Program Organizers, Instructors, and Plenary Speakers

Barry Lam is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College and creator of the popular, award-winning podcast series Hi-Phi Nation. He will frame the week by sharing his journey from research to podcast. He received his BA in Philosophy and English at the University of California, Irvine (2001), and his PhD in Philosophy at Princeton University (January 2007).

Patrick Flanigan is the Lead Cataloging Specialist at the SDSU Library where he catalogs materials in both print and digital formats. His focus is on improving the discovery of library resources and collections. Patrick is an alumnus of SDSU and has spent the last 30 years combining his passion for music with his enjoyment of working in libraries. As a student working at the SDSU Library he was in many bands and frequently recorded his musical efforts both in professional and home studios. After graduating from SDSU he worked as a cataloger at National University by day and pursued his music career by night, eventually leaving the library world to work in the booming internet industry. Years later with the emergence of digital resources and technology, he received a Masters Degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Missouri with a focus on digital resources. He continues to record music today for his project Punk Rock Drum Machine, using an 8 track digital recorder with analog controls and mastering the WAV files using Audacity. He supports Arsenal Football Club.

Hannah McGregor is an Assistant Professor of Publishing at Simon Fraser University, where her research focuses on podcasting as scholarly communication, systemic barriers to access in the Canadian publishing industry, and magazines as middlebrow media. She is the co-creator of Witch, Please, a feminist podcast on the Harry Potter world, and the creator of the weekly podcast Secret Feminist Agenda, which is currently undergoing an experimental peer review process with Wilfrid Laurier University Press. She is also the co-editor of the book Refuse: CanLit in Ruins(Book*hug 2018).

Cassie Tanks is currently the Digital Humanities Assistant at San Diego State University’s Digital Humanities Center. She is also an MSLS graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Carolina Academic Library Association fellow. She received a BA in History at San Diego State University. Her research and academic interests focus on transnational Civil Rights and Black Power movements of the 20th century, intersectionality in the archives, and critical digital humanities. Cassie’s first job doing community outreach and dance instruction at a recreation center has profoundly impacted her to this day.