John Bryant (Melville Electronic Library and TextLab)

John Bryant is a Professor of English at Hofstra University and Editor, Melville Electronic Library. His principal research focus is on nineteenth-century American literature and culture, in particular the works of Herman Melville but also, transcendentalism, Emerson, Poe, and antebellum African American writing. He also specializes in textual studies and digital scholarship, paying special attention to how writers and readers revise texts—making them into what he calls “fluid texts”—and how we might use online technology to show users how fluid texts evolve. Dr. Bryant has published several books and articles, including Melville and Repose (Oxford), The Fluid Text (Michigan), Melville Unfolding (Michigan), and the Longman Critical Edition of Moby-Dick and is also the editor of Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies. He is also a member of the NINES Executive Council and Americanist Editorial Board.

Ryan Cordell

Ryan Cordell is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing-Across-the-Curriculum at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin. His scholarship focuses on intersections between nineteenth-century American literature and religion. Prof. Cordell is currently building a digital edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Celestial Railroad” that will allow scholars, teachers, and students to follow the rich publication history of “The Celestial Railroad” in American periodicals during the 1840s and 50s. Cordell also serves on NITLE's Digital Humanities Council, as secretary/treasurer of the Digital Americanists, and as a member of the DHCommons board. Cordell also writes about technology in higher education for the group blog ProfHacker at the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Quinn Dombrowski (DHCommons)

Quinn Dombrowski is the manager for Scholarly Technology at the University of Chicago, and a Slavic linguist who applies digital humanities analytic methodologies to the birchbark letters of medieval Novgorod. Quinn has developed numerous Drupal-based sites for digital humanities projects, including DHCommons and the Bamboo DiRT directory of digital research tools, services and collections. She also documents graffiti in public areas of university libraries, and has published a selection of that material as Crescat Graffiti, Vita Excolatur: Confessions of the University of Chicago. She currently serves as the secretary of the National Coalition of Independent Scholars.

Mary Farrington

Mary Farrington is the Project Manager for the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture. Her interests are typography, standards-based web design, open-source resources for web design, digital archives, and XML and XSLT.

Julia Flanders (Brown University Women Writers Project, Center for Digital Scholarship)

Julia Flanders is the Director of the Women Writers Project, part of the Center for Digital Scholarship at the Brown University Library, where she has worked since the early 1990s. She also serves as editor-in-chief of Digital Humanities Quarterly, and as President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities. She is a member of the steering committee of centerNet and ADHO, and served for ten years on the board of directors of the Text Encoding Initiative. Her research interests focus on digital modes of scholarly communication and research, the transformation of textual information into data, and the organization of scholarly work in the digital humanities. She is also interested in how digital humanities projects are developed, funded, managed, and documented. She is currently overseeing two NEH grants: "Cultures of Reception" (focusing on the emergence of transatlantic cultures of readership and reception of women's writing in the late 18th and early 19th centuries) and "Taking TEI Further", a series of advanced digital humanities workshops beginning in 2012.

Neil Fraistat (centerNet, Romantic Circles)

Neil Fraistat is Professor of English and Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland. He is a founder and general editor of the Romantic Circles Website, the Co-Chair of centerNet (an international network of digital humanities centers), and he has published widely on the subjects of Romanticism, Textual Studies, and Digital Humanities in various articles and in the eight books he has authored or edited. Fraistat has engaged in projects involving the preservation of virtual worlds and born digital creative works; the development of the Open Annotation Collaboration framework for sharing annotations of digital content across the World Wide Web; and the building of international cyberinfrastructure. He currently serves on the advisory boards of Project Bamboo, CLARIN, D-SPIN, NINES, Project MUSE, and CHAIN, a new coalition of humanities and arts infrastructures and networks that includes DARIAH, Project Bamboo, CLARIN, ADHO, and centerNet. Fraistat has been awarded the Society for Textual Scholarship’s biennial Fredson Bowers Memorial Prize, the Keats-Shelley Association Prize, honorable mention for the Modern Language Association’s biennial Distinguished Scholarly Edition Prize, and the Keats-Shelly Association’s Distinguished Scholar Award.

