Instructors

Rebecca Nesvet has worked with the COVE Collective since 2018. She now serves the Collective as Co-Technical Director at COVE Editions and a Pedagogy Consultant at COVE Studio. She has helped scholars from around the world to build peer-reviewed COVE Editions and has built her own edition, of James Malcolm Rymer’s 1866 penny dreadful A Mystery in Scarlet. Her research on scholarly editing of Victorian literature has been published in journals including Scholarly Editing and Victorian Studies, and in 2022-3 she was a Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Ángel David Nieves is Professor of Africana Studies, History, and Digital Humanities and Director of Public Humanities at Northeastern University. Formerly, he was Professor of History and Digital Humanities at San Diego State University (SDSU) in the Area of Excellence in Digital Humanities and Global Diversity and Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi) at Hamilton College. Nieves’s 3D digital edition entitled, Apartheid Heritages: A Spatial History of South Africa’s Township’s (http://www.apartheidheritages.org) brings together modelling, immersive technologies and digital ethnography in the pursuit of documenting human rights violations in apartheid-era South Africa (Stanford University Press, under consideration). He recently completed An Architecture of Education: African American Women Design the New South with the University of Rochester Press for their series “Gender and Race in American History” (June, 2018). Nieves is also currently working on a new volume in the Debates in the Digital Humanities Series (w/Senier & McGrail) and on a special collaborative issue of American Quarterly (2018) on DH in the field of American Studies. He serves on the Modern Language Association’s (MLA) Committee on Information Technology (2016-2019). He sits on the Boards of the New York State’s Humanities Council (2017-2020) and the Society for American City and Regional Planning History (2018-2021). Nieves (2017-2018) is Presidential Visiting Associate Professor at Yale University in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and is an affiliate in the Yale Digital Humanities Laboratory (DHLab).

Bethany Nowviskie is Dean of Libraries and Professor of English at James Madison University, where she also serves as Chief Academic Technology Officer. From 2015-2019, she directed the Digital Library Federation at CLIR (where she has also been a Distinguished Presidential Fellow) and served as a Research Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Virginia. Nowviskie has been a member of the teaching faculty at UVa’s Rare Book School since 2011, was the first director of the Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia Library (2007-2015), and has served as chair of UVa’s General Faculty Council and special advisor to the UVa provost for the advancement of digital humanities research. A past president of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and chair of the Modern Language Association’s committee on information technology, Nowviskie received her Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Virginia in 2004 and has worked on numerous ground-breaking projects in digital libraries and the digital humanities. In 2013, she was named one of “Ten Tech Innovators” by the Chronicle of Higher Education, which pretty much summed it up: “Bethany Nowviskie likes to build things.”

Jeremi Ochab is an assistant professor at the Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland, a member of the Computational Stylistics Group (https://computationalstylistics.github.io/), and currently a researcher at the language infrastructure program CLARIN-PL. He serves on the Scientific Board of Jagiellonian Centre for Digital Humanities. He graduated in theoretical physics and in English studies (specialized in translation). Focusing on interdisciplinary applications of mathematical tools (analysis of complex networks, analysis of time series, random matrix theory) and machine learning, he conducts research on methods of data analysis, neuroscience, as well as stylometry, and quantitative linguistics. He has lectured on Stylometry, Deep Learning, and Data Analysis, among others, and in the meantime, he has translated several popular-science books into Polish.

Christopher Ohge is Senior Lecturer in Digital Approaches to Literature at the University of London School of Advanced Study, where he teaches scholarly editing, book history, and digital methods. He also serves as the Associate Director of the Herman Melville Electronic Library and contributes to Melville’s Marginalia Online as an associate editor. He is the author of the book Publishing Scholarly Editions: Archives, Computing, and Experience (Cambridge UP, 2021), and has worked on several digital editions of Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and the Transcendentalist Christopher Cranch. In 2023 he received an NEH-Mellon Fellowship for Digital Publication for his work on a digital edition of the anti-slavery literature anthology The Bow in the Cloud (1834).

Niqui O’Neill has been a Digital Technologies Development Librarian at NC State University Libraries since 2018. It was there she started her work on creating tools for displaying and creating annotations on images. These tools include Annona and Annonatate. Her work includes various IIIF work, creating tools for special collections materials, bento box search, and various advanced static site use cases.

