Author Biographies

Anne Baillot Anne Baillot is a Full Professor of German Studies at Le Mans Université (France). Her research focusses on German Enlightenment and Romanticism, digital philology and publication strategies. She is the editor of the digital scholarly edition Letters and Texts. Intellectual Berlin around 1800 (www.berliner-intellektuelle.eu) and former manager of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative (journals.openedition.org/jtei).

Johannes Burgers Johannes Burgers is an assistant professor of English and Digital Humanities at Ashoka University, New Delhi. He is also an associate director for the Digital Yoknapatawpha (DY) project (http://faulkner.iath.virginia.edu/) – a collaborative, online resource for exploring William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha fictions through deep maps, audio recordings, historical photographs, archival materials, and other visualizations. The portal was created by an international team of Faulkner scholars and educators with the support of technologists at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. He provides critical commentaries for the site, and also designs new types of visualizations. This digital work has served as a wellspring for more traditional print scholarship in venues like Cultural Analytics, Mississippi Quarterly, and a forthcoming piece in The Norton Critical Edition of Absalom, Absalom!. More broadly, his digital scholarship is focused on rendering conceptual maps of fuzzy humanities data using GIS.

Github repo: https://github.com/joostburgers/

Kate Court Kate Court is Research Software Engineer who originally trained in the Arts before completing an MSc in Computer Science at Newcastle University in 2018. She now works as a full stack web developer with researchers across the university. Kate has worked on the ATNU project for two years.

James Cummings James Cummings is the Senior Lecturer in Late-Medieval English Literature and Digital Humanities for the School of English Literature, Language, and Linguistics at Newcastle University. He studies the use of digital technology for editing and also the surviving records of late-medieval drama. In Digital Humanities he is most known for being an elected member (2005-2019) of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium's Technical Council, and was previously its chair. He has since been elected to the TEI Board of Directors. One of his research interests is the Record of Early English Drama project and especially its shift to digital technologies. James is interested in text encoding. meta-schemas, and emergent technology for the editing, publication, interrogation of digital editions. He was the founder of Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School and DH Awards.

James Dobson James E. Dobson is an assistant professor of English and Creative Writing and the Director of the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Critical Digital Humanities: The Search for a Methodology (Illinois, 2019) and Modernity and Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century America (Palgrave, 2017) and the co-author of Moonbit (punctum books, 2019).

Sergej Dogadov Sergej Dogadov is a PhD student at TU Berlin by the department for Intelligent Data Analysis and Machine Learning with more than five years of teaching experience. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from TU Berlin with the main focus in intelligent systems and theoretical informatics. Current research interests are Probabilistic methods, Bayesian Neural Networks, eXplainable AI and Joint Energy Models.

Fiona Galston Fiona Galston is a Research Software Engineer at Newcastle University. She joined the team in April 2019 after working in industry as a software developer. Fiona has worked on a variety of projects for Animating Text Newcastle University and the Alan Turing Institute. She specialises in web development and contributes largely to the user interface for the Hands-on Reading application.

Tiago Sousa Garcia Tiago Sousa Garcia is an early modernist and digital humanist, and the Research Associate for Animating Texts Newcastle University (ATNU) since 2017. His early modern research focuses on literary translations from the vernacular into English, with particular emphasis in the period of the English Civil War, Interregnum, and Restoration. His digital humanities research centres around textual encoding, digital scholarly editing, textual analysis, and the uses of AI for literary research. He has taught several workshops on TEI and programmatic approaches to humanities' research, is co-managing editor of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative (jTEI), and has published on the relationship between literary translation and the contemporary political context, in particular with reference to Sir Richard Fanshawe's translation of Os Lusíadas, by the Portuguese poet Luís de Camões.

Diana Hope Polley Diana H. Polley is Director of the Academy Scholars Program and Associate Professor of English at the United States Air Force Academy. Her book, Echoes of Emerson, won the 2018 Robert Penn Warren — Cleanth Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism; her research interests include American literature and culture of the long 19th century, the American West, and the digital humanities.

