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Kayla Abner
When teaching students and researchers about data, Kayla Abner prioritizes an ethical lens by inviting them to consider who created the data, why, and how the visualization might affect their interpretation. Her interests and skills include data privacy, data and AI ethics, collections as data, and digital humanities. Kayla holds a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and currently works as the Data Visualization and Analysis Librarian at the University of Delaware.
Parham Aledavood
Parham Aledavood est candidat au doctorat en littérature, option humanités numériques, à l’Université de Montréal. Sa recherche doctorale est soutenue par une bourse du Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ). En associant la théorie postcoloniale, les études planétaires et les humanités numériques, sa recherche actuelle porte sur une analyse computationnelle du traumatisme et du genre dans les romans de migration contemporains. À partir de septembre 2024, il est le directeur adjoint du Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI).
Alex Alisauskas
Alex Alisauskas is a Humanities and Social Sciences Librarian (Maps/Geospatial Data) at the University of British Columbia Library where she supports researchers in History, Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies, and Geography, as well as researchers hoping to incorporate maps, spatial methods, and GIS tools in their research. She holds a PhD in Visual and Cultural Studies, and prior to becoming a librarian, she was a professor in art history and liberal studies and conducted research on contemporary art practices. Her current research explores artistic uses of archives, mental health in libraries, and inclusive pedagogical practices in digital scholarship.
Yann Audin
Yann Audin est candidat au doctorat en littérature — option humanités numériques à l’Université de Montréal et récipiendaire d’une bourse doctorale du CRSH. Il est membre étudiant du Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN), responsable de projet pour la Chaire de recherche du Canada et les écritures numériques, et fut le représentant étudiant pour la Société canadienne pour les humanités numériques (SCHN/CSDH) de 2022 à 2025. Il est détenteur d’une maîtrise en littérature comparée de l’Université de Montréal et d’une maîtrise en physique de Bishop’s University. Yann coordonne et coanime la baladodiffusion Skholé – Théories dysfonctionnelles et a lancé dernièrement un blog de recherche : https://yann-audin.github.io/Cybermeneutics/. À l’été 2025, il s’est vu décerner le prix de la promesse étudiante Ian Lancashire et sa dernière publication peut être lue dans la revue Digital Field/Le champ numérique.
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Noelle Baker
Noelle Baker, an independent scholar, is Editor-in-Chief of Scholarly Editing, an open-access, peer reviewed journal archived by the U.S. Library of Congress and distributed by the University of Virginia Press. She is the editor of Stanton in Her Own Time (Iowa, 2016), the co-editor of Margaret Fuller: Collected Writings (Library of America, 2025) and The Almanacks of Mary Moody Emerson: A Scholarly Digital Edition (Women Writers Online, published by the Women Writers Project at Northeastern University, ongoing), and the author of essays on American literature and culture published in journals such as ESQ, The Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies, Poe Studies, and Resources for American Literary Study. Currently, Baker serves as an NHPRC Commissioner, steering committee member for the Recovery Hub for American Women Writers, and eLabs advisory board member; previous roles include co-chair of the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions and president of The Association for Documentary Editing.
Devin Becker
Devin Becker is the Co-Director of the Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning (CDIL) and the Associate Dean of Research and Instruction at the University of Idaho Library. His recent CollectionBuilder-based digital scholarship projects include Storying Extinction, Keeping Watch, and Tender Spaces. His first book of poetry, Shame | Shame, won the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize and was published by BOA Editions Ltd.
Gabrielle Benabdallah
Gabrielle Benabdallah is a Sloan postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle, where her research explores the materiality of knowledge production, from print culture to artificial intelligence. With a background in comparative literature and textual studies, she has dedicated the past seven years to working and publishing in the fields of human-computer interaction and interaction design. Currently, she is focused on examining the influence of AI-augmented tools on practices in scientific publishing.
- Convivial Machine Learning (Week 2)
Elisa Beshero-Bondar
Elisa Beshero-Bondar is Program Chair of Digital Media, Arts, and Technology and Professor of Digital Humanities at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. She teaches undergraduate students to code and build digital projects with the XML family of languages. Elisa led the technical development of the Frankenstein Variorum project combining Python, XSLT, and TEI to compare 5 distinct digital versions of the novel Frankenstein (see https://frankensteinvariorum.org/). She is also founder and director of the Digital Mitford Project (https://digitalmitford.org/) which has hosted coding workshops for graduate students, faculty, scholarly editors, and librarians interested in learning coding and digital project management methods used in the project. She was elected to the TEI Technical Council in 2015, which she now chairs, and where she works with ten other members from around the world in revising the TEI Guidelines and schema and supporting the TEI community.
