texts.
James Briggs James Briggs is a Data Scientist and Engineer based in Scotland.
Peter Broadwell Peter Broadwell is a Digital Scholarship Research Developer at the Stanford
University Libraries’ Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research, where his work
applies machine learning, web-based visualization, and other methods of digital
analysis to complex cultural data. Recent studies in which he has participated have
involved automatic translation and indexing of folklore collections in multiple
languages, as well as intermedia analysis of Japanese Noh theater performances.
Joel Burges Joel Burges is Associate Professor of English, Film & Media Studies, and Digital
Media Studies, Director of the Graduate Program in Visual & Cultural Studies, and
the Principal Investigator of Mediate at the University of Rochester. At work on a
book about the figure of the television writer from Carl Reiner to Issa Rae, he is
author of Out of Sync & Out of Work: History and the
Obsolescence of Labor in Contemporary Culture (Rutgers, 2018) and co-editor
of Time: A Vocabulary of the Present (NYU Press, 2016)
with Amy J. Elias. More recently, he has co-edited and contributed to special issues
of Post45 ("Stranger Things and
Nostalgia Now") and InVisible Culture ("Black Studies Now and the Currency of Hazel Carby").
Manuel Burghardt Manuel Burghardt is a Professor of Computational Humanities in the Institute of Computer Science at Leipzig
University. His research interests are digital methods for the analysis of videos and
movies, computational literary studies and computational musicology.
Marco Büchler Marco Büchler holds a Diploma in Computer Science. From 2006 to 2014 he
worked as a Research Associate in the Natural Language Processing Group
at Leipzig University. From April 2008 to March 2011 Marco served as the
technical Project Manager for the eAQUA project and continued to work in
that capacity for the following eTRACES project. In March 2013 he
received his PhD in eHumanities. Since May 2014 he leads a Digital
Humanities Research Group at the Göttingen Centre for Digital
Humanities. His research includes Natural Language Processing on Big
Humanities Data. Specifically, he works on Historical Text Reuse
Detection and its application in the business world. In addition to his
primary responsibilities, Marco manages the Medusa project (Big Scale
co-occurrence and NGram framework) as well as the TRACER machine for
detecting historical text reuse.
Dashiel Carrera Dashiel Carrera is a writer, musician, researcher, and media artist. He received his
BA from Brown University where he studied Literary Arts and Computer Science and is
currently an MFA candidate in Fiction at Virginia Tech. His first novel, The Deer, is
forthcoming from Dalkey Archive Press in October 2021.
Jean Carrive Jean Carrive holds a PhD in computer science from the Pierre & Marie Curie
University (now Sorbonne University) which he prepared in collaboration with the INA
(French National Audiovisual Institute). He then joined the INA as a research engineer
and then as deputy head of the Research Department. He has conducted several research
projects in the areas of automatic analysis of audiovisual and multimedia content. He
now heads a documentation team dedicated to research conducted on INA's collections in
various scientific domains.
Tanya E. Clement Tanya E. Clement is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the
University of Texas at Austin. Her primary areas of research are textual studies,
sound studies, and infrastructure studies as these concerns impact academic research,
research libraries, and the creation of research tools and resources in the digital
humanities. She has published widely in DH, literary, and sound studies. Some of her
digital projects include High Performance Sound Technologies for Access and
Scholarship (HiPSTAS) through which she leads development and interrogations of
socio-technical infrastructures for scholars and cultural heritage professionals who
seek to access and analyze spoken word audio collections.
Marie Cocriamont Marie Cocriamont obtained her Masters degree in Musicology at the University of Ghent
in 2016. She specialized in the comparison of didactic methods in Classical Arabic
music. In 2019 she started working as a scientific assistant at the Royal Museums of
Art and History, where she mainly works as an annotator for the research project
INSIGHT (Intelligent Neural Systems as InteGrated Heritage Tools).
Melanie Conroy Melanie Conroy is Associate Professor of French at the University of Memphis,
US. She received her doctorate from Stanford University and MAs from the
University of Paris 8 and SUNY Buffalo. Her research explores the intersection
of literature, visual studies, and social networks in modern French culture.
She is the co-director of the Salons Project (https://blogs.memphis.edu/salonsproject/), a part of Mapping the
Republic of Letters, as well as the director of Mapping
Balzac (https://blogs.memphis.edu/mappingbalzac/). She is currently working
on a cultural history of European salons as sites of literary production, as
well as a digital humanities survey on literary geography in the French realist
and post-realist novel from Balzac to Proust. Website: https://sites.google.com/view/melanierconroy
Allison Cooper Allison Cooper is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Cinema
Studies at Bowdoin College and project director of Kinolab. Her research is on the
relationship between moving image and computational analysis, focusing in particular
on the digital analysis of film language.