Rabea Kleymann Rabea Kleymann is a postdoctoral digital humanities researcher at the Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin. Her research interests lie in the areas of philosophy of science, new materialism and critical infrastructure studies. She is co-convenor of the German working group "Digital Humanities Theory" and co-chair of the working group "Diversity & Inclusion" of the Postdoc Network of the Leibniz Association.

David Lassner David Lassner is a Doctoral Researcher at the machine learning lab at TU Berlin and at the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD). His research interests are natural language processing and applications in digital humanities and computational literary studies.

Matthew Lavin Matthew J. Lavin is an Assistant Professor of Humanities Analytics in the Data Analytics Program at Denison University. His work focuses on applications of cultural analytics methods to book history research, including periodical studies.

Mary Mcaleer Balkun Mary McAleer Balkun is Professor of English and Director of Faculty Development at Seton Hall University. She is the author of The American Counterfeit: Authenticity and Identity in American Literature and Culture (2006); she is co-editor of Transformative Digital Humanities: Challenges and Opportunities (Routledge 2020), Women of the Early Americas and the Formation of Empire (Palgrave 2016), The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry (Greenwood 2005), and the forthcoming Wiley Companion to American Poetry.

Hanna Musiol Hanna Musiol is Associate Professor of Literature at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and a founding member of NTNU Environmental Humanities and NTNU ARTEC. Her interests include transnational American literature, transmedia storytelling, and critical pedagogy, with emphasis on migration, environmental justice / political ecology, and human rights. She publishes on literary and transmedia aesthetics and justice and collaborates regularly with grassroots initiatives and nonacademic institutions on city-scale curatorial, public humanities, and civic engagement projects. https://www.ntnu.no/ansatte/hanna.musiol

Klaus-Robert Müller Klaus-Robert Müller (Ph.D. 92) has been a Professor of computer science at TU Berlin since 2006; at the same time he is directing rsp. co-directing the Berlin Machine Learning Center and the Berlin Big Data Center and most recently BIFOLD. From 2012 he has additionally been Distinguished Professor at Korea University in Seoul. In 2020/2021 he spent his sabbatical at Google Brain as a Principal Scientist. Among others, he was awarded the SEL Alcatel Communication Award (2006), the Science Prize of Berlin by the Governing Mayor of Berlin (2014), the Vodafone Innovations Award (2017), Pattern Recognition Best Paper award (2020). In 2012, he was elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences-Leopoldina, in 2017 of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and also in 2017 external scientific member of the Max Planck Society. In 2019 and 2020 he became an ISI Highly Cited researcher in the cross-disciplinary area. His research interests are intelligent data analysis and Machine Learning in the sciences (Neuroscience, specifically Brain-Computer Interfaces, Physics, Chemistry) and in industry.

Aditi Nafde Aditi Nafde is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature for the School of English Literature, Language, and Linguistics at Newcastle University. She is PI of the AHRC-funded project "Manuscripts after Print c.1450-1550: Producing and Reading Books during Technological Change." She is a book historian and her research examines the endurance and adaptability of handwriting in response to technological change.

Shinichi Nakajima Shinichi Nakajima is a senior researcher in Berlin Big Data Center, Machine Learning Group, Technische Universität Berlin. He received the master degree on physics in 1995 from Kobe university, and worked with Nikon Corporation until September 2014 on statistical analysis, image processing, and machine learning. He received the doctoral degree on computer science in 2006 from Tokyo Institute of Technology. His research interest is in theory and applications of machine learning, in particular, Bayesian learning, generative modeling, and multimodal analysis.

Jan-Erik Stange Jan-Erik Stange is a research associate at the cluster EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities" at Freie Universität Berlin. His research interests lie in critical data visualization and interface design in the digital humanities. As a designer by profession he has brought a design perspective to numerous digital humanities projects.

Matt Coneys Wainwright Matt Coneys Wainwright teaches at the University of Oxford and the Warburg Institute. Between 2019 and 2020 he was Postdoctoral Research Associate on the AHRC-funded project "Manuscripts after Print c.1450-1550: Producing and Reading Books during Technological Change" (PI: Dr Aditi Nafde, Newcastle University). His research deals with the writing and reading cultures of Renaissance Italy, the history of the book between manuscript and print, and late medieval and early modern pilgrimage.