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Carolina E. Alonso Dr. Carolina E. Alonso is a native of the Mexico–U.S. border (Reynosa, Tamaulipas, and the Rio Grande Valley). She is an associate professor of Borders and Languages and Gender & Sexuality Studies at Fort Lewis College. Her research and teaching focus on U.S. Latine literature and culture, queer studies, and Mexican women’s soccer. She has published on queer Chicana literature, youth Latine literature, and is the author of Juego peligroso: historias de lucha y diversidad en el futbol femenil mexicano (2024). Carolina is a contributor to the digital humanities project United Fronteras and Co-PI of the Transborder DH (TBDH) Center. She is also the co-creator of the digital project Futlove Femenil.

Guiseppe Arena Giuseppe Arena is a Research Fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of Catania. His research interests include linked open data, digital philology, ontological modeling, and electronic literature.

Eduard Arriaga-Arango Eduard Arriaga is a researcher of language, literature, culture, and digital humanities. He develops interdisciplinary research at the intersection of fields such as critical race studies, Afro-Latinx and Afro-Latin American Studies, digital studies, and digital humanities. He is the author of Afro-Latinx Digital Connections (University Press of Florida, 2021), Afro-Brazilian Community Data Networks (Vanderbilt 2026) and articles published in DHQ, "Debates in the Digital Humanities" among others.

Lauren Baccus Lauren Baccus is a Miami-based arts professional, educator, and founder of Salt & Aloes, a platform dedicated to exploring Caribbean material culture and Contemporary art. Her practice bridges scholarship and creative engagement, foregrounding the role of storytelling, textiles, and vernacular objects in shaping identity and belonging. Through Salt & Aloes, Lauren has developed archives, workshops, and public dialogues that celebrate Caribbean histories and foster collaborative exchange between artists and communities. Her arts programming work spans museums, festivals, and cultural organizations throughout the U.S. and the Caribbean, with programs that invite participants to explore contemporary art and ancestral knowledge in accessible, multisensory formats.

Jean-Baptiste Botul Jean-Baptiste Botul is a fictional French philosopher created in 1995 by the journalist Frédéric Pagès and other members of a group calling itself the Association of the Friends of Jean-Baptiste Botul. Originating as a literary hoax, the names of both Botul and his philosophy of botulism derive from botulism, an illness caused by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. References to Botul were first made in publications by members of the association and later turned up in texts by writers who were not party to the hoax and thought Botul was a real person. There is now an annual Botul Prize awarded for a book that mentions Botul.

Josiah Carberry Professor Carberry is a fictious person, born on a bulletin board in 1929. He is said to still teach at Brown University, and to be known for his work in psychoceramics, the supposed study of cracked pots. He is also used by ORCID, Crossref, and now DHQ as a dummy account. His work has been published many times throughought in the intervening decades, most recently in the British Medical Journal in 2016.

Dr Cécile Chevalier Dr Cécile Chevalier is an Associate Professor of Digital Media Practice at the University of Sussex, investigating human augmentation digital and computational technologies. Drawing on postcolonial theory and border phenomenology, their work examines how computational infrastructures privilege and erase marginalised epistemologies and bodies. Cécile creates new instruments and sound environments mapping alternative techno-cultural imaginaries. They co-founded the Feminist Approaches to Computational Technology Network (2019–2024) and served as Co-Investigator on Full Stack Feminism (2021–2024).

Silence Dogood Mrs. Silence Dogood was the pen name used by Benjamin Franklin to get his work published in the New-England Courant, a newspaper founded and published by his brother James Franklin. She graciously translated this sample article from the original gibberish into English.

Lisa Fagin Davis Lisa Fagin Davis received her PhD in Medieval Studies from Yale University in 1993. She has published widely in the field of Manuscript Studies and has catalogued medieval manuscript collections at Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, the Walters Art Museum, Wellesley College, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Boston Public Library, and several private collections. Davis has taught Latin Paleography at Yale University and regularly teaches an introduction to Manuscript Studies at the Simmons University School of Library and Information Science. She was elected to the Comité international de paléographie latine in 2019 and has served as Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America since 2013.