Eva Coudyzer Eva Coudyzer obtained a Master in Art History and Archaeology in 2004 at the Vrije
Universiteit Brussel. She worked in documentation centers and collection management
services in several cultural organizations in Belgium. In 2009 she started working as
a scientific assistant at the Royal Museums of Art and History, specializing in
collection management systems. She was coordinator and partner in several national and
international digitization projects with a main focus on linking and publishing
collections with the use of standardized controlled vocabularies. She currently works
as a scientific assistant at the information center of the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage where she
participates in the development of the collection management system and the
valorization of the collection in digitization projects.
Alan Craig Dr. Alan B. Craig is an independent consultant in High Performance Computing,
Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Visualization. Prior to this role, he
had a thirty-year career at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(UIUC) as a Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications (NCSA) and as Senior Associate Director for Human-Computer
Interaction at the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social
Science (I-CHASS). Among his other consulting roles, he is currently engaged
with the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) focusing
on humanities, arts, and social science.
Walter Daelemans Walter Daelemans is professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of
Antwerp and research director of the CLiPS (Computational Linguistics,
Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics) research centre. His expertise is in Natural
Language Processing and Machine Learning and applications in automatic text analysis
and computational stylometry.
Riccardo Del Gratta Riccardo Del Gratta holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, and is a researcher at the Institute for Computational
Linguistics A. Zampolli - CNR of Pisa.
Emily Edwards Emily Edwards is a doctoral student in Bowling Green State University’s American
Culture Studies Program and serves as co-producer of the Fembot Collective podcast,
Books Aren’t Dead. She received her Master’s of Arts
from New York University's Center for European and Mediterranean Studies where she
served as the Max Weber Research Assistant. She is concerned with topics of
nationalism, race, and digital media and has most recently explored these issues in
Germany as a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) visiting researcher at the
University of Leipzig’s Department of Sociology.
Tracey El Hajj Tracey El Hajj is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of
Victoria in the field of Science and Technology Studies. Her research focuses on the
algorhythmics of networked communications. She was a 2019-20
President’s Fellow in Research-Enriched Teaching at UVic, where she taught an advanced
course on "Artificial Intelligence and Everyday Life." She
is also a programmer with the Map of Early Modern London and Linked Early Modern Drama
Online as well as a research fellow in residence at the Praxis Studio for Comparative
Media Studies, where she investigates the relationships between artificial
intelligence, creativity, health, and justice.
Kenneth Enevoldsen PhD student at the Center for Humanities Computing Aarhus, at Aarhus University. His
current research is on multimodal representation learning with a primary focus on how
to meaningfully combine data sources from disparate domains into meaningful
representations. He is especially interested in applied machine learning in the
humanities and arts.
Tobias Englmeier Tobias Englmeier is a PhD candidate at the Centrum für Informations- und
Sprachverarbeitung (CIS) at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich.
His PhD project is centered around the topics of string matching and OCR
postcorrection. Additionally he has been involved in the conception and
implementation of numerous Digital Humanities projects coordinated by
the IT Gruppe Geisteswissenschaften (ITG) at the Ludwig Maximilians
University of Munich.
Liz Fischer Liz Fischer is a PhD student in the Department of English at The University of Texas
at Austin. Her research interests are medieval English book production, antiquarian
book lending and trade, and medievalism in the digital age. She is currently the
project manager for Atlas of a Medieval Life.
Tiamat Fox Tiamat Fox holds a bachelors in Psychology and Language, Media, & Communication,
and a Minor in Business from the University of Rochester. While at University of
Rochester, she worked as a research assistant for the Digital Scholarship Lab.
Manolis Fragkiadakis PhD student in the Center for Digital Humanities and Data Science Research Program at
Leiden University, the Netherlands. His current research focuses on the study of
automatic annotation as well as variation measurement for sign language corpora and
dictionaries.
David Francis David Francis is Senior Interactive Developer in Academic Technology and Consulting
at Bowdoin College. He provides technical support for various digital initiatives for
the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the Arctic Museum, the Bowdoin Library's Special
Collections, and faculty initiatives.
Samantha Fritz Samantha Fritz is the project manager for the Archives Unleashed Team. She is
an information management professional with a passion for open access,
information literacy education, and helping people connect with and make sense
of data. Samantha is driven to support information and resource dissemination
to positively transform the way researchers view, experience, interpret and
share information and knowledge. She has worked with organizations such as
Ryerson University’s Social Media Lab, the Islandora Foundation, and Dalhousie
University Libraries on digitization and data visualization projects.
