Authors

Name	Description
Mari Agata	Mari Agata is a Professor of Library and Information Science at Keio University, Japan. She specializes in the history of early European printed books, with a particular focus on the Gutenberg Bible, using analytical bibliography and digital humanities approaches. Recently, she has worked with her Keio colleagues to expand DH education, launching a new graduate course on TEI.
Syd Bauman	Complexity: Syd Bauman is the Senior XML Programmer/Analyst at the Women Writers Project — one of the oldest extant TEI projects — but if he were to be allowed to choose his own title it would likely be “XML data hygienist”. To say that he is obsessed with data consistency would be an exaggeration … but not much of one. Since a schema is the first line of defense against inconsistency, Syd thinks about schemas in general, and the TEI schema in particular, a lot, and about how schemas support expressivity, interchange, and interoperability.
Helena Bermúdez Sabel	Helena Bermúdez Sabel is member of the TEI Technical Council since 2021, and works as a software developer at JinnTec.
Elisa Beshero-Bondar	Chair of the TEI Technical Council and Professor of Digital Humanities at Penn State Behrend on the shores of Lake Erie.
Elli Bleeker	Elli Bleeker is a researcher at the Huygens Institute for Dutch History and Culture (KNAW), where she specializes in digital scholarly editing. She is a member of the Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letteren, a board member of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, coordinator of the VIDIT working group, and a member of the TEI Technical Council. She loves to investigate how deletions, additions, and revisions in old manuscripts provide new insights into the genesis and development of literary texts.
Susan Brown	Susan Brown holds a Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Digital Scholarship at the University of Guelph. She researches intersectional feminism, literary history, and semantic technologies. A founding director of the Orlando Project, she works to advance FAIR humanities data through the Collaboratory for Writing and Research on Culture, the Linked Editing Academic Framework, and the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship.
Mary Chapman	Mary Chapman is Professor of English at University of British Columbia and the Director of the Winnifred Eaton Archive winnifredeatonarchive.org, a Digital Edition of the collected works of the first Asian North American novelist.
Sarah Connell	Sarah Connell is the Associate Director of the Women Writers Project and Associate Director of the NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science at Northeastern University. Her research focuses on text encoding and computational text analysis, early women’s writing, and pedagogies of digital scholarship. She is the editor of the Women Writers in Context scholarly publication series and Co-Director of the Digital Integration Teaching Initiative at Northeastern.
Constance Crompton	Constance Crompton is a white, queer, able-bodied settler and Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities. They direct the University of Ottawa’s Labo de données en sciences humaines/The Humanities Data Lab, and the research lead on Open Science Infrastructure for Canad(ian)a: Digital Collections of the Future (DCoF). They are a member of several research project teams: Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada, Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship, the Implementing New Knowledge Environments Partnership, the Transgender Media Portal and Nouvelles réflexions sur les éditions critiques en contexte numérique. They live and work on unceded Algonquin land.
Elisa Cugliana	Elisa Cugliana is a Junior Professor of Digital Humanities and Scholarly Editing at the University of Cologne. Her research focuses on the study and editing of multimodal sources, especially Cimbrian, an endangered Germanic language spoken in some areas of Northern Italy and the „sortes” texts (interactive divinatory texts and games used in Antiquity and the Middle Ages). From a methodological point of view, she is especially interested in formalising and operationalising the editorial workflow. She is affiliated to the Institute for Documentology and Editing (IDE) in Germany and the THINK research collective, which brings together scholars from across Europe and the UK. She is an Associate Editor of DSH: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities.
James Cummings	James Cummings is the Reader in Digital Textual Studies and Late Medieval Literature at Newcastle University in the UK. He is currently the Chair of the Board of Directors of the TEI Consortium. If you have not renewed your TEI individual or project membership, he encourages you to do so.
Leith Davis	Leith Davis is Director of the Research Centre for Scottish Studies and a professor in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University. She is author of Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and author and co-editor of seven other books exploring the intersections of literature and media history in the long eighteenth century. She is also Principal Investigator of the “Lyon in Mourning” and “Reconstructing Early Circus” Digital Humanities projects.
Alice Defours	Alice Defours is a PhD student in Digital Humanities (Communication) at the University of Ottawa, and a senior research assistant for the Humanities Data Lab. Before joining uOttawa, she graduated from Université Lumière Lyon II in History–Archaeology (MA) and in Digital Humanities (MS). Besides research, she’s also a teaching professor (ATPUO) in Digital Literacy, Digital Cultures and Games Studies/Digital Storytelling at uOttawa. She lives in Ottawa as a temporary resident of Canada, and pays respect to the Algonquin people, traditional guardians of this land which remains unceded.
