Ray Siemens is Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Professor of English at the University of Victoria. He is President (English) of the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs, Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King’s College London, and Visiting Research Professor at Sheffield Hallam University. Director of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, and founding editor of the electronic scholarly journal Early Modern Literary Studies, he is also author of works chiefly focusing on areas where literary studies and computational methods intersect, is editor of several Renaissance texts, is series co-editor of Topics in the Digital Humanities (University of Illinois Press) and is co-editor of several book collections on humanities computing topics, among them the Blackwell Companion to Digital Humanities (2004) and Mind Technologies (University of Calgary Press, 2006).
Susan Schreibman is Assistant Dean and Head of Digital Collections and Research at University of Maryland Libraries. She received her PhD in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama from University College Dublin (1997). She is the founding editor of The Thomas MacGreevy Archive, Irish Resources in the Humanities, and principle developer of The Versioning Machine. She is the author of Collected Poems of Thomas MacGreevy: An Annotated Edition (1991), co-editor of A Companion to Digital Humanities (Blackwell, 2004), co-translator of Siete poetas norteamericanas (1991); and co-series editor of Topics in the Digital Humanities (University of Illinois Press).
David Bamman is a computational linguist for the Perseus Project at Tufts University, focusing especially on natural language processing for Latin. David received a BA in Classics from the University of Wisconsin and an MA in Applied Linguistics from Boston University. He is currently leading the development of the Latin Dependency Treebank.
Belinda Barnet (belinda.barnet@gmail.com) is Lecturer in Media and Communications at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne. She has a PhD in Media and Communications from the University of New South Wales, and research interests in digital media, the evolution of technology, convergent journalism, and the mobile internet. Prior to her appointment at Swinburne, Belinda was Service Delivery Manager at Ericsson Australia. Her work has been published in a variety of books and journals, including CTHEORY, Continuum, Fibreculture, The American Book Review, and Convergence.
Marc Bragdon is Electronic Services Librarian with the University of New Brunswick Libraries Electronic Text Centre. Marc plays a lead role in the ongoing development of digital preservation strategies for UNB Libraries that incorporate international standards in digital imaging and information exchange as well as associated networked indexing and search/retrieval applications.
Alan Burk (burk@unb.ca) is the Associate Director for the Libraries at the University of New Brunswick and was the founding director of the Electronic Text Centre from 1996–2005. His broad research interests are in the areas of Humanities Computing and Electronic Publishing. He has been involved in many grants, including a recent Canada Foundation for Innovation award for $11,000,000 to build a Pan-Canadian electronic publishing and research infrastructure. One of his main research interests, supported by a research agreement with Elsevier and a grant from the New Brunswick Innovation Fund, is in using applications of machine learning to automatically build metadata to describe scholarly information on the Web.
Lisa Charlong is Assistant Director and Coordinator of XML and SGML Initiatives at The Electronic Text Centre at University of New Brunswick Libraries. Lisa has been involved with numerous scholarly communications and publishing projects, including: The Atlantic Canada Portal and the Chadwyck-Healey-published Canadian Poetry online collection. Lisa’s background is in information technology, education, archives, and art. Her current research interests revolve around the creation and use of structured data and digital collections as educational resources.
G. Sayeed Choudhury (sayeed@jhu.edu) is the Associate Director for Library Digital Programs and Hodson Director of the Digital Knowledge Center at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University. He serves as principal investigator for projects funded through the National Science Foundation, Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Mellon Foundation. He has oversight for the digital library activities and services provided by the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University. Choudhury has served on program committees for Open Repositories, the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Web-Wise, the ISMIR music retrieval conference, Document Analysis for Image Libraries, and the IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries. He has provided presentations at the following conferences or meetings: Digital Curation Centre, American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries, the International Federation of Library Associations, Educause, Coalition for Networked Information, the Digital Library Federation, American Society for Information Science and Technology, and Web-Wise. Choudhury has published papers in D-Lib, the Journal of Digital Information, and First Monday.
