Kerwin Holmes, Jr.

Jack W. Chen works on early and medieval Chinese literature and thought, with a focus on poetry, poetics, and anecdotal writings.  He is the author of The Poetics of Sovereignty: On Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty (2010) and Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance: Essays on the Shishuo xinyu (2021), as well as co-editor of Idle Talk: Gossip and Anecdote in Traditional China (2013) and Literary Information in China: A History (2021).

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Media Studies where I specialize in technology, culture, and communication. My recent research and teaching examines alternative histories of the internet and the politics of amateur innovation. I'm particularly excited about the challenges posed by ephemeral, distributed, and commercial communication systems such as dial-up BBSs, CB radio, and commercial online services like CompuServe and America On-Line.

I am also a member of the Faculty Advisory Committee for the DH Certificate.

Emma Dove is a doctoral candidate in Art History at the University of Virginia studying with Dr. Eric Ramírez-Weaver. Her dissertation, “Distributed Gender in Franco-Flemish Books of Hours: Conception, Compassion, and Cultivating the Pious Family, 1440 – 1531,” brings together her interests in late-medieval prayer books, gender, spirituality, material culture, and the digital humanities.

Ethan is the Director of Data Science at the American Numismatic Society.

PhD student in Spanish studying the cultural production of Catholic religious orders

Associate Professor in English at University of Virginia.  ¶ Research in eighteenth-century literature and the digital humanities ¶ Fascinated by literary form, intellectual history, distant reading, and commonplace books ¶ Composed a dictionary of metaphors of mind that digests and analyzes examples collected in the database The Mind is a Metaphor (http://metaphorized.net) ¶ New projects are concerned with soliloquy, poetic diction, puzzles, and citation.