David Birnbaum
David J. Birnbaum is Professor Emeritus from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. He has been involved in the study of electronic text technology since the mid-1980s, has delivered presentations at a variety of electronic text technology conferences, and has served on the board of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the editorial board of Markup languages: Theory and practice, and the Text Encoding Initiative Council. Much of his electronic text work intersects with his research in medieval Slavic manuscript studies, but he also often writes about issues in the philosophy of markup.
Katie Blizzard
Katie Blizzard is the Managing Director of eLaboratories and a research editor at the Center for Digital Editing, where she supports the editorial practices of community and partner projects. She holds a BA in Anthropology and History, and a master in public administration. Blizzard contributes to the Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) e-newsletter and served as secretary for the ADE from 2021 to 2023.
Leigh Bonds
Leigh Bonds is an Associate Professor and the Digital Humanities Librarian at The Ohio State University. For the last nine years, she has led campus digital humanities efforts, consulted with faculty and graduate students on research and curricula, and collaborated on several projects. She served on the programming committee for DLFxDHSI Unconference in 2018, taught sessions at ARL’s Digital Scholarship Institute in 2019 and 2021, and taught “DH for Librarians” in 2024. Leigh’s publications on DH librarianship and pedagogy include “Facilitating Course [Re]Design: A Programmatic Approach to DH Integration,” “Preparing, Facilitating, Assessing: A Reflection on Digital Humanities Consultations,” and “First Things First: Conducting an Environmental Scan.”
- DH for Librarians (Week 2)
William Bouchard
William Bouchard est doctorant en humanités numériques à l’Université de Montréal, membre étudiant du Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN) et responsable de projet pour la Chaire de recherche du Canada et les écritures numériques. Formé en études classiques, il s’intéresse à la modélisation des pratiques éditoriales savantes, en particulier dans le champ de la philologie grecque. Ses recherches portent sur l’édition critique numérique, la représentation de la variation textuelle et la structuration des données littéraires. Il explore l’usage de méthodes computationnelles, notamment l’apprentissage automatique, pour analyser, enrichir et reconfigurer les formes d’édition et de lecture des corpus anciens.
Jason Boyd
Jason Boyd is an Associate Professor of English at Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada, where he is also the Director of the Centre for Digital Humanities. He is also affiliated with the Master of Digital Media and the graduate program in Communication and Culture (a joint program with York University). His areas of research include digital text editing/analysis (particularly in relation to biographical texts [the Texting Wilde Project]), narrative games/playable stories (https://storiesinplay.com/), and queer DH. He is co-author (with Bo Ruberg and James Howe) of “Towards a Queer Digital Humanities” (2019), and has recently co-authored (with Bo Ruberg) “Queer Digital Humanities” for the Bloomsbury Handbook of Digital Humanities. Recent work includes “‘The Playing’s the Thing’: Diversifying Digital Shakespeare Through Ludic Adaptation,” and the online exhibit/archive Wilde ’82: A Conference of Some Importance.
- Queer(ing) DH (Week 1)
Chloé Brault
Chloé Brault completed her PhD in comparative literature at Stanford in 2025. She works computationally with French-language texts from 1960s Quebec.
Susan Brown
Susan Brown (she/her) is a Professor of English and Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Digital Scholarship at the University of Guelph. Her work explores intersectional feminism, literary history, semantic technologies, and scholarly research infrastructure. She is a founding director of Orlando Project on women writers in British literary history, and directs two infrastructure projects: CWRC (“quirk”), the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory virtual research environment, and LINCS, the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship.
Marie-Hélène Burle
Evolutionary and behavioural biologist by training, Software/Data Carpentry instructor, and open source advocate, Marie-Hélène Burle develops and delivers training for researchers on high-performance computing, machine learning, R, Python, Julia, Git, Bash scripting, and cutting edge programming tools for Simon Fraser University (https://www.rcg.sfu.ca/) and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (https://alliancecan.ca/).
Jacek Bąkowski
Jacek Bąkowski is a researcher at the Institute of Polish Language, Polish Academy of Sciences, with an academic background in mathematics, computer science, and linguistics. His research focuses primarily on semantic similarity measures, distributional semantics, and machine learning techniques applied to natural language processing, particularly in the context of South Asian languages. He has also worked on stylometry, lexical analysis, and authorship attribution in Sanskrit texts.
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Alix Chagué
Alix Chagué is a specialist in automatic text recognition applied to historical documents. Her PhD thesis, which she will defend in 2026, especially focuses on questions relating to Open Science and data creation for using and training transcription models. She has contributed to the development of several essential infrastructures for the advancement of automatic transcription, among which the open source application Scriptorium and the ecosystem for the publication of reusable gold data for text recognition HTR-United. Since 2019, she has taught several workshops introducing automatic text recognition and its software solutions to beginners or advanced users.