Tanya Clement (tclement@umd.edu) is an English PhD candidate at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her focus of study is textual and digital studies as it pertains to applied humanities computing and modernist American literature. She has an MFA in Fiction from the University of Virginia, and was trained in Humanities Computing at Virginia’s Electronic Text Center and the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. At the University of Maryland, she was a program associate at the Maryland Institute for Technologies in the Humanities from 2002 to 2005. Presently, she is the project manager for the Dickinson Electronic Archives and a research associate for MONK (Metadata Offers New Knowledge), a Mellon-funded project which seeks to integrate existing digital library collections and large-scale, cross-collection text mining and text analysis with rich visualization and social software capabilities.
Gregory Crane (gregory.crane@tufts.edu) is Winnick Family Chair of Technology and Entrepreneurship, Professor of Classics, and Director of the Perseus Project at Tufts University. Originally trained as a classicist, his current interests focus more generally on the application of information technology to the humanities.
James Cummings (james.cummings@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk) works for the Oxford Text Archive at the University of Oxford which hosts the UK’s Arts and Humanities Data Service: Literature, Languages, and Linguistics (AHDS:LLL). His PhD from the University of Leeds was in the field of medieval studies on records of early entertainment. He is on the Executive Board and Editorial Committee of the Digital Medievalist project. He has been elected multiple times to the Technical Council of the Text Encoding Initiative, where he has worked hard to further the development of the TEI Guidelines. In his work for AHDS:LLL he advises UK funding applicants on recommended practices in text encoding. He lectures on both medieval and humanities computing topics at a number of institutions, and publishes in both these disciplines.
Peter Damian-Grint (peter.damian-grint@voltaire.ox.ac.uk) is Correspondence
Editor of Electronic Enlightenment, a Web 2.0 e-publishing research project of the University of Oxford; he previously worked for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century. A medievalist by training, he teaches Old French at the University of Oxford and has written widely on Old French literature, especially historiography. He is the author of The New Historians of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance (1999) and editor of a collection of essays, Medievalism and manière gothique in Enlightenment France (2006).
Johanna Drucker (jrd8e@virginia.edu) is the Robertson Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. She has published and lectured widely on topics in the aesthetics of digital media, graphic design, experimental typography, artists’ books, and contemporary art. Her most recent title, Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2005. She is currently finishing work on a critical history of graphic design, with collaborator Emily McVarish, which will appear in 2008 from Prentice Hall. With Jerome McGann she co-founded SpecLab at the University of Virginia and was involved in developing the prototypes for several key projects, including Temporal Modeling and IVANHOE. Her current digital project is <http://www.ArtistsBooksOnline.org>.
Poet, editor, multimedia artist, and critic Christopher Funkhouser (funkhouser@ adm.njit.edu), an Associate Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology, was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to lecture and conduct research on ‘‘hypermedia writing’’ in Malaysia in 2006, where his CD-ROM e-book, Selections 2.0, was issued by Multimedia University. In 2007 two books, Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959–1995, and a bilingual collection, Technopoetry Rising: Essays and Works, will be published.
Bertrand Gervais (gervais.bertrand@uqam.ca) is full Professor in Literary studies at the University of Québec in Montréal (UQAM). He is the director of Figura, the Research Center on Textuality and the Imaginary, and of NT2, the Research Laboratory on Hypermedia Art and Literature (<http://www.labo-nt2.uqam.ca>). He teaches American literature and literary theories, specializing in theories of reading and interpretation. He has published essays on literary reading and twentieth-century American literature. His current work focuses on obsession, on the apocalyptic imagination, as well as on the Labyrinth in contemporary literature and film. He is also a novelist.
Gretchen Gueguen (ggueguen@umd.edu) is a member of the Digital Collections Library in the Digital Collections and Research Department of the University of Maryland Libraries. She has worked at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities on The Thomas MacGreevy Archive and as an assistant in the Digital Collections and Research division of the University of Maryland Libraries. Most recently, she has co-edited (with Ann Hanlon) The Library in Bits and Bytes: A Digital Publication, the proceedings of The Library in Bits and Bytes: A Digital Library Symposium.
