Author Biographies

Giacomo Alliata Giacomo Alliata is pursuing a Ph.D. at the Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+) at EPFL, Switzerland. After obtaining a Master's degree in Digital Humanities at EPFL, Giacomo decided to specialise himself in the field of experimental museology, leveraging the newest technologies to create interactive and innovative ways to approach cultural and heritage collections. He believes this kind of digital installation can offer a more compelling exploration of large archives, turning visitors to cultural exhibitions from mere spectators into true actors of the experience. His research interests include the science of interactions, theories of embodiment, and the narrative component of immersive environments for cultural heritage.

Katherine Aske Dr. Katherine Aske is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in English at Edinburgh Napier University, UK, researching female beauty, skincare, and proto-dermatology in the long eighteenth century. Her first monograph, Being Pretty in the Eighteenth Century: A Cultural History of Female Beauty, is forthcoming with Bloomsbury. She is also the Editorial Assistant for the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Andrea Bellandi Andrea Bellandi is a researcher in Computational Linguistics. He has a PhD in Computer Science in the field of knowledge representation and reasoning. He currently contributes to the development of formal models and tools of computational lexicography and terminology. He has been working also on the Babylonian Talmud Translation Project, contributing to the development of Traduco, an innovative software for completing the first ever translation into Italian of the Talmud, the fundamental Jewish text written in Ancient Aramaic.

Stefan Bornhofen Stefan Bornhofen was born in 1972. He studied mathematics and computer science at the University of Mainz (Germany), and received a PhD degree in computer science from the University Paris-Sud, Orsay, France in 2008. He fills a teaching and research position at the CY Tech engineering school in Cergy near Paris, where he is the head of the master's program Visual Computing specializing in computer graphics, computer vision and human-computer interaction. Stefan has strong interests in interactive visual experiences and visual user interfaces.

George Buchanan George Buchanan is Associate Professor and Deputy Dean (Research) in Computing Technologies at RMIT University and a Chief Investigator for the Australian Cultural Data Engine.

David Carlin David Carlin is Professor of Creative Writing at RMIT University and a Chief Investigator for the Australian Cultural Data Engine.

Andrew A. Cashner Andrew A. Cashner, PhD (University of Chicago, 2015), is the author of Hearing Faith: Music as Theology in the Spanish Empire (2020) and the winner of the 2015 Alfred Einstein Award from the American Musicological Society. He published two volumes of digital critical editions of Villancicos about Music from Seventeenth-Century Spain and New Spain with the Web Library of Seventeenth-Century Music, and has created digital-humanities projects on music in the history of computing (https://www.arca6150.info) and on Native American music. With the support of a Fellowship for Digital Publication from the National Endowment for the Humanities, he and Seneca faithkeeper Bill Crouse, Sr., are coauthoring the website and digital book, Songs at the Woods’ Edge: The Earth Songs of the Seneca Nation. He has taught music at the University of Southern California and the University of Rochester. He is active as a pianist, organist, and ensemble director, and teaches in the ROC Music after-school program in Rochester, New York. For more information, see http://www.andrewcashner.com/.

Erik Champion Erik Champion is an Enterprise Fellow at the University of South Australia and a Chief Investigator for the Australian Cultural Data Engine.

Tianxiang Chen Tianxiang Chen is a Master’s student in English Language Literature at Harbin Engineering University, China.

Hugh Craig Hugh Craig is Emeritus Professor at the University of Newcastle and a Chief Investigator for the Australian Cultural Data Engine.

Nat Cutter Nat Cutter is the Mary Lugton Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant Lecturer in History at the University of Melbourne, and former Research Coordinator and Cultural Data Research Fellow for the Australian Cultural Data Engine.

Jonathan Dentler Jonathan Dentler is a historian who studies the press, photography, visual art, technology, and the sciences in U.S., transatlantic, and global frameworks. He is an Associate Professor of U.S. History at the Catholic University of Paris and a Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. His forthcoming book with Columbia University Press is titled The Wired Image: Phototelegraphy, News Agencies, and the World Picture, 1917-1955.

Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio is Associate Professor of Computer Engineering. His main research interests are: Technology Assisted Review systems, Interactive Information Retrieval, Computational Terminology and Open Data Science. He is the principal investigator and coordinator of the Centre of Studies of Computational Terminology (CENTRICO) at the University of Padova, and Open Data advisor and member of the Open Science Committee of the University of Padova. He is co-editor in chief of the journal Umanistica Digitale and was appointed as the Secretary of the Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale (AIUCD) from 2018 until 2020.

Scott East Scott East is a Lecturer of Art and Design at the University of New South Wales and a Chief Investigator for the Australian Cultural Data Engine.

Rachel Fensham Rachel Fensham is Professor of Dance and Theatre Studies at the University of Melbourne and former Lead Chief Investigator for the Australian Cultural Data Engine.

Daniel Foliard Daniel Foliard is a historian and Professor of Modern History at Université Paris Cité, LARCA (UMR 8225). His core interests are modern European imperialisms and their visual archives. His first book, Dislocating the Orient: British Maps and the Making of the Middle East, 1854-1921, was published by the University of Chicago Press. The Violence of Colonial Photography, his second monograph, was published in English by Manchester University Press in 2022.

Lisa M. Given Lisa M. Given is Director of the Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, Professor of Information Sciences at RMIT University, and a Chief Investigator for the Australian Cultural Data Engine.

Wolfgang Thomas Göderle Wolfgang Göderle is a postdoc in the History Department of the University of Innsbruck and a Research Associate with the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena. His expertise lies with the processing and the analysis of large historical datasets in 19th century Habsburg Central Europe, particularly cadastral map data and serial publications, such as the Schematismus. He is the PI of several research projects that explore the potential of deep learning for historical and archeological research work.

Meredith L. Hale Meredith Hale is an Associate Professor and Metadata Librarian at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. In this role, she creates and shares metadata for digitized special collections materials and manages metadata aggregation for the Digital Library of Tennessee. She has worked with the Maria Edgeworth Letters Project since 2021, acting as the metadata expert. She holds Master's degrees in art history and information science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as a Master's degree in 1700-1900 Literature and Culture from the University of Sussex.

Hilary Havens Hilary Havens is Associate Professor of English and the director of the Digital Humanities program at the University of Tennessee. She is one of the editors of the Maria Edgeworth Letters Project. She is also the author of Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Authorship from Manuscript to Print (CUP, 2019) and the editor of Didactic Novels and British Women's Writing, 1790-1820 (Routledge, 2017). Her edition of Samuel Richardson and Edward Young's correspondence is forthcoming in the Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, and she is currently editing Frances Burney's Cecilia for CUP.

Chris Hay Chris Hay is Professor of Drama at Flinders University and a Chief Investigator for the Australian Cultural Data Engine.

Yumeng Hou Yumeng Hou conducts research at the intersection of digital humanities, intangible cultural heritage, and computational archives. She is currently completing her Ph.D. at the Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+) at EPFL, Switzerland, with a defence date in the summer of 2024. Prior to her doctoral studies, Hou obtained her MSc in Computer Science from EPFL in 2017 and a BEng in Digital Media Technology from Zhejiang University in 2014. She has interdisciplinary experience in research, teaching, and industry, spanning fields such as digital museology, data visualisation, visual analytics, human-computer interaction, and media cloud technologies.

Lise Jaillant Dr. Lise Jaillant is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Digital Cultural Heritage at Loughborough University, UK. She has a background in publishing history and digital humanities. Dr. Jaillant is an expert on born-digital archives and the issues of preservation and access to these archives. Since 2020, she has been the UK PI for four projects on archives and artificial intelligence funded by the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council). These international projects aim to make digitised and born-digital archives more accessible to researchers and to use innovative research methods such as AI to analyse archival data. More information can be found at http://www.lisejaillant.com.

Diane K. Jakacki Diane Jakacki is Digital Scholarship Coordinator and associate faculty in Comparative & Digital Humanities at Bucknell University. Dr. Jakacki’s research focuses on digital humanities scholarship and pedagogy, early modern British literature and drama (especially its intersection and enhancements using DH tools and methods). She is principal investigator of the Liberal Arts Based Digital Editions Publishing Cooperative at Bucknell and co-lead of LEAF (the Linked Editing Academic Framework virtual research environment).