Amanda French (THATCamp)

Amanda French is currently the THATCamp Coordinator at the Center for History and New Media, and her primary professional interest is in teaching digital methods to the next generation of humanities scholars. She has pursued that interest both for the Digital History Across the Curriculum project at NYU and as a Council on Library and Information Resources Postdoctoral Fellow at NCSU. She earned her doctorate in English from the University of Virginia in 2004, where she encoded texts in TEI for the Rossetti Archive and the Electronic Text Center. Her dissertation is a history of the villanelle, the nineteen-line poetic form of Dylan Thomas's "Do not go gentle into that good night"; she is currently at work on a book titled Here is a Verbal Contraption: The Art of Twitter.

Katherine D. Harris (San Jose State University & NITLE Digital Humanities Council)

Katherine D. Harris, a tenured Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, San José State University, specializes in Romantic-Era and 19th-century British literature, women’s authorship, the literary annual, 19th-century history print culture and history of the book, textuality, editorial theory, Digital Humanities, and pedagogy. Her work ranges from pedagogical articles on using digital tools in the classroom to traditional scholarship on a “popular” literary form in 19th-century England. She chronicled her teaching adventures in the March 2011 blog, A Day in the Life of Digital Humanities, along with 200 other participants which turned into a plenary address for the 2012 Re: Humanities and an article about the successes and failures of teaching with digital tools, “TechnoRomanticism: Creating Digital Editions in an Undergraduate Classroom” (Journal of Victorian Culture April 2011). Because of this work, Harris has been named to the Council on Digital Humanities for the National Institute of Technology in Liberal Education and will co-teach a week-long seminar in Digital Pedagogy at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria. In her scholarly adventures, Harris’ research on 19th-century British literary annuals resulted in “Feminizing the Textual Body: Women and their Literary Annuals in Nineteenth-Century Britain” (Publications of the Bibliographical Society of America 99:4) and “Borrowing, Altering and Perfecting the Literary Annual Form – or What It is Not: Emblems, Almanacs, Pocket-books, Albums, Scrapbooks and Gifts Books” (Poetess Archive Journal 1:1), two articles that are part of the larger work on the literary history of annuals. She created and edits a scholarly edition for the study of literary annuals, The Forget Me Not: A Hypertextual Archive, most of which has been re-coded into TEI and incorporated into the Poetess Archive Database edited by Professor Laura Mandell. Harris’ most current work is an edited collection of Gothic short stories from the 1820s’ most popular annuals, forthcoming with Zittaw Press (Spring 2012).

Elizabeth Lorang (Walt Whitman Archive)

Elizabeth Lorang is a postoctoral research associate in the Department of English and Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the project manager and associate editor of the Walt Whitman Archive and project manager and research associate of Civil War Washington.

Laura Mandell (18th Connect)

Laura Mandell is the author of Misogynous Economies: The Business of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain (1999), a Longman Cultural Edition of The Castle of Ortanto and Man of Feeling, and numerous articles primarily about eighteenth-century women writers. Her recent article in New Literary History, "What Is the Matter? What Literary History Neither Hears Nor Sees," describes how digital work can be used to conduct research into conceptions informing the writing and printing of eighteenth-century poetry. She is Editor of the Poetess Archive, on online scholarly edition and database of women poets, 1750-1900; Associate Director of NINES; and Director of 18thConnect. Her current research involves developing new methods for visualizing poetry, developing software that will allow all scholars to deep-code documents for data-mining, and improving OCR software for early modern and 18th-c. texts via high performance and cluster computing.

