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Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities and Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research examines the intersection of film, poetry, and new media, and can be found in Literature/Film Quarterly and Next Generation Adaptation: Spectatorship and Process (UP Mississippi, 2021). She also has collaborated on several digital projects including The Relineator, a poetry pedagogy web-app, and editing The SpokenWeb Digital Anthology. Her book project Shooting Script: Poetry, Film, and Form examines contemporary poetry and narrative cinema as overlooked sister arts invested in voice, genre, temporality, and boundary.
Tanya E. Clement is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. Her areas of research are modernist, textual, sound, and infrastructure studies as these concerns impact academic research, research libraries, and the creation of research tools and resources in Digital Humanities (DH). She leads High Performance Sound Technologies for Access and Scholarship (HiPSTAS) to increase access and scholarship with audiovisual cultural heritage collections. Her book Dissonant Records: Close Listening to Literary Archives will be published in August 2024 with MIT Press.
Matthew Kilbane is the Glynn Family Honors Assistant Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, where he teaches and writes about modern and contemporary poetry in the U.S., poetry and music, the history of sound technologies, and digital literary cultures. His first book, The Lyre Book: Modern Poetic Media (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024), unfolds a disciplinary meeting place for literary and media studies around modern lyric poetry. Opening our lyric archives to such things as pop songs, radio poems, closet operas, and speech-music, the book’s media theory of the lyric shows how literary scholars can look to media history to understand transformations in the social life of poetry, and how media archaeologists can read lyric forms for insight into the cultural history of technology.
Trent Wintermeier is a Rhetoric PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin. He researches sound, noise, digital rhetorics, and composition pedagogy. Currently, he is a research assistant for AVAnnotate, a software which allows users to create and publish digital annotations of audio artifacts. He also works as a facilitator for URAP, where he is making audio from the Gloria Anzaldúa archive more accessible and discoverable. His work can be found in Texas ScholarWorks and the E3W Review of Books.
Nadège Paquette is completing a master’s degree in English literature at Concordia University. Her work will appear in the forthcoming Plastic issue of tba, Journal of Art, Media, and Visual Culture, and appeared in the journal of comparative literature Post-Scriptum. Her research interests aggregate around the relationship between human and nonhuman forms of life and nonlife. In her piece “A Performance Reading by Kathy Acker: Formulating Affinities and Defiances through Discomfort,” she reflects on her own standpoint and is attentive to gender as an embodied knowledge and performance in her own listening as well as in Acker’s reading. The noises coming from Acker’s audience, produced through the interaction between objects and auditors, are considered as a way for the audience to “sound back” to the speaker and negotiate their consent in witnessing to representations of violence in Acker’s text.
Rowan Pickard is a Master's student at UBC's Okanagan Campus in Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies under the Digital Arts and Humanities theme where they will be applying their training in English and Cultural Studies to their research in oral histories and storytelling practices in the Okanagan.
Emily Christina Murphy is Assistant Professor, Digital Humanities in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan Campus. Her research focuses on multimedia cultural memory, and she is Principal Investigator of the ReMedia Research Infrastructure, a Canada Foundation for Innovation-funded research facility, and of the Modernist Remediations project, funded by the Social Science Research Council of Canada. Her work appears in English Studies in Canada, Digital Humanities Quarterly, and Feminist Modernist Studies. She is currently completing an edited collection on teaching with digital storytelling platform, Twine, and writing a monograph on comics and cultural memory.
Karis Shearer is an Associate Professor in English & Cultural Studies at UBC’s Okanagan campus where her research and teaching focus on literary audio, the literary event, the digital archive, feminist data studies, book history, and women’s labour within poetry communities. She is also PI and Director of the AMP Lab.
Zach Morrison is a PhD Student in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta.
Teddie Brock is currently completing her MA in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University. As a graduate student, her research on practices of listening through field recording and contemporary poetry explored the intersections of urban space and digital infrastructure. Her other interests include information systems design, neurodiversity, dementia care advocacy, and the politics of caregiving.
Miranda Eastwood is a Montreal-based transmedia artist, having recently completed their master’s degree in English Literature and Creative Writing at Concordia University. Their studies revolved around sound—having been the previous Sound Designer and Audio Engineer for the SpokenWeb Podcast—and their thesis featured a full-length script of an audio drama. They are currently working in interactive media as a narrative designer.