In 2022-23 Dr. Jakacki is a Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities at the University of Gulph, and she serves as Executive Board Chair (2023-2025) of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO).

Sarah Kenderdine Professor Sarah Kenderdine researches at the forefront of interactive and immersive experiences for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. In widely exhibited installation works, she has amalgamated tangible and intangible cultural heritage with new media art practice, especially in the realms of interactive cinema, augmented reality, and embodied narrative. Sarah has produced 90 exhibitions and installations for museums worldwide, including a museum complex in India, and she has received a number of major international awards for this work. In 2017, Sarah was appointed professor at the École Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland where she built the Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+), exploring the convergence of cultural heritage, imaging technologies, immersive visualisation, digital aesthetics, and cultural (big) data. Since 2017, Sarah is the director and lead curator of EPFL Pavilions, a new art/science initiative. In 2020, she was named in the "Museum Influencer List 2020 – The Power 10" by Blooloop, as well as "Switzerland's Top 100 Digital Shapers" by Bilanz in 2020 and 2021. In 2021, Sarah was appointed to be a corresponding fellow of The British Academy.

Jamie Kramer Jamie Kramer is completing her Literature PhD at the University of Tennessee. Her research interests include affect theory and eighteenth-century conceptions of sympathy and sensibility, object studies, material culture, and the didactic purpose of the eighteenth-century novel. Her dissertation will focus on material objects in eighteenth-century novel plots that facilitate emotional responses in the character and, by extension, in the reader. She is the recipient of the 2022 SEASECS Graduate Essay Prize for "Seeking Passions from Synthetic Solitude: Visiting the Human and Automaton Hermits of England's Garden Hermitages", which she is currently expanding for publication.

Edgar Lejeune In 2021, Edgar Lejeune received a PhD from the University Paris-Cité (France). He has been a postdoctoral researcher at TEMOS (University of Angers) and is now at the Centre Alexandre-Koyré (CNRS, EHESS, MNHN). His research aims to tell a history of the transformation of textual cultures at the digital age.

Rui Liu Rui Liu is a PhD student in Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Melbourne and an affiliated researcher for the Australian Cultural Data Engine.

John Macarthur John Macarthur is Professor in Architecture at the University of Queensland and a Chief Investigator for the Australian Cultural Data Engine.

Christian Macher Christian Macher has several years of professional experience in the financial industry as a risk modeler. Since 2021, Christian has been working as a data scientist at the Know Center in various projects and on various topics (time series modeling, predictive analytics, natural language processing (NLP), etc.).

Katrin Mauthner Katrin Mauthner is team member of the Data Insights area at the Know Center, a research center for trustworthy AI. She holds a degree in applied mathematics, with a special focus on statistics and optimization. She has gained professional experience in various industries, including software and automotive, before joining the Know Center as a senior data scientist. Her current work is devoted to turning AI projects into reality.

David McMeekin David McMeekin is Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering at Curtin University and a Chief Investigator for the Australian Cultural Data Engine.

Joanna Mendelssohn Joanna Mendelssohn is an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne and a Chief Investigator for the Australian Cultural Data Engine.

Justin Munoz Justin Munoz is an independent scholar and former data scientist for the Australian Cultural Data Engine.

Silvia Piccini Silvia Piccini is a researcher in Computational Lexicography and Terminology. She has contributed to the development of terminological resources in multiple languages and for various specialised domains. Her research interests primarily focus on the formal representation of terminological variation, with a keen focus on both the diachronic axis and cultural dimensions. She has been working also on aspects related to Baltic studies and general linguistics, particularly focusing on the thought and work of Ferdinand de Saussure. Since June 2018, she has been a member of the Cercle Ferdinand de Saussure.

Oliver Pimas Oliver Pimas heads the Data Insights area at the Know Center, a research center for trustworthy AI. Together with a team of data scientists, he helps companies realise the value-adding potential of data and AI. Prior to that, he was a researcher in the field of natural language processing (NLP) and worked as a data scientist at a London-based start-up called Mendeley, as part of a Marie Curie secondment.