Carolyn Guertin (guertin@uta.edu) is Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Director of the eCreate Lab, a graduate student research and development laboratory, in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Arlington. During the 2004 to 2006 academic years, she was a Senior McLuhan Fellow and SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto, and most recently gave the closing keynote address at ‘‘Re-Reading McLuhan: An International Conference on Media and Culture in the 21st Century’’ at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. She does both theoretical and applied work in cyberfeminism, digital narrative, digital design, media literacy (or postliteracy) and performance. She is a founding editor of the online journal MediaTropes, curator and founder of Assemblage: The Women’s Online New Media Gallery, and a literary advisor to the Electronic Literature Organization. She has written textbooks on hypertext and literature and information aesthetics, and is working on a new book called Connective Tissue: Queer Bodies, Postdramatic Performance and New Media Aesthetics.
David L. Hoover (david.hoover@verizon.net) is currently Professor of English at New York University, and has been working in the areas of humanities computing, linguistic stylistics, and text alteration for twenty years. He has published two books, both of which use computer-assisted techniques: A New Theory of Old English Meter and Language and Style in The Inheritors (on William Golding’s style). His current research is focused on authorship attribution, statistical stylistics, and corpus stylistics.
Alison Jones is a researcher at the Perseus Digital Library. She has a BA in History from Mount Holyoke College and an MLS from Simmons College. Her current research interests include digital library interfaces and the digitization of historical collections.
Ian Lancashire (ian@chass.utoronto.ca), Professor of English at the University of Toronto, founded the Center for Computing in the Humanities there in 1986 and codeveloped TACT (Text Analysis Computing Tools). He is currently editing Representative Poetry Online (1994–), Lexicons of Early Modern English (2006–), and a volume of essays about online teaching for the Modern Language Association of America. His historical research treats the growth of Early Modern English vocabulary, and his theoretical writings concern cybertextuality. He presided over a Canadian learned society, now called the Society for Digital Humanities (SDH-SEMI), from 1992 to 2003 and is now active in the TAPoR and Synergies consortia.
John Lavagnino (John.Lavagnino@kcl.ac.uk) studied physics at Harvard University and English at Brandeis University, where he took his PhD in 1998; he is now Senior Lecturer in Humanities Computing at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London. He and Gary Taylor are general editors of The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton, and he is also collaborating with Peter Beal and Henry Woudhuysen on the Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450–1700.
Mark Leahy (m.leahy@dartington.ac.uk) is a writer and curator who works with text, objects, and performance. Recent critical essays include ‘‘Plantation and Thicket: A Double (Sight) Reading of Sir Thomas Browne’s ‘Garden of Cyrus’,’’ in Performance Research 10.2; ‘’ ‘I might have been a painter’: John James and the Relation between Visual and Verbal Arts’’ in The Salt Companion to John James, edited by Simon Perrill (due summer 2007). He is curator of the exhibition ‘‘Public Pages’’ as part of the conference Poetry and Public Language at the University of Plymouth (April 2007). Since September 2005 he has been Director of Writing at Dartington College of Arts, England.
Alan Liu (ayliu@english.ucsb.edu) is Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Wordsworth: The Sense of History (Stanford University Press, 1989); The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information (University of Chicago Press, 2004); and Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database (forthcoming, University of Chicago Press). He is principal investigator of the UC Multi-campus Research Group, Transliteracies: Research in the Technological, Social, and Cultural Practices of Online Reading; principal investigator of the UCSB Transcriptions Project (Literature and the Culture of Information); and co-director of his English Department’s undergraduate specialization on Literature and the Culture of Information. His other online projects include Voice of the Shuttle and (as general editor) The Agrippa Files. Liu is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO). He is Editor of the UC New Media directory.
Andrew Mactavish (mactavish@mcmaster.ca) is Director of Humanities Media and Computing and Associate Professor of Multimedia in the Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia at McMaster University. He researches theories and practices of digital games, humanities computing, and multimedia. He currently holds a research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to study the cultural politics of digital game play.
