DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly
Author Biographies
Bridget Almas Bridget Almas is currently the lead software developer and architect for
The Alpheios Project, developing open source tools for the study and
enjoyment of classical languages. In her prior role at Tufts University,
Bridget was the technical lead on the Perseids Project and before that
the Perseus Digital Library. She has also acted in several leadership
roles in the Research Data Alliance and as a liaison between the
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) and RDA.
Tully Barnett Tully Barnett is Lecturer in Creative Arts at Flinders University in South
Australia. She is a member of the research group Laboratory Adelaide: The Value
of Culture, co-author of What Matters? Talking Value in Australian Culture
(2018). She serves on the boards of the Australasian Association of Digital
Humanities and the Australasian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres. In
2019, Tully will commence work on an Australian Research Council Discovery
Early Career Research Award project titled "Digitisation
and the Immersive Reading Experience" which seeks to understand
digitisation as a cultural practice.
Tobias Blanke Reader in Social and Cultural Informatics, Head of Department
Matthew Davis Matthew Davis is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Sherman Centre for Digital
Scholarship at McMaster University.
Jennifer Edmond
Deena Engel Deena Engel is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Computer
Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York
University as well as the Director of the Program in Digital Humanities
and Social Science. She teaches undergraduate computer science courses
on web and database technologies, as well as courses for undergraduate
and graduate students in the Digital Humanities and the Arts. She also
supervises undergraduate and graduate student research projects in the
Digital Humanities and the Arts and collaborates on research on the
conservation of software-based art. She received her Master’s degree in
Comparative Literature from SUNY-Binghamton and her Master’s degree in
Computer Science from the Courant Institute of Mathematics at New York
University.
Paul Fyfe Paul Fyfe is an associate professor in the English Department at North
Carolina State University and a 2018-2019 ACLS Burkhardt Fellow at the
National Humanities Center.
Richard Gartner Dr Richard Gartner is the Digital Librarian at the Warburg Institute,
School of Advanced Study at the University of London. He is both a practising
librarian and an academic specializing in digital librarianship. Previously he
has worked as a lecturer in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London
and as the New Media Librarian at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. His primary area of research
is metadata theory and practice and he is the author of a recent book on this subject
Metadata: Shaping Knowledge from Antiquity to the Semantic Web (Springer, 2016).
He also has research interests in the creation and curation of digital collections.
Marina Hassapopoulou Marina Hassapopoulou is Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema
Studies and Co-Associate Director of the Moving Image Archiving and
Preservation program, at the New York University Tisch School of the
Arts. She has published articles and book chapters on topics including
interactive cinema, digital spectatorship, border cinemas, experimental
and Hollywood production, fan studies, representations of Hellenism in
U.S. media, hybrid pedagogy, expanded television, and digital
humanities. She teaches film, theory/philosophy, digital media, European
cinema, digital humanities, cultural studies and theory-practice
courses. Working on a range of media besides print, her projects include
cultural videos for the University of Oregon's folklore archives,
multimedia scholarship, as well as online open-access collaborative
initiatives including the student-focused Interactive Media Archive <
https://interactivemediaarchive.wordpress.com > and the
online directory focused on cross-pollinations between Cinema, Media
Studies and Digital Humanities < https://transformationsconference.net >. She is currently
working on her book, Interactive Cinema: An
Alternative History of Moving Images, which focuses on
participatory multimedia experiments in the history of cinema and
develops new frameworks for spectatorship in the digital age. She is
also working on a number of digital humanities and mixed media projects
on topics including local activism, youth cinemas, and experimental
pedagogy.
Lauren Hinkson Lauren Hinkson Lauren Hinkson is the Associate Curator of Collections at
the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. She curates and organizes
exhibitions at the Guggenheim. Past projects include: Surface, Support, Process: The 1960s Monochrome in the Guggenheim
Collection (2011); Il Guggenheim: l’Avanguardia americana,
1945–1980 (2011); Lasting Images (2013); Windows on the City: The School
of Paris 1900-1945 (2016), and the exhibition and publication, Josef
Albers in Mexico (2017). She manages the Guggenheim’s acquisition
program and is an organizing curator for the museum’s Young Collectors
Council, which acquires the work of emerging artists for the permanent
collection. Her research centers on postwar, contemporary and time-based
art with a focus on developing strategies for collecting and documenting
performance art.
Martha Hollander Professor of Art History in the Department of Fine Arts, Design, Art History,
Hofstra University
Steven Jones DeBartolo Chair in Liberal Arts and and Professor of Digital Humanities,
Department of English, University of South Florida
Sarah E. Kersh Sarah E. Kersh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at
Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Her research and teaching
focus on Victorian literature and culture, queer studies, and digital
humanities.
