Hi everyone! I’m Nora, currently an independent scholar of early modern drama, performance, and digital culture. My day job is in enrollment management (admissions) for graduate programs at Emerson College in Boston. Current projects include a book on Shakespeare and Twitter (yes, really) and a practice-as-research project that uses Measure for…[Read more]

Hello! I’m Mariana Ou. Recently received my MSc Library Science from City, University of London, after a few years working as an architect in Brazil. Now in the UK, I’ve been doing library & archive work, which I love. Considering going back to research in a PhD; still thinking about choice of institution, topic, timing (I might be the most junior…[Read more]

Hey, I’m Nashieli Marcano, Research Librarian at Clemson University. I received my masters in Library and Information Studies and my PhD in Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. My book, Chronotopias: Mediation of Identitary Spaces in Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico (in Spanish), is in press at the moment. My research areas are…[Read more]

My name is Mollie, and I’m Professor and Head of Public Services in the Olson Library at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, MI (on the south shore of Lake Superior). My academic background includes the M.S, in Library and Information Science, as well as a master’s and Ph. D. in English (all from the University of Illinois at…[Read more]

Thanks so much for creating this group!

I’m finishing up the second year of a post-doctoral teaching fellowship and transitioning to a visiting assistant professorship at the same university. My overarching research focus is the way that narrative works to form and maintain communities. Specific research projects have looked at a variety of media…[Read more]

Hello! I’m Kathie Gossett, a faculty member in the writing department at UC Davis. My current research includes digital dissertations (both creating them and archiving them), medieval and digital rhetoric, and user experience. (And yes, those things all do go together, I promise–I’m even working on a book to prove it!)

I’ve let my digital…[Read more]

Hi there! I’m Kirsten Bussière. I am currently completing my MA in English and Digital Humanities  at Carleton University and I will be attending the University of Ottawa in the fall for my PhD in English. My current research pertains to utopian nostalgia and collective memory in contemporary post-apocalyptic fiction. Focusing on the geographies o…[Read more]

Hello! I’m Sara Santos and I’m a 3rd year PhD student – also in the English Department at Stony Brook. My work focuses on biopolitics, posthumanism and ecocriticism in contemporary literature. My dissertation will look at trajectories of becoming non/posthuman in neoliberal spaces of security – basically, I just want an excuse to write about…[Read more]

Hello! My name is Caity Swanson, and I’m a Ph.D. candidate also in the English Department at Stony Brook. My dissertation focuses on borders, security, and the War on Terror in contemporary US literature. I’m new to Humanities Commons, so I’m excited to learn more about the platform. I’m hoping that through this summer camp I’ll get a better se…[Read more]