Chiara Palladino is Assistant Professor of Classics at Furman University. She holds a PhD in Classical Philology and is specialized in Greco-Roman geographical texts and their manuscript tradition. Her current research involves the classification and investigation of meaningful linguistic patterns in premodern geographical narratives and the transmedial representations of descriptive geographies through mapping and non-GIS visualizations. She is currently working on a generalizable approach of semantic annotation of regular linguistic expressions and their data model.

Kush Patel (they/he) is a queer feminist educator, writer, and public scholar whose research and teaching remain oriented to the theme of “survival” as both a form and method of historical and theoretical investigations into making just environments across a range of digital and community sites. They are currently a faculty member in and head of studies for the Postgraduate Arts Program in Technology and Change at the Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design, and Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education in Bangalore, India.

Andy Petersen is a digital scholarship librarian in the MSU Libraries. He is co-founder of the Makers by Mail project (https://makersbymail.net), and his research centers on issues surrounding data ethics, surveillance, and maker culture.

Harvey Quamen is Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities at the University of Alberta, where he teaches courses on scripting, databases, data visualization, cyberculture, posthumanism, and 19th- and 20th-century literature. He has been a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College, London, and has participated in several large collaborative research teams, including Editing Modernism in Canada, the Canadian Writers Research Collaboratory, and the Implementing New Knowledge Environments Project. His research interests include “big data” humanities, including text mining, social network analysis, and data visualizations. He and collaborator Jon Bath will soon be publishing “Relational Databases for Humanists” as part of the “Programming for Humanists” series edited by Laura Mandell and Quinn Dombrowski.

Laura Rotunno is Associate Professor of English at Penn State Altoona whose teaching has been transformed by her adoption of the open-access online teaching platform COVE (the Collaborative Organization for Virtual Education). Starting her use of COVE in Fall 2018, she has worked with undergraduate students to annotate a wealth of British literature, to create gallery collections, timelines, and maps that have heightened her students’ engagement with research materials. Rotunno began as a non-DH savvy professor but is moving to a diehard user—and a COVE Pedagogy Consultant and Advisory Board Member—who hopes to expand her own research into digital editions. She is a Victorianist by specialty and is revising a book manuscript that explores fictional representations of the first generation of Oxbridge-educated women. Portions of her initial work on that project have appeared in Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies and the Victorian Review.

John Russell is an Associate Librarian for the Digital Humanities at the Pennsylvania State University. From 2015-2022, he taught “Introduction to Digital Humanities for Librarians” and “Introduction to Text Encoding” for Library Juice Academy. John is co-author of “Beyond Buttonology: Digital Humanities, Digital Pedagogy, and the ACRL Framework” and “Remodeling the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Workshop,” as well as articles on computer vision and art history, digital humanities librarianship, and collection assessment. John is also editor-in-chief of dh+lib.

Jon Saklofske is a Professor specialising in the writing of the British Romantic period and continuing interest in the ways that William Blake’s composite art illuminates the relationship between words and images on the printed page has inspired current work on the NewRadial data visualisation tool and additional research into larger correlations between media forms and cultural perceptions. In addition to co-leading and actively researching for INKE’s Modelling and Prototyping group, he is actively exploring the usefulness of incorporating virtual environments and game-based pedagogy into undergraduate courses. Other research interests include virtuality and environmental storytelling in Disney theme parks as well as player agency, procedural rhetoric, feminist values and the relationship between networks and narratives in video games.