Rebecca Dowson	n/a
Øyvind Eide	Øyvind Eide is a professor in Digital Humanities at the University of Cologne, where he teaches media computer science and computational humanities. His research interests are focused on transformative digital intermedia studies as a tool for critical engagement with media differences, especially the relationships between texts and maps as media of communication. He is also engaged in theoretical studies of modelling in the humanities as well as beyond.
Mary Erica Zimmer	Mary Erica Zimmer is a Principal Lecturer in Humanities within the Concourse Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her research interests include early modern literature and history, book history, text encoding, scholarly editing, humanities computing, and research-oriented pedagogy. Her work has recently appeared in Scholarly Editing and the Bloomsbury collection New Directions in Digital Textual Studies (edited by Christopher Ohge and Kristen Schuster), and she is both an Associate Editor for the Map of Early Modern London and Technical Lead for MIT Global Shakespeares. Currently, she is at work on a book project tentatively entitled Data Shapes.
Julia Flanders	Julia Flanders is a professor of the practice at Northeastern University where she also directs the Digital Scholarship Group and the Centers for Digital Scholarship in the Northeastern University Library. She also serves as director for the Women Writers Project, and as editor in chief of Digital Humanities Quarterly, an open-access journal of digital humanities.
Francesca Giannetti	Digital Humanities Librarian at Rutgers University and director of two pedagogical editions.
Kevin Graaf	Kevin Graaf is a computer scientist whose research focuses on text encoding, digital typography, and computational methods in grapholinguistics, especially as they relate to ancient, minoritized, and emerging writing systems. In October 2026, he will be joining the VIEWS (Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems) Project as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge.
Arnd Hafner	Originally from Germany, Arnd Hafner has been living in Japan since 1988. During the 1990s, he pursued and completed his Bachelor, Master, and Doctor of Laws at the Faculty/School of Law at Kyoto University. After two years of study on Chinese paleography at Peking University from 2003 to-2005, he shifted his research focus to Early Chinese unearthed legal literature and administrative documents. His major accomplishment thus far has been the edition of an unearthed collection of judicial cases from the time of the First Emperor. He first encountered TEI through a recommendation from an anonymous reviewer in 2023.
Markus Hallensleben	Markus Hallensleben is Associate Professor at the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies and Executive Committee Member at the Centre for Migration Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) territory. His publications range from early twentieth-century avant-garde movements and theories of performativity to Postmigration: Aesthetics and Interventions (co-ed. special issue of Crossings, 2023) and “Relational Ethics in German Studies and in the German University Context” (co-ed. Special Issue of Seminar, 2025).
Arnd Helmut Hafner	Originally from Germany, Arnd Hafner has been living in Japan since 1988. During the 1990s, he pursued and completed his Bachelor, Master, and Doctor of Laws at the Faculty/School of Law at Kyoto University. After two years of study on Chinese paleography at Peking University from 2003 to-2005, he shifted his research focus to Early Chinese unearthed legal literature and administrative documents. His major accomplishment thus far has been the edition of an unearthed collection of judicial cases from the time of the First Emperor. He first encountered TEI through a recommendation from an anonymous reviewer in 2023.
Ulrike Henny-Krahmer	Ulrike Henny-Krahmer is Junior Professor for Digital Humanities at the University of Rostock in Germany since 2021. Her research focuses on Digital Scholarly Editions and Computational Text Analysis, in particular of literary texts from the 19th century.
Martin Holmes	Martin Holmes is a programmer/analyst at the Humanities Computing and Media Centre at the University of Victoria, working mainly on digital editions of historical and literary texts and collections. He is currently a member of the TEI Technical Council.
Shauna Irani	Shauna Judith Irani is a recent graduate of Simon Fraser University, where she earned her Master of Arts in English with a specialization in Print Culture. She is a Research Assistant on both The Embodied Humanities Project and The Lyon in Mourning Project. Shauna is especially drawn to the accounts of trauma within the manuscript and has presented on the suffering and resilience of marginalized figures, such as Ned Burke, in Edinburgh, Guelph, and Montreal. Her research has been published in the International Review of Scottish Studies and in Shaping Jacobitism: Memory, Culture, Networks from Edinburgh University Press. She has also been featured on BBC Radio Scotland
Yuri Ishida	N/A
Hadleigh Jae Bills	Hadleigh Jae Bills is a graduate from Penn State Erie, The Behrend College with a bachelor’s degree in Digital Media, Arts, and Technology. She is working on a TEI file of the Voynich Manuscript through using Python, Invisible XML, XSLT, and CETEIcean. Hadleigh is interested in digitizing manuscripts in TEI.
Diane Jakacki	Diane Jakacki is Professor of Practice and Coordinator of DH Research at Bucknell University, where she leads the LEAF-Confluence initiative. Her volume on “Teaching with Text Encoding”, co-edited by Brian Croxall, will be published by University of Minnesota Press in early 2027. She proudly serves on the TEI Board.