Edmond Chang
Edmond Y. Chang is an Associate Professor of English at Ohio University. His areas of research include technoculture, race/gender/sexuality, video games, RPGs, and LARP, feminist media studies, cultural studies, popular culture, and 20/21C American literature. He earned his Ph.D. in English at the University of Washington. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on queer American literature, speculative literature of color, virtual worlds, games, and writing. Recent publications include “Looking for Asianfuturism” in Techno-Orientalism 2.0, “Gaming While Asian,” in Made in Asia/America, “Why are the Digital Humanities So Straight?” in Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities, and “Queergaming” in Queer Game Studies. He is the creator of Tellings, a high fantasy tabletop RPG, and Archaea, a live-action role-playing game. He is also an Assistant Editor for Analog Game Studies and a Contributing Editor for Gamers with Glasses.
- Queer(ing) DH (Week 1)
Jordan Clapper
Jordan Clapper is an Assistant Professor of Digital Technology and Culture at Washington State University. His research interests include indigenous video games, indigenous literature, queer games, narrative theory, queer theory, and digital humanities.
Alan Colin-Arce
Alan Colin-Arce is a researcher at the University of Victoria’s Electronic Textual Culture Lab. His research focuses on the influence of language and geography in knowledge production, especially in web archives and scholarly communication. He has contributed to several multilingual digital humanities projects, including the Humanities and Social Sciences Commons, Huellas Incómodas/Uncomfortable Footprints, and Latin American Women’s Rights Movements: Tracing Online Presence through Language, Time and Space.
- Introduction to Web Archiving (Week 1)
Matt Cook
Matt Cook Digital Scholarship Program Manager at Harvard Library. As a proven expert across the entire 3D data lifecycle; Matt regularly consults on scanning (e.g.photogrammetry), immersive (AR/VR) data analytics, and rapid prototyping (3D printing) processes that span disciplines. Matt studied Philosophy at the undergraduate and graduate levels and has since published R&D in multiple fields, including Architecture, Chemistry, Information Science, and a range of Humanities. Currently he is developing automated workflows that combine the use of handwriting transcription technologies, genAI, and the Metaverse. Please check out mncook.net for more information.
- Immersive Scholarship 101 (Week 2)
Lauren Cooper
Lauren Cooper (she/her) is the digital scholarship librarian and managing director for the Center for Digital Research/#DigBlk at Penn State University. #DigBlk is home to the Colored Conventions Project, Douglass Day, and the Liberatory Tech. Lauren works with students, colleagues, and partners to implement, develop, and manage digital scholarship and publishing projects with an attention to centering the humanity in digital humanities. She has been the project manager of several major website development projects, migrations, and updates. Lauren has a Master’s in Library and Information Science from the University of Maryland, College Park with a concentration in Archives and Digital Curation and has previously co-taught “Nuts & Bolts of DH Project Development” at Dream Lab (2021-2024).
Constance Crompton
Constance Crompton is a white, queer, able-bodied settler and Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities. They direct the University of Ottawa’s Labo de données en sciences humaines/The Humanities Data Lab, and are a member of several research project teams: Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada, Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship, the Implementing New Knowledge Environments Partnership, and the Transgender Media Portal. They live and work on unceded Algonquin land.
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Pascale Dangiosse
Pascale Dangoisse is Program Officer for Wikimedia Canada, conducting work towards a better representation and integration of historically marginalized people into the Wiki ecosystem. My doctoral research (University of Ottawa) focused on understanding the persistence of systemic discrimination in liberal and progressive political environments. I was also a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ottawa’s Digital Humanities Lab, where I worked on the Lesbian and Gay Liberation Canada project (with Prof. Crompton). I continue to teach about the various systemic barriers that people face on a daily basis through Wiki tools and projects.
Robin Davies
Robin Davies teaches in the Media Studies Department at Vancouver Island University. He studied Double Bass (BMus) and Music Technology (MA) at McGill’s Schulich School of Music. His interests include the utilization of the human voice in aural storytelling, sound design for visual art, the construction and use of software-based musical instruments for live electronic music performance, and helping others embrace technology for use in their creative endeavours. His sound design and remix work can be heard on releases from six records, maple music, ad noiseam, and Sunchaser Pictures, and as part of the multimedia collective Meridian (meridian.is). Robin has been using podcasts in the classroom since 2006.
- Podcasting from Scratch (Week 1)
Lily Demet
Lily Demet is a PhD student in Geography at the University of British Columbia studying everyday spatial practices of navigating the city. Lily’s recent projects include “Making space for deep mapping: rendering theory as practice”, a research-creation master’s thesis in which they theorized through the digital construction of a website while walking Vancouver. Lily is also an artist and freelance cartographer, and teaches mapping and GIS workshops at UBC Library’s Research Commons.
