Author Biographies

Alyssa Arbuckle Alyssa Arbuckle is a metadata architect with the ETCLab at University of Victoria. She recently completed her Masters in English with a focus on digital editions, new media, and the digital humanities at large.

Moya Bailey Moya Bailey is a postdoctoral scholar of Women’s Studies and Digital Humanities at Northeastern University. Her work focuses on marginalized groups’ use of digital media to promote social justice as acts of self-affirmation and health promotion. She is interested in how race, gender, and sexuality are represented in media and medicine. She currently curates the #transformDH Tumblr initiative in Digital Humanities. She is also the digital alchemist for the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network.

Jamie "Skye" Bianco Jamie "Skye" Bianco is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU.

Tanya Clement Tanya Clement is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. Her primary area of research centers on scholarly information infrastructure as it impacts academic research, research libraries, and the creation of research tools and resources in the digital humanities. Some of her digital projects include High Performance Sound Technologies for Access and Scholarship (HiPSTAS), ProseVis, and digital scholarly editions of poetry by the Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven.

Constance Crompton Constance Crompton is an Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and English in the Department of Critical Studies. She works with Implementing New Knowledge Environments' Modelling and Prototyping team. Her research focuses on code as a representational medium, queer history, and Victorian popular and visual culture.

Gabrielle Dean Gabrielle Dean is the Curator of Literary Rare Books and Manuscripts, Librarian for the Writing Seminars, and Lecturer in the Program for Museums and Society at Johns Hopkins University. She is also an editor of Archive Journal and an editorial board member of the Dickinson Electronic Archive. Her research focuses on the exchanges between textual and visual culture during the industrial era of print, and the history of the archival imagination. She has curated exhibitions about H. L. Mencken and American magazines, Stephen Crane in the literary marketplace, and, with students, digital exhibitions about nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature. Her exhibition about the postmodern writer John Barth runs from October 2015 through February 2016 at the George Peabody Library in Baltimore.

Luke Fernandez Luke Fernandez is Manager of Program and Technology Development and Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Weber State University. Luke has been developing enterprise assessment software since 2001. In addition, he has published numerous articles on the growth of digital technology in the university in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Educause Quarterly and a variety of other journals. He has an abiding interest in how humans interface with digital technologies and is currently writing a history with his spouse on this subject. He is also a recent recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Grant. He received his Ph.D. in political philosophy from Cornell University.

Alix Keener Alix Keener is the Digital Scholarship Librarian at the University of Michigan Library. She holds a Master of Science in Information (2014) from the University of Michigan School of Information, with a specialization in Library and Information Science.

Elizabeth Losh Elizabeth Losh is the author of Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes (MIT Press, 2009) and The War on Learning: Gaining Ground in the Digital University (MIT Press, 2014). She is the co-author of the comic book textbook Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2013) with Jonathan Alexander. She is currently working on a new monograph, tentatively entitled Obama Online: Technology, Masculinity, and Democracy.

She writes about gender and technology, the digital humanities, distance learning, connected learning, media literacy, and the rhetoric surrounding regulatory attempts to limit everyday digital practices.

She has written a number of frequently cited essays about communities that produce, consume, and circulate online video, videogames, digital photographs, text postings, and programming code. The diverse range of subject matter analyzed in her scholarship has included coming out videos on YouTube, videogame fan films created by immigrants, combat footage from soldiers in Iraq shot on mobile devices, video evidence created for social media sites by protesters on the Mavi Marmara, remix videos from the Arab Spring, and the use of Twitter and Facebook by Indian activists working for women’s rights after the Delhi rape case. Much of this body of work concerns the legitimation of political institutions through visual evidence, representations of war and violence in global news, and discourses about human rights. This work has appeared in edited collections from MIT Press, Routledge, University of Chicago, Minnesota, Oxford, Continuum, and many other presses.

She is Director of the Culture, Art, and Technology program at Sixth College at U.C. San Diego, where she teaches courses on digital rhetoric and new media. She is also a blogger for Digital Media and Learning Central, and a Steering Committee member of HASTAC and FemTechNet.

Roopika Risam Roopika Risam is an assistant professor of English and Secondary English Education at Salem State University. She researches intersections between postcolonial, African American, and US ethnic studies and the role of digital humanities in mediating between them. Her work has recently appeared in First Monday and is forthcoming in Left History.

Nabeel Siddiqui Nabeel Siddiqui is a doctoral candidate in American Studies at The College of William and Mary. His research examines the intersection between the humanities and technology, with specific concentrations on the digital humanities, information studies, and the cultural history of media. Currently, he is in the process of completing his dissertation, which examines the relationship between personal computers and the public/private sphere. You can find more information on his website at http://www.nabeelsiddiqui.net or follow him on Twitter at @nabsiddiqui.

Raymond Siemens Raymond Siemens is Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria, in English with cross appointment in Computer Science. He is the Principal Investigator of Implementing New Knowledge Environments.

Nicole Starosielski Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.

Jacqueline Wernimont I am an assistant professor of English at Arizona State University, where I specialize in literary history, feminist digital media, histories of quantification, and technologies of commemoration. Currently a Fellow of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, I work on new civil rights in digital cultures with a particular emphasis on the long histories of our technologies and practices.