Student and Early Career Team Members
Para1Students and early career researchers are/were based at the University of Victoria
unless otherwise indicated.
Fall 2025
Oluwaseun Akintola, BA Honours Student (English). Research Assistant and Encoder.
Julia Barry, HUMA 180 Intern.
Abby Flight, MA Student (English). Research Assistant and Encoder.
Mahayla Galliford, MA Student (English). Project Manager.
Navarra Houldin, MA Student (Gender and Social Justice Studies, with a specialization in Digital
Humanities, University of Alberta). Training and Documentation Lead.
Si Micari-Lawless, BA Student (English). Research Assistant and Encoder.
Sofia Spiteri, BA Honours Student (Pacific and Asian Studies). Senior Research Assistant and Encoder.
Sam Seaberg, BA Honours Student (English). Research Assistant and Encoder.
Zachary Sedgman, MA Student (English). Research Assistant and Encoder.
Svea Young, HUMA 180 Intern.
Summer 2025
Oluwaseun Akintola, BA Honours Student (English). Remediator and Encoder. SSHRC Undergraduate Student
Research Award holder; Jean E. Howard Research Award holder.
Nora Cahill, Intern from Jepson School of Leadership, University of Richmond.
Abby Flight, MA Student (English). Remediator and Encoder.
Mahayla Galliford, MA Student (English). Senior Encoder.
Leah Hamby (Utah Valley University) .Mitacs Globalink Research Intern.
Navarra Houldin, Project Manager and Training Lead. Lead Remediator and Encoder.
Si Micari-Lawless, BA Student (English). Remediator and Encoder.
Chloe Mee, BA Honours Student (English). Remediator and Encoder.
Sofia Spiteri, BA Honours Student (Pacific and Asian Studies). Remediator and Encoder.
Sam Seaberg, BA Honours Student (English). Junior Editor. Valerie Kuehne Undergraduate Research
Award holder.
Spring 2025
Oluwaseun Akintola, BA Honours Student (English). Remediator and Encoder.
Abby Flight, MA Student (English). Remediator and Encoder.
Navarra Houldin, Project Manager and Training Lead. Lead Remediator and Encoder.
Sofia Spiteri, BA Honours Student (History). Remediator and Encoder.
Cameron Stirling, BA Honours Student (English). Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award holder.
Fall 2024
Oluwaseun Akintola, BA Honours Student (English). Remediator and Encoder.
Abby Flight, MA Student (English). Remediator and Encoder.
Mahayla Galliford, MA Student (English). Assistant Project Manager and Senior Encoder.
Navarra Houldin, Project Manager and Training Lead. Lead Remediator and Encoder.
Sam Seaberg. HUMA 180 Intern.
Sofia Spiteri, BA Honours Student (History). Remediator and Encoder.
Cameron Stirling, BA Honours Student (English). Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award holder.
Summer 2024
Oluwaseun Akintola, BA Student (English). Remediator and Encoder. SSHRC Undergraduate Student Research
Award holder.
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). Remediator and Encoder (funded by donations).
Fall 2023
Oluwaseun 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). 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. SSHRC Undergraduate Student Research Award holder (partially
funded by SSHRC Insight Grant to MoEML).
Summer 2023
Rylyn Christensen, BA Student (English). Remediator and Encoder.
Mahayla Galliford, BAH Student (English). 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, Intern from Jepson School of Leadership, University of Richmond
Rachael Ruth, Intern from Jepson School of Leadership, 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, Intern from Jepson School of Leadership, University of Richmond.
Spring 2023
Rylyn Christensen, BA Student (English). Remediator and Encoder (Workstudy Program).
Mahayla Galliford, BAH Student (English). 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). 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). 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
Abby Flight
Remediator and encoder, 2024–present. Abby Flight completed her BA in English at the
University of Victoria in 2024, and is now an MA student focusing on Medieval and
Early Modern Studies.
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
Cameron Stirling
Cameron Stirling is an English Honours student at the University of Victoria and the
holder of a 2024–2025 Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award.
Challen Wright
Chloe Mee
Chloe Mee (she/her) worked as a research assistant with the LEMDO team over several
periods from 2022 to 2025. She graduated from the University of Victoria in 2025 with
a BA (Hons with distinction) in English. She will be studying at the University of
British Columbia to complete her MA in English. Chloe collaborated with the LEMDO
team on a VKURA internship in summer 2022, mainly focusing on Hamlet quartos. Following
her internship, she also worked as a research assistant in 2022–23 and 2025.
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
Julia Barry
HUMA 180 Intern 2025
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 UVic’s 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 project’s content and encoding practices. Part of Kim’s 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.