Shawn Moore

Shawn Moore is a graduate student, Ph.D., in the Department of English at Texas A&M University. He is also the Graduate Assistance - Research, for Dr. Laura Mandell, the Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture. In this role, Shawn maintains multiple Drupal installations and provides support for the XML encoding of texts for Romantic Circles and The Poetess Archive. Shawn also provides support for multiple faculty and student run digital humanities projects. Shawn's own research investigates the sociability of early Restoration women writers. By mapping the associations of integral networks of personal and intellectual nodes within private works of early women writers, especially Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673), Shawn is attempting to challenge the notion that early Restoration women’s writing is confined by intrapersonal elements and are limited by their print circulation.

Robert Nelson (History Engine & Atlas of American History)

Robert K. Nelson is the Director of the Digital Scholarship Lab and affiliated faculty in the American Studies program at the University of Richmond. He has directed a number of digital humanities project including "Mining the Dispatch," "Redlining Richmond," and the History Engine. He holds a PhD in American Studies from the College of William & Mary. His work on nineteenth-century cultural and literary history has appeared in the Journal of Social History and American Literature.

Bethany Nowviskie (DH Answers & Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations)

Dr. Bethany Nowviskie is director of Digital Research and Scholarship at the University of Virginia Library, a department that includes the Scholars' Lab. She is associate director of the Scholarly Communication Institute, vice president of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, and chair of MLA's Committee on Information Technology. Nowviskie has directed and designed a number of digital humanities projects from the mid-1990s to present. A more complete bio is available here.

Kenneth Price (Walt Whitman Archive)

Kenneth Price received his B.A. from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and then earned both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago. He is the Hillegass University Professor of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and co-director of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Price is the author of over forty articles and author or editor of nine books. His most recent book is co-edited with Ed Folsom and with Susan Belasco, Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays (University of Nebraska Press, 2007). His other recent books include Re-Scripting Walt Whitman: An Introduction to His Life and Work, co-authored with Folsom (Blackwell Publishing, 2005) and To Walt Whitman, America (University of North Carolina Press 2004), a main selection of The Readers Subscription, a national book club. Since 1995, Price has served as co-director of The Walt Whitman Archive an electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman's vast work, for the first time, easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers. The Whitman Archive has been awarded federal grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), the U.S. Department of Education, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS). In 2005, the Whitman Archive received a "We the People" grant from the NEH to build a permanent endowment to support ongoing editorial work. Since 2006, Price has also served as a co-editor of Civil War Washington, a project that allows users to study, visualize, and theorize the complex changes in the city of Washington, DC between 1860 and 1865 through a collection of datasets, images, texts, and maps. In 2009, Price received a Digital Innovation Award from American Council of Learned Societies.

Eric Dean Rasmussen (ELMCIP: Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice, Electronic Book Review)

Eric Dean Rasmussen is Researcher in Digital Culture at the University of Bergen. At UiB he collaborates on the trans-European digital-humanities project ELMCIP (Developing a Network-Based Creative Community: Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice) and is Editor of the ELMCIP Knowledge Base, an online database about activity in and around the transnational field of the digital literary arts. He also serves as Senior Editor for one of the longest-running open-access critical journals, ebr, the Electronic Book Review. Before returning to UiB, where he was a visiting associate professor in Humanistic Informatics, Rasmussen taught American and British literature and cultural studies at Nørd-Trondelag University College, where he was an associate professor of English. Rasmussen's interests include the aesthetics, ideology, and technics of 20th- and 21st-century literature; scholarly editing and publishing; and the institutional transformation of literary studies via new media ecosystems, which can facilitate networked collaborative research, teaching, and writing practices.

Jason Rhody (NEH)

Jason Rhody is a Senior Program Officer in the Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Previously, he worked in NEH's Division of Education Programs in support of the EDSITEment project, which facilitates the use of technology and online humanities resources in the K-12 classroom. Jason earned his doctorate in English from the University of Maryland, and he is currently at work on a book about computer games, narrative theory, and software studies. Prior to joining the Endowment in 2003, he was a founding employee of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), where he contributed to and advised digital humanities projects while teaching courses in literature and digital media.

