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The 2025 DH@Guelph instructors are listed below, alphabetically by surname.

 

Ryan Chartier (he/him | University of Alberta)

is a senior software developer with ten years of experience who has worked on several DH projects including the Spokenweb Jekyll website. You can find his work at https://blog.ryan-chartier.net/. Ryan will be co-teaching Intro to Minimal Web Design with Jekyll.

James Cummings (he/him | Newcastle University)

has worked with the TEI Guidelines for over 25 years, been elected to (and chaired) the TEI Technical Council, and am currently an elected member of the TEI Board of Directors. I have substantial experience with LEAF-Writer Commons (as part of the LEAF VRE project), and the creation and publication of digital scholarly editions. James is co-teaching An intensive introduction to the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative.

Dr. KáLyn Coghill (they/them | Virginia Commonwealth University)

holds a position as lecturer at Virginia Commonwealth University, Randolph Macon College, and CUNY Hunter College. Their research encompasses the investigation of artificial intelligence in facilitating sexual harm online, ethical considerations in technology, the study of Black popular culture, and various manifestations of digital resistance. Dr. Kay is teaching Digital Mysogynoir and Harm Reduction Tactics.

Diana Duarte Salinas (she/her |Emory University)

is a PhD candidate in Hispanic Studies at Emory University. Her research explores how the intellectual networks of women in Brazil and Colombia between 1870 and 1930 influenced diverse conceptions of female identity, challenging hegemonic narratives promoted by conservative governments and centralized power structures. She analyzes women's contributions in the press by employing network analysis to reveal the historical complexities and decentralization of female identity formation in these regions. Diana will be teaching Visualizing Data in the Humanities: From Concepts to Creation.

Tricia Enns (she/her | Independent Designer and Artist)

has a masters of design and computational arts from Concordia University (2023) and an undergraduate degree in Systems Design Engineering from Waterloo University (2010). She currently works with several researchers, community organizations and artists to create playful yet intuitive websites (Westside Together, Learning with the St. Lawrence, and Bank of Victoria). Tricia will be teaching Using Play as a Design Approach to Create Exploratory Digital Archives.

Arun Jacob (he/him | University of Toronto) 

is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Information. He completed his Master of Arts in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory and Master of Arts in Work and Society at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, and his Master of Professional Communication from Toronto Metropolitan University. Arun's doctoral work unites media genealogy, intersectional feminist media studies, and critical university studies to explore how contemporary university data management techniques and information management systems shape our socio-cultural relations, experiences, and knowledge. Arun is co-teaching Approaching Media Archaeology from a Digital Humanities Perspective: Introduction, Tools, and Techniques.

Diane Jakacki (she/her | Bucknell University)

is Digital Scholarship Coordinator and Associated Faculty in Comparative and Digital Humanities at Bucknell University. She researches DH pedagogy and early modern drama, chairs the Board of the Text Encoding Initiative, and directs the REED London project on CWRC as well as the Bucknell installation of the Linked Editing Academic Framework. Diane is co-teaching An intensive introduction to the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative.
 
Laura Mandell (she/her | Texas A&M)
 
is Professor of English at Texas A&M University where she founded, and for 12 years directed, the Center of Digital Humanities Research. Selected as a Texas A&M Presidential Impact Fellow in 2017, she is the author of Breaking the Book: Print Humanities in the Digital Age (2015), Misogynous Economies: The Business of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain (1999), and numerous articles and chapters. She is Project Director of the Poetess Archive, an online scholarly edition and database of women poets, 1750-1900 (http://www.poetessarchive.org), and Technical Director for Romantic Circles (https://romantic-circles.org/). She spearheaded the Early Modern OCR project or “eMOP” (http://emop.tamu.edu), a project concerned with improving OCR for early modern and 18th-c. texts via high performance and cluster computing, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Dr. Mandell digital projects also include the Digital New Variorum Shakespeare (https://newvariorumshakespeare.org), Mary Leapor’s Poetry (https://maryleapor.org/), and Digital Editions, Start to Finish, a textbook for creating digital editions (https://diged.org/DigitalEditions/). Laura is teaching Digital Editions, Start to Finish.
 

Kim Martin (she/her | University of Guelph)

is an Assistant Professor in the History Department and the Associate Director of THINC Lab. Her current research investigates opportunities for serendipity on the semantic web, and she is the Research Board Chair for Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship (LINCS) project. Kim is co-teaching Making: A Feminist Praxis.

Chelsea Miya (she/her | University of Guelph)

is an Assistant Professor in the University of Guelph’s Culture and Technology Studies Program. Prior to that, she was a postdoctoral fellow at McMaster University’s Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship, where she presented workshops and talks on minimal computing approaches to research preservation. Chelsea will be co-teaching Intro to Minimal Web Design with Jekyll.

Kiera Obbard (she/her | University of Guelph)

is a poet and the Michael Ridley Postdoctoral Scholar in Digital Humanities at the University of Guelph, where she studies the feminization and subsequent denigration of women’s writing and associated publishing technologies. Her current book project examines the complex social, cultural, technological and economic conditions that have enabled the success of social media poetry in Canada. Kiera is a member of the THINC Lab Executive Committee, co-director of Digital Literary Cultures+, a collaborator on the Digital Feminist Network of Canada, and an editorial board member of the Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies. Kiera is co-teaching Making: A Feminist Praxis.

Paula Sanchez Nuñez de Villavicencio (she/her | University of Toronto)

is currently working as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Waterloo as part of the Trust in Research Undertaken in Science and Technology Scholarly Network. Her research focuses on the historical and political dimensions of media technology used for the governance, subjectivation, and surveillance of select populations. Her recent work looks at wearable optical media and their role in shaping human conduct in visual information systems, and her co-authored book, Prisonhouse of the Circuit: A Media Genealogy, was published by University of Minnesota Press in 2023. Paula is co-teaching Approaching Media Archaeology from a Digital Humanities Perspective: Introduction, Tools, and Techniques.