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Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla Dr. Sylvia Fernández is a transborder and translingual scholar and digital and public humanities specialist. She is an assistant professor of Public and Digital Humanities with the Interdisciplinary School of Engagement at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Her research, teaching and community engagement focuses on transborder cultural representations with archives, literature, oral histories and humanities data through a critical use of digital tools and technologies, ethical, responsible and multilingual practices and feminist and postcolonial and decolonial lenses. She has led and collaborated in various transnational and transborder digital humanities projects and is the principal investigator of the Transborder Digital Humanities initiative supported by the Mellon Foundation.

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Dr Irene Fubara-Manuel Dr Irene Fubara-Manuel is an Associate Professor of Digital Media Practice based at the University of Sussex where they research postcolonial technoculture, race, and borders. Their research critically examines socio-technical issues through creative practice in game design, animation, and creative coding. Their most recent project, ibi minji faari (translated from Kalabari Ijo: “the good water is going away”) merges archival records with oral history to address the tensions of exploitation and (dis)connection with the riverine ecologies of the Niger Delta. Irene served as Co-Investigator on Full Stack Feminism (2021–2024) and is Co-Investigator on Sustainable AI Futures (2025-2028).

Laura Gonzales Dr. Laura Gonzales is a researcher, translator, and community engagement specialist. She is the author of Sites of Translation: What Multilinguals Can Teach Us About Digital Writing and Rhetoric (2018) and Designing Multilingual Experiences in Technical Communication (2022).

Steven Gotzler Steven Gotzler is a Teaching Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Associate Director of the Digital Literacy and Communications Lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research explores historical regimes of labor and work, cultural studies of games and play, and materialist theories of media and technology.

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Colin Layfield Colin Layfield is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of ICT in the Department of Computer Information Systems at the University of Malta. He holds a BSc (University of Calgary, 1994), MSc (University of Calgary, 1998) and a PhD (University of Leeds, 2001) all in Computing Sciences. His research interests include the Voynich Manuscript, Natural Language Processing, Optimisation/Timetabling problems and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning. He has also had a successful career in industry with roles such as Open Systems Developer, Research Manager, General Manager and CTO working in industries such as Oil & Gas, Finance, Transportation, Manufacturing and Education. He has also acted as a consultant to aid companies to access governmental research rebates from their activities (in both the UK and Canada). He is also a long standing member of the ACM.

Constanza López Baquero Constanza López Baquero is a professor of Spanish at the University of North Florida. She obtained her Ph.D. in Hispanic Literatures at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her research interests include Latin American literatures of the 20th and 21st centuries, women writers, autobiography and testimonio, gender and violence, human rights and activism, migrations, and hip hop and youth cultures. She is the author of many publications, including Reterritorializing the Spaces of Violence in Colombia: Collective Efforts (Routledge 2024), winner of Asociación de Colombianistas Best Book Award 2025 and Trauma, memoria y cuerpo: el testimonio femenino en Colombia (AILCFH 2012), winner of the 2011 Victoria Urbano Prize for best critical monograph and the 2014 Monserrat Ordoñez Award. At UNF, she leads the digital oral history project Voces y Caras: Latinx Communities of North Florida and Embroidery for Peace and Memory, a project focused on community art and activism with an accompanying digital archive.

Robert McKee Irwin Robert McKee Irwin is Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Deputy Director of the Global Migration Center at the University of California, Davis. Some of his books include: Mexican Masculinities (author), Global Mexican Cinema: Its Golden Age (coauthor), Diccionario de estudios culturales latinoamericanos (coeditor), The Famous 41: Sexuality and Social Control in Mexico, 1901 (coeditor), and Listening to Sicarios (coauthor). Since 2016 he is Principal Investigator of the Humanizing Deportation/Asylum digital storytelling project, for which he has published "Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge: Building a Community Archive" (author) and "Humanizando la deportación: narrativas digitales desde las calles de Tijuana" (coeditor). Humanizing Deportation strives to involve undergraduate students in contributing to the production of digital stories narrated by vulnerable migrants for its digital public archive.

