About

2102 DHIS Multimedia and Design


Aimée Morrison
University of Waterloo
@digiwonk

 Aimee has been teaching Multimedia Design at the DHSI since 2004. She is an associate professor of English at the University of Waterloo, where she explains to people what the "the cloud" is.

Ali McGhee
University of Rochester
@HoodooAlphabet

Ali is finishing her dissertation on the intersections of British Romanticism and colonialism in 19th century Jamaica. She works as a project assistant on the William Blake Archive. In her spare time she watches lots of horror films.


Bob Clapperton
University of Waterloo
@clapperton32

Bob studies the cognitive role of rhetoric in the formation of ideological belief systems, writing pedagogy, and human/technology interaction. He is especially interested in the relationship between cognitive rhetoric and persuasive technologies in the areas online education, health promotion, and social networks.

Emily Smith
University of Victoria
@grimaldibus

Emily studies early modern poetry and religion and is also interested in new media, design, and experimental publishing. She is a co-editor of the publishing platform The Media Res and former New York City public school teacher.


Julia Randel
Hope College, Michigan

Julia is Associate Professor of Music at Hope College, where she teaches Music History and World Music. Her current research explores the interactions of music and dance, through studies of Stravinsky and ballet, and Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Spain.


Kaitlin Justin
Indiana University, Bloomington
@kaimeju

Kaitlin is a graduate student studying Ethnomusicology and Library Science. She is an indexer for the MLA Bibliography Project, a casual artist and musician with chronic stage fright, oh, and her life goal: to pursue digital initiatives applied to special collections and archives related to folklore and music.


Michelle Macklem
University of Victoria
@michelleamac

Michelle is a fourth year history undergrad at UVic with a background in audio production, promotions and community outreach. I'm currently studying audio culture, and how it applies to the history of recorded music.

Nick Morris
SUNY-Buffalo
@nickmimic

Nick is a 3rd year PhD student and Presidential Fellow at SUNY-Buffalo, where he works on archival, book history, and digital humanities approaches to Irish Modernism, typography, and printing house practice 1880-1940.

Serena Ableson
University of Victoria

Serena is a librarian at the University of Victoria Libraries.  She teaches students how to avoid Googling their way to a degree by showing them how to tap into scholarly, authoritative sources at the Library.  She is  interested in using podcasts and designing quick, snappy tutorials to help students navigate through the research process.  Outside of work, she loves walking her puppy on the beautiful beaches around Victoria and trying to master her new DSLR camera.


Verena Kick
University of Washington
@VerenaKick

Verena is a 2nd year PhD student in Germanics. Her research is on film spectatorship and contemporary German documentaries and essay films.