Willard McCarty (PhD, Toronto) (willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk) is Reader in Humanities Computing, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London, recipient of the 2006 Richard W. Lyman Award and, with Jean-Claude Guédon, of the 2005 Award for Outstanding Achievement, Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs. He is the founding editor of Humanist (1987–) and author of Humanities Computing (Palgrave, 2005). The aim of his work is to build the theoretical basis for diverse and vigorous research programmes in the digital humanities. His primary focus is on modeling, with a particular interest in the Metamorphoses of Ovid.
Nick Montfort (nickm@nickm.com) is Assistant Professor of Digital Media at MIT. He writes and programs interactive fiction, including Book and Volume ([auto mata], 2005), and frequently collaborates on online literary projects, including Implementation (2005) and 2002: A Palindrome Story (2002). His recent work is on the human and machine meanings of code, on the role of computing platforms in creative production, and on how the narrative discourse can be varied independently of the content in interactive fiction. He wrote Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction (MIT Press: 2003) and co-edited The New Media Reader (MIT Press: 2003).
Aimée Morrison (ahm@uwaterloo.ca) is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Waterloo. Her research focuses on the materialities of digital culture, from videogaming, to linguistic nationalism, to preservation. She teaches courses in media, multimedia, and electronic text and has recently published on the pedagogy of humanities computing and the rhetoric of internet democracy.
Jason Nugent is the Senior Programmer and Database Developer at the Electronic Text Centre at University of New Brunswick Libraries. He has been heavily involved with web and database development for over a decade, and is a regular contributor to open-source software projects on SourceForge. Before working with the ETC, he taught web development, UNIX administration, and relational database theory at Dalhousie University, and also worked in the private sector, developing innovative web solutions for a number of organizations. He holds an honors degree in Chemistry.
Daniel Paul O’Donnell (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca) is Department Chair and Associate Professor of English at the University of Lethbridge. He publishes primarily in Anglo-Saxon studies and Digital Humanities. His digital-and-print edition of the earliest known English poem, Cædmon’s Hymn, was published by D. S. Brewer in 2005. He also writes a regular column on humanities computing for Heroic Age. He is currently director of the Digital Medievalist Project and Co-editor of the associated scholarly journal Digital Medievalist. Since the fall of 2006 he has been Chair of the Text Encoding Initiative.
Kenneth M. Price (kprice@unlnotes.unl.edu) is University Professor and Hillegass Chair of American literature at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He is the author of Whitman and Tradition: The Poet in His Century (Yale UP, 1990) and To Walt Whitman, America (University of North Carolina Press, 2004). He recently co-
authored with Ed Folsom Re-Scripting Walt Whitman: An Introduction to His Life and Work (Blackwell, 2005). He is the co-editor of The Walt Whitman Archive and codirector of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at Nebraska.
Stephen Ramsay (sramsay@arches.uga.edu) is Assistant Professor of English and a Fellow at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He specializes in text analysis and visualization, and has lectured widely on subjects related to the computational analysis of literary texts and software design for the humanities.
Marie-Laure Ryan (marilaur@gmail.com) is an Independent Scholar specializing in how (new) media influence narrativity. Her Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media (2001) has won the MLA Comparative Literature award. She is the editor of the Routledge Encyclopaedia of Narrative Theory (2005) and member of the editorial board of the book series Frontiers of Narrative, published by the University of Nebraska Press. She has published widely on narratology, possible worlds theory, and cyberculture. Marie-Laure Ryan was born in Geneva, Switzerland and currently resides in Bellvue, Colorado.
David Z. Saltz (saltz@uga.edu) is Associate Professor of Drama at the University of Georgia. He is Principal Investigator of Virtual Vaudeville: A Live Performance Simulation System, funded by the NSF, and has published essays about performance theory and interactive media in scholarly books and journals, including Theatre Research International, Performance Research, and the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. He is also a practicing director and installation artist whose work focuses on the interaction between digital media and live performance.
David Seaman (david.seaman@dartmouth.edu) is Associate Librarian for Information Management at Dartmouth College Library, and was until December 2006 the Executive Director of the Digital Library Federation (DLF). David joined the DLF in 2002 from the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library, where he was the founding Director (1992–2002). In this role, he oversaw the creation and development of an online archive of XML and SGML texts, of which many are available in multiple e-book formats. In addition, he has lectured and published extensively in the fields of humanities computing and digital libraries, and since 1993 has taught e-text and internet courses at the annual summer Book Arts Press Rare Book School at UVA.