Stefan Gerdjikov Stefan Gerdjikov is an Assistent Professor at the Faculty for
Informatics and Mathematics in the University of Sofia. He holds a PhD
degree in Mathematics from the University of Sofia. His prime research
area is Natural Language Processing where he studies approximate search
techniques and index structures for text mining.
Pierre Geurts Pierre Geurts is professor in computer science at the University of Liège. His
research interests concern the design, the empirical, and the theoretical analyses of
machine learning algorithms, with emphasis on scalability, interpretability, and
usability of these algorithms. He develops real-world applications of these algorithms
in various domains, including computational and systems biology, computer vision, and
digital humanities.
Lukas Gienapp Lukas Gienapp is a graduate student in Digital Humanities and Data Science at Leipzig
University. Working as a research assistant in the Text Mining and Retrieval department his research includes text and data
mining, natural language processing, and big data applications.
Pascale Goetschel Pascale Goetschel Professor, Contemporary History, holds the Chair of Contemporary
History "Culture, Politics and Society". Her general
expertise focuses on the history of cultural policies, the history of entertainment,
both in its live and audiovisual dimension, and the history of festivals, leisure and
free time. She manages the ANR ANTRACT programme (2018-2020) devoted to the
transdisciplinary analysis of film news between 1945 and 1969 (automatic recognition
of images, sound and text/history).
Dirk Gorissen Dirk Gorissen is a Computer Scientist and a Technical Product Lead at
Oxbotica.
Samuel Hansen Mathematics and Statistics librarian for the University of Michigan and a database
developer for the University of Wisconsin, Madison working on the Media History
Digital Library and PodcastRE. They also produce and host podcasts for ACMEScience,
including the podcast Relatively Prime which tells stories from the world of
mathematics.
Iben Have Iben Have is associate professor in Media Studies, School of Communication and
Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark. She holds a PhD from Musicology and has
specialized in research of sound and media in different constellations across the
fields of reception-, text-, and institutional analysis. She is co-founder and editor
in chief of the open access journal SoundEffects and has
been managing the digital radio archive and infrastructure LARM.fm.
Serge Heiden Serge Heiden holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Pierre & Marie Curie Paris
VI University (now Sorbonne University) and is currently a research officer in
textometry and digital philology, heading the Cactus research team in the UMR 5317
IHRIM laboratory. He develops the textometry text analysis methodology and leads the
development of its implementation in the TXM platform.
Robin Hershkowitz Robin Hershkowitz is a doctoral student in Bowling Green State University’s American
Culture Studies Program and serves as co-producer of the Fembot Collective podcast
Books Aren’t Dead. She received her Masters of Arts
from Bowling Green State University in Popular Culture. Her dissertation research is
about performance rituals in comedy roasts.
Eric Hoyt Kahl Family Professor of Media Production in the Department of Communication Arts at
the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the Director of the Media History Digital Library and the
Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater
Research. His ongoing work on digital projects focuses on global film magazine
digitization, podcast preservation, and building networks for educational radio
history.
Chris Jaques Chris Jaques received his Bachelor of Computer Science degree from Brock University
in 2013. He is currently the Cloud Architect for Badal.io.
Michael J. Junokas Michael has a PhD in Informatics from the University of Illinois and is currently a
researcher in Media and Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign developing innovative, multi-platform systems that have the ability
to gather, interpret, process, and control signals in live artistic performance. His
research has been published in ICLS, NARST, JCAL, ACM C&C, ICMC, and ISEA, and has
been used to inaugurate the Illinois Digital Ecologies and Learning Laboratory. His
artistic and musical work have been exhibited at a variety of venues including
McGill's Transplanted Roots: Percussion Research
Symposium, Illinois Wesleyan's New Music
Series, Illinois State's New Sound Series, the
School of the Art Institute’s Sullivan Galleries, and Experimental Sound Studio's
Outer Ear Series.
Eric Kaltman Eric Kaltman is an assistant professor of computer science at California State
University Channel Islands. His research focuses on the development of
computational tools and methodologies to support the historical study of
software. He is currently working on a monograph about video game and software
preservation, and on tools for the analysis of cultural software production
data. His preservation work has been funded by the NEH and IMLS, and he was a
CLIR Post-Doctoral Fellow for Data Curation in the Sciences at Carnegie Mellon
University Libraries from 2017-2019.
