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Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship: Notes on contributors

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Notes on contributors
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table of contents
  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. List of figures
  5. Notes on contributors
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction: reframing failure
  8. Part I: Innovation
    1. 1. Stop lying to yourself: collective delusion and digital humanities grant funding
    2. 2. Risk, failure and the assessment of innovative research
    3. 3. Innovation, tools and ecology
    4. 4. Software at play
  9. Part II: Technology
    1. 5. Brokenness is social
    2. 6. A career in ruins? Accepting imperfection and celebrating failures in digital preservation and digital archaeology
    3. 7. Living well with brokenness in an inclusive research culture: what we can learn from failures and processes in a digital humanities lab
    4. 8. Can we be failing?
  10. Part III: Collaboration
    1. 9. Doing, failing, learning: understanding what didn’t work as a key research finding in action research
    2. 10. Navigating the challenges and opportunities of collaboration
    3. 11. Challenging the pipeline structure: a reflection on the organisational flow of interdisciplinary projects
    4. 12. When optimisation fails us
    5. 13. Reframing ‘reframing’: a holistic approach to understanding failure
  11. Part IV: Institutions
    1. 14. Permission to experiment with literature as data and fail in the process
    2. 15. What to do with failure? (What does failure do?)
    3. 16. The remaining alternatives
    4. 17. Who fails and why? Understanding the systemic causes of failure within and beyond the digital humanities
    5. 18. Experimental publishing: acknowledging, addressing and embracing failure
    6. 19. Writing about research methods: sharing failure to support success
    7. 20. Bridging the distance: confronting geographical failures in digital humanities conferences
  12. Conclusion: on failing
  13. Index

Notes on contributors

Janneke Adema (she/her) is a cultural and media theorist working in the fields of (book) publishing and digital culture and an associate professor in digital media at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures (Coventry University).

Brittany Amell (she/her) is an INKE Partnership postdoctoral fellow in Open Social Scholarship and MITACS Accelerate Industrial postdoctoral fellow in Open, Collaborative Scholarship (Arts & Humanities) at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL).

Arianna Ciula is director and research software senior analyst at King’s Digital Lab, King’s College London.

Frances Corry is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Culture and Data Stewardship at the University of Pittsburgh.

David De Roure is academic director of digital scholarship at the University of Oxford and professor of e-Research in the Oxford e-Research Centre.

Quinn Dombrowski is the academic technology specialist in the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, and the Library, at Stanford University.

Michael Donnay is a community manager with the Software Sustainability Institute.

Anisa Hawes is Programming Historian’s publishing manager. Beyond the project, she is a researcher and web archivist with a special interest in critical curatorial practice, and using open-source tools to preserve digital cultural memory.

Jennifer Isasi is an assistant research professor of digital scholarship at the Pennsylvania State University, where she directs the Digital Liberal Arts Research Initiative, and is also part of the editorial board of the open access journal Programming Historian.

Caio Mello is a postdoctoral researcher in the project Impresso – Media Monitoring of the Past at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH).

Jenny Mitcham is chief digital preservation officer at the Digital Preservation Coalition where she works closely with members on their digital preservation challenges.

Christopher Ohge is senior lecturer in digital approaches to literature at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Riva Quiroga is a linguist and educator by training. Since 2019, she has been involved in Programming Historian as an editor of the Spanish team and as a trustee of ProgHist Ltd, the charity that runs the project.

Arran Rees is a researcher and practitioner interested in museums, digital cultural heritage collections and collaborative action research processes and currently works as the Museum Data Manager for the Museum Data Service.

Jentery Sayers is associate professor of English and director of media studies at the University of Victoria, where he also directs the Praxis Studio for Comparative Media Studies.

Anna-Maria Sichani is a media historian and a digital humanist. She is currently a BRAID fellow and a research associate in digital humanities at the Digital Humanities Research Hub, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Nabeel Siddiqui is an assistant professor of digital media at Susquehanna University, where he also serves as the director of the Center for Teaching and Learning.

Elena Spadini is a researcher in digital humanities, with a background in romance philology. Her research interests span from medieval manuscripts to contemporary authors and born-digital literary sources.

Jennifer Stertzer is director of the Center for Digital Editing and the Washington Papers and a research associate professor at the University of Virginia.

Lauren Tuckley is director of the Center for Research and Fellowships at Georgetown University, where she leads a team administering undergraduate research programmes and mentoring students and young alumni applying for nationally competitive fellowships.

Joris J. van Zundert is senior researcher and developer in the Department of Computational Literary Studies and the Digital Humanities Lab at the Huygens Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

Naomi Wells is senior lecturer in Italian and Spanish with digital humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Jane Winters is professor of digital humanities and director of the Digital Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

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