Sylvia Mendoza Aviña Sylvia Mendoza Aviña (she/her) was born and raised in Yanaguana/San Antonio, Texas. She is an assistant professor in the Mexican American Studies program at the University of Texas, San Antonio (UTSA) in the department of Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality Studies (REGSS). Her research interests reflect her deep personal and professional commitment to centering the histories of Chicanx communities that have historically been erased or grossly misrepresented within the larger narrative of Texas history through the use of Chicanx/Latinx feminist research methodologies such as oral history. She is in the process of learning digital humanities approaches to make these MAS histories digitally accessible. She has published in the journals of Equity & Excellence in Education, Urban Education, and Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social.

Siobhan Meï Siobhan Meï is a digital humanist and fashion studies scholar whose research explores the intersections of material culture, narrative, and translation in the Black Atlantic. Siobhan's publications have appeared in The Routledge Handbook on Translation, Feminism, and Gender, Mutatis Mutandis, Digital Studies/Le Champ Numérique, Callaloo and Caribbean Quarterly among other places. With Jonathan Square, she is the co-founder of the digital humanities project Rendering Revolution which explores Haitian history and literature through the lens of dress culture. With Square, she recently co-curated the public exhibition Revolisyon Toupatou (The Kellen Gallery, Parsons School of Design) which delves into the profound impact of the Haitian Revolution on contemporary art and fashion. She is a lecturer in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Wendell Piez Wendell Piez was born in Frankfurt, Germany to American parents, and raised in Somerville (Massachussets), Kabul (Afghanistan), Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), Manila (the Philippines), Reston (Virginia), and Tokyo (Japan), before attending university in New Haven (Connecticut). A graduate of the American School in Japan and of Yale College (MC 1984), where he received a BA in Classics (Ancient Greek), he has been using and programming computers since 1977 (BASIC, 6502 Assembler). From 1985 to 1998 he attended and taught at Rutgers University, where he specialized in English literature, critical theory, poetics and rhetoric. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1991 (writing on the aesthetic theory and prose practice of the Victorian literary critic and belletrist Walter Pater), he worked in Rutgers University Special Collections and Archives (1991-1995) and on the faculty at CETH (the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities, 1995-1998). Since 1998, he has been employed by Mulberry Technologies, Inc., a consultancy in private practice, where he is responsible for the development and application of electronic text technologies both for clients and in house. Author and presenter of journal articles, papers and courses presented at academic and industry conferences and teaching events, he is a regular contributor to HUMANIST, TEI-L, and XSL-LIST, a recognized expert in XML, XSLT and related technologies such as SVG, and co-originator of LMNL, the Layered Markup and Annotation Language. He resides in scenic Shepherdstown, West Virginia.

David Pruneda Senties David Pruneda Sentíes is a postdoctoral researcher at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. His research interests include higher education, twentieth-century poetry, reading and critical theory, and digital humanities research (lab) practices and sustainability.

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Crystal Rudds Crystal Rudds is an assistant professor of African American literature and culture in the Department of English at the University of Utah. She is the author of “Displaced Bodies and Governmentality: Lessons from the CHA Website," "On Perspective and Value: Black Urbanism, Black Interiors, and Public Housing Fiction," and served as assistant editor for High Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing published in 2013.

Theadora Soter Theadora Soter is assistant curator of the Rare Books Collection in the University of Utah Marriott Library and currently completing her LIS Masters through the University of Illinois. Theadora worked as the undergraduate research assistant who built the first version of the Books, Maps, and Homeplace StoryMap and provided expertise on metadata schemes.

Jonathan Michael Square Dr. Jonathan Michael Square is an Assistant Professor of Black Visual Culture at Parsons School of Design. He earned a PhD from New York University, an M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, and a B.A. from Cornell University. Previously, he taught in the Committee on Degree in History and Literature at Harvard University and was a fellow in the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Most recently, he curated the exhibition Past Is Present: Black Artists Respond to the Complicated Histories of Slavery at the Herron School of Art and Design, which closed in January 2023, and Revolisyon Toupatou with Rendering Revolution co-founder Siobhan Meï. He currently has a show up titled Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery at the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library. A proponent of the use of social media as a form of radical pedagogy, Dr. Square also leads the digital humanities project Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom.

