Dr. Jerome McGann

Jerome McGann, University Professor at the University of Virginia, is involved in these things because he wants to know what Whitman said he knew: the meaning of all poems.

Dr. Bethany Nowviskie

Bethany Nowviskie conceived and designed the software that powers NINES and she manages the Collex and NINES projects. She is Design Editor of the Rossetti Archive and was a founding member of SpecLab. She puts her stuff here.

Dana Wheeles

Imaging and XSLT consultant Dana Wheeles is a doctoral candidate in nineteenth-century art history at the University of Virginia.

Erik Hatcher

Erik Hatcher brings a content-management mindset to the ARP team, as well as expertise in web application development and search engine technologies. He co-authored two books, Java Development with Ant and Lucene in Action, and has written several articles. Erik blogs on occasion.

Contractors:

Nick Laiacona

Nick Laiacona is the principal software developer of Performant Software Solutions. Nick has been developing software professionally for over twelve years and has a background in the computer game industry. While at ARP, he was lead programmer on the Juxta and Ivanhoe projects, on which he now consults.

Jamie Orchard-Hays

Collex developer Jamie Orchard-Hays has developed Web applications since the mid-nineties. He's delivered three presentations about Ruby on Rails in Charlottesville and is very active in the local Ruby community.

Cortlandt Schoonover

Cort Schoonover is an undergraduate computer science major at the University of Virginia. He participated in Juxta development during an internship with Nick Laiacona.

Past Contributors:

Ben Cummings

Ben Cummings worked with us as an undergraduate Media Studies major at the University of Virginia, doing software development in Java for the IVANHOE project.

Dr. Johanna Drucker

Johanna Drucker has written and published widely on topics related to the history of the book, typography, visual poetry, and visual art. She is the Robertson Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. Her book, Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity, is forthcoming from University of Chicago Press.

Louis Foster

Lou Foster is a Software Engineer specializing in Object-Oriented development using Java and C++. He received a BS in Computer Science from the Pennsylvania State University in 1992.

Duane Gran

Duane Gran was ARP's former project manager. He advised developers on software design and formalized requirements for new software for various academic stake holders at the University.

William J. Hughes

William J. Hughes is a graduate student at the University of Virginia. He worked at the Rossetti Archive as project manager and used XML and XSLT skills learned there to help ARP. His research interests include textual scholarship and the editing of Donne, Spenser, and Shakespeare.

Dr. Andrea Laue

Andrea Laue worked with us while she was a graduate student at U. of Virginia. She taught in the Media Studies program and was the technical editor for The William Blake Archive. Her research interests include narratology, cognitive poetics, textual studies, digital media, and information visualization.

Nathan Piazza

Nathan Piazza came to ARP from ITC's Advanced Technology Group at University of Virginia. His experience is in web application development, human-computer interaction, and multimedia. He has an MA in American Studies from UVA.