Scott Kleinman works on medieval language and literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the fourteenth century with a special emphasis on Old English and early Middle English language and dialects. His research also covers regional and cultural diversity in historiographical and romance literature. His Digital Humanities work includes the NEH-Funded Lexomics Project, which studies literature using digital methods and produces the computational text analysis tool Lexos. He is also co-Director of the Archive of Early Middle English project, which produces digital editions of English manuscripts written between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries and of the 4Humanities WhatEvery1Says Project, which text mines public discourse in order to produce tools for Humanities advocacy. In the past, he worked as a designer/developer for the online search tool Serendip-o-matic as part of the One Week | One Tool project.
education: Ph.D. 1997, University of Cambridge department: English office: ST 803 tel: (818) 677-0901 email: scott.kleinman@csun.edu external_url: http://scottkleinman.com - name: Mauro Carassai show_contact: true title: Assistant ProfessorMauro Carassai teaches courses in Digital Humanities, literary theory, and American studies at California State University Northridge. He was a Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2014-15 and a visiting Fulbright at Brown University in 2007-2008. His research combines literary theory, philosophy of language, and digital literatures within the larger frame of American literatures and American studies. His scholarly work has been published in journals such as Culture Machine, LEA Almanac, DHQ, and ADA – A Journal of Gender Media and Technology. He co-edited a double issue for the Digital Humanities Quarterly titled “Futures of Digital Studies” and he is currently at work on a manuscript exploring problems and perspectives in configuring an Ordinary Digital Philosophy.
education: Ph.D. 2014, University of FloridaTomo Hattori is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at California State University, Northridge. He is the author of “Song for a Murdered Cousin: Violence in The Woman Warrior” in Critical Insights: Coming of Age (Salem Press 2012) as well as other journal articles and book chapters on Asian American literature and critical theory. He teaches undergraduate courses at CSUN in Asian American literature and cultural studies. His current interests include graphic novels, adolescent fiction and critical theory.
" education: Ph.D. 1994, McMaster UniversitySantosh Khadka is an Assistant Professor of English and Director of Upper Division Writing Proficiency Exam at California State University, Northridge. He earned his PhD in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric from Syracuse University. He has co-edited two books on multimodality—Designing and Implementing Multimodal Curricula and Programs (Routledge, 2018) and Bridging the Multimodal Gap: From Theory to Practice (forthcoming, University of Colorado Press, 2018). His third co-edited collection, Narratives of the Marginalized Identities in Higher Education: Inside and Outside the Academy is also forthcoming (Routledge, 2018). Khadka has published several research articles in journals in the US and abroad. For instance, his “Geopolitics of Grant Writing: Discursive and Stylistic Features of Nonprofit Grant Proposals in Nepal and the United States” was published in Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, whereas “(Teaching) Essayist Literacy in the Multimedia World” appeared in Composition Forum. He now teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in writing, rhetoric, digital media, and professional communication.
" education: Ph.D. 2014, Syracuse University department: English office: ST 834 tel: (818) 677-XXXX email: santosh.khadka@csun.edu external_url: https://academics.csun.edu/faculty/santosh.khadka - name: Steve Kutay show_contact: true title: Digital Services LibrarianDr. Liu is passionate about enabling accessibility of computing. His research breaks barriers created by computing technology, especially for people with special needs. Through his experience, Dr. Liu believes that “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” for a highly usable interactive system.
" education: Ph.D. 2010, University of AlabamaDanielle Spratt is an associate professor of eighteenth-century British and transnational literature and Director of Faculty Engagement and Service Learning in the Office of Community Engagement at California State University, Northridge. Her areas of interest include the literature of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries (specifically 1620-1830), the history of science and medicine, the rise of the novel, print ephemera, feminist and gender theory, public and digital humanities, digital accessibility, experiential and service learning pedagogies, and theories of social justice. She is the current adviser for the English MA program, faculty adviser for the Eighteenth-Century Scriveners, and a member of CSUN's Center for Digital Humanities. Between MA and PhD programs, she was an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer. With Bridget Draxler, she is the author of Engaging the Age of Jane Austen: Public Humanities in Practice (forthcoming 2018/19, University of Iowa Press's Humanities and Public Life Series).