Anastasia Salter is a Professor of English at the University of Central Florida, and the Director of Graduate Programs and the PhD in Texts & Technology for the College of Arts and Humanities. Dr. Salter is the author of Playful Pedagogy in the Pandemic: Pivoting to Games-Based Learning (Routledge, with Emily Johnson, 2022), Twining: Critical and Creative Approaches to Hypertext Narratives (Amherst College, with Stuart Moulthrop, 2021), A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy (University of Mississippi Press, with Mel Stanfill, 2020), Adventure Games: Playing the Outsider (Bloomsbury, with Aaron Reed and John Murray, 2020), Toxic Geek Masculinity in Media (Palgrave Macmillan, with Bridget Blodgett, 2017), Jane Jensen: Gabriel Knight, Adventure Games, Hidden Objects (Bloomsbury, 2017), What is Your Quest? From Adventure Games to Interactive Books (University of Iowa Press, 2014), and Flash: Building the Interactive Web (MIT Press, with John Murray, 2014). Dr. Salter’s work has appeared in Feminist Media Studies, The Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, The Journal of Popular Culture, Electronic Book Review, Porn Studies, Transformative Works and Cultures, and several other venues. Dr. Salter is currently vice president of the board of directors of the Electronic Literature Organization.

Victoria Sciancalepore is the Assistant Editor at the Jane Addams Papers Project located at Ramapo College of New Jersey, funded by the NEH, NHPRC, and the Delmas Foundation. She is currently editing the Jane Addams Papers Digital Edition and The Selected Papers of Jane Addams Volumes 4 and 5 (forthcoming). She is also a project manager at the digital edition of The Penny Colman Collection of Historical Landmarks of Women. Victoria has been a member of the Association for Documentary Editing since 2016 for which she has given several presentations at its annual conferences and contributes to its newsletter. Previously, she was a transcription assistant at the Margaret Sanger Papers Project at New York University.

Artjoms Šeļa is currently doing postdoctoral research at the Department of Methodology of the Institute of Polish Language (Kraków) and is a research fellow at the University of Tartu (Estonia). He holds PhD in Russian Literature and uses computational methods to understand historical change in literature and culture. His main research interests include stylometry, verse studies and cultural evolution. Sometimes he does forays into digital preservation and history of quantitative methods in humanities.

Harold Short is Emeritus Professor of King’s College London, where he founded and directed the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (later Department of Digital Humanities) until retirement in 2010. He has an educational background in the Humanities and in Mathematics, Computing and Systems, and worked for 11 years at the BBC. While at King’s he was involved in the development of three MA programmes: Digital Humanities, Digital Culture and Society and Digital Asset Management, and, with Willard McCarty, of the world’s first PhD programme in Digital Humanities, launched in 2005. He also played a lead role as Co-Investigator or Technical Research Director in over 20 large-scale inter-disciplinary research projects. He is a former Chair of the European Association for Digital Humanities and the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations in which he has a continuing role to support the development of digital humanities associations world-wide. He is a general editor of the Routledge series Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities. From 2011- 2015 he was Visiting Professor at Western Sydney University, where he was closely involved, with Willard McCarty, in the establishment of the Digital Humanities Research Group, which hosted the international Digital Humanities 2015 conference. Currently he is a Visiting Professorial Fellow at Australian Catholic University in Sydney, where he is co-Director of the Julfa Cemetery Digital Repatriation Project (https://julfaproject.wordpress.com).

Lynne Siemens is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria. She is focused on economic and community development in rural areas with a specific focus on ways that rural small businesses and entrepreneurs address the opportunities and challenges that exist by virtue of their geographic location. To conduct this research, she traveled to many communities within rural and remote parts of Vancouver Island and the surrounding smaller islands. This work is of interest to individuals, small business owners, and the communities as they work to sustain their communities economically and socially as well as government policy makers. Serving as a management advisor, she is also part of Implementing New Knowledge Environments project and studying INKE to trace the development of a collaboration as it is underway, rather than as reflection at a project’s end.

Ray Siemens is Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria, in English and Computer Science. He is founding editor of the electronic scholarly journal Early Modern Literary Studies, and his publications include, among others, Blackwell’s Companion to Digital Humanities (with Schreibman and Unsworth), Blackwell’s Companion to Digital Literary Studies (with Schreibman), A Social Edition of the Devonshire MS, and Literary Studies in the Digital Age (MLA, with Price). He directs the Implementing New Knowledge Environments project, the Digital Humanities Summer Institute and the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, and serves as Vice President of the Canadian Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences for Research Dissemination, recently serving also as Chair of the international Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations’ Steering Committee.

