MLA Chernoff
MLA Chernoff (@squelch_bb) is a PhD candidate at York University and an internationally published poet-cum-performance artist. Their scholarship focuses on the connections between Jewish-Canadian poetry and political theology. Chernoff is the author of three chapbooks, including delet this (Bad Books, 2018), TERSE THIRSTY (Gap Riot Press, 2019), and executive dysfunction (nOIR:Z, 2021). Their first full-length collection of poems, [SQUELCH PROCEDURES], is forthcoming with Gordon Hill Press. They live, laugh, and love in Tkaronto (Treaty 13 territory).
Carl Watts
Carl Watts teaches at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. His articles and book reviews have appeared in journals such as Studies in Canadian Literature, British Journal of Canadian Studies, and Canadian Literature. He has also published two poetry chapbooks, Reissue (2016) and Originals (2020), as well as a short monograph, Oblique Identity: Form and Whiteness in Recent Canadian Poetry (2019).
Ryan Ikeda
Ryan Ikeda lives in Oakland, CA, where he teaches, writes, and designs curriculum. Ryan.ikeda@berkeley.edu
Diogo Marques
Diogo Marques, Ph.D. in Materialities of Literature (2018, University of Coimbra is an experimental artist @ cyberliterary collective wr3ad1ng d1g1t5. He cocurated E-Lit and BioArt Exhibitions (Translations: Translating, Transcoding, Transducing @ELO 2017, Porto; Sentient States: Bio-mind and Techno-Nature @21st Consciousness Reframed, 2019, Porto). He is part of the Editorial Committee for the book series Cibertextualidades (Porto: UFP Press) and member of MATLIT LAB: Humanities Laboratory at the University of Coimbra. In 2020, he cofounded the Art in Quarantine Project, an online gallery hosting more than 900 artworks produced in the first 40 days after the Covd-19 pandemic status by 350 authors from 57 different countries.
Carly Schnitzler
Sarah Whitcomb Laiola
Sarah Whitcomb Laiola is an assistant professor of Digital Culture and Design at Coastal Carolina University, where she specializes in new media poetics, visual culture, critical race and gender studies, and contemporary digital technoculture. Her recent peer-reviewed publications appear in Hyperrhiz (2019), Criticism (Jan 2019), American Quarterly (Sept 2018), and Television and New Media (July 2017).
Tom van Nuenen
Tom van Nuenen is an academically trained researcher, teacher and consultant with a PhD in media and culture. He has over seven years of experience in applying mixed methods to solve social, ethical and development questions related to big data and AI. I am passionate about the ethical impact of datafication on society, particularly in developing countries, and holds a special interest in travel and tourism. He has worked and taught courses across the world, including Berkeley, Shanghai, Copenhagen and Sydney and is currently investigating digital discrimination at King’s College London.
Jonathan Reeve
Jonathan Reeve is a PhD candidate in computational literary analysis at Columbia University and writes computer programs that help us understand novels and poetry. He is a researcher that specializes in computational literary analysis, including computational text analysis, natural language processing, and computational linguistics. I build software for digital literary analysis, design textual infrastructures, and work with digital literary archives.
Adam G. Anderson
Adam G. Anderson is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities. Serving on the Academic Advisory Board for Digital Humanities at Berkeley, he is co-author and designer of the Theory and Methods curriculum for the DIGHUM Minor. His work brings together the fields of computational linguistics, archaeology and Assyriology / Sumerology to quantify the social and economic landscapes emerging during the Bronze Age in the ancient Near East. His research interests include network analysis, archival studies, geospatial mapping and language modeling (NLP). He applies these mixed methods to large datasets of ancient texts and archaeological records, in order to better understand the lives of individuals and groups within ancient societies, and to relate these findings within the context of our lives today.