Mike Kestemont Mike Kestemont is research professor in Digital Text Analysis at the University of
Antwerp (Belgium). His expertise lies in the application of computational methods to
the Humanities, in particular premodern literature. With F. Karsdorp and A. Riddell,
he has co-authored the monograph Humanities Data Analysis: Case
Studies with Python, which will appear with Princeton University Press in
early 2021.
Anas Fahad Khan Anas Fahad Khan holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science, and is a researcher at the Institute for Computational
Linguistics A. Zampolli - CNR of Pisa. He revised and restructured the semantic
relations between the themes and motifs of the "Memorata
Poetis" project, in order to develop a more efficient and well-structured
taxonomy. He developed (along with others) an RDF model based on the lemon model for
representing diachronic lexico-semantic information. He is continuing to work on the
publication of the Parole Simple Clips lexicon as linked data. He is an active
participant in the Ontolex W3C community.
Eugenia S. Kim Eugenia S. Kim is a Lecturer of Performing Arts Research at the Hong Kong Academy for
Performing Arts. She received her PhD from the School of Creative Media, City
University of Hong Kong where she created the movement history Lithium Hindsight 360 by making use of Virtual Reality and Motion Capture
technologies. Eugenia takes an interdisciplinary practice-based approach to her
research which includes digital curation for dance and new media art.
Michael J. Kramer Michael J. Kramer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at SUNY
Brockport. He specializes in modern US cultural and intellectual history,
transnational history, public and digital history, and cultural criticism. He is the
author of The Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties
Counterculture (Oxford University Press, 2013) and is currently
writing a book about technology and tradition in the US folk music movement, This Machine Kills Fascists: What the Folk Music Revival Can
Teach Us About the Digital Age. He is also at work on a digital
public history project about the Berkeley Folk Music
Festival and the Folk Music Revival on the US West Coast. In his digital
humanities research, he explores experimental modes of data glitching, remixing, and
mapping for historical inquiry.
Clara Kruckenberg Clara Kruckenberg is a graduate student at Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) at
Copenhagen University. Her current research focuses on the study of social networks
and societal impact of international policy making, with an emphasis on information
mining and analysis of complex systems.
Alison Langmead Alison Langmead holds a joint faculty appointment at the University of
Pittsburgh between the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and the School of
Computing and Information. She is the Director of the Visual Media Workshop
(VMW), a humanities lab located in the Department of the History of Art and
Architecture that investigates material and visual culture in an environment
that encourages technological experimentation. Langmead is also a member of the
Executive Committee overseeing Pitt’s graduate and undergraduate Digital
Studies and Methods curricula, as well as serving as the university-wide
Principal Contact for the DHRX: Digital Humanities Research initiative at
Pitt.
Edward Larkey Edward Larkey received his MA in Modern German Literature from the Universität
Marburg in 1978 and his Dr. Phil in Cultural Studies (Kulturwissenschaft) from
the Humboldt-Universität Berlin in 1986. He was Professor of German Studies and
Intercultural Communication at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County
(USA) until 2020 and is currently Professor Emeritus. He is the author of
Pungent Sounds: Constructing Identity with Popular
Music in Austria (Peter Lang 1993) and Rotes
Rockradio: Populäre Musik und die Kommerzialisierung des
DDR-Rundfunks (LIT-Verlag 2007) and many articles in English and
German on transnational issues in German language popular music. His more
recent work is devoted to comparing transnational television format adaptations
and developing culturally critical methodologies of cross-cultural comparison.
These incorporate computer annotation and visualization software toward
developing a multimodal methodology for cross-cultural comparisons of different
versions of television format adaptations.
Karine Lasaracina Karine Lasaracina has master degrees in art history and journalism. She joined the
RMFAB in 1999 and is now head of the Digital Museum unit. From the very beginning of
her career, she has been interested in the concept of digital management of heritage
data. A current focus is the development of digital applications that can support
enriched visitor experiences in the museum through the implementation of various
innovative technological solutions, for example virtual reality tools, multimedia
narratives and virtual exhibitions. Promoter of various ongoing research projects, she
also works on Data Interoperability, Open Science, the development of Artificial
Intelligence to serve the museums, as well as innovation in the field of images of
artworks (reproduction, storage, preservation and sharing).
Davor Lauc Davor Lauc is an associate professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social
Sciences at the University of Zagreb, where he serves as chair for logic, and
Chief Data Scientist at TerraLogix.ai. He graduated in Information
Science and Philosophy at the University of Zagreb in 1994, and attained
his PhD in logic in 2004 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social
Sciences. He has published over 30 papers and three books in the general
area of Applied Logic, Philosophy of Science and Data Science. He also
worked at the Institute for Business Intelligence (now Bisnode Croatia)
as a founder, CTO and member of the supervisory board (1997-2009), and
at the National Genealogical Institute as the founder and CEO.