Andie Silva is Assistant Professor of English at York College (CUNY) in Jamaica, Queens and Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research is located at the intersection of early modern and modern editorial practices, with a particular interest in cultural responses to new technologies and the development of popular culture. Her interests include History of the Book, digital humanities, and digital pedagogy. In addition to articles and reviews in several journals, Andie is also author of The Brand of Print: Marketing Paratexts in the Early English Book Trade (Brill 2019) and co-editor of Digital Pedagogy in Early Modern Studies: Method and Praxis (with Scott Schofield), forthcoming with Iter Press.

James Smith has research interests that center on exploring REST, linked open data, and other components of the web-as-platform as a foundation for building sharable, long-lived digital contributions to the humanities.

Sean Smith is a full-time lecturer of U.S. history at California State University, Long Beach. He is the Co-Director of The Center for History of Video Games & Critical Play (criticalplay.org). He writes about video games, digital history, and digital pedagogy.

Patrick Smyth is a blind teacher, Python programmer, and entrepreneur who thinks critically about how infrastructure can create—or lower—barriers to entry in the humanities and STEM. He is Chief Learner at Iota, an organization focused on accessible technical training, consulting, and infrastructure development that works with clients in research and open source such as Space Telescope Science Institute, Pandas, and Sigstore. Patrick was previously the Postdoctoral Fellow in Humanities Entrepreneurship at the Publics Lab at the City University of New York, and he teaches data science to humanities students at City College.

Richard Snyder is Associate Director of the Electronic Literature Lab at Washington State University Vancouver, where he teaches courses with the Creative Media and Digital Culture Program, including Digital Storytelling and Multimedia Authoring. His research focuses on the relationship between word and image in literature and digital media.

Ravynn K. Stringfield is an author, scholar and artist based in Virginia. She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from William & Mary. Her research focuses on Black women and girls as creators and protagonists of new media narratives that are futuristic, fantastic and/or digital in nature. Currently, Dr. Stringfield is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the Rhetoric and Communication Studies Department at the University of Richmond. http://ravynnkstringfield.com

Serenity Sutherland is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at SUNY Oswego. She has a PhD in History and a graduate certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies from the University of Rochester, a Bachelor’s of Science in Environmental Management from Rochester Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor’s of Arts in English/Creative Writing and History from SUNY Binghamton. Additional research interests that intersect with her work in scholarly editing include the history of women in science and technology, the digital humanities, and media studies. She is the current editor of the Ellen Swallow Richards Papers, which is a member of the Primary Source Cooperative at the Massachusetts Historical Society, funded by the NHPRC and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Previously, she was the project manager and transcription manager at the Seward Family Digital Archive from 2012–2017. A select list of venues where her publications can be found include Scholarly Editing, the Debates in the Digital Humanities series, and Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities. She is also an instructor for e-Laboratories, where she is working on the Fundamentals of Editing Course (formerly known as the Institute for Editing Historical Documents, or “Camp Edit”), and has designed and taught courses related to many aspects of digital documentary editing. She is also the 2023–2024 president of the Association for Documentary Editing (ADE).

Chris Tănăsescu is Research Scientist in the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) at the Open University of Catalonia, outgoing Altissia Chair in Digital Humanities at University of Louvain and Visiting Scholar at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (University of Victoria). He has conducted research, taught, lectured, launched books, or presented performances at universities and institutions in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Vietnam, Australia, Romania, and elsewhere, and before arriving at UCLouvain he served as Coordinator of Digital Humanities, professor of literature and computer science, and founding Director of DHSITE at University of Ottawa, Canada. He draws on natural-language-processing algorithms and multilayer networks in his communal poetry and his hypermedia cross-artform performances. He is an author, editor, or translator of over 25 volumes, the latest of which are a computationally assembled poetry anthology and a topic-modeling-driven intra- and inter-lingual translation poetry collection.

Dan Tracy is Associate Professor and Head, Scholarly Communication and Publishing, at the University of Illinois Library. His responsibilities include directing the Illinois Open Publishing Network (IOPN), a library-based scholarly publisher of journals and long-form works, including DH publications. He holds a PhD in English with a concentration in 20th Century American Literature, as well as an MS-LIS, from Illinois. His research in recent years has focused on user experience of digital publications and publishing platforms. Currently he has a library-based grant to develop approaches to digital editions using IOPN infrastructure, and in the course of developing these approaches is the editor of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: A Critical Edition, which is available in beta (https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/scalar/gpbedition/index). Along with other IOPN colleagues, he is a member of the grant team for the Mellon-based AFRO Publishing Without Walls 2, which seeks to expand capacity for digital publishing in Black Studies, in partnership with the Illinois Department of African American Studies and North Carolina Central University.

