Author Biographies

Jimmy Butts Jimmy Butts teaches writing to university students, but he likes to do it in strange, new ways. He has worked with students in Charleston, at Winthrop University, at Clemson University, and most recently at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. He received his PhD from the transdisciplinary program known as Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design at Clemson University. His research interests include modern and postmodern composition strategies, new media, rhetorical criticism, defamiliarization, and writing pedagogy. He has begun exploring in the kinds of writing that we will inevitably compose in various apocalyptic futures. He has published multimodal work in The KB Journal, Pre-Text, as a proud instructor in The Journal for Undergraduate Multimedia Projects, The Cybertext Yearbook, and for Pearson Education. You can find him online at theyellowrobot.com.

Trisha Campbell Trisha Campbell is a 4th year doctoral student at the University of Pittsburgh in the English Department, where she teaches, researches, and practices new materialist poetics and composing as method. Before her work at the University of Pittsburgh, she acquired an MA in Rhetoric and Composition from Auburn University, focusing on the future of invention in multimodal composing. She is wholly dedicated to the work of creative-critical method(s) and future(s), reading poetry just as often as philosophy, and making or composing from and about digital, analog, and otherwise material objects. She is currently developing the foundation for a new materialist method for Rhetoric and Composition, which takes up local murder in Pittsburgh as its source in hopes of raising questions of narrative, knowledge-making, ontological entanglements, ethics and futurity. She can be found via email (tnc17@pitt.edu) or online (http://www.digitaltrishacampbell.com).

Adam Crymble Adam Crymble is a PhD candidate in History and Digital Humanities at King’s College London. He is a founding editor of the Programming Historian 2, an open access methodology textbook for digital humanities, and a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute (2012).

Julia Flanders Julia Flanders is a Professor of the Practice in the Department of English at Northeastern University, where she also directs the library's Digital Scholarship Group and the Women Writers Project. She is the editor-in-chief of Digital Humanities Quarterly.

Elana Gainor Elana Gainor is a Ph.D. candidate in the UC Merced World Cultures Graduate Group with expertise in Latin American literature, travel narratives, and cultural geography. She will file her dissertation, "The Space of Cuban American Exile Narratives: Places, Maps and Wayfinding," in 2013.

Rex Koontz Dr. Koontz serves as Director of the School of Art at the University of Houston. He publishes on the art of Ancient Mexico and teaches Latin American art history in the School of Art. Recently his book Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents (University of Texas Press 2009) examined the role of public sculpture in an ancient Gulf Coast city. Other recent books include Blood and Beauty: Organized Violence in the Art and Architecture of Mesoamerica and Central America, edited with Heather Orr and Mexico (6th edition) with Michael Coe, along with journal articles and book chapters. Dr. Koontz received his B.A. in art history from the American University in Paris and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.

Lauren Lovings Lauren Lovings graduated from the University of Houston in May 2012 with a Bachelors of Art in Art History and French. She was awarded the Provost's Undergraduate Research Scholarship (2010) and the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (2011) from UH for her assistance with Vwire.

Ruth Mostern Ruth Mostern is Associate Professor of History and Founding Faculty at the University of California, Merced, where she is the Director of the World Cultures Graduate Group and Co-director of the Spatial Analysis and Research Center (SpARC). A specialist in Chinese history and spatial history methods, her book Dividing the Realm in Order to Govern: The Spatial Organization of the Song State (960-1276) was published in 2011.

Alex H. Poole A DigCCurr Fellow, Alex H. Poole is a fourth year doctoral student at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His interests center on digital curation, digital humanities, archival history, theory, and practice, and the history of print culture. He is currently working on a study of the National Endowment for the Humanities’s “Digging into Data” initiative.

Daniel Price Dr. Price has written extensively on continental philosophy and aesthetics, including Touching Difficulty: Sacred Form From Plato to Derrida (Davies Group Publishers, 2009). He has been working on the Vwire project for the last three years, and collaborating with art historians, social scientists and health professionals to explore ways in which visual interfaces with multi-dimensional data can sustain appropriate phenomenological intuitions. He received his Ph.D. from DePaul University in Chicago.