Fred Moody

Fred Moody is program officer for libraries and scholarly communication at the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE). Previously, Mr. Moody served as Editor-in-Chief of Rice University Press, a digital academic publishing experiment operated at Rice University in 2007-10. His prior experience in the publishing industry spans nearly 35 years and includes editing, book production, writing, reporting, and research. After graduating with a degree in English Literature from Fairhaven College in 1972, then earning his master’s degree in Library and Information Science at the University of Michigan in 1975, Mr. Moody worked as a manuscript and acquisitions editor at Ardis Publishers, a University of Michigan-affiliated press that published works by suppressed Soviet writers in Russian and in English translation. Ardis also published Russian Literature Triquarterly, the leading journal of Russian literary studies at the time. Mr. Moody subsequently worked as a reporter and writer in the Pacific Northwest, chronicling the rise of Microsoft, Amazon, and assorted other high-technology companies during the Silicon Rush of the 1990s. He worked as a freelance writer, then a staff writer, news editor, and managing editor of the Seattle Weekly, eventually steering that publication onto the Internet. He also taught nonfiction writing at the University of Washington Extension from 1989 through 1992. Reporting during the 1980s and 1990s for the Seattle Weekly, abcnews.com, and various national magazines and newspapers, Mr. Moody wrote on such subjects as education, higher education, publishing, culture, professional and college sports, business, social issues, media, and technology. He began writing exclusively on technology in 1991, with a series of articles on the Microsoft Corporation. He started writing and publishing books on the technology industry and its effect on culture in 1994 with the publication of his I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier (Viking Penguin), which was a New York Times notable book that year. Since then, he has written, spoken, and consulted on technology issues extensively, focusing on the impact of technology on business, education, culture, and publishing. His other books include The Visionary Position (Random House/Times Books, 1999) and Seattle and the Demons of Ambition: A Love Story (St. Martin’s, 2003).

Suzanne Preston Blier

Research: The Art and History of Ancient Ife (Nigeria), Dahomey Amazons, Picasso's Demoiselles., GIS work: Africamap/Worldmap: Africamap.harvard.edu

Suzanne Preston Blier is the Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and of African and African Studies at Harvard University

Ryan Cordell

MLA, Association for Computers and Humanities, Council of Writing Program Administrators, Harriet Beecher Stowe Society, Poe Studies Association

Ryan Cordell is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing-Across-the-Curriculum at St. Norbert College. He is currently working on a digital edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story, "The Celestial Railroad," which can be found at http://celestialrailroad.org.

Dr. David Neville

Currently pursuing an interdisciplinary software development project that will program a 3D digital game-based learning environment for the teaching of the German language, vocabulary, and culture to beginning university students. Specifically, the team will develop a graphic adventure game requiring students to navigate a virtual German train station while meeting specific instructional goals such as purchasing a train ticket, locating the appropriate track, making sense of arrival and departure tables, and interacting with non-player characters (NPCs). The DigiBahn Project research blog can be found at http://digibahn.blogspot.com

David O. Neville is assistant professor of German Language and Literature and Director of Language Learning Technologies at Elon University. He holds a Ph.D. in German Language and Literature, with an emphasis in Medieval Studies, from Washington University in St. Louis, and a M.S. in Instructional Technology from Utah State University.

Kathryn Mathe

The Parallel Arcive (www.parallelarchive.org), Samizdat Text Corpora, Soros Network Archival Portal

Kathryn Mathe currently serves as an Information Officer at the Open Society Archives at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.