Speaker: Rosie Buchanan, Student, Yale University

A New Hampshire native, Rosie Buchanan is a current senior in Ezra Stiles College at Yale pursuing her BA in Applied Mathematics and Classics. Her concentrations include computer science, statistics, robotics, Latin, and Roman art, and her current research focuses on examining intertextuality in Latin poetry using quantitative and computational approaches. Outside of the classroom, Rosie is an avid runner and tech junkie, and she is excited to move to the Bay Area to pursue a career in software engineering next year.


Speaker: Ricki Cohen, Student, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Ricki Cohen, a junior double-major in linguistics and computer science, regularly finds herself intrigued by words and their usage. She is currently focusing on the possibility of computers generating proverbial-sounding sentences and its ramifications for the definition of proverbs. When she isn't in the classroom, Ricki can be found at the UMass Writing Center, where she tutors about composition and rhetoric. After graduating, she hopes to combine her fields of interest by studying language usage on new media platforms such as the internet. In her spare time, Ricki enjoys writing short stories and folding origami turtles. She can be contacted at rbcohen@umass.edu


Speaker: Odile Harter

Odile is a founding member of the Digital Futures Consortium, a new campus-wide effort to promote digital scholarship at Harvard. She was for several years the Graduate Assistant at the Woodberry Poetry Room, and served as Presidential Instructional Technology Fellow for the Poetry@Harvard project. She holds a PhD in English and has taught at Harvard and at Roxbury Community College.


Speaker: Sarah Hastings, Student, Mount Holyoke College

Sarah Hastings is a junior at Mount Holyoke College with a double major in Architectural Studies and Environmental Geoscience. My childhood was rooted in the Boston metro area with five siblings and a backyard that, in my imagination, could double as a pro skate park, ancient archeological site, or imaginary jungle. Nature, spatial design, and invention are some lifelong interests that are directly reflected in my interdisciplinary undergraduate education. I take classes about anything from physical geology to composting toilets design. These subjects seem unrelated, but I continuously drawing parallels and make uncanny connections across these fields, laying a platform for innovative research. Last summer I interned at Lancaster University’s Spatial Humanities Project, where I investigated Victorian era newspapers and mapped Britain’s infant mortality decline. Now I am designing a project for my senior thesis where I will construct a “tiny house” made from locally salvaged material and create a virtual database that tracks the journey of each window, nail, and shingle in order to display how architecture can be mapped beyond the floorplan. Methods in the digital humanities open opportunity for novel projects I am motivated to continue to explore and invent new ways of visualizing research.


Speaker: Trip Kirkpatrick

I am a Senior Academic Technologist in the Instructional Technology Group of Yale University. I'm one of the coordinators of the Digital Humanities Working Group of the Whitney Humanities Center, and chair the Collaborative Learning Center. I've also been lead organizer of Yale's first two internal unconferences on IT, doing my best to poke holes in the walls separating IT practitioners at the university, and have been seen leading a hands-on media lab for an undergraduate humanities course. My interests include plurilingualism and pluriculturalism in Digital Humanities, research into historical irreproducibilities such as unrecorded sound or other sensory phenomena, as well as issues in introducing Digital Humanities in a highly traditional and change-averse institution.


Speaker: Elisa Lanzi

Elisa Lanzi is Director of Digital Strategies and Services for the Smith College Libraries where she is collaboratively developing, integrating, and supporting current and emerging technologies for libraries to enhance the learning and research experience. She was most recently Director of the Imaging Center at Smith where she was involved in building digital collections and implementing tools for teaching and learning. Throughout her career Elisa’s focus is digital asset management and preservation, digital practice, metadata, and cultural materials in the context of visual collections, libraries, and museums.

Elisa is a project leader for Historic Dress: The Center for the Study of Clothing, Costume, Fashion and Culture. A Five Colleges Digital Humanities Project. She is active in the Five Colleges, Inc. consortium community and recently received the VRA Distinguished Service Award. As a librarian and papermaking artist she serves on the Book Studies Concentration Advisory Group at Smith. She has presented at VRA, ARLIS, NERCOMP, Museum Computer Network, NITLE, ACRL, ALA, and numerous other conferences. Elisa has served as President of the Visual Resources Association and Chairman of the Board of the VRA Foundation. She holds a MLIS from the University at Albany; her undergraduate work is in English and Art.