Janelle Jenstad	N/A
Dario Kampkaspar	After a degree in History and English at the University of Heidelberg (Germany), Dario went on to work at the Duke Augustus Library (Wolfenbüttel, Germany) and the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna, Austria) before becoming head of the Centre for Digital Editions at the University and State Library in Darmstadt (Germany).
Naoki Kokaze	Naoki Kokaze is a Project Associate Professor at the National Museum of Japanese History (NIHU), Japan. He develops digital-humanities methods applying LLMs to historical documents, including CIDOC-CRM knowledge-graph construction from English-language naval records and, with a Shōsōin-documents specialist, a two-stage LLM pipeline for date normalization in eighth-century Japanese administrative texts using TEI markup, presented at TEI2026.
Lauren Liebe	Lauren Liebe is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Game Studies at Penn State Behrend, where she also directs the Virtual and Augmented Reality and Interactive Arts Lab. She is also sometimes engages with her first academic home, Restoration Drama. Her ongoing Digital Restoration Drama project will be relaunching under Linked Early Modern Drama Online, and she also serves as the Linked Open Data specialist for the London Stage Database.
Sydney Lines	n/a
Michael Lužný	Michael Lužný is a medievalist and digital librarian, serving as Content and Development Administrator for Manuscriptorium, the digital library of medieval and early modern written cultural heritage operated by the National Library of the Czech Republic. Currently completing a PhD in Medieval Latin Studies at Charles University in Prague, he focuses his research on late medieval manuscript culture and the Bohemian reform movement.
Kaitlyn MacInnis	Kaitlyn is a PhD candidate in History at Simon Fraser University, working on a sheep-centred history of the Highland Clearances in Scotland, c. 1700-1900. She has also worked as a research assistant on the TEI Lyon in Mourning project at SFU.
Andrea Marruzzo	Andrea Marruzzo is a research fellow at Sapienza University of Rome with a background in classical archaeology and Iranian philology. As the creator of BEDA and IbiScript, he combines epigraphic research with systems programming in Rust to build high-performance infrastructure, web portals, and custom domain-specific languages for digital scholarly editions and complex ancient scripts.
So Miyagawa
Rei Mochida	Rei Mochida is a Research Fellow at the Keio Museum Commons (KeMCo), Keio University. She completed her Master’s degree in Literature from Japan Women’s University in March 2024. She specializes in classical Japanese literature and Waka literature, focusing particularly in the structured encoding of texts using Digital Humanities approaches. Her research publication includes “Digital Environments and Print Publications Surrounding Classical Japanese Literature Research: From the Perspective of Disseminating and Preserving Research Outcomes,” published in Waka Poetry Studies, No. 131.
Alison Moore	Alison Moore is a Digital Scholarship and Digital Publishing Librarian at Simon Fraser University Library. Ali’s areas of expertise include open scholarship, responsible research assessment, and researcher online presence. Since joining SFU Library in 2015, Ali has held a number of roles, most recently as the Acting Head, Learning & Engagement, the Digital Scholarship Librarian in the Digital Humanities Innovation Lab, and Manager, Knowledge Mobilization.
Kiyonori Nagasaki	Kiyonori is a professor specializing in digital humanities. His research focuses on the creation, analysis, and preservation of digital scholarly resources, with particular interests in text encoding and the Text Encoding Initiative. He has led the development of a digital research environment for Buddhist studies, supporting innovative and sustainable approaches to textual scholarship. He is also committed to advancing international collaboration and shared standards in digital humanities.
Satoru Nakamura	Satoru Nakamura, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the Historiographical Institute of the University of Tokyo. His main research interest is advancing Digital Humanities by leveraging digital archives and international standards such as IIIF, TEI, and LOD.
Illya Nokhrin	Illya Nokhrin is a developer at the Humanities Computing and Media Centre at the University of Victoria, where he works primarily on projects related to literature and history.
Kanato Ochiai	Kanato Ochiai is a researcher at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. His research is in linguistics, with a particular focus on discourse analysis and computer-mediated communication. He has worked on Japanese online interaction and digitally mediated communication. In this presentation, he will report on the construction of social media corpora in Japan, focusing on data collection, corpus design, and related methodological issues.
Patricia O’Connor	N/A
Kate Petrusa	Kate Petrusa is the Assistant Curator at the Burnaby Village Museum. She manages the Museum’s collection and is most excited about improving the discoverability of this collection online. She completed an Master of Anthropology and an Master of Museum Education at UBC. Kate has worked at several Museums around the Lower Mainland as a Curator since 2013.