Antoine Laurent Antoine Laurent received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Le Mans
(France) in 2009. His research activities focus on speech recognition. He was a
research engineer from 2009 to 2013 in the Specinov company and an associate professor
at the University of Le Mans during the same period. In 2013, he was a research
engineer in the LIMSI laboratory (Paris, France), still working on speech recognition.
From 2014 to 2016, he was then working in the Vocapia Research company before being
recruited as an assistant professor by the University of Le Mans in September 2016. He
has over 40 reviewed publications. His current main interest focuses on end-to-end
architectures for speech processing and speech analytics.
Amy Legault Amy Legault received her Bachelor of Music degree from Brock University in 2014. She
currently works for the Billyard Insurance Group in Marketing.
Jimmy Lin Jimmy Lin holds the David R. Cheriton Chair in the David R. Cheriton School of
Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. Prior to 2015, he was a faculty
at the University of Maryland, College Park. Lin received his Ph.D. in
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in 2004.
Pasquale Lisena Pasquale Lisena got his PhD in Computer Science from Sorbonne University in 2019,
working since then as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Data Science department of
EURECOM, France. His research fields involve Semantic Web, Knowledge Engineering,
Recommender Systems, and Artificial Intelligence, applied in particular to Digital
Humanities.
Jeffrey A. T. Lupker Jeffrey A. T. Lupker is a PhD candidate at the University of
Western Ontario in the Don Wright Faculty of Music. His current
research involves the application of deep learning approaches
into music composition and artificially modelling aspects of
human creativity.
Erin MacAfee Erin MacAfee is a PhD student at the School of Human Kinetics at the University of
Ottawa. Specializing in music performance anxiety, her research explores the
relationships between self-efficacy and anxiety in young musicians.
Kayt MacMaster Kayt MacMaster is a dance artist, performance maker, and writer. She has spent the
last decade living and working in New York City. Presently she is an MFA candidate in
Dance at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Alison Martin Alison Martin is a Mellon Faculty Fellow at Dartmouth College in the Music Department
and the Cluster for Digital Humanities and Social Engagement. Her work explores the
relationships between race, sound, and gentrification in Washington, DC. Utilizing a
combination of ethnographic fieldwork and digital humanities methodologies, Martin
considers how African-American people in the city experience gentrification as a
sonic, racialized process. Her work has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the
Smithsonian Institution, the Society for American Music, and the American
Musicological Society.
Franck Mazuet Franck Mazuet is a filmmaker specialized in historical documentaries. He is presently
completing a doctorate at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University about the history of
the French newsreel company Les Actualités Françaises
(1945-1969).
Sylvain Meignier Sylvain Meignier is a professor in Computer Science. He obtained his PhD from the
Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse (France) in 2002. His main research
interests are speech and audio processing: he has published more than 80 journal and
conference publications. He works at the Computer Science Labs (LIUM) of the
University of Maine (Le Mans, France) since 2004 as an assistant professor, and became
a full Professor in September 2016. He leads the Language and Speech Technology (LST)
team of the LIUM.
Jacob Mertens PhD candidate in the Media and Cultural Studies program at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. He studies digital distribution, video games, and translation and
localization practices. His dissertation explores the industrial trends and
affordances of the video game digital marketplace, tensions between video game
producers and their audiences, and the implications of digital revisionism.
Ian Milligan Ian Milligan is an associate professor of history at the University of
Waterloo. His primary research focus is on how historians can use web archives,
as well as the impact of digital sources on historical practice more generally.
He is author of two monographs: History in the Age of Abundance (2019) and
Rebel Youth (2014). Milligan also co-authored Exploring Big Historical Data
(2015, with Shawn Graham and Scott Weingart) and edited the SAGE Handbook of
Web History (2018, with Niels Brügger).
Sarah Marks Mininsohn Sarah Marks Mininsohn is a choreographer, writer, and performance artist. She was
most recently based in Philadelphia, where she created and presented collaborative
performances. She is currently an MFA candidate in Dance at the University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Jason Mittell Jason Mittell is Professor of Film & Media Culture and American Studies, and
co-founder of the Digital Liberal Arts Initiative at Middlebury College. His books
include Complex Television: The Poetics of Contemporary
Television Storytelling (NYU Press, 2015), The
Videographic Essay: Practice & Pedagogy (with Christian Keathley &
Catherine Grant, http://videographicessay.org), and How to Watch
Television (co-edited with Ethan Thompson; NYU Press, 2013; revised edition
2020). He is project manager for [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving
Image Studies and co-director of the NEH-supported workshop series
Scholarship in Sound &
Image.