Kirsten Cawdell
Remediator and Encoder 2023. Kirsten Cawdell is working towards her BA (Hons.) in
Humanities at the University of Victoria. She transcribed Scene One from Shakespeare’s
play The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Leah Hamby
Leah Hamby is the primary encoder for the Early Modern England Encyclopedia. Aside from encoding, she also works as an editor for the project and contributed
several articles of her own. She has been working on the EMEE since February 2023. As of May 2025, she is a year from graduating with honours from
the Utah Valley University with a major in history and a minor in creative writing.
Her other work with the LEMDO program includes remediating William Kemp’s Kemp’s Nine Day’s Wonder for the Digital Renaissance Editions.
Mahayla Galliford
Project manager, 2025-present; research assistant, 2021-present. Mahayla Galliford
(she/her) graduated with a BA (Hons with distinction) from the University of Victoria
in 2024. Mahayla’s undergraduate research explored early modern stage directions and
civic water pageantry. Mahayla continues her studies through UVic’s English MA program
and her SSHRC-funded thesis project focuses on editing and encoding girls’ manuscripts,
specifically Lady Rachel Fane’s dramatic entertainments, in collaboration with LEMDO.
Martin Holmes
Martin Holmes has worked as a developer in the UVic’s 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
Training and Documentation Lead 2025–present. LEMDO project manager 2022–2025. Textual
remediator 2021–present. Navarra Houldin (they/them) completed their BA with a major
in history and minor in Spanish at the University of Victoria in 2022. Their primary
research was on gender and sexuality in early modern Europe and Latin America. They
are continuing their education through an MA program in Gender and Social Justice
Studies at the University of Alberta where they will specialize in Digital Humanities.
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 women’s
writing in the modernist period.
Nora Cahill
Oluwaseun Akintola
Oluwaseun Akintola is a student pursuing an English major and Psychology minor at
the University of Victoria. She has had the opportunity of working for LEMDO as the
recipient of the Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) from the Social Sciences
and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for the summers of 2024 and 2025.
Her research primarily focuses on premodern critical race theory in early modern drama,
researching racial representation, and constructions of identity in Shakespeare’s
plays Othello and The Merchant of Venice.
Peyton Gust
Pia Needham
Pia Needham is currently completing a BA in Philosophy at Durham University. In the
autumn she will start her final year of this where she will write her dissertation
on Platonic conceptions of love, beauty and the soul. Despite her academic background
being rooted in Philosophy, Pia is currently working as a Mitcas intern for LEMDO
over the summer and is focusing mainly on encoding the semi-diplomatic transcription
of King Lear.
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 London’s 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 master’s thesis, a comparative study of the intersections of gender,
sexuality, and race in Brazilian and Dominican science fiction novels. He was a Mitacs
Research Intern with LEMDO at UVic in 2023.
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.
Sam Seaberg
Samuel Seaberg, a University of Victoria English undergrad, enjoys riding his bike.
During the summer of 2025, he began working with LEMDO as a recipient of the Valerie
Kuehne Undergraduate Research Award (VKURA). Unfortunately, due to his summer being
spent primarily in working to establish an edition of Thomas Heywood’s If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody, Part 2 and consequently working out how to represent multi-text works in a digital space,
his bike has suffered severely of sheltered seclusion from the sun.
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.
Si Micari-Lawless
Si Micari-Lawless is a research assistant with LEMDO and MoEML, and an incoming fourth-year
English major at the University of Victoria.
Sien Barnett
Sien Barnett was a student at the University of Fraser Valley.
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 Winter’s Tale and Mucedorus.
Sofia Wilson
Sofia is a BA student and Mancuso scholar at Framingham State University in Massachusetts,
U.S.A. She is majoring in English and Political Science with a minor in Digital Humanities.
Her concentrations include writing and pre-law studies. She is currently a Mitacs
Research Intern with LEMDO.
Stephanie Erickson
Stephanie Erickson is a research assistant working out of McMaster University with
Dr. Peter Cockett. She is an encoder working on the Queen’s Men Editions.
Svea Young
HUMA 180 Intern 2025
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.
Zach Sedgman
Remediator and Encoder, 2025-present. Zach Sedgman completed his BA (hons) in English
at the University of Toronto in 2025 and is now an MA student at the University of
Victoria. His research focuses on Early Modern Literature (specifically Shakespeare,
Milton, and John Donne).
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.
Metadata
| Authority title | Student and Early Career Team Members |
| Type of text | About |
| Publisher | University of Victoria on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online Platform |
| Series | Linked Early Modern Drama Online |
| Source |
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 0.3. Updated and rereleased with LEMDO 0.4. |
| Sponsor(s) |
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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| Encoding description | Encoded in TEI P5 according to the LEMDO Customization and Encoding Guidelines |
| Document status | TEI_proofing |
| Funder(s) | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada |
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