Matthew Steggle (m.steggle@shu.ac.uk) is Reader in English at Sheffield Hallam University. He has published extensively on early modern literature, including the books Richard Brome: Place and Politics on the Caroline Stage (2004) and Laughing and Weeping in Early Modern Theatres (2007). He is the editor of the peer-reviewed e-journal Early Modern Literary Studies.
Darren Tofts (dtofts@groupwise.swin.edu) is Associate Professor of Media and Communications, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne. His most recent book is Interzone: Media Arts in Australia (Thames & Hudson, 2005).
Christian Vandendorpe (cvanden@uottawa.ca) is full Professor in the Department of Lettres françaises at the University of Ottawa, and Director of the Writing Centre. Specialized in the theory of reading, he was a pioneer in research on the changes in reading habits caused by the arrival of hypertext and new media for the display of texts. His essay Du papyrus à l’hypertexte (1999), published in Paris and Montréal, has been translated into Spanish and Polish, and an English version is forthcoming. He is the editor of Hypertextes. Espaces virtuels de lecture et d’écriture (2002) and Les défis de la publication sur le web : hyperlectures, cybertextes et méta-éditions (2004). He is also responsible for a large publicly accessible database of dream narratives (<http://www.reves. ca/>). For more information: <http://www.lettres.uottawa.ca/vanden.html>.
Dirk Van Hulle (vanhulle@uia.ua.ac.be) is Associate Professor of Literature in English at the James Joyce Centre, University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is editor of the online journal Genetic Joyce Studies, member of the editorial board of Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’hui, and author of Textual Awareness, a genetic study of late manuscripts by Joyce, Proust, and Mann (University of Michigan Press, 2004) and Joyce and Beckett, Discovering Dante (National Library of Ireland, 2004). He edits the Beckett Endpage (<http://www.ua.ac.be/beckett>) and is currently working on a genetic edition of Samuel Beckett’s last bilingual works.
John A. Walsh (jawalsh@indiana.edu) is an Assistant Professor in the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University, where he teaches and conducts research in the areas of digital humanities and digital libraries. His research interests include the application of digital technologies and media formats to transform traditional humanities scholarship and to create new modes of scholarly discourse; semantic web and metadata technologies as tools for the discovery and analysis of humanities data; and digital editing, markup, and textual studies. Current projects include the Swinburne Project (<http:// www.swinburneproject.org/>), the Chymistry of Isaac Newton (<http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/newton/>), and Comic Book Markup Language (<http://www.cbml.org/>).
Noah Wardrip-Fruin (nwf@ucsd.edu) of Brown University approaches digital media as a humanist and as a writer/artist. He has recently edited three books: The New Media Reader (2003, with Nick Montfort); First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game (2004, with Pat Harrigan); and Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media (2007, also with Harrigan), all published by The MIT Press. His writing/art for digital media has been presented by galleries, arts festivals, scientific conferences, DVD magazines, VR Caves, and the Whitney and Guggenheim museums – as well as discussed in books such as Digital Art (2003) and Art of the Digital Age (2006). He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Communication department at UC San Diego as well as a Vice President of the Electronic Literature Organization and a relatively active blogger at <http://grandtextauto.org>.
William (Bill) Winder (winder@interchange.ubc.ca) is Assistant Professor of French at the University of British Columbia’s French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies Department. He is on the board of directors of the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities and the editorial board of TEXT Technology, and he co-edits Computing in the Humanities Working Papers. His interests lie in computational and formalist approaches to the semantics of language and literature. See his website (<http://www.fhis.ubc.ca/winder>) for recent publications and research.
Christian Wittern (wittern@kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp) is Associate Professor at the Documentation and Information Center for Chinese Studies, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University. He holds a PhD in Chinese Studies from Göttingen University. His research interests include history of thought and religion in medieval China, encoding of premodern Chinese texts, and methods of Humanities Computing. He has been a member of the TEI Technical Council since 2002.