Tim Duguid
Timothy Duguid is senior lecturer in Digital Humanities and Information Studies at the University of Glasgow. His current research interests lie in the intersection between digital humanities and historical musicology. In particular, he is focused discoverability for digital research outputs 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. He is also working on a digital edition of the Scottish metrical psalms dating from 1564 to 1640. In addition to providing musical editions of each of the psalm tunes within the psalter, it will provide, for the first time, the Scots transliterations along the anglophone psalm texts. He holds a Ph.D. in music history from the University of Edinburgh in the area of early modern English and Scottish liturgical music, with particular focus on metrical psalmody. His work on Reformation history and early modern music resulted in the creation of a performing edition of the Wode Psalter, an early modern music collection, and he was associate editor for the digital project “Letters in Exile: Documents from the Marian Exile.”
Jack DeVry Riordan
Jack DeVry Riordan is a PhD student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on contemporary Cuban cinema, and the ways in which digital humanities tools can be used for the curation and sharing of audiovisual works. Since September 2025, he has been working with AVAnnotate, exploring how digital annotation and archival practices can expand access to and engagement with audiovisual materials. More broadly, his work bridges film studies and digital humanities, with an emphasis on fostering new methods of preserving and disseminating cultural memory.
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Antoine Fauchié
Antoine Fauchié est maître de conférences (assistant professor) à l’Université Grenoble Alpes, en France, où il co-coordonne le Master Métiers du livre et de l’édition. Ses recherches s’inscrivent en sciences de l’information et en études de l’édition, et portent sur les processus techniques d’édition dans différents domaines éditoriaux, dont l’édition scientifique, ainsi que sur les démarches de critique des technologies en lien avec les mouvements dits de low-tech ou de permacomputing (observation, analyse et expérimentation). Sa thèse, soutenue en janvier 2024 et intitulée “Fabriquer des éditions, éditer des fabriques : reconfiguration des processus techniques éditoriaux et nouveaux modèles épistémologiques”, est une exploration de chaînes d’édition non conventionnelles via des études de cas et la réalisation de prototypes et de modélisations éditoriales (https://these.quaternum.net).
- Publier avec des limites (Week 2)
Kate Faber Oestreich
Kate Faber Oestreich is Professor of English at Coastal Carolina University. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century British literature, adaptation studies, and the ways multimodal and digital forms reshape reading and teaching practices. She is co-author, with Jennifer Camden, of Transmedia Storytelling: Pemberley Digital’s Adaptations of Jane Austen and Mary Shelley (2018), and her articles appear in Adaptation, Brontë Studies, South Atlantic Review, Victorians Institute Journal, Nineteenth Century Studies, and several edited collections. Her recent work examines how immersive and interactive environments—from YouTube adaptations to collaborative digital editions—extend and transform nineteenth-century texts.
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Katherine D. Harris
Katherine D. Harris, Director of Public Programming, Outreach & Advocacy and Professor of Literature & Digital Humanities at San Jose State University, is a scholar of literature, technology, and pedagogy whose work spans 19th-century British literary annuals, digital editions, and the award-winning Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities. A leader in cross-disciplinary initiatives, she developed the H&A in Action program, chaired the California Open Educational Resources Council, and launched the DH@CSU consortium. She is currently helping establish SJSU’s Advanced Institute for Ethical Technologies, focusing on AI, while also advancing public humanities through projects like Public Art as Resistance. Her recent writing in the Debates in Digital Humanities series explores the challenges of teaching DH at teaching-intensive institutions and sustaining DH centers. You can find her as @triproftri on BlueSky or visit her WordPress site, https://triproftri.wordpress.com.
- [Foundations] DH Leadership (Week 1)
D.J. Hopkins
D.J. Hopkins is a Professor at San Diego State University, where he is a Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning. Hopkins is a scholar whose research interests include Shakespeare in Performance (including adaptations for film, theatre, and VR) and an academic administrator who has held leadership positions on campus and in the field. His monograph Sleep No More and the Discourses of Shakespeare Performance (Feb. 2024) is available from Cambridge University Press. In 2016, his co-edited Performance and the City collections (Palgrave 2009, 2012) received the Award for Excellence in Editing from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE).
- Teaching AI Literacy (Week 1)
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Denna Iammarino
Denna Iammarino teaches literature and writing at Case Western Reserve University. Her research combines early modern literature, multimodality, digital rhetoric, and writing studies to consider how the intersections of material culture and rhetoric can shape textual meaning and readerly engagement. More specifically, her work merges 16th-century literature and book history with contemporary issues of digital pedagogy and publishing to consider how changes in communication technology (like the invention of the printing press or the digital turn) impacts what it means to be an author, a text, and a reader. In addition to articles and reviews in several journals and edited collections, she is also co-editor of and a contributor to the critical collection entitled John Derricke’s The Image of Ireland, with a Discoverie of Woodkarne: Essays on Text and Contexts (Manchester UP, 2021) as well as a co-creator of a digital edition of the same work.