" education: Ph.D. 2011, Fordham UniversityWhen I am not reading or tinkering with digital projects, you can find me teaching at Cal State Northridge. My teaching and research interests include 19th-century and contemporary American literature, popular culture, transnationalism, digital humanities & technology, race and ethnicity, and global trade. I have been published in the Journal of Transnational American Studies and have forthcoming essays in Engaging the Age of Jane Austen: Public Humanities in Practice, The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature, and more.
In my free time, I work on Digital Humanities initiatives. Most recently, I joined the Andrew Mellon-funded WhatEvery1Says project, which uses machine learning methods to analyze public discourse on the humanities at large data scales. I also regularly host Wikipedia Edit-A-Thons at CSUN. In the past, I served as a Media Curator for the textbook The American Yawp, which is an open-source American History textbook forthcoming by Stanford University Press. In the past, I have worked as an encoder for digital archives, including the Women Writer‘s Project and the Modernist Journals Project.
" education: Ph.D. 2015, Brown UniversityJoseph Wiltberger received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a cultural anthropologist with research interests in migration, borders, violence, human rights, development, space and place, social mobilization, and identity. His research broadly concerns the social practices, collective organizing, and politics linked to international migration, and their relationships to economic and social marginalization, various forms of violence, and cultural transformations in places of migrant origin, destination, and in-between.
Over the course of two decades, he has conducted extensive ethnographic field research in El Salvador and among transnational Central American migrants in the U.S and in border areas. With particular attention to the experiences of marginalized youth and families, his research has explored the forces driving the large-scale emigration of Salvadorans, and how local, national, and transnational organizations respond to their migration. His book project in progress draws on his long-range and multi-sited fieldwork to examine how Salvadorans navigate the recurring experiences of displacement and violence that have affected their lives within and outside of El Salvador and the collective strategies they employ to resist displacement.
His current research focuses on the conjuncture of forced migration driven by gang-related violence and insecurity in the northern triangle of Central America (El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras) and the turn toward more restrictive immigration enforcement strategies in the U.S. Interested in the unexpected directions that Central Americans’ life paths are taking amid these shifting conditions, he is conducting fieldwork in Costa Rica that examines the reception of the surge in asylum-seeking Central Americans arriving there.
His recent work also utilizes methodologies and modes of dissemination, such as storytelling, oral histories, and accessible digital and visual media, that allow marginalized groups, including migrants and refugees, to participate in the research process and access the research product. He is collaborating with youth in El Salvador and CSUN students to create an online digital archive that documents oral histories of a mass repatriation of Salvadoran refugees during El Salvador’s 1980-1992 civil war, the largest refugee repatriation in Latin American history. The forthcoming project was named a semi-finalist in the 2018 Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize competition of the Center for Documentary Studies.
Among other awards, he was the 2012 recipient of the Roseberry-Nash Award from the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, the 2015 recipient of the College of Humanities Faculty Research Fellowship from California State University, Northridge, and a 2013-2014 recipient of a Visiting Fellowship at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Professionally, he is actively involved in the Committee on Refugees and Immigrants of the American Anthropological Association and in the Central America Section of the Latin American Studies Association.
His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Inter-American Foundation, and other sources. He has presented his research in more than 35 academic conferences and symposia in the U.S. and abroad. He has also shared his research with international and government agencies and non-governmental organizations in Central America, Mexico, and the U.S., and he has testified as an expert witness in the cases of Salvadoran and other Central American asylum-seekers.
education: Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill department: Central American Studies office: JR 219B tel: (818) 677-6502 email: joseph.wiltberger@csun.edu external_url: https://www.csun.edu/humanities/central-american-studies/joseph-wiltberger - name: Yi Ding show_contact: true title: Online Instructional Design LibrarianJoyce McGee Brummet graduated summa cum laude from CSUN’s Honors in English Program and will be entering CSUN’s Master’s in English program in Fall 2018. Her areas of interest include American Literature, Speculative Fiction, Digital Humanities and exploring issues of power and authority, and race and ethnicity. Her recent research has focused on the role of fantastical and speculative technologies in systems of inclusion and exclusion in children’s literature. While at CSUN, Joyce has been awarded the Oliver W. Evan writing prize for American Literature, the Linda Nichols Joseph English Merit Scholarship, as well as the Virginia Elwood Scholarship for meaningful contributions to the library at CSUN. Joyce has experience co-organizing academic conferences at the treasurer of Sigma Tau Delta Iota Chi, CSUN’s Chapter of the National English Honors Society. and was delighted to have the opportunity to present her scholarship at the CSUN Politics of Participation in Popular Culture conference in April 2018. Joyce also worked for CSUN’s Oviatt Library in the Reserves, Periodicals, and Microform department for two years, where she cultivated interests in library sciences and archives, text digitization, and resource accessibility.