Speaker: Gavriella Levy Haskell, Student, Smith College

A junior Art History and Computer Science double major at Smith College, Gavriella Levy Haskell spent her summer working remotely on the London National Gallery's database of Raphael paintings, mapping their ontology to the CIDOC CRM (a standard for cultural heritage documentation). This semester she’s focusing on her Five College Digital Humanities Undergraduate Fellow project: a desktop editor for GPS-based iPhone audio tours. In her spare time, Gavriella enjoys reading Edith Wharton novels and maintaining her daily art history blog—A Dash of Art History (http://femme-de-lettres.tumblr.com/). She hopes to pursue a career in academia, perhaps focusing on 19th-century British painting.


Speaker: Erin Maher, Student, Yale University

Erin Maher is a senior Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies major. Her work focuses on perceptions of gender online, including the ways gender mitigates online community formation and the discourse on and surrounding internet platforms. In her spare time, Erin reads a lot of web comics and plays the electric ukulele in the Yale Precision Marching Band.


Speaker: Sarah McCallum

Dr. Sarah McCallum, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow Affiliate at Harvard University

I completed my doctorate in Classics at the University of Toronto in November 2012. In May 2013, I was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and in June I joined the Harvard University Department of the Classics as a postdoc affiliate. My teaching and research focus on Latin and Greek language and literature, with an emphasis on Roman poetry, Hellenistic poetry, and Greek epic. In my own research, I explore the generic character, aesthetic qualities, and literary lineage of various works using a number of text oriented approaches: philology (the analysis of the frequency and usage of particular words, other quantitative or statistical investigations); stylistics (the analysis of grammatical structures, acoustic elements, and rhetorical figures); and formalism (the analysis of patterns of characterization and narrative). When not writing, I have been experimenting with digital applications for collecting and managing philological data, and teaching myself the essentials of website design.


Speaker: Jeffrey Moro

Jeffrey Moro is the Post-Baccalaureate Resident with the Five College Digital Humanities Program. He collaborates with the program's director on a variety of administrative and scholarly programming, focusing in particular on the Five College Undergraduate Fellowship Program, classroom outreach, and managing the Program's digital presence. He has led workshops in digital history, pedagogy, and project management for students in the Five Colleges working on digital projects. He also runs a new media gallery series, titled "E.LIT / NET.ART," that introduces students to electronic literature, digital animation, and interactive software art. A recent graduate of Amherst College, where he earned a B.A. in English and Theater & Dance, his current research focuses on adaptation, remediation, and materiality across film, new media, and performance, with a special interest in Shakespeare. He is a practicing theater artist and a founding member of Shakespeare on the Quad, an independent Pioneer Valley theater company.


Speaker: Marisa Parham

Marisa Parham is Director of Five College Digital Humanities, and is also an associate professor of English at Amherst College. Her teaching and research focus on texts that problematize assumptions about time, space, and bodily materiality, particularly as such terms share a history of increasing complexity in texts produced by African Americans. Her current projects include books and articles on the posthuman, on Octavia Butler’s unpublished work, and on problems of hypertextuality and abstract equivalence in American literature, film, and music. She holds a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and is the author of Haunting and Displacement in African-American Literature and Culture. Marisa Parham writes about her research and her work in digital humanities at mp285.com


Speaker: Courtney Sato, Student, Yale University

Courtney Sato is a first year in the American Studies PhD program at Yale. Her research focuses on early 20th-century South and East Asian intellectuals circulating through the Indian and Pacific Oceans. As part of her concentration in Public Humanities, this summer she will be assisting the Smithsonian with their upcoming digital traveling exhibition on Japanese Americans awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.


Speaker: Ann Whiteside

Ann Whiteside is Librarian/Assistant Dean for Information Resources in the Frances Loeb Library at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Ann has responsibility for long term vision and for the integration of the library into the intellectual life of the School. Whiteside was previously Head of Rotch Library of Architecture and Planning at MIT with responsibility for overall management of the library, establishment of new directions and services, and for expanding digital resources in close collaboration with faculty. Before moving to MIT, she was Director of the Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library at the University of Virginia.

The focus of Whiteside’s work is expanding digital resources in close collaboration with scholars, digital library collection building, and the use of technology to support teaching and research. Her experience includes the development of metadata element sets and guidelines, planning for production and delivery of digital content. She served for three years as project director of SAHARA (http://www.saharaonline.org/), a peer-reviewed online visual archive developed by the Society of Architectural Historians and ARTstor. She is active in many professional organizations and committees that shape approaches to the changing needs and opportunities faced by research libraries in an increasingly digital environment.