Editors

Constance Crompton (she/her, ccrompto [at] uottawa [dot] ca; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6611-3663) is a white, queer, able-bodied settler and Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities. She directs the University of Ottawa’s Labo de données en sciences humaines/The Humanities Data Lab. She is 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. She is the co-editor of two volumes, Doing Digital Humanities and Doing More Digital Humanities, with Ray Siemens and Richard Lane (Routledge 2016, 2020). She lives and works on unceded Algonquin land.

Laura Estill (lestill [at] stfx [dot] ca; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0904-3325) is a Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities and professor of English at St. Francis Xavier University in Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia, Canada). Her monograph (Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Changing Plays, 2015) considers the reception of early modern plays. She is co-editor of multiple collections, including Early Modern Studies after the Digital Turn, 2016; Early British Drama in Manuscript, 2019; Digital Humanities Workshops, 2023; and The Past, Present, and Future of Early Modern Digital Studies, 2024. She directs the Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities/Certificat canadien en Humanités Numériques, https://ccdhhn.ca/.

Bridget Moynihan (she/her, bmoyniha [at] uottawa [dot] ca; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3032-8069 ) is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) Partnership and with Library and Archives Canada-Bibliothèque et Archives Canada (LAC-BAC). Prior to this fellowship, she completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh (2020) and received her MLIS from Western University (2021) and her MA from the University of Calgary (2015).

Ray Siemens (siemens [at] uvic [dot] ca; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9599-8795) directs the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE), and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute. He is Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria, in English and computer science, and past Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing (2004–2015). In 2019–2020, he was also Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Loughborough U and Global Innovation Chair in Digital Humanities at U Newcastle (2019–2022). You can learn more about Ray at http://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/.

Authors

Cortnie S. Belser (cbelser [at] gradcenter [dot] cuny [dot] edu) is a doctoral student in the Urban Education program at CUNY Graduate Center in New York. She is a former middle school Humanities educator in her native city, Baltimore, Maryland in the United States. Her research explores the convergence of black girlhood studies, intergenerational autoethnography, and the social, political, and liberatory reclamations of The Search as an intersectional curriculum praxis. As a 2020 Media, Misinformation and the Pandemic Teacher Fellow and 1619 Project Education Network 2022 Fellow with the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, she co-constructed curriculum for students to investigate and capture underrepresented stories of racial injustice, familial and community legacy, and freedom dreams. As a 2024 Open Knowledge Fellow at the Graduate Center she is excavating new frames for liberation and justice work to dismantle the carcerality of education research. She has a forthcoming chapter, “In Search of US: A Black Girl’s Guide to the Archive” in Students in the Archives: Archival Pedagogy in Practice by University of Illinois Press.

Katrin Fritsche (katrin [dot] fritsche [at] uni-jena [dot] de) works at the Digital Humanities Department at the University of Jena, Germany. Her focus is on teaching digital skills for instructors and students, expanding classic humanities approaches to include digital and data-based methods, and (instructional) designing of teaching and learning. She also works as a freelance author and creator of digital teaching and learning content for various platforms.

Hannah Huber (hlhuber [at] Sewanee [dot] edu; https://orcid.org/0009-0004-0164-5828) is the Digital Technology Leader for the Center for Southern Studies at the University of the South. She advises faculty on digital humanities tools and methods, facilitates digital humanities projects, manages the day-to-day business of the Center, and teaches classes in U.S. literature, textual studies, and digital humanities. She received her PhD in English from the University of South Carolina and served as the postdoctoral research associate for the Digital Humanities Initiative at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work has appeared in Studies in American Fiction, Studies in American Naturalism, Salem Press's Critical Insights series and The Dictionary of Literary Biography. She is the Editor of Studies in American Naturalism, and her book and digital companion Sleep Fictions: Rest and Its Deprivations in Progressive-Era Literature was published by University of Illinois Press in the Topics in the Digital Humanities series in November 2023.

Nicholas (Nick) Kennedy (ni [dot] kennedy [at] westmont [dot] edu) is a high school English teacher from Solvang, California. Nick is a member of the California Teachers Collaborative for Holocaust and Genocide Education, which serves under the Governor’s Council for Holocaust and Genocide Education in the state of California. Additionally, Nick is a Curriculum Partner with the Colored Conventions Project, a communal research project of the Center for Black Digital Research (#DigBlk) at Penn State University. In his present role as a high school teacher, Nick acts as the grade-level coordinator of the English 10 (sophomore-level) classes at his school site, assisting curriculum development and facilitation for his English department. In addition to teaching sophomore English, he serves as his school’s AP Research teacher.

