Author Biographies

Alan Bilansky Alan Bilansky holds a PhD in rhetoric and democracy from Penn State and an MSLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he consults with faculty about technology and occasionally teaches informatics. He is currently at work on a book examining the information practices of Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency.

Arianna Ciula

Timothy C. Duguid Timothy Duguid is a lecturer in Digital Humanities and Information Studies. His current research interests lie in the intersection between digital humanities and historical musicology. In particular, he is focused on metadata generation and curation for digital scholarship in music, working on a virtual research environment called Music Scholarship Online (MuSO) that will draw together published scholarship, digitized archival materials, and born-digital scholarship into a single online portal.

Maristella Feustle Maristella Feustle is the Music Special Collections Librarian at the University of North Texas. She oversees the processing and curation of over 100 special collections in the UNT Music Library, and is the current chair of the Preservation Committee of the Music Library Association. She is active as a jazz guitarist in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and her research interests include jazz history and digital humanities.

Francesca Giannetti Francesca Giannetti is the Digital Humanities Librarian at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, and subject liaison to the departments of Classics, French, and Italian, and the program in Comparative Literature. Her research interests include digital libraries, audio preservation, opera and libretto studies. She has published articles in Music Reference Services Quarterly, Notes, and College & Undergraduate Libraries. She serves on the steering committee of the Rutgers Digital Humanities Initiative, and participates on the Emerging Technologies and Services Committee of the Music Library Association.

Elizabeth Grumbach Liz Grumbach is the Project Manager for Nexus, a Digital Research Co-Op at Arizona State University. She is also the Director of Digital Content and Special Programs for HASTAC@ASU. Her current research involves investigating ethical practices and critical methods for producing and sharing data, especially linked open data, and exploring emerging technologies that allow the public to engage with cultural data in new ways.

Brandon W. Hawk Brandon W. Hawk is an assistant professor of English at Rhode Island College. His areas of expertise are Old English, the transmission of the Bible and apocrypha, digital humanities, media studies, and the history of the book. He has written two books: Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England (Toronto, 2018) and The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew and the Nativity of Mary (Eugene, OR, forthcoming). He is also a member of the Editorial Board for the Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture project, for which he is Co-Director of the Digital Research Center.

Antonia Karaisl Antonia is currently a PhD student at the Warburg Institute, University of London. Her research examines methodology and argument of 18th century philosopher Christian Wolff’s last book, the Oeconomica methodo scientifica pertractata, and its relationship to his premodern welfare state theory. Apart from her PhD she is researching the application of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology to historic printed text and medieval manuscripts. Together with Nick White she co-founded Rescribe Ltd, a not-for-profit company spun out from Durham University’s Classics department developing bespoke OCR software.

Pam Mellen

Molly Nebiolo Molly Nebiolo is a doctoral candidate in the world history program at Northeastern University with a B.A. in history and biology from Butler University. She is interested in the relationship between epistemologies of health and the construction of urban space in the early modern period, with a focus on the Anglo- and French- Atlantic world during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. She also completed the graduate certificate in digital humanities offered at Northeastern and has been involved in numerous digital humanities projects for the Women Writers Project and the NULab for Texts, Maps and Networks. She is a 2018-2020 HASTAC Scholar and a 2019-2020 Digital Humanities Fellow at the American Philosophical Society.

Gregory J. Palermo Gregory Palermo is a PhD candidate in English at Northeastern University specializing in digital rhetoric and digital humanities. His research uses computational methods to transform digital humanities' citation landscape, studying citation as a rhetorical practice by which fields' boundaries are continually redrawn. He is currently a Managing Editor of Digital Humanities Quarterly. He has previously served on the Administrative Team of Northeastern's Civic Sustainability, Diversity, and Inclusion Advisory Council in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, as a Research Associate in Northeastern University Library's Digital Scholarship Group, and as a Graduate Fellow of the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks.

Costas Papadopoulos

Susan Schreibman

Anna-Maria Sichani

James Smithies

Victoria Van Hyning Victoria Van Hyning is currently Senior Innovation Specialist at the Library of Congress. She was previously a Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at Zooniverse.org at the University of Oxford.

Carina Westling

Nick White Nick White is co-founder of Rescribe Ltd, a not for profit company specialising in OCR of early modern printing and manuscript hands, where he is the technical lead. He is also the IT Project Manager for the ERC project A Consolidated Library of Anglo Saxon Poetry at the University of Oxford.