Jeremy Wade Morris Jeremy Morris is associate professor of Media and Cultural Studies in the Department
of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is interested in the
digitization of culture and is author of Selling Digital Music,
Formatting Culture and co-editor of Appified: Culture
in the Age of Apps. He is also the founder of podcastre.org, a research
database of podcasts that preserves over 2 million audio files.
Darren Mueller Darren Mueller is assistant professor of musicology at the Eastman School of Music,
University of Rochester. With a focus in jazz studies, he researches how technologies
of sound alter musical performance and the construction of racial ideologies in the
United States. He is also the co-editor of Digital Sound
Studies (Duke University Press, 2018).
Gloria Mugelli Gloria Mugelli has a Ph.D. in Classics at the University of Pisa and at the Centre AnHiMA of the École
des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She is member of the Lab of
Anthropology of the Ancient World, at the University of Pisa. Her Ph.D. thesis
discusses the form and function of rituals (sacrifice, supplication and funerary
rites) in ancient Greek tragedy, focusing on the relationship between ritual and
dramatic performances. Her research, based on the corpus of the surviving ancient
Greek tragedies, adopted the Euporia system.
Nanditha Narayanamoorthy Nanditha Narayanamoorthy is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of
Humanities at York University, Canada. Their research is focused on the
interrogation of digital communities in the Global South through the study of
digital protest movements. Nanditha is an active member of the York Centre for
Asian Research (YCAR) and The Canadian Society for Digital Humanities
(CSDH/SCHN) and is published in Digital Studies/Le Champ
Numérique and The Journal of Social Media and
Society.
Fernando Nascimento Fernando Nascimento is Assistant Professor in Digital and Computational Studies at
Bowdoin College teaching courses and researching on digital text analysis, philosophy
of technology and hermeneutics. He is currently lead collaborator of the Kinolab project, co-director of the
Digital Ricoeur project, and
director of the Society for Ricoeur
Studies.
Susan Noh Susan Noh is teaching assistant in Media and Cultural studies in the Department of
Communication Arts as the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Christopher J. Nygren Dr. Christopher Nygren is associate professor of early modern art in the
Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of
Pittsburgh. His research focuses on the intersection of religion, philosophy,
and art in the Italian Renaissance. His 2020 book, Titian’s Icons: Charisma,
Tradition, and Devotion in the Italian Renaissance, published by Penn State
University Press, re-examined one of the leading lights of Italian Renaissance
painting to reveal the lasting impact of Christian icons on Titian’s career. He
is also co-director of the Genealogies of Modernity Project (https://genealogiesofmodernity.org) and the Gun Violence and Its
Histories collective.
Victoria Nyst Associate professor working at the Leiden University Center for Linguistics in the
Netherlands. Her research focuses on sign languages and gestures of deaf and hearing
people in Africa, leading to the publication and analysis of a growing number of video
corpora of West African sign languages, as well as of a dictionary app for Ghanaian
Sign Language.
Joseph Osborn Joseph C. Osborn is an assistant professor of computer science at Pomona
College, where his research explores how humans comprehend games they design
and play — and how we can train computers to understand games too.
Jenny Oyallon-Koloski Jenny Oyallon-Koloski is an Assistant Professor of Media and Cinema Studies at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Certified Movement Analyst (CMA)
through the Laban/Bartenieff Institute for Movement Studies. She co-directs the
movement visualization lab with Michael J. Junokas. Her current book project explores
the storytelling power of figure movement and dance in French and American film
musicals.
Alois Pichler Alois Pichler is professor of philosophy at the University of Bergen and
director of its Wittgenstein Archives. He is the author of several
publications in the fields of Wittgenstein research and digital
humanities. He is the current editor of the Wittgenstein Archives’
editions of Wittgenstein’s Nachlass and has initiated and curates open
access Wittgenstein research platforms such as http://wittgensteinsource.org/ and http://wittgensteinonline.no/. Google scholar profile: https://scholar.google.no/citations?user=CQ0KNfgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao.
Bénédicte Pincemin Bénédicte Pincemin is a CNRS researcher in linguistics at the UMR5317 IHRIM
laboratory in ENS de Lyon, France. Her work focuses on textuality and interpretation
within the framework of computer-assisted quantitative and qualitative analysis on
digital text corpora. She is a co-founder and active member of TXM team, who develops
the textometry methodology through the implementation of TXM open-source software.
Géraldine Poels Géraldine Poels holds a PhD in History. She joined INA in 2015 as a Project Leader
for scientific partnerships.
