At Yale University, 2015-2021

I wore many hats as the Program Manager for Yale University’s Digital Humanities Lab, where I regularly consulted on technical projects, taught workshops on data analysis and visualization, and managed communications—from the Lab’s email and social media to copy for the websites and software we developed in-house. I was also a Lecturer in Yale’s Department of Statistics and Data Science, for which I taught a dual undergraduate- and graduate-level course on text and image mining. These roles helped inform how I present information in person and online as they brought me into direct contact with diverse users—their questions, constraints, and goals.

As the first hire for Yale's (then new) Digital Humanities Lab in 2015, I developed the Lab's voice from the very beginning as the Engagement and Outreach Manager. With Yale's overarching branding in mind, I prioritized clear, inclusive language to help people on and beyond campus learn about the field of digital humanities—what it is, why it’s of interest, and how to get involved. I wrote user guides and UX copy for Lab-developed software, tutorials for getting started with computational methods, policy statements that articulate the Lab's guiding principles and support models, promotional materials for our workshops and grant offerings, and yearly assessment reports on Lab activities for University leaders and external funders.

At University of Wisconsin-Madison

I received my PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I also completed a distributed minor that consisted of classes in Computer Science and Art History. My research brought together media studies, history of the book, and information history to think about old and new media in the Victorian period alongside challenges faced today with mass digitization and emerging technologies.