Student and Early Career Team Members
Para1Students and early career researchers were based at the University of Victoria unless
otherwise indicated.
Summer 2024
Seun Akintola, BA Student (English). Remediator and Encoder (funded by a SSHRC Ungergraduate Student
Research Award).
Rylyn Christensen, BA English. Remediator and Encoder.
Mahayla Galliford, BAH English. Assistant Project Manager.
Navarra Houldin, Project Manager and Training Lead. Lead Remediator and Encoder.
Pia Needham, Mitacs Globalink Research Intern.
Sofia Spiteri, BA Student (History). Remediator and Encoder.
Sofia Wilson, Mitacs Globalink Research Intern
Spring 2024
Rylyn Christensen, BA Student (English). Remediator and Encoder (funded by the Workstudy Program and
donations to LEMDO).
Stephanie Erickson, PhD Student (English). QME Research Assistant (funded by Peter
Cockett at McMaster).
Sarah Fowler, BA Honours Student (English). Encoder-Editor of Galathea (1592 and 1632). Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award student.
Mahayla Galliford, BAH Student (English and
Gender Studies). Remediator and Encoder (funded by donations).
Fall 2023
Seun Akintola. HUMA 180 Intern.
Kirsten Cawdell. HUMA 180 Intern.
Rylyn Christensen, BA Student (English). Remediator and Encoder (funded by the Workstudy Program and
SSHRC Insight Grant).
Stephanie Erickson, PhD Student (English). QME Research Assistant (funded by Peter
Cockett at McMaster).
Sarah Fowler, BA Honours Student (English). Encoder-Editor of Galathea (1592 and 1632). Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award student.
Mahayla Galliford, BAH Student (English and
Gender Studies). Remediator and Encoder (funded by SSHRC Insight Grant).
Navarra Houldin, Project Manager and Training Lead. Lead Remediator and Encoder (funded by SSHRC
Insight Grant and donations to LEMDO).
Ruby Lautermilch, HUMA 180 Intern.
Isabella Seales, Remediator and MoMS Encoder (funded by SSHRCʼs Undergraduate Student Research Award
and SSHRC Insight Grant to MoEML).
Summer 2023
Rylyn Christensen, BA Student (English). Remediator and Encoder.
Mahayla Galliford, BAH Student (English and
Gender Studies). Remediator and Encoder.
Rowan Grayson, Mitacs Globalink Research Intern.
Navarra Houldin. Project Manager and Training Lead. Lead Remediator and
Encoder. Grant Co-Writer.
Samara Chowdhury, Jepson School of Leadership, University of Richmond
Rachael Ruth, University of Richmond.
Chris Mitchell, Arts and Sciences Summer Research Fellowship, University of Richmond.
Rae Rostron, Mitacs Globalink Research Intern.
Ada Souchu, Mitacs Globalink Research Intern.
Sofia Spiteri, VKURA Student and Junior Editor.
Bryan Valdes, University of Richmond.
Spring 2023
Rylyn Christensen, BA Student (English). Remediator and Encoder (Workstudy Program).
Mahayla Galliford, BAH Student (English and
Gender Studies). JCURA Student. Remediator and Encoder.
Navarra Houldin. Project Manager and Training Lead. Lead Remediator and
Encoder.
2022
Nicole Vatcher, BAH (English and
Professional Communication). Technical Documentation Writer, Encoder,
Remediating Editor, and Project Manager (January to October).
Navarra Houldin, BAH Student until April
(History and Spanish), LEMDO Staff (May to December). Remediator and
Encoder. Project Manager and Technical Documentation Writer (October to
December).
Mahayla Galliford, BAH Student (English and
Gender Studies). Remediator and Encoder.
Amogha Lakshmi Halepuram Sridhar, BAH
Student (English). Junior Editor (January to March).
Kim Shortreed. PhD Candidate. Conversion
Editor (May to July).
2021
Tracey El Hajj, PhD. Research Associate
(January to June).
Kate LeBere, BAH. Project Manager (January
to July).
Josiah Snell, BAH Student (English).
Remediator and Encoder.
