Reconstruction Vol. 15, No. 3
Return to Contents»
Contributors
Janet Ceja Alcalá is an Assistant Professor at Simmons College. She researches in the fields of moving image archiving and preservation, archival pedagogy, and cultural archives. Her most recent work examines how amateur videos interplay with community identity, memory, and acts of devotional labor to preserve a religious fiesta in rural Mexico. [article]
Erin R. Anderson is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she directs the Professional & New Media Writing program. Her work explores the inventive possibilities of writing with found media, forgotten archives, and the recorded voices of others. [article]
Brian Bates teaches at Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, California. He researches in the fields of British Romanticism, book history, performance studies, and visual cultures. His first book, Wordsworth's Poetic Collections (2012), examines how Wordsworth used prefaces, footnotes, endnotes, head notes, and advertisements to guide early 19th-century readers through his poems and convince them of the national importance of his poetry in the midst of widespread negative reviews and parodic attacks. Currently, he is working on a book about Keats and popular culture, as well as a series of essays about the graphic and digital legacies of British Romanticism in 21st-century culture.[article]
Lauren Benke is a PhD candidate in literary studies at the University of Denver. She holds an M.Phil in Irish writing from Trinity College, Dublin, and specializes in Irish drama, British and Irish modernisms, and performance studies. She is currently writing a dissertation titled "Gestural Articulations of Woolf and Joyce: Toward a Performative Critical Methodology." [article]
Michelle Caswell is an Assistant Professor of archival studies in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. She is the author of Archiving the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory and the Archival Record in Cambodia (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014) and of more than two dozen articles in archival studies in LIS journals. [article]
Katherine M. Crowe is the Curator of Special Collections and Archives at the University of Denver. Katherine is committed to developing and providing access to collections that document the experiences of marginalized and underrepresented communities. [article] [article]
Maureen Cummins has been making artist's books for over 25 years and has created projects based on slave narratives, the Salem Witch trials, turn of the century gay love letters, and patient records from 19th-century mental hospitals. She currently lives and works in Bearsville, New York. [article]
Yannick Estève is Professor of Computer Science, Director of the Laboratory of Computer Science of the University of Le Mans (LIUM-Université du Maine, France), and Director of the Institute of Informatics Claude Chappe (Le Mans-Laval, France). The author of about 70 articles published in peer-reviewed international conferences and journals, his research activities focus on spoken language processing, natural language processing, and machine learning. He is currently concentrating on deep artificial neural networks for spoken language processing and is involved in the Event Understanding through Multimodal Social Stream Interpretation European project. [article]
Rafael Fajardo is a designer, researcher, and educator. He has been exploring the intersection of conceptual art and computer programming through the making of code drawings, socially conscious videogames, and critical toys. His works have been exhibited in the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. He reads Google like he used to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica as a child, avidly. [article]
Paul M. Farber is a scholar of American and Urban Studies. Farber's research focuses on transnational urban history, cultural memory, and creative approaches to civic engagement. His current book project is a study of representations of the Berlin Wall in American art, literature, and popular culture. He traces the multifaceted story of how the Berlin Wall emerged as an integral part of the cultural imagination in the United States during the Cold War, especially related to matters of race, gender, sexuality, and national belonging. Farber received a PhD in American Culture from the University of Michigan and is currently a Postdoctoral Writing Fellow at Haverford College.[article]
Jenny Filipetti is an electronic media artist and writer interested in both technical and biological interfaces as sites of flux and exchange. Her work makes visible and explores the data residue concomitant to our lived existence: the small data, the otherwise forgotten data, the bits and pieces and patterns that once fell through the cracks or were never perceived at all. [article]
Brandon S. Gellis is a new media artist exploring the intersections of art, technology and science. Much of Brandon’s research investigates the interplay of language, identity, and biological politics in dialogue with biomimetic creative practices. Brandon is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Arts at the University of Wyoming. [article]
Mike F. Griffith, PhD is the Faculty Technology Coordinator and Head of the Faculty Technology Lab of Tulane University. He is also an Adjunct Lecturer in the English and Communications Departments. His academic background is in cultural and new media theory, which he has used to develop theoretical frameworks for the orchestration of emerging media pedagogies. He has published papers on such diverse subjects as: digital music sharing, science fiction narrative structure, and location-based gaming in the digital humanities. He has been a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Fellow as well as a Visiting Scholar at Newcomb College. [article]
Ashley Hall, PhD is an Assistant Professor of English at Wright State University. She is a digital rhetorician. She not only studies and analyzes digital texts but also composes with digital media. She is interested in how open-source software can facilitate knowledge building among communities of individuals with shared interests. Some of her other recent research has focused on using emergent design to theorize writing-related knowledge transfer. [article]