Katherine I. Knowles (knowle50 [at] msu [dot] edu; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4813-6682) is a PhD Candidate in the Department of English at Michigan State University. She completed the Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate in Fall 2023. Her research explores how the digital humanities sheds light on Shakespeare studies in new ways, expanding on cultural heritage, spatiality, and embodiment.

Sarah Laiola (slozierl [at] coastal [dot] edu; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9662-973X) is Assistant Professor and Program Director of Digital Culture and Design, and Affiliate Faculty in the Center for Inclusive Excellence, at Coastal Carolina University. She holds a PhD in English from the University of California, Riverside, and specializes in new media poetics, visual culture, social media, and contemporary digital technoculture with a focus on feminism and anti-racism in these spaces. Her most recent publications appear in Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, Hyperrhiz, and Criticism. She is the co-founder and managing editor of Filter, an Instagram-based venue for electronic literature and textual art. She is the recipient of the Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts Excellence in Teaching Award (2021).

Victoria Moten (v [dot] moten [at] umd [dot] edu) is a doctoral student in the English Department at Morgan State University and a lecturer in the English department at the University of Maryland. Her interests lie in what the speculative fiction texts of Black women writers, from Hurston to Butler, teach us about our connection to the cosmos. A Hurston/Wright Fellow, her creative writing ranges from poetry to short fiction; from biographical to speculative, and can be found in the Maryland Bards Poetry Review and Black Freighter Press. Victoria has spoken on the contributions of Black women in literature and history at The College of William & Mary Lemon Legacies Porch Talk “The Search for Founding Black Mothers,” Morgan State University Department of Advanced Studies, Leadership, & Policy Brown Bag Speaker Series, on “The Search for Founding Black Mothers: Digital Storytelling as Reclamation,” and as a contributor in the upcoming Introduction to Afrofuturism: A Mixtape in Black Literature & Arts (Routledge 2024). You can learn more about Victoria at https://victoriamoten.com/.

Anna Mukamal (amukamal [at] coastal [dot] edu; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0347-3298 ) is Assistant Professor of Digital Culture and Design in the Department of English and Affiliate Faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies at Coastal Carolina University. Mukamal writes and teaches about social issues like the mental health crisis, gender-based violence, and climate change. As a feminist digital humanities (DH) scholar, she specializes in data visualization as a social justice tool. Her DH publications appear in such venues as the Journal of Cultural Analytics, The Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story, Digital Studies/Le champ numérique, The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900-2000, and American Literary History and are forthcoming in The Cambridge Companion to Literature in the Digital Age. She received the Alden Dissertation Prize for her Stanford PhD dissertation (2023); the Apple Award for Professor of the Year in the Department of English at Coastal (2023); and the Inclusive Pedagogy Award for pre-tenure faculty through Coastal’s Office of the Provost (2023).

Gretchen Rudham (gretchen [dot] rudham [at] morgan [dot] edu) is an assistant professor of Urban Educational Leadership at her alma mater, Morgan State University (MSU). Her teaching and research interests include Digital Humanities, Founding Black Educators, social justice leadership, and dismantling Whiteness in curriculum, schools, and society. Her most recent projects include two NEH grants: The Search for Founding Black Mothers K-12 Institute (2022) and Buried Blueprints of Black Education HBCU Humanities Initiative (2024). She also serves as a senior researcher on the Wallace Equity-Centered Pipeline Initiative grant team, leading the MSU doctoral students’ Advisory Board Think Tank.

Helene Williams (helenew [at] uw [dot] edu) is a Teaching Professor at the University of Washington’s Information School. Her focus is on building a diverse, inclusive, accessible, and equitable curriculum, and her courses are all based on current applied practice in libraries and other information settings. She has been a librarian in academic settings ranging from community college to Harvard University. The day the Modern Language Association International Bibliography began coming out on CD-ROM, she was hooked on what we now call the digital humanities.

Yanyue Yuan (yy37 [at] nyu [dot] edu; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6735-782X) is an Assistant Arts Professor of Interactive Media + Business (IMB) at NYU Shanghai. She also serves as an affiliate faculty member in the NYU Shanghai Program on Creativity+Innovation (PCI) and co-facilitates the Creative Experience Design Lab with her colleagues. Yanyue’s research focuses on design and art education, intergenerational learning, and project-based creative learning experiences. She holds a PhD in Education from the University of Cambridge and an MA in Anthropology from the University of Oxford.