Author Biographies

Jeffery Antoniuk Jeffery Antoniuk is the systems analyst of the Orlando Project, which has for more than a decade been exploring new ways of undertaking feminist literary history collaboratively using computers. Its major product is the born digital scholarly textbase Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present (Cambridge Online).

Shlomo Argamon Shlomo Argamon is an associate professor of computer science at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he is the director of the Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. He received his B.Sc. in applied mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1988, his Ph.D. in computer science from Yale University, where he was a Hertz Foundation Fellow, in 1994, and was a Fulbright Fellow at Bar-Ilan University in Israel from 1994 to 1996. Dr. Argamon's research focuses on the development of computational text analysis techniques, with applications mainly in computational stylistics, authorship attribution, sentiment analysis, and scientometrics.

Sharon Balazs Sharon Balazs is the textbase manager of the Orlando Project, which has for more than a decade been exploring new ways of undertaking feminist literary history collaboratively using computers. Its major product is the born digital scholarly textbase Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present (Cambridge Online).

David Bogen David Bogen is the author of Order Without Rules: Critical Theory and the Logic of Conversation (SUNY Press: 1999) and, with Michael Lynch, The Spectacle of History: Speech, Text, and Memory at the Iran-Contra Hearings (Duke University Press, 1996), as well as numerous articles, book chapters, and reviews that explore the intersection of language, technology, and everyday orders of social practice. His most recent work focuses on social, organizational, and perceptual issues in the design of computer mediated interactive environments. He is associate provost for academic affairs at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Susan Brown Susan Brown is the project director of the Orlando Project, which has for more than a decade been exploring new ways of undertaking feminist literary history collaboratively using computers. Its major product is the born digital scholarly textbase Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present (Cambridge Online).

Patricia Clements Patricia Clements is the founding director of the Orlando Project, which has for more than a decade been exploring new ways of undertaking feminist literary history collaboratively using computers. Its major product is the born digital scholarly textbase Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present (Cambridge Online).

Charles Cooney Charles Cooney works at the ARTFL Project at the University of Chicago, where he also earned a PhD in Comparative Literature. His scholarly work focuses on the relationships between French and American twentieth-century poets and between the two literary cultures.

Johanna Drucker Johanna Drucker is the inaugural Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. Her new book is SpecLab: Projects in Digital Aesthetics and Speculative Computing (Chicago: 2009).

Eric Gordon Eric Gordon is a scholar of new media, with a special interest in place-based digital communities, social networking, and virtual environments. He has recently published articles in Space and Culture, The Journal of Popular Culture, and Information, Communication and Society. He edited a special issue of Space and Culture on the topic of "The Geography of Virtual Worlds", exploring the ideas of how location matters even in the most virtual of conditions. His book, The Urban Spectator: American Concept Cities From Kodak to Google is forthcoming from Dartmouth College Press. He is the principal investigator of the The Digital Lyceum (http://digitallyceum.org), an NEH-funded project that seeks to build systems and practices around using and preserving digital backchannels for live events. And he received a MacArthur Digital Media and Learning grant for a project called Participatory Chinatown, which investigates the use of 3-D gaming technologies to augment the community planning process.

Jean-Baptiste Goulain Jean-Baptiste Goulain received his diplôme d'ingénieur (2007) in computer science and applied mathematics from École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées in Grenoble, France. During this time, he spent a semester at the Illinois Institute of Technology where he was a member of the Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. He is currently a student intern at Société Générale bank in New York.

Isobel Grundy Isobel Grundy is the founding co-investigator of the Orlando Project, which has for more than a decade been exploring new ways of undertaking feminist literary history collaboratively using computers. Its major product is the born digital scholarly textbase Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present (Cambridge Online).

Russell Horton Russell Horton is a research programmer at The ARTFL Project and the Digital Library Development Center at the University of Chicago, where he received his BA in Linguistics in 2002. He works on machine learning and text analysis software for the humanities.

Matthew G. Kirschenbaum Matthew G. Kirschenbaum is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland and Associate Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), an applied thinktank for the digital humanities. His first book, Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination, was published by the MIT Press in 2008.