Tayana L. Hardin teaches and researches the imprint of dance, visual art, and music on twentieth-century African American and American literatures. She holds a doctorate in American Studies (2012) from the University of Michigan and joined the English Department faculty at the University of Denver in 2013. [article]
W. Scott Howard teaches poetics and poetry in the Department of English at the University of Denver. He received his Ph.D. in English and Critical Theory from the University of Washington, Seattle, where he was a member of the Subtext Collective. Scott worked at Powell's Books (1990-93) where he co-managed (with Vanessa Renwick) the Small Press & Journals section, the dewclaw reading series, the prism interdisciplinary discussion series, and also managed the Critical Theory section. His interviews in PLAZM magazine (1993-97) are noted in the documentary film, Helvetica (2007). Scott is the founding editor of Appositions: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature & Culture; and of Reconfigurations: A Journal for Poetics & Poetry / Literature & Culture. His multigraphs for Reconstruction include Water: Resources and Discourses (2006) co-edited with Justin Scott Coe; and Archives on Fire : Artifacts & Works, Communities & Fields (2016). His collections of poetry include the e-book, ROPES (with images by Ginger Knowlton) from Delete Press, 2014; and SPINNAKERS (The Lune, 2016). His work has received support from the Modern Language Association, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Beinecke Library, Yale University. Scott lives in Englewood, CO and commutes year-round by bicycle. [article]
Nicole M. Joseph is an Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Denver. Dr. Joseph advances Inclusive Excellence research and practice around issues related to access, equity, and achievement for underrepresented students. Her work focuses particularly on social justice for African American females. [article]
Vicki A. Mayer is a Professor of Communication and Media at Tulane University. She has written or edited 4 books, including Below the Line: Producers and Production Studies in the New Television Economy (Duke UP, 2011). She co-directs MediaNOLA and NewOrleansHistorical.org. She looks forward to future DH partnerships. [article]
Scott B. Montgomery is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Denver. Specializing in the art of the Middle Ages, Dr. Montgomery has published articles on relics and the material culture of the cult of saints, as well as two books - Saint Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne: Relics, Reliquaries and the Visual Culture of Group Sanctity in Late Medieval Europe (2009), and Casting Our Own Shadows: Recreating the Medieval Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, co-authored with Alice A. Bauer (2012). He also publishes on psychedelic poster art and the 1960s counterculture. He curated the exhibit “Visual Trips: The Psychedelic Poster Movement in San Francisco” at the University of Denver’s Myhren Gallery in 2014. He is completing a book manuscript of Visual Trips and a monograph on poster artist Lee Conklin. [article]
Brigitte Ouvry-Vial is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Book Studies and Director of the Institute of Digital Humanities at Université du Maine, Le Mans (France). The author of numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and several monographs on Language dysfunction in Literature and 19th-21st centuries French Book History, her current research activity includes lectures (Europe, United States) on Publishing the Humanities in the Age of the Digital. She is Chair of a European Research Network devoted to "Reading Europe 18th-21st centuries, Contemporary Issues in Historical and Comparative Perspectives" which prepares an innovative European Reading Experience Database. [article]
Grace L. Sanders-Johnson is an historian of gender and Caribbean Studies. Her current research traces women’s intellectual thought, transnational feminisms, and oral history in twentieth-century Haiti. Sanders-Johnson received a PhD from the Joint-Program in History and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan (2013) and is currently a Vice Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow for Academic Diversity at the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Africana Studies. [article]
Simon Sigley teaches film history and aesthetics, as well as media practice at Massey University. He works on the symbolic role and function of film in the cultural imaginary, focusing on memory and representation, and has published on the film society movement, Jane Campion, French film culture, biculturalism, and documentary film. An experienced screen media arts practitioner, he is also fluent in French and currently working on a cultural history of New Zealand’s National Film Unit (1941-90). [article]
Eira Tansey is the Digital Archivist/Records Manager for the University of Cincinnati. Tansey is responsible for the university’s records management program, and for the planning and development of workflows related to born-digital archives and digital preservation of electronic records. [article]
Jennifer Ware, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Multimedia in the Department of Communication at Wright State University. She studies journalism news platforms and how communication technologies are used to disseminate information via multiple devices. She also develops interactive print and online multimedia materials with students. Ware received her PhD in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media from North Carolina State University. Her research interests include technology and communication, digital media, and online platforms. [article]
Henry Warwick is an artist, composer, writer, and Associate Professor in the RTA School of Media at Ryerson University in Toronto, and is a Research Fellow at the Infoscape Lab at Ryerson. He has a BFA in Visual Systems Studies from Rutgers University (MGSA), an MFA from Goddard College in Interdisciplinary Art, and a PhD in Communications from the European Graduate School in Switzerland. Originally from Edison, New Jersey, he has lived in Washington, DC, and San Francisco, CA. Since 2007, he has lived in Toronto Ontario with his family and cats. [article]
Return to Top»