Emily J. Rau is an Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities and the Editor of the Willa Cather Archive at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is a Fellow in the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she recently completed her PhD in American Literature. Her dissertation, "Jumping the Tracks: The Railroad in American Literature," explored the intervention of the transcontinental railroad in conceptions of space, place, race, class, identity, and community. She serves as the assistant editor and managing director of the NEH-funded digital scholarly edition The Complete Letters of Willa Cather.

Tracy Fernandez Rysavy is a Teaching Professor in English literature; creative writing; and women's, gender, & sexuality studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. She is also a Ph.D. candidate in Literature and Criticism in Indiana University of Pennsylvania's summers-only program. Her research focus is on contemporary multiethnic women's literature, especially gothic literature, through race, feminist, and postcolonial critical lenses. Prior to shifting to academia, she was the editor-in-chief of a nonprofit magazine focused on social justice and environmental sustainability. She is currently working on a teaching fellowship with the Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium, and her academic work has been or will soon be published in Victoriographies, Feminist Pedagogy Journal, and American Gothic Studies Journal.

Jeannette Schollaert studies abortion storytelling, herbal medicine, and plant knowledge in American fiction from the 19th-century to the present. She earned her Ph.D. in English and a Graduate Certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park in May 2023. Currently, she is the Outreach and Engagement Librarian in Special Collections at the University of Maryland Libraries. Prior to this role, she served as Project Manager for the Mellon-funded “Poetry as Activism” project at the University of Delaware Library, Museums & Press. She is the former Project Manager for the Dickinson Electronic Archives, where she designed and ran a digital humanities internship and created syllabi "encouraging students to interrogate the role of recovery, memory, and archives in American women’s literature, and how we might push against the very categories of such a course framework."

Margaret Smith is Research Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities in the IRIS Center at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and a historian of medieval and early modern Ireland. She contributes to the Center’s projects in a number of capacities, including digital humanities teaching and training, project development, grant-writing, and community engagement. Prior to joining SIUE, she worked in digitization at the Barack Obama Presidential Library (2019-2021), where she served as the local lead for the Social Networks and Archival Contexts project. In addition to publications on medieval and early modern Irish history, she has also written instructional materials for SNAC and written and presented on digital humanities tools and projects.

Karin Dalziel is the Digital Resources Designer & Developer in the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. As the manager of the CDRH development team, Dalziel leads the technical aspects of most CDRH projects, and specializes in design, web standards, encoding systems, XSLT, and creating attractive, accessible, and usable websites. Presentations include topics such as web development, web design, and digital humanities at venues such as Digital Humanities, the Nebraska Library Association, and Open Repositories. Dalziel was the co-Director of the NEH funded project Revitalizing & Enhancing the Open Source 3D WebGIS of MayaArch3D and has been a major contributor to many other grants, including the Walt Whitman Archive Infrastructure Revitalization grant and Keeping Data Alive. During their time at the CDRH, Dalziel has directed the creation of a publication system that is data driven, which they presented at Digital Humanities 2018. Dalziel oversaw the creation and publication of many data sets for the CDRH and continues to push for more open access to data wherever possible. Dalziel received a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Master’s in Library Science from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Melissa J. Homestead, Professor of English and program faculty in Women’s & Gender Studies and Director of the Cather Project at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, focuses her teaching and scholarship on American women’s writing and authorship from the early republic through the early twentieth century. She is the author of American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869 (2005) and The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis (2021) and is co-editor of Clarence: A Tale of Our Own Times (1830) by Catharine Sedgwick (2011) and E.D.E.N Southworth: Recovering a Popular Novelist (2012). She also serves as Associate Editor of the ongoing NEH-funded digital scholarly edition The Complete Letters of Willa Cather.

Kristen Lillvis is the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Metro State University. Formerly, she was the Mary Alice Muellerleile Endowed Chair in English at St. Catherine University. She is the author of Posthuman Blackness and the Black Female Imagination (2017) and the co-editor of Community Boundaries and Border Crossings: Critical Essays on Ethnic Women Writers (2016). Her research and teaching examine diverse identities in electronic literature. Her community mapping project, Movable: Narratives of Recovery and Place, has received over $200,000 in grant funding to support students and community leaders in digitally mapping nonfiction, poetry, interviews, and multimedia art on the topic of recovery in Appalachia and beyond.

Alice Martin recently earned her Ph.D. at Rutgers University, studying nineteenth century American women’s manuscript culture. She has presented her work at MLA, C-19, INCS, and ALA, amongst others. Her dissertation project is on the ways in which women writers in nineteenth-century America turned toward manuscript-based writing—despite the rapid growth of print—to develop scales of limited social publics that complicate the binary of public/private and conceptualize writing itself as a form social mediation.