Nadine Quenouille	Nadine initially studied papyrology, archaeology, and ancient history, and earned her PhD in papyrology. As a papyrologist, she worked on projects at the Universities of Trier and Leipzig from 2002 to 2018, and then as a computer scientist on the “Bach digital” project until 2019. In 2023, she earned a Master of Science in Digital Humanities. From 2019 to 2023, she worked as an education and project manager in the private sector before returning to academia to be a research associate in the field of digital humanities in the project “Forschungsportal BACH” at the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig.
Sarah Revilla-Sanchez	Not sure if needed for poster session. But here is my bio: Sarah Revilla-Sanchez is a doctoral candidate in Hispanic Studies at UBC.
Torsten Roeder	Torsten Roeder works as Digital Humanities Consultant for scholarly edition projects and grant applications at the Center for Philology and Digitality, University of Würzburg. He previously held interim professorships in Digital Humanities at the Universities of Rostock and Wuppertal, and worked on numerous DH projects, including at the Leopoldina National Academy and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Trained in musicology, Italian studies, and choral conducting, he earned his PhD at Würzburg with a thesis on 19th-century music criticism. His research focuses on historical periodicals, sustainable digital scholarly editions, born digital heritage, and lately especially vintage computing.
Martina Scholger	Martina Scholger is a senior scientist at the Department of Digital Humanities at the University of Graz. Her research focuses on digital scholarly editing, including TEI encoding practices, machine learning applications in textual scholarship, and the use of large language models for editorial tasks. She has been a member of the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing since 2014 and serves on the TEI Technical Council since 2016.
Masahiro Shimoda
Abigail Streifel	Abigail is a second-year undergraduate studying English and political science at SFU. She works as a research assistant at the Centre for Scottish Studies, and recently received the Jennifer Prosser Wade and Family Award for her work on the Lyon in Mourning digital humanities project. She also makes visual art in her free time.
Moe Takasuka	Moe Takasuka is a researcher at Keio University, Japan. Her research focuses on the digital representation of Japanese early modern illustrated books, particularly kibyōshi, using TEI and IIIF technologies. She is interested in text-image relationships, digital scholarly editing, and East Asian text encoding. Her current work explores methods for structurally encoding illustrated narratives to support digital humanities research.
Joey Takeda	Joey Takeda is a Developer in the Digital Humanities Innovation Lab (DHIL) at Simon Fraser University Library and a member of the TEI Technical Council. He holds a Masters of Library and Information Studies from the University of Alberta and a Master of Arts in English Literature from the University of British Columbia.
Kirsten Vad	Kirsten Vad is a PhD fellow at the Center for Grundtvig Studies at Aarhus University and managing editor of the digital scholarly edition Grundtvig’s Works. Her research focuses on digital scholarly editions, editorial commentary and computational approaches to textual scholarship. In her PhD project she examines explanatory commentaries across Nordic digital editions and explores how human-in-the-loop and machine-learning methods can support annotation, classification and the reuse of editorial data.
Raffaele Viglianti	Dr. Raffaele (Raff) Viglianti is a Senior Research Software Developer at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland. His research is grounded in digital humanities and textual scholarship, where “text” includes musical notation. He researches new and efficient practices to model and publish textual sources as innovative and sustainable digital scholarly resources. Dr. Viglianti is currently an elected member of the Text Encoding Initiative technical council and the Technical Editor and Micro-editions Co-editor of the Scholarly Editing journal.
Julianna Wagar	Julianna Wagar (she/her) is a SSHRC-funded second-year PhD student in the department of English, Film, and Creative Writing at the University of Alberta. Her research interests include romance novels, women’s pleasure, feminist theory, and research creation. Her dissertation focuses on demystifying women’s sexual pleasure by analyzing six contemporary romance novels, as well as through writing her own romance novel, which is entitled Here’s My Card.
Andreas Wagner	Andreas has a PhD in Philosophy and is currently working both as “Digital Humanities Coordinator” at Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt and as a team member of the project “The School of Salamanca” of the Academy of Sciences and Literature” in Mainz, where he has been collaborating in establishing a digital edition of 16th and 17th century theological and juridical treatises.
Yifan Wang	Research Fellow at the International Institute for Digital Humanities and Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. Working on digitalization of East Asian literature, text data standardization, and minority language documentation.
Jörg Wettlaufer	Jörg Wettlaufer studied History, History of Art and Physical Anthropology at Ruhr-University Bochum, Christian-Albrecht University Kiel, both Germany and Sorbonne University at Paris, France. From 2016 to 2017 and again from 2019 onwards he coordinates Digitization at the Goettingen Academy and takes care of Data Curation. Since 2021 he leads the Göttingen Digital Academy. He is also in charge of several research projects dealing with, e.g., late medieval travel accounts, Travels in the Ottoman Empire, Evolutionary History, Digital History and History of Emotions in Medieval Law. His interests are in the application of semantic web technologies to humanities projects and the publication and preservation of research data.