- Multimodal Rhetoric, Digital Writing (Week 2)
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Diane Jakacki
Diane Jakacki is Digital Scholarship Coordinator and Associate Faculty in Comparative & Digital Humanities at Bucknell University. Interests included British performance history, digital scholarly production, and DH pedagogy. She is a co-lead of LEAF (the Linked Editing Academic Framework).
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Kristine Kelly
Kristine Kelly teaches in the Writing Program at Case Western Reserve University. Her classes, which include “Digital Literature,” “Interactive Storytelling,” and “Writing across Media” encourage students to develop as thinkers, writers, and makers in diverse rhetorical contexts. Kristine’s research and scholarship focus on digital literary studies and post-colonial and contemporary Anglophone literature and cultures, especially related to travel and mobility. Her work, published in forums like ARIEL, Paradoxa (Small Screen Fictions issue), and the recent collection The Ruptured Commons, explores how individuals forge paths, grounded and digital, in global, networked spaces.
- Multimodal Rhetoric, Digital Writing (Week 2)
Ayushi Khemka
Ayushi Khemka is a PhD student and Killam Doctoral Laureate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her research interests lie at the intersection of digital humanities, philosophy of race, and philosophy of AI and ethics. She works on training, testing and documentation of Voyant Tools. She is also working as a Highly Qualified Personnel on the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) funded ‘Migrant Integration in the Mid-21st Century: Bridging Divides’ research program at the University of Alberta. Outside of her academic adventures, Ayushi can be found yapping about Bollywood, yoga, henna, and mental health.
Dorothy Kim
Dorothy Kim is an Assistant Professor in English. She was a 2013-2014 Fellow at the University of Michigan’s Frankel Institute of Advanced Judaic Studies where she finished a monograph entitled Jewish/Christian Entanglements: Ancrene Wisse and its Material Worlds which is forthcoming from the University of Toronto press. She also has another book, Digital Whiteness and Medieval Studies, under contract with ArcPress/Western Michigan University Press which discusses white supremacy, white nationalism, neo-nazis online and their love of the Middle Ages. She has received fellowships from the SSHRC, Ford Foundation, Fulbright, and Mellon. She is the co-project director in the NEH-funded Scholarly Editions and Translations project An Archive of Early Middle English that plans to create a 161 MSS database for medieval English manuscripts from 1100-1348 that include all items in Early Middle English. She is editing a volume with Jesse Stommel (University of Mary Washington) on Disrupting the Digital Humanities (forthcoming, punctum books) that discusses the marginal methodologies and critical diversities in the Digital Humanities. She is also co-editing a volume with Adeline Koh, Alternative Genealogies of the Digital Humanities (forthcoming, puncture books) that considers the issues of race, gender, white supremacy in the deep history of DH. She has co-written articles on “#GawkingatRapeCulture,” “TwitterEthics,” and written articles about “TwitterPanic” and “Social Media and Academic Surveillance” at Modelviewculture.com. She has a forthcoming article with Frontiers in an issue on digital feminism on Beyonce’s “Lemonade” and is a contributor to Feminist Debates in DH on feminist archives. She is the medieval editor for the Orlando Project 2.0 and can be followed @dorothyk98. She was named by Diverse: Issues in Higher Ed 2015 Emerging Scholar under 40.
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Mohamed Laib
Mohamed Laib is Data Science researcher in the Trustworthy AI group at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, with a solid foundation in statistics and machine learning. His work focuses on leveraging these skills to tackle complex real-world challenges.
Jeffrey Lawler
Jeffrey Lawler is co-director of the Center for the History of Video Games, Technology and Critical Play at California State University, Long Beach, where he is a full-time lecturer. Current research examines arcades as radicalized leisure spaces in Los Angeles County in the 1970s and 80s. Recent publications include “The Historical Environment as Aged Icon in the Gamed West,” in Comparative American Studies, and the forthcoming chapter “Imagining the Other: Historical Possibilities and Teaching American History with Twine,” to be published in EnTwine: A Critical and Creative Companion to Teaching with Twine.
- Engaging Play (Week 2)
Glen Layne-Worthey
Glen Layne-Worthey is the Associate Director for Research Support Services in the HathiTrust Research Center, based in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Information Sciences. Glen was Digital Humanities Librarian in the Stanford University Libraries from 1997 through 2019, and was the founding head of the Libraries’ Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research (CIDR), and a founding member of the Stanford Literary Lab. Long active in the international Digital Humanities community, he hosted the international DH2011 conference at Stanford, and was co-chair of the Program Committee for DH2018 in Mexico City. He recently served as Executive Board Chair in the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), and as co-convener of its “DH in Libraries” Special Interest Group. He is co-editor (with Isabel Galina) of The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities and (with Lise Jaillant and others) of Navigating Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage Organisations, both published in 2025.