Nicole Vatcher, BAH Student (English and
Professional Communication). Technical Documentation Writer; Encoder;
Remediating Editor; Project Manager (August to December).
Adrianne Jenks, MA Student (English). RA for
Dr. Erin Kelly.
Navarra Houldin, BAH Student (History and
Spanish). Remediator and Encoder.
Mahayla Galliford, BAH Student (English and
Gender Studies). Remediator and Encoder.
Amogha Lakshmi Halepuram Sridhar, BAH
Student (English). Junior Editor (September to December).
Peyton Gust. HUMA 180 Practicum
Student.
Kathryn Lee. HUMA 180 Practicum
Student.
Aubrey Phibbs. HUMA 180 Practicum
Student.
Matt Barnes. RA for Dr. Kristin Bezio at
University of Richmond.
Sien Barnett. RA for Dr. Melissa Walter at
University of the Fraser Valley.
Kim Shortreed. PhD Candidate. Conversion
Editor.
2020
Tracey El Hajj, PhD Candidate (English). Junior Programmer
Christopher Horne, BAH Student (English). Remediating Editor
Ashley Howard, MA Student (English). Remediating Editor
Kate LeBere, BAH Student (English and History). Assistant Project Manager;
Remediating Editor
Ryann McQuarrie-Salik, MA Student (English). Project Manager;
Designer
Josiah Snell, BAH Student (English). Remediator and Encoder.
Nicole Vatcher, BAH Student (English and Professional Communication).
Technical Documentation Writer; Encoder; Remediating Editor
2019
Tracey El Hajj, PhD Candidate (English). Junior Programmer
Christopher Horne, BAH Student (English). Remediating Editor
Ashley Howard, MA Student (English). Remediating Editor
Kate LeBere, BAH Student (English and History). Assistant Project Manager;
Remediating Editor
Joey Takeda, MA Student (English; UBC). Lead Programmer
Kathryn Tanigawa, PhD Student (English). Project Manager; Grant
Co-Writer
2018
Ashley Howard, MA Student (English). Remediating Editor
Jodi Litvin. Digital Publishing Assistant.
Joey Takeda, MA Student (English; UBC). Lead Programmer
Kathryn Tanigawa, PhD Student (English). Project Manager; Grant Co-Writer
Challen Wright, BA Student (English; University of Nevada at Reno). Remediating Editor
2017
Jasmeen Boparai, BA Student (English). Records Manager.
Ashley Howard, MA Student (English). Remediating Editor
Jodi Litvin. Digital Publishing Assistant.
Joey Takeda, MA Student (English; UBC). Lead Programmer
Kathryn Tanigawa, PhD Student (English). Project Manager; Grant Co-Writer
Challen Wright, BA Student (English; University of Nevada at Reno). Remediating Editor
Prosopography
Ada Souchu
Ada Souchu is an MA student at Sorbonne Université in Early Modern English literature.
After a BA in Classics in 2021, they are currently doing an MA on Latin and Greek
sources in Early Modern theatre. They are a junior transcriber on the Douai Shakespeare
Manuscript Project.
Adrianne Jenks
Amogha Lakshmi Halepuram Sridhar
Research Assistant, 2021–2023. Amogha Lakshmi Halepuram Sridhar is a fourth-year student
at University of Victoria, studying English and History. Her research interests include
Early Modern Theatre and adaptations, water pageantry, decolonialist writing, and
Modernist poetry.
Ashley Howard
Ashley Howard took her MA in Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the
University of Victoria (2017–2020). During that time, she was a
Remediating Editor for LEMDO. For her MA thesis, she prepared the first
born-LEMDO edition, a critical edition of Ralph Knevet’s Rhodon and Iris.
Audrey Phibbs
Bryan Valdes
Challen Wright
Chris Horne
Christopher Mitchell
Intern at the University of Richmond, Summer 2023.
Isabella Seales
Isabella Seales is a fourth year undergraduate completing her Bachelor of Arts in
English at the University of Victoria. She has a special interest in Renaissance and
Metaphysical Literature. She is assisting Dr. Jenstad with the MoEML Mayoral Shows
anthology as part of the Undergraduate Student Research Award program.