Emad Khazraee Emad Khazraee is a sociotechnical information scientist and assistant
professor in the iSchool at Kent State University. He received his PhD
in Information Studies from the College of Computing and Informatics,
Drexel University (2014). His research is formed around the interplay
between social and technical phenomena. Currently, he is studying the
relationship between digital technologies, new media, and social
change.
Michael Marcinkowski Michael Marcinkowski is a postdoctoral researcher at Bath Spa University,
UK. His recent publications include articles on ideologies of
computerization and the empirical status of big data in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and
Technology.
Matthew Thomas Miller Matthew Thomas Miller is Assistant Professor of Persian Literature and
Digital Humanities at the University of Maryland, College Park. He also
serves as the Associate Director of the Roshan Initiative in Persian
Digital Humanities (PersDig@UMD) and co-PI for the multi-institutional
Open Islamicate Texts Initiative (OpenITI) and the Persian Manuscript
Initiative (PMI). His research focuses on medieval Sufi literature, the
history of sexuality and the body, and digital humanities. He currently
is working on a book project, entitled "Embodying
the Beloved: Embodiment and Mystical Modes of Meaning Creation in
Medieval Persian Sufi Literature," and a number of articles
on computational or distant reading approaches to Persian
literature and carnivalesque Sufi poetry.
Alex Mueller Alex Mueller is Associate Professor of English in the College of Liberal Arts
at the Universty of Massachusetts Boston. His research areas include literature
pedagogy, digital rhetoric, medieval literature, Arthurian romance, and book
history.
Joanna Phillips Joanna Phillips is the Senior Conservator of Time-based Media at the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, where she founded the media
art conservation lab in 2008. At the Guggenheim, Phillips has developed
and implemented new strategies for the preservation, reinstallation, and
documentation of time-based media works. Phillips publishes and lectures
on this topic internationally. She founded and heads the Guggenheim’s
ongoing initiative "Conserving Computer-based
Art" (CCBA) and is a founding co-organizer and multiple host
of the EMG conference series TechFocus. Phillips also co-organized the
international symposium "Collecting and Conserving
Performance Art" in Germany. Prior to her Guggenheim
appointment, Phillips specialized in the conservation of contemporary
art at the Swiss Institute for Art Research in Zürich and explored the
challenges of media art conservation as a research conservator in the
Swiss project "AktiveArchive". Phillips holds
a master degree in paintings conservation from the Hochschule der
Bildenden Künste in Dresden, Germany.
Joel Schneier Joel Schneier is a doctoral candidate in the Communication Rhetoric &
Digital Media program at NC State University.
Chelsea Skalak Chelsea Skalak is an assistant professor of medieval English literature
at Dickinson College. Her research focuses on medieval conceptions of
gender and sexuality, digital humanities, and the intersection of
marriage law and literature.
Timothy Stinson Timothy Stinson is Associate Professor of English and a University Faculty
Scholar at North Carolina State University.
Marion Thain (see http://www.marionthain.org) Marion Thain is a professor of
arts and literature in New York University’s school of the
interdisciplinary global liberal arts (Liberal Studies), and she is
Director of Digital Humanities for NYU. She began her career as a Junior
Research Fellow at Cambridge, and then worked in English departments at
Russell Group universities, before coming to NYU. She publishes
primarily on aestheticism and Decadence; poetry and poetics; technology
and the production of cultural knowledge. Book publications include:
The Lyric Poem and Aestheticism: Forms of
Modernity (2016); The Lyric Poem:
Formations and Transformations (2013); Michael Field: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Fin de Siècle
(2007). She is currently engaged with various other collaborative
projects on literature, the arts and technology.
Joshua Westgard Joshua Westgard is a Systems Librarian for Digital Programs and
Initiatives at the University of Maryland Libraries, in which capacity
he is primarily responsible for managing digital repository systems and
the preservation of digital assets. In addition to an MLS in Digital
Curation from the University of Maryland, he holds a Ph.D. in Medieval
European History from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and
has published numerous articles on the manuscript transmission and
reception of the works of the Venerable Bede.
Grant Wythoff Grant Wythoff is a Visiting Fellow with the Center for Humanities and
Information at Pennsylvania State University interested in the history
and theory of media technologies, twentieth century American literature,
the history of method in the humanities, and science fiction. His book
The Perversity of Things: Hugo Gernsback on
Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction was published in the
University of Minnesota Press’s Electronic Mediations series, and is a
pilot project for the Manifold Scholarship interactive book platform.
His next book is a cultural history of the gadget from
nineteenth-century nautical techniques to the twenty-first century
smartphone. Grant’s essays have been published in Grey Room, Journal of Contemporary
Archaeology, Real Life, The Programming Historian, and elsewhere. His
work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Society of
Fellows in the Humanities (Columbia), the Center for American Literary
Studies (Penn State), and the Princeton Program in American Studies.