Author Bios

    Laura Estill is a Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities and Professor of English at St Francis Xavier University in Mi'kma'ki (Nova Scotia, Canada). Her monograph (Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Changing Plays) and co-edited collections (Early Modern Studies after the Digital Turn, Early British Drama in Manuscript, Digital Humanities Workshops, and The Past, Present, and Future of Early Modern Digital Studies) speak to her interest in how we research and teach both the scribal and the digital.

    Alan Galey is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, cross-appointed to the Department of English, and former director of the collaborative program in Book History and Print Culture. His research and teaching are located at the intersection of media studies, the history of books and reading, and digital textual scholarship. His current research focuses on methods for the bibliographical study of digital texts and artifacts, from ebooks to videogames to digital recordings of musical performances (veilofcode.ca)

    Coralee Leroux is the Scholarly Resources Librarian at Trent University Library & Archives, where she oversees print and electronic library collections. Coralee has an Honours BA in English Literature from Carleton University and a Master of Information from the University of Toronto.

    Brent Nelson is Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan. Most of his research occurs at the intersection of early modern studies and the digital humanities. He is principal investigator of the John Donne Society’s Digital Prose Project and of The Culture of Curiosity in England and Scotland, 1580-1700. He is also a collaborator on GEMMS: Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons and INKE: Implementing New Knowledge Environments.

    Christian Vandendorpe is Professor Emeritus, University of Ottawa. His primary focus is the impact of hypertext on reading and writing. For more information see University of Ottawa or Wikipedia.

    Amanda Wyatt Visconti is Director of the Scholars' Lab digital humanities research center at the University of Virginia. They hold a Literature Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, where they produced the first fully-DH dissertation; and an Information M.S. focused on digital humanities human-computer interaction from the University of Michigan. Their textual studies research includes digital edition coding and design; digital annotation; zines, blogging, and other DIY forms of scholarly publication; and feminist and trans bibliography.

    Paul Werstine teaches English at King's University College at Western University in Canada. He is a general editor of the New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare (for which he is editing Romeo and Juliet), co-editor of the Folger Edition of Shakespeare, and author of Early Modern Playhouse Manuscripts and the Editing of Shakespeare (CUP, 2013).