Janelle Jenstad
Janelle Jenstad is a Professor of English at the University of
Victoria, Director of The Map
of Early Modern London, and Director of Linked Early Modern Drama
Online. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she
co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old
Words, New Tools (Routledge). She has edited John Stow’s
A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML
and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice
(with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not
Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in
Digital Humanities Quarterly, Elizabethan Theatre, Early Modern
Literary Studies, Shakespeare
Bulletin, Renaissance and
Reformation, and The Journal of Medieval
and Early Modern Studies. She contributed chapters to Approaches to Teaching Othello (MLA); Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives
(MLA); Institutional Culture in Early Modern
England (Brill); Shakespeare, Language, and
the Stage (Arden); Performing Maternity in
Early Modern England (Ashgate); New
Directions in the Geohumanities (Routledge); Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter);
Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating
Gazetteers (Indiana); Making Things and
Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota); Rethinking
Shakespeare Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital
Technologies (Routledge); and Civic
Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern
London (Routledge). For more details, see janellejenstad.com.
Jasmeen Boparai
Jodi Litvin
Joey Takeda
Joey Takeda is LEMDO’s Consulting Programmer and Designer, a role he
assumed in 2020 after three years as the Lead Developer on
LEMDO.
Josiah Snell
Kate LeBere
Project Manager, 2020–2021. Assistant Project Manager, 2019–2020. Textual Remediator
and Encoder, 2019–2021. Kate LeBere completed her BA (Hons.) in History and English
at the University of Victoria in 2020. During her degree she published papers in The Corvette (2018), The Albatross (2019), and PLVS VLTRA (2020) and presented at the English Undergraduate Conference (2019), Qualicum History
Conference (2020), and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute’s Project Management
in the Humanities Conference (2021). While her primary research focus was sixteenth
and seventeenth century England, she completed her honours thesis on Soviet ballet
during the Russian Cultural Revolution. She is currently a student at the University
of British Columbia’s iSchool, working on her masters in library and information science.
Kathryn Lee
Kathryn Tanigawa
Kim Shortreed
Kim is a PhD Candidate in Media Studies and Digital Humanities, through UVicʼs English
Department. Kim has worked for years in TEI and XML, mostly through the Colonial Despatches
website, and in a number of roles, including technical editor, research and markup,
writing and editing, documentation, and project management. Recently, Kim worked with
a team of Indigenous students to find ways to decolonize the Despatches projectʼs content and encoding practices. Part of Kimʼs dissertation
project, Contracolonial Practices in Salish Sea Namescapes, is to prototype a haptic map, a motion-activated topography installation that plays audio clips of spoken toponyms,
in SENĆOŦEN and English, of the W̱SÁNEĆ Territory/Saanich Peninsula, respectively.
Mahayla Galliford
Research assistant, remediator, encoder, 2021–present. Mahayla Galliford is a fourth-year
student in the English Honours and Humanities Scholars programs at the University
of Victoria. She researches early modern drama and her Jamie Cassels Undergraduate
Research Award project focused on approaches to encoding early modern stage directions.
Martin Holmes
Martin Holmes has worked as a developer in the
UVicʼs Humanities Computing and Media Centre for
over two decades, and has been involved with dozens
of Digital Humanities projects. He has served on
the TEI Technical Council and as Managing Editor of
the Journal of the TEI. He took over from Joey Takeda as
lead developer on LEMDO in 2020. He is a collaborator on
the SSHRC Partnership Grant led by Janelle Jenstad.
Matthew Barnes
Matt Barnes is completing his Bachelor of Arts in Leadership Studies and Computer
Science at the University of Richmond. He is the Encoder on Kristin Bezio’s edition
of the 1609 Lord Mayor’s Show.
Navarra Houldin
Project manager 2022–present. Textual remediator 2021–present. Navarra Houldin (they/them)
completed their BA in History and Spanish at the University of Victoria in 2022. During
their degree, they worked as a teaching assistant with the University of Victoriaʼs
Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies. Their primary research was on gender and
sexuality in early modern Europe and Latin America.
