Revision of The WST Team from Thu, 03/07/2013 - 02:11
Primary Developers
Benjamin Miller is an Instructional Technology Fellow at Macaulay Honors College, CUNY, and a Ph.D. candidate in the English Program of The Graduate Center, CUNY, where he has completed all requirements for the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy certificate program. His dissertation uses distant reading techniques to examine the dynamics of research- and discourse-communities within recent doctoral-level scholarship in composition and rhetoric / writing studies. A founding editor of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy and a founding member of the WPA Metropolitan Affiliate (for which he serves as Secretary), Ben received the 2012 Chairs' Memorial Scholarship from the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), in part for his work on the initial prototype of the Writing Studies Tree; he also received a competitive travel grant from the Writing Program Administrators Graduate Organization (WPA-GO) in 2011. Ben is also co-chair of the Creative Writing SIG at CCCC; his first collection of poems is forthcoming from Four Way Books. He has taught writing courses at Hunter College and Columbia University.
Amanda Licastro is currently in her third year of doctoral studies in the English Program at The Graduate Center, CUNY, focusing on the relationship between technological progress and writing, and will be completing her certificate in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy this year. Amanda has worked as an adjunct professor in both northeastern Pennsylvania and New York City, and this year she will began her work as a Macaulay Honors College Instructional Technology Fellow at Brooklyn College. Amanda also serves on the editorial collective of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy≥ and is the co-chair of the Graduate Center Composition and Rhetoric Community. Amanda has participated in digital humanities and writing studies scholarship at the national level through her attendance at conferences such as Digital Humanities ’09, Digging into Data, THATcamp New England, the Conference on College Composition and Communication (including a presentation delivered as part of the Computer Connection at CCCC, otherwise known as 7Cs), the Modern Language Association conference, the Writing Program Administrator’s conference, as well also local conferences on teaching and technology at CUNY. Amanda also received scholarships to attend the Digital Humanities Summer and Winter Institutes through funding from the ACH, GCDI, and the NINES project.
Jill Belli, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of English at New York City College of Technology, CUNY, where she teaches writing and literature courses and serves on the committee for the college’s forthcoming Bachelor’s of Science degree in Professional and Technical Writing. She earned her Ph.D. in English from The Graduate Center, CUNY along with doctoral certificates in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy and American Studies. Jill is a former Instructional Technology Fellow at Macaulay Honors College, CUNY, a founding member of the CUNY-Wide Composition and Rhetoric Community (CCRC), and the current web developer for the North American Society for Utopian Studies. Her current research centers on connections among composition and rhetoric, digital humanities, positive psychology/happiness studies, utopian studies, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Matthew Miller is currently a dual master’s candidate in Information Science and History of Art at the Pratt Institute. He has presented projects at the International Dublin Core Conference (DCMI), Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) and ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Matt has worked on a number of projects including IMLS funded Project CHART and is currently the lead developer for the Linked Jazz project (http://linkedjazz.org/). Previously Matt has worked as a web developer for the Ohio State University and has ten years’ experience designing, building and implementing web applications. Matt also assisted in creating the visualizations for the WST.
Past Team Members
Diana Epelbaum, Chris Leary, Erica Kaufman, Andrew Statum, Lisa Vaia, and Dominique Zino
Project Advisors
Matthew K. Gold, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of English at New York City College of
Technology. At The Graduate Center, CUNY, he serves as Advisor to the Provost for Master’s Programs and Digital Initiatives and Acting Executive Officer of the M.A. Program in Liberal Studies (MALS), and he is a faculty member in both the MALS Program and the Doctoral Certificate Program in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. He serves as Director of the GC Digital Scholarship Lab, Director of the CUNY Academic Commons, Co-Director of the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative, and Director of the “Looking for Whitman” project. He is editor of Debates in the Digital Humanities (Minnesota, 2012) and has published work in The Journal of Modern Literature, Kairos, and A to >A<: Keywords of Markup (Minnesota, 2010), (iDC, 2010), and the forthcoming collections
Sondra Perl, Ph.D., is Professor of English at Lehman College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, where she coordinates the composition and rhetoric area group within the English Ph.D. program and is a founding member of the CUNY-Wide Composition and Rhetoric Community. An acclaimed teacher and a Guggenheim Fellow, Dr. Perl lectures widely on topics related to the teaching of writing and most recently on the importance of bringing digital technology into the composition classroom. A pioneer in early research on composing processes, Perl is now studying how composing changes when new media are introduced. Her most recent work involves digital storytelling with freshmen in the Macaulay Honors College at CUNY, and her newly revised textbook,
