| -Coordinators | |
| Jessica DeSpain Department of English Language and Literature | Kristine Hildebrandt Department of English Language and Literature |
| -General Members | |
| Matthew S. S. Johnson Department of English Language and Literature | Greg Fields Department of Philosophy |
| Jason Stacy Department of Historical Studies | Cory Willmott Department of Anthropology |
| Dennis Bouvier Department of Computer Science | Melissa Thomeczek Department of Educational Leadership |
| Tom Lavallee Department of Foreign Languages and Literature | Gillian Acheson Department of Geography |
| Steve Kerber Library and Information Services | Matt Schmitz Information Technology Services |
| -Affiliated Researchers |
| Coordinators -Jessica DeSpain |
| Jessica DeSpain is an assistant professor of early and nineteenth-century American literature. She specializes in transatlantic book history and is in the process of completing her first book project, Steaming Across the Pond: Travel, Transatlantic Literary Culture, and the Nineteenth-Century Book, which explores British/American relations during the nineteenth century through the medium of the transatlantic reprint. DeSpain is also the director of the Wide,Wide World Hypermedia Archive a project that comprises a fully searchable digital archive of the illustrations, cover designs, and textual variants of the over 100 editions of Susan Warner’s novel, The Wide, Wide World. |
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| -Kristine Hildebrandt |
| Kristine Hildebrandt’s research interests and experience include language documentation and preservation. She is currently the principal investigator on a project funded by the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project at the School of Oriental and African Studies to document and provide preservation materials for the Nar-Phu language, which is spoken by a population totaling fewer than 500 speakers in northern-central Nepal. She is keeping a (new but rapidly growing) blog about this project. |
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| General Members |
| -Matthew S. S. Johnson |
| Dr. Matthew S. S. Johnson is a rhetoric-composition specialist at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. His academic interests include composition and rhetorical theory, history, and pedagogy, as well as digital/electronic literacies. His digital humanities interest involves the intersections between composition-rhetoric and game studies/ludology. He has published on this topic in venues which include the journal Dichtung Digital and the collections Writing and the Digital Generation, From Hip-Hop to Hyperlinks, and TechKnowledgies. He also guest-edited a special issue of Computers & Composition, “Reading Games: Composition, Literacy, and Video Gaming.” He is the reviews editor for the Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds. |
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| -Greg Fields |
| Greg Fields, professor of philosophy, received the Ph.D. in comparative philosophy from the University of Hawaii and holds an M.A. from the University of New Mexico. His research focus concerns North Pacific Coast culture, philosophy, and language preservation/revitalization. His current projects include the audio collection Medicine Songs of the Four Seasons from the Straits and Coast Salish, forthcoming from Smithsonian Folkways, and three collaborations with Coast Salish culture-bearers on books accompanied by companion media: Rights Remembered: A Salish Grandmother Speaks on American Indian History and the Future (under contract), Sacred Breath: Pacific Northwest Culture and Medicine Teachings (under contract), and A Totem Pole History: The Work of Lummi Carver Joe Hillaire (forthcoming), all with University of Nebraska Press. Fields is preparing an index to the Metcalf Audio Collection of Coast Salish oral tradition materials held at the University of Washington’s Burke Museum and UW Archives of Ethnomusicology. He has a particular interest in intercultural cooperation and ethical issues concerning preservation and access to cultural property. |
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| -Jason Stacy |
| Jason Stacy is assistant professor of U.S. History and Social Science Pedagogy. His research interests are in American culture during the first half of the nineteenth century. He is the author of Walt Whitman's Multitudes: Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman's Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass, 1840-1855 (2008) and editor of Leaves of Grass, 1860: the 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition (2009). Stacy also edits The Councilor: the Journal of the Illinois Council for the Social Studies and is the historian for a five-year St. Clair County Schools "Teaching American History" Grant. |
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| -Cory Willmott |
| Cory Willmott’s research focuses on museum and visual anthropology with geographical specializations in China and Anishnaabe Great Lakes nations (aka Ojibwa or Chippewa, and other members of the Three Fires Confederacy, such as the Ottawa aka Odawa, and the Potawatomi). She is a founding, core and Board member of the Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Culture (GRASAC), a consortium of over 170 aboriginal community members, academic researchers and museum professionals headed by Dr. Ruth Phillips of Carleton University. Dr. Heidi Bohaker, historian at University of Toronto, has been the key designer of the GRASAC Knowledge Sharing (GKS) database, a virtual research resource that contains multimedia and multivocal records of heritage items held in institutions around the world. Digital scholarship projects at SIUE include the Divine Design virtual museum exhibit, the Route 66: History, Myth and Memory website, and pioneering the pedagogical applications of the online imaging software, Gallery, in collaboration with Matthew Schmitz, and for its application in ANTH 170-FR2, Steve Kerber. |
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| -Dennis Bouvier |
| Dennis Bouvier is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at SIUE. He earned the PhD degree in Computer Engineering at the University of Louisiana Lafayette. Since that time he has taught computer science and pursued research interests in computer graphics, visualization, visual analytics, and computer science education. He is author of SUN Microsystem's Java 3D API Tutorial and leader of the Software Engineering Disciplinary Commons, an NSF funded educational research project hosted at SIUE. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Computer Science, and member of the Association for Computing Machinery and Phi Kappa Phi. |
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| -Melissa Thomeczek |
| Dr. Melissa Thomeczek is an associate professor in the graduate Instructional Technology program. Her research agenda primarily focuses on two areas: the integration of technology into the P-16 classroom and the integration of emerging technology in the classroom to increase student attention, participation, and retention. Current projects include the use of Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVEs) to impact students' learning experiences in online classes, the use of digital story creation to teach Native American history to elementary students, and the use of critical friends groups to enhance teaching and learning materials. |
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| -Tom Lavallee |
| Tom Lavallee, Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, earned his PhD in Chinese and Comparative Literature (2004) and MA in Chinese (1994) from Washington University, St. Louis. He teaches Mandarin Chinese, Chinese culture classes, has co-lead yearly travel study courses to China with College of Arts and Sciences and School of Business faculty since 2002 and is the coordinator of the Asian Studies Minor. His research areas include early medieval Chinese poetry and literati culture, tourism and leisure in contemporary China, Chinese art history and undergraduate study abroad experiences in China. His current project funded by a SIUE Seed Grant for Transitional and Exploratory Projects (STEP), is a study of a wide selection of secular and religious mural artwork and decorations from temples located in and around the city of Xiamen, in Fujian Province, P.R.C. |
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| -Gillian Acheson |
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| -Steve Kerber |
| Stephen Kerber received his doctorate in United States history from the University of Florida at Gainesville and his library degree in special collections and archival administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Kerber serves as University Archivist & Special Collections Librarian at Lovejoy Library, SIUE, and as chair of the Collection Digitization Selection Subcommittee (CDSS). In addition to having authored two books on the history of the university, he is the originator of several digital projects, including a multifaceted website about the Mississippi River Festival. |
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| -Matt Schmitz |
| Matt Schmitz is an Instructional Designer with Information Technology Services who is involved in several projects that benefit the development or support of digital scholarship initiatives at SIUE. Schmitz administers SIUE's Open Journal System (OJS), an open-source journal management and publishing solution that is intended for publications created or administered by SIUE faculty or departments, and Gallery, an image management application that serves as a repository for SIUE faculty, staff, and students whose digital projects necessitate the inclusion of original or scanned images. |