Nicole Vatcher
Technical Documentation Writer, 2020–2022. Nicole Vatcher completed her BA (Hons.)
in English at the University of Victoria in 2021. Her primary research focus was womenʼs
writing in the modernist period.
Peyton Gust
Pia Needham
Pia
Needham
Rachael Ruth
Rachael Ruth is completing her Bachelor of Arts in Leadership Studies and French Studies
with a minor in Business Administrations at the University of Richmond. She is an
intern under Janelle Jenstad and is an Encoder of the MoEML Mayoral Shows anthology.
Rae S. Rostron
Rae is studying a BA in English Literature at Durham University. She is particularly
interested in representations of grief and trauma in literature and is currently researching
femicide in the novel. Rae has interned for Creative Media Agency (NYC) and is an
acting student researcher for King College Londonʼs Psychology Department exploring
loneliness in students.
Rowan Grayson
Rowan is a BA and MA student in English and Latin American Studies at UNC Charlotte
working on his masterʼs thesis, a comparative study of the intersections of gender,
sexuality, and race in Brazilian and Dominican science fiction novels. He is currently
a Mitacs Research Intern with LEMDO at UVic.
Ruby Lautermilch
Ruby Lautermilch is a first year student attending University of Victoria, majoring
in English. She worked on Measure for Measure at LEMDO remediating semi-diplomatic transcriptions for the HUMA 180 class.
Ryann McQuarrie-Salik
Rylyn Christensen
Rylyn Christensen is an English major at the University of Victoria.
Samara Chowdhury
Sam Chowdhury is a junior at The University of Richmond. She is majoring in Leadership
Studies, Political Science, and English. She is a new research assistant and encoder
for the MoEML Mayoral Shows anthology, and working with Dr. Bezio.
Sarah Fowler
Sarah Fowler is a fourth-year undergraduate student in the English Honours program
at the University of Victoria. She is encoding the early editions of Gallathea as a part of her work for the Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Project under
Janelle Jenstad.
Seun Akintola
Seun Akintola is a first year student planning to major in English at University of
Victoria. She spent her time at LEMDO remediating semi-diplomatic transcriptions for
a HUMA 180 class.
Sien Barnett
Sofia Spiteri
Sofia Spiteri is currently completing her Bachelor of Arts in History at the University
of Victoria. During the summer of 2023, she had the opportunity to work with LEMDO
as a recipient of the Valerie Kuehne Undergraduate Research Award (VKURA). Her work
with LEMDO primarily includes semi-diplomatic transcriptions for The Winterʼs Tale and Mucedorus.
Sofia Wilson
Tracey El Hajj
Junior Programmer 2019–2020. Research Associate 2020–2021. Tracey received her PhD
from the Department of English at the University of Victoria in the field of Science
and Technology Studies. Her research focuses on the algorhythmics of networked communications. She was a 2019–2020 President’s Fellow in Research-Enriched
Teaching at UVic, where she taught an advanced course on
Artificial Intelligence and Everyday Life.Tracey was also a member of the Map of Early Modern London team, between 2018 and 2021. Between 2020 and 2021, she was a fellow in residence at the Praxis Studio for Comparative Media Studies, where she investigated the relationships between artificial intelligence, creativity, health, and justice. As of July 2021, Tracey has moved into the alt-ac world for a term position, while also teaching in the English Department at the University of Victoria.
Orgography
LEMDO Team (LEMD1)
The LEMDO Team is based at the University of Victoria and normally comprises the project
director, the lead developer, project manager, junior developers(s), remediators,
encoders, and remediating editors.
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| Authority title | Student and Early Career Team Members |
| Type of text | About |
| Short title | ECRs |
| Publisher | University of Victoria on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online Platform |
| Series | Linked Early Modern Drama Online |
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Born-digital page written and maintained by Janelle Jenstad for publication in the LEMDO 1.0 anthology
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| Edition | Released with Linked Early Modern Drama Online 1.0 |
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LEMDO TeamThe LEMDO Team is based at the University of Victoria and normally comprises the project
director, the lead developer, project manager, junior developers(s), remediators,
encoders, and remediating editors.
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| Document status | TEI_proofing |
| Funder(s) | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada |
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