- [Foundations] DH Leadership (Week 1)
Brian Leach
Brian Leach is Technology Support Coordinator with Creative Technologies at Harvard Library. As a member of the management team that supports the Tech Lending program at Cabot Science Library, Brian regularly interacts with patrons (faculty, students and staff) to teach to; One. How to use AR/VR technology (Such as the Meta Quest series of headsets) in classes; Two. To support individual use for research purposes. In addition, Brian maintains the Cabot Library Media Studios used for video/podcast recordings. He also supports other technologies such as the new library 3D printing service. Currently, he is researching new technologies to integrate into the Tech lending program while supporting classes using VR technology. For more information, please email Brian at brian_leach@harvard.edu.
- Immersive Scholarship 101 (Week 2)
Yadira Lizama Mué
Yadira Lizama-Mué is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Western University. She has a degree in Computer Science Engineering from the Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas in Havana and a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from Western University. Her work applies AI-driven methods to peace research, cultural analysis, and digital humanities, core areas reflected in this course. At Western University, she teaches hands-on Digital Humanities courses that introduce students to programming as a tool for understanding and interacting with information in the form of text, structured data, images, sound, maps, and networks. Her research and teaching consistently bridge technical and humanistic domains, empowering learners to explore and create with AI critically and imaginatively.
Zachary Lloyd
Zachary Lloyd, Developer, holds an MA in philosophy from The New School. He is currently a PhD student in comparative literature and a Digital Fellow at CUNY Graduate Center. He is also an adjunct lecturer at Brooklyn College and NYU. He hopes to continue building his skills in web development to provide students in the humanities with open-source tools for learning digital skills relevant to their research aims. Through his advocacy for digital literacy, he aspires to help forge scholarly relationships and strengthen interdisciplinary ties among academic communities.
Elizabeth Losh
Elizabeth Losh is the Duane A. and Virginia S. Dittman Professor of American Studies and English with a specialization in New Media Ecologies at William & Mary, where she also directs the Equality Lab. Previously she directed the Culture, Art, and Technology Program at the University of California, San Diego. She is the 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), The War on Learning: Gaining Ground in the Digital University (MIT Press, 2014), Hashtag (Bloomsbury, 2019), and Selfie Democracy: The New Digital Politics of Disruption and Insurrection (MIT Press, 2022). She is the co-author with Jonathan Alexander of Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2013; second edition, 2017; third edition, 2020). She also edited the collection MOOCs and Their Afterlives: Experiments in Scale and Access in Higher Education (University of Chicago, 2017) and co-edited Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities (Minnesota, 2018) with Jacqueline Wernimont. She co-chaired the Modern Language Association – Conference on College Composition and Communication Joint Task Force on Writing and AI and is currently co-chairing the MLA Task Force on Generative AI Initiatives.
Wojciech Łukasik
Wojciech Łukasik is a digital humanist affiliated with the Center for Quantitative Research in Political Science at the Jagiellonian University, the Jagiellonian Centre for Digital Humanities, and the Department of Polish Studies. He also cooperates with the Institute of Polish Language at the Polish Academy of Sciences, where he obtained his PhD in linguistics. In his thesis, he applied digital methods including corpus analysis, stylometry, and topic modeling to a corpus of Young Poland literature. His work also involves the digitization of historical dictionaries and data processing for digital scholarly editions.
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Andrew MacDonald
Andrew MacDonald is a web developer with almost 20 years experience creating open source web applications. Working primarily in the digital humanities field, he has contributed to several significant projects, most notably Voyant Tools. Outside of work, Andrew is an avid cyclist, amateur yogi, and hobbyist generative artist.
Amanda Madden
Amanda Madden is an Assistant Professor of History at George Mason University and affiliate faculty at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. She teaches digital humanities and history courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. Her current spatial history projects include Mapping Violence in Early Modern Italy. She is the author of Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy.
Jean-Philippe Magué
Jean-Philippe Magué est maître de conférences en linguistique et humanités numériques à l’École normale supérieure (ENS) de Lyon. Son parcours universitaire se caractérise par une forte approche interdisciplinaire, mêlant sciences du langage, informatique et analyse des systèmes complexes. Ses recherches portent sur la variation et le changement linguistique, sur les conséquences des technologies numériques sur les structures sociales et sur les compétences linguistiques des grands modèles des langues. Il mobilise notamment des méthodologies issues de l’apprentissage automatique, de la modélisation computationnelle, de la science des données et de la science des systèmes complexes.
Kim Martin
Kim Martin (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in History at the University of Guelph and the Associate Director of THINC Lab. Her research focuses on serendipitous experiences of humanities researchers in digital environments, Early Modern London, and makerspaces. Kim is the Research Team Lead for Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship (LINCS), and is excited to share the tools and knowledge from this project with the DHSI community.