Melissa Terras Melissa Terras hails from Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, and ignored computers until her final year of her undergraduate MA, in History of Art and English Literature at the University of Glasgow (1998). Discovering the Internet (and something that she was good at) led to an MSc in IT (Software and Systems), also at Glasgow in 1999. In 2002 she completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford, which was a joint project between the Department of Engineering Science and the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, on using image processing and artificial intelligence to try and read the Roman documents from Vindolanda.

Melissa then spent a year at the Royal Academy of Engineering, as assistant manager of the Policy unit, providing impartial advice to the UK government on matters scientific. Now at University College London, she is a lecturer in the School of Library, Archive, and Information Studies on Internet Technologies, Web Publishing, and Digital Resources in the Humanities. She is acting Secretary of ALLC (2005/6) and an Officer of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (2005-8), as well as being involved in other consultancy activities within the Digital Humanities field. She is interested in computational techniques which would allow research in the Humanities that would otherwise be impossible.

John A. Walsh John A. Walsh is an Associate Professor of Information and Library Science in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University and Director of the HathiTrust Research Center. His research involves the application of computational methods to the study of literary and historical documents. Walsh is an editor on a number of digital scholarly editions, including: the Petrarchive, the Algernon Charles Swinburne Project, and the Chymistry of Isaac Newton. He has developed the Comic Book Markup Language, or CBML, for scholarly encoding of comics and graphic novels. Walsh is the creator of TEI Boilerplate, a system for publishing documents encoded according to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange. He is the Technical Editor of Digital Humanities Quarterly, an open-access online journal published by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. Walsh’s research interests include: computational literary studies; textual studies and bibliography; text technologies; book history; 19th-century British literature, poetry and poetics; and comic books. Homepage: http://johnwalsh.name.

Dr Sharon Webb Dr Sharon Webb is an Associate Professor of Digital Humanities and a Director of the Sussex Digital Humanities Lab at the University of Sussex. With an interdisciplinary background in history and computer science, their research sits at the intersection of digital humanities, critical archival studies, and digital preservation. Her expertise spans several key areas, including gender and technology, feminist and queer archives, critical digital archives, community heritage, and the socio-political impacts of technological development. She was Co-I for AHRC-IRC funded project, IFTE, and more recently PI for the AHRC-IRC

Dr. Nicole Willson Dr Nicole Willson is a Senior Research Fellow in History at the University of Greenwich and an affiliate member of the University of Lancashire's Institute for Black Atlantic Research (IBAR). In 2019 she was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship for a research project titled Fanm Rebèl: Recovering the Histories of Haiti’s Women Revolutionaries and is currently recipient of a UK Research and Innovation Arts and Humanities Research Council Catalyst award, leading an engaged research and heritage project titled Building a Black Nation: Haitian Dynasties of the (Long) Nineteenth Century. She sits on the Executive for the Haiti Support Group, a UK-based advocacy group, and has published her research in the Journal of American Studies, Comparative American Studies: An International Journal, Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies, Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies Forum, and Women's Studies International.

Avery Wiscomb Avery Wiscomb is Assistant Professor of English and Digital Humanities at Virginia Tech. His research examines how computational methods reshape knowledge production in the humanities, with a focus on the institutional politics of digital scholarship and the history of computing and AI.

Maira E. Álvarez Dr. Alvarez’s interdisciplinary work bridges Border Studies, Women’s Studies, Latinx and Latin American Studies, public humanities, heritage language, and Digital Humanities. Her current research examines the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border[lands] through the lens of literary production by fronteriza authors, as well as multilingual archival materials. She earned her Ph.D. in U.S. Latino Studies from the University of Houston in 2019, along with a certification in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Currently, she serves as the Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow for the Jackman Humanities Institute-DH@UofT at the University of Toronto. Prior to this, she held the position of Early Career Provost Postdoctoral Fellow in Borderlands History at the University of Texas at Austin (2022-24) and was an American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Fellow at Arizona State University (2021-22). Dr. Alvarez is a co-founder of Borderlands Archives Cartography and a team member of United Fronteras and Torn Apart / Separados.