Ongoing roles:
- Director of the internationally recognized Scholars’ Lab experimental & digital humanities research center & craft/art/makerspace
- Secretary, Association for Computers & the Humanities (the U.S.-based, international-membership digital humanities scholarly org); founder & manager, Digital Humanities Slack founder (11 years, 3k+ members!)
- Zine Bakery: free public zine distro & catalogue, research, prolific zinemaking
- Letterpress printer (Wolfproof Press) & Type Librarian, Virginia Book Arts
Recent work & awards:
- Creative research practice: Penland School of Craft Artist in Residence, January 2026; Ox-Bow School of Art Longform Artist Residency, August 2026; Kala Art Institute Artist Residency, 2026. 5 arts scholarships & fellowships (Penland, Ox-Bow; 2025-2026).
- Recent talks: physical art & craft for joy & digital humanities scholarship; digital book arts & experimental letterpress for social justice, accessibility, & play; future of DH centers; scholarly social media; makers for multilingual letterpress; innovative DH grad education; speculative design & joyful peer review; book-adjacent data science & making; digital book arts investigations; zines+global DH…
- 8 free zines published 2025-26; plus a news series of 4 zines (148 pages!) that’ve completed academic journal peer review (!; forthcoming Fall 2026)
- 3 peer-reviewed scholarly essays (speculative+generative peer review & digital humanities; reframing AI for the digital humanities; craft, DH, and feminist scholarly practice [forthcoming Summer 2026]).
- Organizer, #DHMakes Methodz Talks public maker methods virtual talk series (2024-current) & regular #DHMakes participant.
- Author, Bluesky for Academics guide
Zines I’ve authored (solo or collab):
What I do:
Designing, building, practicing
just & joyful knowledge-making communities
at the intersections of technology, creative craft, history, & culture.
- Radically collaborative spaces of academic & public reading, learning, & making: community design, inspiration, infrastructure, maintenance
- Public, prolific, friendly documentation of in-progress experimentation in art, tech, learning, & research
- Text/data & makerspace creative+research practice
- Artist: letterpress, zine author, & interdisciplinary digital book arts fueled by history of technology, social justice advocacy, & joy
- Feminist & queer textual scholarship, digital book history, & human-computer interaction
- Book-adjacent web design/development
- Digital humanities: humanities for creative, ethical tech; tech for deeper cultural & creative scholarship
