[POSTPONED] Digital Scholarship Showcase: The Adaptive TEI Network Initiative

Date: Thursday, February 6, 2025
Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Presenter: Braden Russell, Katherine Bowers, Sydney Lines, Mary Chapman, Sarah Revilla-Sanchez, Elizabeth Lagresa-González, Daniel Orizaga Doguim, Ramón “Arturo” Antonio Victoriano-Martinez,
Location: 548 and 552 - Presentation Room
Location: Koerner Library

The Digital Scholarship Showcase is a mixer for all those interested in Digital Scholarship (DS). It is an opportunity for scholars and students across campus to meet colleagues, talk tools, brainstorm ideas and network with others who use digital tools to explore and visualize their research. This project showcase will feature the Adaptive TEI Network Initiative with time for a Q&A afterward.

Project showcase: Adaptive TEI Network Initiative

About the presenters:

Sydney Lines is a PhD candidate in English Language and Literatures, a UBC Public Scholar and Co-PI of the Adaptive TEI Network, an innovative, collaborative project that convenes an interdisciplinary team of Arts faculty and students to develop antiracist and inclusive TEI-XML markup interventions. She is also Project Manager of the Winnifred Eaton Archive, a TEI-encoded digital edition of the collected works of Asian North American author Winnifred Eaton

Mary Chapman is Director of the Winnifred Eaton Archive and a Professor in the Department of English. She is the author of numerous award-winning books on Edith Eaton, Suffrage Literature, Sentimental literature. Her current project is a biography of Edith Eaton.

Dr. Elizabeth Lagresa-González is an Assistant Professor and Associate Head of Romance Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. She holds a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University and was a fellow at the Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies (Villa I Tatti), Freie Universität Berlin (Global Humanities) and Penn State University (Depts. of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies). Her research focuses on early modern Spanish literature and culture, which she addresses at the intersection of gender, cross-cultural and material studies.

Dr. Katherine Bowers is an Associate Professor of Slavic Studies and Director of the Centre for European Studies. In 2024-25, she is serving as Head of the CENES Department at UBC. She is Co-PI on the project “Digital Dostoevsky,” which uses a TEI edition of Dostoevsky’s novels for computational text analysis. She is also a member of the Data-Sitters Club.

Sarah Revilla-Sanchez is a doctoral candidate in Hispanic Studies at UBC. Her dissertation explores gender-based violence and themes of resistance and sorority in contemporary Mexican Gothic fiction written by women.

Braden Russell (he/him) is a PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia focusing on queer German-Jewish literary production. Before his doctoral studies, he completed an MA in Holocaust Studies at the University of Victoria where he researched the memorialization efforts for queer victims of National Socialism in Vienna, Austria.  Braden received an MA in Language and Culture with a focus in German and a BA in Global Studies from Texas Tech University. Braden’s research interests are broadly located in Holocaust studies, queer German studies and queer Jewish studies, food studies, and digital humanities. Braden has also published Holocaust and human rights pedagogies in Social Justice Pedagogies: Multidisciplinary Practices and Approaches (2023, Katherine Sarks, ed.).

Ramón Antonio Victoriano-Martinez (Arturo) was born in the Dominican Republic, where he graduated with a B.A. in law at the Universidad Católica Santo Domingo (Class of 1994). He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in the area of Hispanic and Latin American Literatures in 2010. After graduation, he taught in the Department of Language Studies (University of Toronto Mississauga), the Caribbean Studies Program and the Latin American Studies Program (University of Toronto) from 2011 to 2019. His primary area of research is the literatures and cultures of the Hispanic Caribbean, emphasizing issues of race, gender, diaspora and national belonging.

Daniel Orizaga Doguim is a PhD student at UBC. His areas of interest are the transpacific connections of the Hispanic Monarchy, Political Theology, and the work of Juan de Palafox y Mendoza.