Alliyya Mo
Alliyya Mo (she/her) is Data Interface Developer with the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship (LINCS) whose involvement includes data transformation, vocabulary hosting, and interface work including management of the project website and Fuseki triplestore. She completed her Bachelor of Computing at the University of Guelph.
John T. Murray
John T. Murray is an Associate Professor of Games and Interactive Media at the University of Central Florida. He is Co-PI on a multi-institutional NSF grant entitled “Virtual Experience Research Accelerator,” for which he is overseeing the software development. The project’s goals are to increase the diversity of participants for virtual reality by creating a public platform for anyone to participate using their own headsets. He was co-author of Adventure Games: Playing the Outsider (with Aaron Reed and Anastasia Salter, Bloomsbury 2020) and Flash: Building the Interactive Web (with Anastasia Salter, MIT Press 2014). His research focuses on interactive narratives and reality media platforms, which includes augmented, virtual, and mixed reality. He was Program Co-Chair for the International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling in 2023 and 2024 as well as the Electronic Literature Organization’s annual conference in 2024. Currently he is collaborating with Mark Marino and Maria Cecilia Reyes on “Shields Down,” a VR interactive narrative that incorporates players’ emotional performances into the narrative path. He is currently exploring new programming paradigms through generative AI assistance in immersive authoring in VR.
Gabor Mihaly Toth
Gabor Mihaly Toth is a research scientist at the Center for Contemporary and Digital History at the University of Luxembourg; he is the principal investigator of “Voices from Auschwitz: Unlocking the Collective Memory with the Multimodal Analysis of Survivor Testimonies” project; before joining the University of Luxembourg, he had worked at the University of Southern California and Yale University.
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Christopher Ohge
Christopher Ohge is Senior Lecturer in Digital Approaches to Literature at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, where he teaches in the MA programme in the
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Alex Razoumov
Alex Razoumov earned his PhD in computational astrophysics from the University of British Columbia and held postdoctoral positions in Urbana–Champaign, San Diego, Oak Ridge, and Halifax. He has worked on numerical models ranging from galaxy formation to core-collapse supernovae and stellar hydrodynamics, and has developed a number of computational fluid dynamics and radiative transfer codes and techniques. He spent five years as HPC Analyst in SHARCNET helping researchers from diverse backgrounds to use large clusters, and in 2014 moved back to Vancouver to focus on scientific visualization and training researchers to use advanced computing tools. He is now with Simon Fraser University.
John Russel
John Russell is an Associate Librarian and Associate Director of the Center for Virtual/Material Studies 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 past editor-in-chief of dh+lib.
- DH for Librarians (Week 2)
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Anastasia Salter
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 Critical Making in the Age of AI (Amherst College, with Emily Johnson, 2025), 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.
Alexia Schneider
Alexia Schneider est doctorante en littérature option humanité numérique à l’Université de Montréal.
Lynne Siemens
Lynne Siemens is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Administration, University of Victoria. Her research areas include project management in the academy and academic collaboration. She has taught the Project Management workshop at DHSI since 2006.
Ray Siemens
Ray Siemens is Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria, in English with cross appointment in Computer Science, earlier Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing. He directs the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, the INKE Partnership, and until very recently the Digital Humanities Summer Institute. He was an early president of both the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities and the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. For further details, see https://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/.
- [Foundations] DH Leadership (Week 1)
Andie Silva
Andie Silva (she/her) is Professor of English and Digital Humanities at the City University of New York (York College and CUNY Graduate Center). Her research interests lie at the intersection of book history and print culture, popular culture, and digital humanities. In addition to articles and reviews in several journals, Silva is also author of The Brand of Print: Marketing Paratexts in the Early English Book Trade (Brill 2019) and co-editor, with Scott Schofield, of Digital Pedagogy in Early Modern Studies: Method and Praxis (Iter Press 2024) and Using Commonplace Books to Enrich Medieval and Renaissance Courses, with Sarah E. Parker (Arc Humanities Press 2023).
James Smith
Over the years, James Smith has had computing interests that include 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. More recently, he has focused on emphasizing the human element in computing.
Sean Smith
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,
- Engaging Play (Week 2)
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Jacquelyne Thoni Howard
Jacquelyne Thoni Howard is a Senior Professor of Practice and Associate Director of Student Engagement at the Connolly Alexander Institute for Data Science at Tulane University. She is a co-editor of the book, Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online (AU Press, 2025) and a founding co-editor of the award-winning guide Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online (2020). She is also the technical director of numerous digital humanities projects. Her research, teaching, and mentoring work centers on the social and cultural issues relating to the history of data, science and technology studies, data literacy, and convening digital humanities labs.