William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. is Harry and Jane Willson Professor in Humanities at the University of Georgia, where he teaches English and Linguistics. His major publications include The Linguistics of Speech (Cambridge U Press, 2009); the Oxford Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English (with Clive Upton and Rafal Konopka; Oxford U Press, 2001); Introduction to Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Survey Data (with Edgar Schneider, Sage Publications, 1996); Handbook of the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (with Virginia McDavid, Theodore Lerud, and Ellen Johnson; U Chicago Press, 1994). He served as editor of the Journal of English Linguistics for 15 years and now serves as board member for various professional journals, atlases, and dictionaries, including preparation of American pronunciations for the new online Oxford English Dictionary. He is also the Editor of the American Linguistic Atlas Project, the oldest and largest national research project to study how people speak differently in different parts of the country.

Stacey Martin Stacey Martin has an MA in Geography and an MS in Animal Science. She is a Strategist for Library and GIS Technologies at Emory University.

Sean Ross Meehan Sean Ross Meehan teaches English at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. His book, Mediating American Autobiography: Photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman , is available from the University of Missouri Press.

Robert Morrissey Robert Morrissey, who began teaching at the University of Chicago in 1978, earned his Ph.D. with honors in French literature in 1981. Morrissey specializes in 18th- and 19th-century French history, literature and critical theory. His work concentrates on themes and cultural currents over the longue durée. Professor Morrissey is the director of the ARTFL Project and editor of the online edition of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie.

Mark Olsen Mark Olsen is the Assistant Director of the ARTFL Project at the University of Chicago. Mark received his Ph.D. in French history from the University of Ottawa in 1991 and has been involved in digital humanities and computer-aided text analysis since the mid-1980s. His current ambition is to write a biography of the Marquis de Pastoret by candle-light with a quill.

Scott Rettberg Scott Rettberg is associate professor of digital culture in the department of linguistic, literary, and aesthetic studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. Rettberg is the author or coauthor of works of electronic literature including The Unknown, Kind of Blue, and Implementation. Rettberg cofounded and served as the first executive director of the Electronic Literature Organization. He is a contributor to the collaborative digital culture weblog Grand Text Auto. He is currently working on a book about contemporary electronic literature in the context of the twentieth century avant-garde.

Glenn Roe Glenn Roe is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and a Senior Project Manager at the ARTFL Project, both at the University of Chicago. Aside from his research interests in computer-assisted text analysis and knowledge classification during the French Enlightenment and 19th century, Mr. Roe's doctoral work is primarily concerned with the intersection of history and literature in the work of the French essayist and poet Charles Péguy.

Stan Ruecker Stan Ruecker is the co-investigator and lead designer of the Orlando Project, which has for more than a decade been exploring new ways of undertaking feminist literary history collaboratively using computers. Its major product is the born digital scholarly textbase Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present (Cambridge Online).

David Sewell David Sewell is the Editorial and Technical Manager of the University of Virginia Press’s Electronic Imprint division, which he joined in 2002. During 2008–9 he is serving as a member of the TEI Council responsible for the technical development of the Text Encoding Initiative’s guidelines, tools, and documentation. He has been involved with online communities and Unix-ish systems since graduate school at the University of California, San Diego, in the early 1980s, where he earned a Ph.D. in English and American literature. Before migrating into his current niche in the digital publishing world he taught in the English Department at the University of Rochester from 1984 to 1992, and was subsequently managing editor of Radiocarbon: An International Journal of Cosmogenic Isotope Research, housed at the University of Arizona.

Sterling Stein Sterling Stein received his B.Sc. (2003) and M.Sc. (2008) in computer science from the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he was a research assistant in the Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. He is currently a software engineer at Google Inc. in Mountain View, CA.

Sarah Toton Sarah Toton is a PhD Candidate in the Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University. She is also the managing editor of the online journal Southern Spaces.

Robert Voyer Robert Voyer recently joined the ranks at Powerset as a computational linguist. Before joining the natural language search world, Robert worked as a research developer for The ARTFL Project at the University of Chicago, where he also earned his MS in Computer Science and BA in Romance Languages.