William Ralph William Ralph was Associate Professor of Mathematics at Brock University until 2019.
A software developer, he has developed multiple applications to support education and
financial planning. Ralph is also an algorithmic artist. His work can be viewed at
http://billralph.com and http://portfoliomath.com.
Paul Rodriguez Paul Rodriguez is a Computational Data Scientist at the San Diego Supercomputer
Center and the NSF Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment
(XSEDE). He specializes in analytic and statistical methods for supporting
social science and humanities. He received his PhD in Cognitive Science and has
published in a variety of computational, experimental, and methodological
research projects. His interests include bringing advanced computational
methods to non-traditional supercomputer users.
Joshua Romphf Joshua Romphf is the programmer for the Digital Scholarship Lab at University of
Rochester’s River Campus Libraries and the lead developer of Mediate. Originally from
London, Ontario, he holds an MA in Film and Media Preservation from George Eastman
Museum and The University of Rochester.
Nick Ruest Nick Ruest is an Associate Librarian in the Digital Scholarship Infrastructure
Department at York University, co-Principal Investigator of the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation funded The Archives Unleashed Project (https://archivesunleashed.org/), co-Principal Investigator of the SSHRC
grant "A Longitudinal Analysis of the Canadian World Wide
Web as a Historical Resource, 1996-2014," and co-Principal
Investigator of the Compute Canada Research Platforms and Portals Web Archives
for Longitudinal Knowledge.
Matthia Sabatelli Matthia Sabatelli is a Ph.D. candidate in Machine Learning at the Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Liège where he is
supervised by Dr. Pierre Geurts. His main research interests revolve around the
transferability and scalability of deep neural networks whose generalization
properties are studied under the lens of different machine learning paradigms ranging
from computer vision to reinforcement learning.
Stephanie Sapienza Stephanie Sapienza is the Digital Humanities Archivist at the Maryland Institute for
Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at University of Maryland, where she develops and
implements digital humanities research projects with a targeted focus on archival,
data curation,and digital stewardship activities. Stephanie was previously the Project
Manager for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) at the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting, and prior to that she directed a Getty-funded digital film
history project with Los Angeles Filmforum entitled Alternative
Projections: Experimental Film in LA 1945 -1980. She has a bachelor’s degree
in Film Studies and English from the University of Kansas, and a master’s degree in
Moving Image Archive Studies from UCLA.
Sucharita Sarkar Sucharita Sarkar is Associate Professor of English at D.T.S.S College of
Commerce, Mumbai, India. Her doctoral thesis investigated print and online
mothering narratives in contemporary India. Her research focuses on
intersections of maternity with body, family, culture, technology and
narrative. Some recent publications include articles in Open Theology (2020); chapters in Food, Faith
and Gender in South Asia (Bloomsbury, 2020); Thickening Fat (Routledge, 2020); The Politics
of Belonging in Contemporary India (Routledge, 2019), Breastfeeding and Culture (Demeter, 2018); Mothers, Mothering and Globalization (Demeter, 2017),
Motherhood(s) and Polytheisms (Patron, 2017),
among others. Details of her research are available at
https://mu.academia.edu/SucharitaSarkar.
Stefania Scagliola Stefania is a Research Associate at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and
Digital History (C2DH).
Klaus U. Schulz Klaus U. Schulz is Professor in Computational Linguitics and since 1992
the technical director of the Centrum für Informations- und
Sprachverarbeitung (CIS) at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich.
The work of Professor Schulz concentrates on Semantic Search,
Construction of Ontologies and Taxonomies, Digital Libraries, Language
Technology for Optical Character Recognition and Document Analysis and
Finite-State Technology.
Emily Sherwood Emily Sherwood is the Director of the Digital Scholarship Lab at University of Rochester’s River Campus Libraries.
She is an alum of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Postdoctoral
Fellowship Program and holds a Ph.D. in English from the Graduate Center of the City
University of New York.
Matt St. John Matt St. John is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Communication Arts at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. His dissertation focuses on the history of film
festivals in the United States and their shifting relationships with the media
industries.
Ed Summers Ed Summers is the Lead Developer at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the
Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland, where he studies and works with the
Web as a sociotechnical system, with particular interest in its evolving architecture
and practices of curation and preservation. Ed has worked for two decades in academia,
start-ups, corporations and the government, to help bridge the worlds of libraries and
archives with the World Wide Web. Ed has a MS in Library and Information Science and a
BA in English and American Literature from Rutgers University, and is also a PhD
candidate in the UMD iSchool where he studies web archiving practices.
