Program Organizers, Instructors, and Plenary Speakers

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.

Erin Rose Glass is the Digital Scholarship Librarian at UC San Diego, where she advises on participatory approaches to digital research and education practices for campus. She has seven years of experience working on digital research, education, and community projects, including projects funded by the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, The City University of New York, and the Association of Research Libraries. She received the 2018 Emerging Open Scholarship Award from the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute for her #SocialDiss project, in which she posted drafts of her dissertation for public review on a variety of writing and social media platforms. She has a Ph.D. in English and a Certificate in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy from The CUNY Graduate Center.

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).

Angel David Nieves, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of History and Digital Humanities at San Diego State University (SDSU) in the Area of Excellence (AoE) in Digital Humanities and Global Diversity. In August 2019 he begins in his new role as Co-Director of SDSU’s Digital Humanities Initiative (w/Lach). He was Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi) at Hamilton College (2009-2017), a digital leader among liberal arts colleges in the Northeast. As Co-Director (w/Simons), he raised over $2.7 million dollars in foundation and institutional support for digital humanities scholarship at Hamilton. Nieves’s 3D digital edition entitled, Apartheid Heritages: A Spatial History of South Africa’s Township’s (http://www.apartheidheritages.org) brings together 3D modelling, immersive technologies and digital ethnography in the pursuit of documenting human rights violations in apartheid-era South Africa. Nieves is also currently working on a new volume (w/Senier & McGrail) in the Debates in the Digital Humanities Series and this past fall completed a special collaborative issue of American Quarterly (2018) on DH in the field of American Studies. He sits on the boards of the Society for American City and Regional Planning History (2018-2021) and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (2018-2022). Nieves’s scholarly work and community-based activism critically engage with issues of race, memory, and the built environment in cities across the Global South. At DHSI 2019 he taught the second iteration of a Foundations course, “Race, Social Justice, and DH: Applied Theories and Methods” w/Kim (Brandeis U).