- name: Kyle Duncan show_contact: false title: Vice President slug: kyle-duncan image: https://api.metalab.csun.edu/jewel/imgs/profile-default.png external_url: # alt: Kyle Duncan text: Blah blah blah bio: TBA - name: Kenia Rodriguez show_contact: false title: Secretary slug: kenia-rodriguez image: http://we1s.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/KeniaRodriguez-headshot-350x525.jpg external_url: # alt: Kenia Rodriguez text: Blah blah blah bio: 'Kenia Rodriguez is a senior majoring in English literature. She will earn her Bachelor of Arts in May 2019 and will be applying to graduate programs this fall. Kenia is a Mellon Student Fellow who hopes to become a professor. Her research interests include Twenty-First Century Children’s and Young Adult literature, relationships between popular culture and children’s and young adult literature, gender studies, and race theory. Kenia is currently working on an independent Mellon funded research project that implements a psychobiogrpahical approach to analyze the literary presentation of trauma in Reyna Grande’s memoir The Distance Between Us: Young Readers Edition. When she is not working or writing, Kenia likes to spend her free time reading at the beach.
' advisory_board: - name: Mauro Carassai show_contact: true title: Assistant ProfessorMauro Carassai teaches courses in Digital Humanities, literary theory, and American studies at California State University Northridge. He was a Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2014-15 and a visiting Fulbright at Brown University in 2007-2008. His research combines literary theory, philosophy of language, and digital literatures within the larger frame of American literatures and American studies. His scholarly work has been published in journals such as Culture Machine, LEA Almanac, DHQ, and ADA – A Journal of Gender Media and Technology. He co-edited a double issue for the Digital Humanities Quarterly titled “Futures of Digital Studies” and he is currently at work on a manuscript exploring problems and perspectives in configuring an Ordinary Digital Philosophy.
education: Ph.D. 2014, University of FloridaTomo Hattori is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at California State University, Northridge. He is the author of “Song for a Murdered Cousin: Violence in The Woman Warrior” in Critical Insights: Coming of Age (Salem Press 2012) as well as other journal articles and book chapters on Asian American literature and critical theory. He teaches undergraduate courses at CSUN in Asian American literature and cultural studies. His current interests include graphic novels, adolescent fiction and critical theory.
" education: Ph.D. 1994, McMaster UniversityDanielle Spratt is an associate professor of eighteenth-century British and transnational literature and Director of Faculty Engagement and Service Learning in the Office of Community Engagement at California State University, Northridge. Her areas of interest include the literature of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries (specifically 1620-1830), the history of science and medicine, the rise of the novel, print ephemera, feminist and gender theory, public and digital humanities, digital accessibility, experiential and service learning pedagogies, and theories of social justice. She is the current adviser for the English MA program, faculty adviser for the Eighteenth-Century Scriveners, and a member of CSUN's Center for Digital Humanities. Between MA and PhD programs, she was an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer. With Bridget Draxler, she is the author of Engaging the Age of Jane Austen: Public Humanities in Practice (forthcoming 2018/19, University of Iowa Press's Humanities and Public Life Series).
" education: Ph.D. 2011, Fordham UniversityWhen I am not reading or tinkering with digital projects, you can find me teaching at Cal State Northridge. My teaching and research interests include 19th-century and contemporary American literature, popular culture, transnationalism, digital humanities & technology, race and ethnicity, and global trade. I have been published in the Journal of Transnational American Studies and have forthcoming essays in Engaging the Age of Jane Austen: Public Humanities in Practice, The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature, and more.
In my free time, I work on Digital Humanities initiatives. Most recently, I joined the Andrew Mellon-funded WhatEvery1Says project, which uses machine learning methods to analyze public discourse on the humanities at large data scales. I also regularly host Wikipedia Edit-A-Thons at CSUN. In the past, I served as a Media Curator for the textbook The American Yawp, which is an open-source American History textbook forthcoming by Stanford University Press. In the past, I have worked as an encoder for digital archives, including the Women Writer‘s Project and the Modernist Journals Project.
" education: Ph.D. 2015, Brown University