Andrea Taddei Andrea Taddei is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature at the University of
Pisa. He is the Scientific Secretary of the Laboratorio di Antropologia del Mondo
Antico, and an associate member at the Centre ANHIMA – EHESS in Paris. The main fields
of interest of his research are ancient Greek literature of the archaic and classical
period studied under an anthropological perspective, ancient Greek religion and
ancient Greek law. He is also interested in didactics of ancient languages.
Timothy R. Tangherlini Timothy R. Tangherlini is a Professor of Danish, and graduate advisor of the Folklore
Program at the University of California, Berkeley. His work focuses on the application
of computational models to the informal culture that circulates on and across social
networks. He has co-produced two documentary films, Our Nation: A
Korean Punk Rock Community, and Us & Them: Korean Indie Music in a K-pop
World.
Tyechia L. Thompson Tyechia L. Thompson is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Virginia
Tech. Her areas of interest are African American Literature and Digital
Humanities.
Lauren Tilton Lauren Tilton is Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of
Richmond. She directs the Distant Viewing Lab.
Raphaël Troncy Raphaël Troncy is an Associate Professor at the Data Science Department of EURECOM,
France since 2009, leading the Data-2-Knowledge team. His main research interest
concerns the use of semantic web technologies for data integration and semantic
multimedia annotations, information extraction and recommender systems. He is involved
in numerous cultural heritage related research projects such as ANTRACT that aims to
produce AI tools to support Historians in analyzing old film material.
William J. Turkel William J. Turkel is Professor of History at The University of
Western Ontario. His research involves computational history, big
history, and science and technology studies, with a focus on
methods. He co-founded The Programming
Historian and is the author of Digital Research Methods with Mathematica, 2nd rev
ed (2020).
Madeline Ullrich Madeline Ullrich is a PhD student in the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural
Studies at the University of Rochester and an Andrew W. Mellon Digital Humanities
Fellow. Her current research focuses on the study of television aesthetics and
narrative, with an emphasis in feminist and queer theory.
Dora Valkanova Dora Valkanova is a Lecturer at the Department of Media and Cinema Studies at the
University of Illinois. Her main research foci are history of U.S. Cold War cinema,
contemporary U.S. Independent cinema, and film festivals.
Peter van der Putten Assistant professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS),
Leiden University, The Netherlands. His research borders on the intersection of
machine learning and creative research, and he is a collaborator in the LCDS and SAILS
university wide AI research programs; the Creative Intelligence Lab and the [A]social
Creatures Lab, and the Media Technology MSc program. He is also a Director Decisioning
Solutions at Pegasystems.
Jasmijn Van Gorp Jasmijn Van Gorp is Assistant Professor of Audiovisual Data and Digital Culture at
Utrecht University.
Darko Vitek Darko Vitek was born in 1970 in Vukovar. He graduated from the Faculty of
Philosophy in Zagreb, where he graduated from history. The subject of
his scientific interest is the history of the early modern period, urban
history, theory of history and digital humanities. He is employed at the
Croatian Studies at the University of Zagreb, where as an associate
professor works on several courses in the field of his scientific
interest.
Noah Wardrip-Fruin Noah Wardrip-Fruin is a professor of computational media at the University of
California Santa Cruz, where he codirects the Expressive Intelligence Studio, a
technical and cultural research group. He is the author of How Pac-Man Eats (2020) and coeditor of The
New Media Reader (2003), among others. Computational media projects
on which he has collaborated have appeared in venues such as the Whitney Museum
of American Art and the IndieCade festival. He was a Principal Investigator for
the IMLS-funded Game Metadata and Citation Project (GAMECIP) at UC Santa Cruz
and Stanford University.
Hazel Wilkinson Dr. Hazel Wilkinson is a Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature
at the University of Birmingham
Mark Williams Mark Williams is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Dartmouth College
and the Director of The Media Ecology Project. He has published widely on media
history and historiography, for example in The Routledge
Companion to Media Studies and The Digital Humanities; The Arclight Guidebook to Media History and The Digital Humanities; Télévision: le moment expérimental (1935-1955); Convergence Media History; New Media:
Theories and Practices of Digitextuality; Collecting
Visible Evidence; No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in
Ideas of Race, Nationality and Ethnicity; Dietrich
Icon; Television, History, and American Culture:
Feminist Critical Essays; and Living Color: Race,
Feminism, and Television. He is a co-editor and contributor to Rediscovering U.S. Newsfilm: Cinema, Television, Archive (AFI
Series, Routledge, 2018).
Michael Winter Michael Winter is a Professor of Computer Science at Brock University. He is the
current Director of the GAME program, a Brock University-Niagara College joint program
dedicated to the design and study of video games.