Keynote speakers
Dr. Toniesha Taylor: "Where the Wild Things Are: Intersectional Pedagogy in Digital Humanities."
Toniesha L. Taylor is an Associate Professor of Communication in the Department Languages and Communication at Prairie View A & M University. Her research melds the boundaries of African American Studies, Afrofuturism Studies, Intercultural Communication, Gender Communication, and Digital Humanities.
Dr. Taylor's recent research and conference presentations center womanist rhetoric as method and theory; practical social justice pedagogy for faculty and students; and digital humanities methods for activist recovery projects. Her recent publications include “Saving Sound, Sounding Black, and Voicing America: John Lomax and the Creation of the 'American Voice'” in Sounding Out!: The Sound Studies Blog, June 8, 2015; a co-authored essay with Amy E. Earhart titled "Pedagogies of Race: Digital Humanities in the Age of Ferguson" in Debates in Digital Humanities, 2016, ed. by Lauren Klein and Matthew Gold. Recently, Dr. Taylor contributed “Reflections on Sandra Bland on the 3rd Anniversary of Her Death.” to the Online Roundtable on Sandra Bland, Black Perspectives, July 13, 2018, aaihs.org.
Dr. Taylor is working on a new digital humanities project from her Prairie View Women's Oral History Project which collects, preserves, curates, and displays the oral histories of women who have had a thirty (30) year or longer relationship to Prairie View A&M University.
Dr. Constance Crompton: "The Way We Teach Now: Building a DH Minor that Buttresses the Humanities."
Constance Crompton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Ottawa and Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities.
Dr. Crompton co-directs the Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada project with Michelle Schwartz (Ryerson University). She serves as vice-president (English) of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Société canadienne des humanités numériques and as an associate director of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute. She is co-editor, with Richard Lane and Ray Siemens, of Doing Digital Humanities: Practice, Training, Research (Routledge 2016). She teaches amazing students.
Dr. Ray Siemens: "Making Open Social Scholarship Work"
Ray Siemens is a Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria, Canada, in English and Computer Science, and past Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing (2004-15). He is founding editor of the electronic scholarly journal Early Modern Literary Studies, and his publications include, among others, Blackwell's Companion to Digital Humanities (2004, 2015 with Schreibman and Unsworth), Blackwell's Companion to Digital Literary Studies (2007, with Schreibman), A Social Edition of the Devonshire MS (2012, 2015; MRTS/Iter, Wikibooks), Literary Studies in the Digital Age (2014; MLA, with Price), and The Lyrics of the Henry VIII MS (2018; RETS).
Dr. Siemens directs the Implementing New Knowledge Environments project, the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, and the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab. He serves as a member of governing council for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and recently serving as Vice President / Director of the Canadian Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences (for Research Dissemination), Chair of the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions, and Chair of the international Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations.