Merve Tekgürler
Merve Tekgürler is a MS candidate in symbolic systems and a PhD candidate in history at Stanford University. Merve’s research spans multilingual digital humanities, artificial intelligence, and machine translation, focusing on the development of Natural Language Processing tools for Ottoman Turkish. They previously taught “Python Programming for Digital Humanities” at University of California, Berkeley.
Chris Tănăsescu
Chris Tănăsescu is a poet and academic with backgrounds in English and computer science. The Graph Poem project he started 15 years ago has outputted natural language processing and network science-based poetry classifiers, intermedia performances, and computationally assembled poetry anthologies. His alias MARGENTO refers to a cyber cross-artform ensemble and international coalition of poets-translators, visual artists/musicians, and coders/AI throwing events and launching publications on and off-line in four continents since 2001 and at DHSI (#GraphPoem) since 2019. Chris is currently a DH Research Scientist at the University of Galway while continuing his affiliation as Senior Researcher in Global Literary Studies and Complex Systems at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Previous or ongoing positions and affiliations include Coordinator of Digital Humanities at the University of Ottawa, Altissia Chair in Digital Cultures and Ethics at Université Catholique de Louvain, and Visiting Scholar at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, University of Victoria. His latest publications include Literature and Computation (Routledge 2024) and A Computationally Assembled Anthology of Contemporary Belgian Poetry [MARGENTO, collective ed.] (co-edited with Raluca Tanasescu, featuring John Taylor as main translator, Peter Lang 2025).
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Marcello Vitali-Rosati
Philosophe et spécialiste d’édition numérique, Marcello Vitali-Rosati est professeur au département des littératures de langue française de l’Université de Montréal, titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada sur les écritures numériques et de la Chaire d’excellence en édition numérique à l’Université de Rouen. Il développe une réflexion philosophique sur ce que devient le monde à l’ère des technologies numériques. À partir de l’étude et de la pratique du code, il analyse la manière dont les algorithmes, les formats, les logiciels et les plateformes redéfinissent les notions d’humain, d’identité, de connaissance ou de littérature. Contributeur actif à la théorie de l’éditorialisation, il travaille à la conception de nouvelles formes de production et de diffusion du savoir ainsi qu’à l’élaboration de chaînes éditoriales innovantes. Il est l’auteur de nombreux articles et monographies et exerce également une activité d’éditeur en tant que directeur de la revue Sens public et co-directeur de la collection “Parcours Numériques” aux Presses de l’Université de Montréal. Il est à la tête de plusieurs projets en humanités numériques, particulièrement dans le domaine de l’édition savante: des plateformes d’édition de revues et de monographies enrichies, de l’éditeur de texte Stylo ainsi que d’une plateforme d’édition collaborative de l’Anthologie Grecque.
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Olivia Wikle
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 Peter Williamson
Evan Peter Williamson is the Digital Infrastructure Librarian and Head of Digital Scholarship and Open Strategies 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.
David Joseph Wrisley
David Joseph Wrisley est professeur titulaire en humanités numériques à la New York University Abu Dhabi (Émirats arabes unis). Il a obtenu son doctorat à Princeton en langues et littératures romanes, avec une spécialisation en littérature médiévale comparée. Il s’intéresse à l’application des méthodes computationnelles en sciences humaines, particulièrement dans les contextes multilingues et non-anglophones. Ses recherches actuelles portent sur le développement de modèles de reconnaissance d’écriture manuscrite (en latin, arabe et français médiéval) ainsi que sur d’autres usages de l’intelligence artificielle dans l’étude des sources historiques. Depuis plus de 20 ans, il est engagé dans l’interdisciplinarité et la collaboration dans les pays du monde arabe. Avant de s’installer à Abou Dhabi, il a enseigné à l’American University of Beirut (Liban) de 2002 à 2016. A présent il co-dirige le Paris Bible Project (parisbible.github.io) et le groupe de recherche OpenGulf (opengulf.github.io).
Markus Wust
Markus Wust is Head of User Services at the University of Tübingen Library where he teaches workshops and courses in Data and Information Literacy. He holds Master’s degrees in German Literature (University of Georgia, USA) as well as Library and Information Studies and Humanities Computing (University of Alberta, Canada).
- [Foundations] DH Sample Platter (Week 2)
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Stephen Zweibel
Stephen Zweibel is Digital Scholarship Librarian at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he supports students and faculty in developing digital projects and working with data, individually and through workshops and classes on research skills and tools. Steve earned his MS in Library and Information Science from Long Island University in 2010, and his MA in the DH track of the GC’s Liberal Studies (MALS) program in 2016. He built DH Box, which won a National Endowment for the Humanities Start-Up grant in 2015, and is co-director of DHRIFT, which recently won an NEH Level III Advancement Grant (since canceled!). Stephen sees democratizing computational literacy as a core focus of his service and scholarship.
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