Jacob Pleasants Jacob Pleasants is an Assistant Professor of Science Education at the University of Oklahoma. Through his teaching and research, he works to bring issues that lie at the intersection of science, engineering, technology, and society into STEM education.

Fabian Rampetsreiter Fabian Rampetsreiter is a historian and computer scientist at the University of Graz with a strong focus on early modern archeology and material culture. He supports the RePaSE team with his expertise in the above mentioned fields and in this capacity bridges the gap between history and archeology on the one hand and computer and data science on the other.

Julien Schuh Julien Schuh is a Senior Lecturer in French Literature and Digital Humanities at the Université Paris Nanterre, as well as the Deputy Director of the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Mondes. He is the main coordinator of the pictorIA consortium, which aims to promote interdisciplinary research on automatic pattern recognition in the social sciences (https://pictoria.hypotheses.org/).

James Smithies James Smithies is Professor of Digital Humanities at the Australian National University and a Chief Investigator for the Australian Cultural Data Engine.

Tyne Daile Sumner Tyne Daile Sumner is an ARC DECRA Fellow at the Australian National University and former Cultural Data Research Fellow for the Australian Cultural Data Engine.

Irene Testini Irene Testini is a computer scientist based in Special Collections and Archives, Cardiff University. She is currently a researcher on the AHRC/NEH-funded project, "Finding a Place" (https://findingaplace.org.uk/). Testini specialises in computer vision and its applications for historical images, and she was previously involved in projects on natural language processing.

Céline Thobois-Gupta Céline Thobois-Gupta is a PhD researcher in the Department of Drama at Trinity College Dublin. Her thesis – supervised by Nicholas Johnson and funded by the Irish Research Council – investigates the interactions between the human, technology and the environment in Samuel Beckett’s drama. Her publications have appeared in Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui, Beckett and Technology and Theatre Journal. She is currently co-editing Samuel Beckett and Ecology (Bloomsbury, 2024) and the Anthropocene issue of the Journal of Beckett Studies (Edinburgh University Press, 2024). She co-convenes the Samuel Beckett Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research with Trish McTighe.

Julia Thomas Julia Thomas is a Professor at Cardiff University where she specialises in Victorian illustration, word and image studies, and digital humanities. She has published widely in these fields, including Pictorial Victorians: The Inscription of Values in Word and Image (Ohio University Press, 2004) and Nineteenth-Century Illustration and the Digital (Palgrave, 2017). Thomas has been Principal Investigator on a number of AHRC-funded projects focusing on this work and is Director of the Database of Mid-Victorian Illustration (https://www.dmvi.org.uk/) and The Illustration Archive (https://illustrationarchive.cf.ac.uk/).

Deborah van der Plaat Deborah van der Plaat is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Queensland and a Chief Investigator for the Australian Cultural Data Engine.

Rada Varga Rada Varga was born in 1983. She studied ancient history and archaeology at the Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, where she also received her PhD in 2012. She is currently a researcher at the same university, working with a focus on Roman provincial archaeology and digital humanities.

Federica Vezzani Frederica Vezzani is Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Terminology and Specialized Translation. She is a member of the ISO/TC 37 Language and Terminology and of the Portuguese mirror committee CT 221 – Terminologia, Língua e Linguagens at the Portuguese Institute for Quality. Her main research interests are terminology, specialised translation, and technical communication. In particular, she focuses on the management of multilingual terminology according to ISO standards, and she has developed the FAIR terminology paradigm for the optimal organisation of findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable terminological data.

Lili Wang Lili Wang is a Professor of English at Harbin Engineering University, China. Her major research interests include Digital Humanities and African American literature. She published Recovery from Trauma: A Study of Black Women’s Trauma in Toni Morrison’s Fiction (2014).

Eliza Alexander Wilcox Eliza Alexander Wilcox is completing their PhD at the University of Tennessee. They study queer femininity and disability in the traditional long eighteenth and nineteenth century archive and in new media representations. Their dissertation will trace the emergence and visibility of queer femmes and queer fem(me)ininity in the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Their work on queer femmes, history, and digital adaptations is forthcoming in feral feminisms, the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, and Polygon.

Ivy Zheng Ivy Zheng is an independent scholar and former data engineer for the Australian Cultural Data Engine.