The Second Gale Digital Humanities User Engagement Program

Becca Bowden

Becca Bowden is the Product Manager for Gale Digital Scholar Lab. Based in the UK, she started her career at Gale working in the Gale Primary Sources editorial team before taking on Gale Digital Scholar Lab in January 2022. She is loving exploring the world of Digital Humanities and is excited to work with the Digital Humanities User Engagement Program to continue developing Gale Digital Scholar Lab.

Megan Sullivan

Based in Gale’s main office in Michigan, Megan Sullivan is the Product Manager for Gale Primary Sources. With a background in Library Science, she has a strong personal interest in her work with digital archives and is excited about the User Engagement program because she strongly believes that user-centered development is the key to a positive user experience.

Elizabeth Hopwood

Dr. Elizabeth Hopwood is an Advanced Lecturer in the Department of English at Loyola University Chicago, where she is the Director of the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, and Graduate Program Director of Loyola’s Master’s in Digital Humanities program. Her research focuses on long nineteenth-century foodways in the space of the U.S. and the Atlantic, digital archives, and digital humanities design. 

Nell Nixon

Nell Nixon is a 2nd year PhD student doing a CDP with Loughborough University and the British Library. Her research within digital humanities considers how to mitigate barriers to digital learning in the cultural heritage sector experienced by disadvantaged young people. As such, she is excited about expanding her knowledge and experience in developing effective digital learning resources.

Wei Wang

Wei Wang is an Associate Professor in World History at Nankai University, in Tianjin, China. She has been working on Chatham House’s role in the planning for post-Second World War world order. Her research and teaching rely heavily on Gale Primary Sources, particularly Chatham House Online Archive. She is excited to be part of the program, and is looking forward to working with her cohort members.

Ayanda Netshisaulu

Ayanda Netshisaulu is an educational facilitator at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. Her research interests are South African environmental history, colonial environmental management and human organisation and its interaction with nature.

Fudie Zhao

Fudie Zhao is a DPhil candidate in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford. With a background in both East Asian history and digital humanities, her research delves into the circulation of information in East Asia during significant historical events. Fudie has also developed and taught a graduate seminar on Digital Humanities for East Asia at Oxford, bridging traditional historiography with digital tools.

Ava Brillat

Ava Brillat was previously DH Librarian at the University of Miami. She is interested in lowering the bar for students to access DH tools and make DH more accessible to students, faculty and librarians.

Joe Drury

Joe Drury is an Associate Professor of English at Villanova University, although he grew up in the UK. His research is on eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature, with a particular focus on novels, the history of science and technology, and the history of gender and sexuality. He published a book with Oxford University Press in 2017, Novel Machines: Technology and Narrative Form in Enlightenment Britain. His new research is about the invention and history of “the whimsical” as an aesthetic category in the eighteenth century, its relation to the rise of consumer culture and changing ideas about subjectivity in the period. He is looking forward to learning more about Gale’s primary sources and Gale Digital Scholar Lab.

Annemarie Perez

Dr. Annemarie Perez is an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies. She is a native of Los Angeles and passionately interested in the literature and culture of Southern California, detective fiction, and Harry Potter. Her academic interests include digital humanities and digital pedagogy work and its intersections and divisions with ethnic and cultural studies. Her specialty is Latina/o literature, with a focus on Chicana feminist writer-editors from 1965-to the present. She has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation and Irvine Foundation. She is currently writing a book on Chicana feminist editorship. This single authored book addresses questions about late twentieth century Chicana authorship and editorship, using textual readings and interviews to explore the evolution of editorship and the development of textual communities within and around the development of Chicana feminist praxis.