Susan Brown (University of Guelph) Professor, Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Digital Scholarship. Her work explores intersectional feminism, literary history, semantic technologies, and online knowledge infrastructures. She directs the Orlando Project, the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory, and the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship.
Diane Jakacki (Bucknell University) Digital Scholarship Coordinator, associated faculty in Comparative & Digital Humanities. At Bucknell and through the Mellon Foundation-funded Liberal Arts Based Digital (LAB) Editions Publishing Cooperative project, she works with faculty, students, and their collaborators within and beyond Bucknell to develop and implement an array of text-centric multicultural and multilingual research projects. She is lead investigator of the LAB Cooperative, REED London, and currently serves as the chair of the TEI’s Board of Directors.
James Cummings (Newcastle University) Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval Literature and Digital Humanities. His interests include the use of digital technology for scholarly editing and also late-medieval performance. He has a long history of involvement with the Consortium of the Text Encoding Initiative and is currently an elected member to the TEI’s Board of Directors. He is currently leading projects on both HTR to TEI workflows and digital pedagogy, as well as a sub-project at Newcastle using LEAF.
Mihaela Ilovan (Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory) Assistant Director. A librarian and digital humanist by formation, she is the technical project manager for the development of the LEAF Virtual Research Environment and the coordinator for LEAF data ingestion and mapping.
Rachel Milio (University of Exeter) Research Associate for the Liberal Arts Based Digital (LAB) Editions Publishing Cooperative project and REED London. At her undergraduate studies at Bucknell University and her current MA at the University of Exeter, her research interests include historical GIS, semantic text encoding, and network analysis to study the lives of ancient women