Contributors
- Contributors
Jonathan Baillehache received his PhD in Comparative Literature and French Literature at Rutgers University and Université Paris VIII in 2012. His work involves translation studies, digitization of poetry, and French and Russian avant-garde. He is the author of translations from Russian poetry (Sosnora, Zdanevič, Kručenyh) published in various English and French journals. He teaches French at the University of Georgia. Email: baille@uga.edu
Gabrielle Dean, PhD, is the Curator of Literary Rare Books and Manuscripts for the Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on the exchanges between textual and visual culture during the industrial era of print, and on the history of the archival imagination. Her publications have appeared in the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, Modernism/Modernity, TEXT and Genders, among other venues. She is also an editor of Archive Journal (http://www.archivejournal.net/). Email: gnodean@jhu.edu.
Andrew Ferguson is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Virginia. His dissertation is entitled “The Game and the Glitch: Narrative in the Age of Play”. He is also writing a critical biography of the science fiction author R.A. Lafferty, due out from the University of Illinois Press in late 2014. Email: af3pj@virginia.edu.
Charity Hancock is a 2013 MA graduate of University of Maryland’s English program. As a former (and hopefully future) high school English teacher, she found in the digital humanities an area of academia that she could tentatively occupy during her time in graduate school. She recently successfully defended her capstone paper on altered texts as a pedagogical tool for teaching 21st Century literacies, with Kari Kraus serving as her outstanding director. Email: cshancock5@gmail.com.
Clifford Hichar is a scholar, artist, and lifelong gamer. She received her bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Dickinson College and her [End Page 124] Master’s degree in English Language and Literature at University of Maryland, College Park. Her work focuses primarily on sexuality in Victorian literature, artists’s books, and the digital humanities.
Carlea Holl-Jensen is an MFA student in Fiction at the University of Maryland, College Park. She also holds a Masters in Folklore from Indiana University, Bloomington. Her stories have appeared in Pindeldyboz, Shimmer, and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and she is one of the co-editors of The Golden Key, an online journal of speculative literary writing. Email: cholljen@umd.edu
Kari Kraus is an Associate Professor in the College of Information Studies and the Department of English at the University of Maryland. Her research and teaching interests focus on digital humanities, game studies and transmedia fiction, and digital preservation. Kraus has written for the New York Times and the Huffington Post, and her work has been covered in the Atlantic, Baltimore Public Radio, the Huffington Post, Gamasutra, Wired, and the Long Now Foundation. She is currently writing a book under contract to the MIT Press on long-term thinking and design. Email: kkraus@umd.edu
Cameron Mozafari is a PhD student in English at the University of Maryland, College Park, with a focus in rhetoric and composition. His research deals primarily with classical rhetorical, cognitive linguistic, and design approaches to emotion arousal in both oral and written discourse, as well as the systematic pedagogies that such approaches have historically invited or may yet invite. Cameron would especially like to thank Professor Kari Kraus for her wonderful guidance in her Book 2.0 seminar and beyond. Email: moz1@umd.edu.
Kathryn Skutlin is a 2013 MA graduate of University of Maryland’s English program. During her undergraduate program, she studied early Gothic literature. When she came to Maryland, she discovered an affinity for the Digital Humanities while taking classes taught by Neil Fraistat, Kari Kraus, and Matthew Kirschenbaum. Other research interests include rhetoric and disability studies, which were the focus of her MA capstone essay, “Visualizing Rhetoric: Thomas Sheridan’s Theory of Elocution, Disability Studies, and the Multimodality of Human Expression”. Email: Kathryn.skutlin@gmail.com [End Page 125]
H. Wayne Storey is Professor of Italian and Medieval Studies at Indiana University. He is Founding Editor of Textual Cultures, one of five editors of Medioevo letterario d’Italia, and editor of the...