John Unsworth is Dean of Libraries, University Librarian, and Professor of English at the University of Virginia. Before coming to Virginia, he was Vice-Provost, University Librarian, and Chief Information Officer at Brandeis University, where he also is a Professor of English; earlier, Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign from 2003 to 2012. In addition to being a Professor in GSLIS, at Illinois he also held appointments in the department of English and on the Library faculty. At Illinois he also served as Director of the Illinois Informatics Institute, from 2008 to 2011. From 1993-2003, he served as the first Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, and as a faculty member in the English Department, at the University of Virginia. In 1990, as a member of the English faculty at NCSU, he co-founded the first peer-reviewed electronic journal in the humanities, Postmodern Culture (now published by Johns Hopkins University Press). He also organized, incorporated, and chaired the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, for which he now serves as treasurer. He co-chaired the Modern Language Association’s Committee on Scholarly Editions, and served as President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and later as chair of the steering committee for the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. With Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman, he co-edited the Blackwell Companion to Digital Humanities and its second edition, and he chaired the national commission that produced Our Cultural Commonwealth, the 2006 report on Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Science commissioned by the American Council of Learned Societies.

Olivia Wikle is the Head of Digital Scholarship and Initiatives at Iowa State University, where she collaborates on projects involving digital scholarship, digital collections, and the institutional repository. She is a co-developer of the CollectionBuilder (https://collectionbuilder.github.io/) static web framework, and her research interests include sustainability in digital libraries and digital literacy instruction.

Evan Williamson is the Digital Infrastructure Librarian at the University of Idaho Library, working with the Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning to bring cool projects, enlightening workshops, and innovative services to life. Despite a background in Art History, Classical Studies, and Archives, he always manages to get involved in all things digital. His recent focus has been on data driven, minimal infrastructure web development, currently embodied in the CollectionBuilder project.

Jeffrey C. Witt is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland. In addition to his scholarly works on several important medieval scholastic thinkers — A Companion to the Theology John Mair (Brill, 2015), Robert Holcot (Oxford, 2016) — over the last decade he has been a leader in the “digitalization” of the medieval scholastic Latin corpus. He founded the Scholastic Commentaries and Texts Archive (https://scta.info) in 2011 and has been both the director and developer of the archive since its founding. He has served on the advisory boards for the Digital Latin Library and the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF). He is frequently sought out as a speaker on such topics. He is now technical lead (as well as contributing editor) on a major project to edit medieval florilegia funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (https://compendium-project.wlu.ca/). In 2023, Dr. Witt’s own digital critical edition of the Sentences Commentary (Lectures 1-20) of Peter Gracilis was peer reviewed by the Digital Latin Library and the Medieval Academy of America.

David J. Wrisley is Professor of Digital Humanities at NYU Abu Dhabi. His research interests include comparative approaches to medieval literature in European languages and Arabic, digital spatial approaches to corpora, neural methods for handwritten text recognition across writing systems and open knowledge community building in the Middle East where he has lived and researched since 2002.

Lee Zickel earned a multidisciplinary PhD in Design & Innovation and Cognitive Science from Case Western Reserve University for his work on cognitive blends in gamespace (really, if CWRU had a dedicated program, it would have been a Game Studies PhD). He currently works in CWRU’s University Technologies division as an Applications Manager, where his team manages the university’s CRM, ECM, and RPA platforms. He has more acronyms, if you ever need them.

Stephen Zweibel is Digital Scholarship Librarian at the CUNY Graduate Center. He supports digital project creation by GC researchers across the disciplines, helps preserve those projects, and supports faculty and students with their data-based research and data management needs. Stephen built DH Box, which won a National Endowment for the Humanities Start-Up grant, and is co-director of DHRIFT, which recently won an NEH Level III Advancement Grant.