William Shaw (William Blake Archive)

William Shaw is the digital humanities technology consultant at Duke University and technical editor of the William Blake Archive. A graduate of Warren Wilson College, Mr. Shaw earned his M.A. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is currently completing his Ph.D. in English. He has presented widely on the Blake Archive and software development in the digital humanities. His research and writing are concerned with digital humanities education, software literacy, and British Romantic poetry.

David Shepard (HyperCities)

David Shepard is a PhD student in English at UCLA, where he supervises the technical development of HyperCities, a tool for creating narratives combining spatial and historical data. With Todd Presner and Chris Johanson, he received a Google Digital Humanities Award to develop Geoscribe, a tool for annotating Google books with geo-spatial content. His dissertation focuses on the history of digital humanities and its impact on postmodern literature. His other research focuses on mapping and visualizing social media data, with a project called HyperCities Now.

Lisa Spiro (National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education, DiRT Wiki)

As the director of NITLE (National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education) Labs, Dr. Spiro works with liberal arts colleges to promote innovative approaches to pedagogy and technology. Currently she serves on the Executive Council for the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH). Dr. Spiro was the founding editor of the Digital Research Tools (DiRT) wiki and is author the Digital Scholarship in the Humanities blog, where she explores topics such as DH education, getting started in digital humanities, and the significance of collaboration. Her recent writing projects include a proposal for a networked, open DH certificate program; a call for the DH community to craft a values statement; and a discussion of why and how to pursue an alt-academic career. Before coming to NITLE, Dr. Spiro directed the Digital Media Center at Rice University’s Fondren Library, where she oversaw the university’s central multimedia lab, led workshops on topics such as digital storytelling and digital research tools, and contributed to digital library projects. While a graduate student in English at the University of Virginia, Spiro encoded texts at the Electronic Text Center and worked briefly as managing editor of Postmodern Culture.

Andrew Stauffer (NINES)

Andrew Stauffer is an associate professor of English at the University of Virginia, where he serves as the director of NINES: Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship. Recent and ongoing NINES efforts under his leadership include the expansion of the NINES model to the 18th century (18thConnect) and medieval studies (MESA: Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance); the development of a web-based JUXTA collation tool, thanks in part to grants from Google; and two NEH summer Institutes on Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities devoted to the topic, "Evaluating Digital Scholarship." Stauffer's own research focuses primarily on nineteenth-century poetry, with an emphasis on textual studies and book history. He serves on the faculty of the Rare Book School at Virginia, where he co-teaches the course "Digitizing the Historical Record" with Bethany Nowviskie. He is the author of Anger, Revolution, and Romanticism (Cambridge, 2005) and the editor of She by H. Rider Haggard (for Broadview Press) and the Poetry of Robert Browning (for Norton). He is currently working on two books, "The Digital End of the Scholarly Edition" and "The Troubled Archive of Nineteenth-Century Literature," as well as editing the selected poetry of Lord Byron for Oxford University Press.

Ethan Watrall (MSU Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative, Red Land/Black Land)

Ethan Watrall is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Associate Director of Matrix: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters & Social Sciences Online at Michigan State University. In addition, Ethan is Director of the Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative and the Cultural Heritage Informatics Fieldschool at Michigan State University. Ethan’s research interests fall in the domain of cultural heritage informatics, with particular (though hardly exclusive) focus on digital archaeology and serious games for cultural heritage learning, outreach, and engagement. Ethan is PI of the NEH funded "Red Land/Black Land: Teaching Ancient Egyptian History Through Game-Based Learning" project as well as co-PI of the NEH funded "Pox and the City: A Digital Role-Playing Game for the History of Medicine" project. In addition, Ethan is co-editor of "Archaeology 2.0: New Tools for Communication and Collaboration," an open access volume published by the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press.