Pamella Lach
DH Librarian
Dr. Pamella Lach is the Digital Humanities Librarian at San Diego State University. Pam’s work explores how new and emerging technologies transform humanistic scholarship and pedagogy. Her areas of interest include data visualization, information retrieval, user experience design, and digital pedagogy. She is currently studying how folksonomy, or user-generated social tagging, can enhance and disrupt traditional authority-driven classification schemas. Pam is the Director of the Digital Humanities Center in the SDSU Library.
Jessica Pressman
English and Comparative Literature
Dr. Jessica Pressman is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University. She is the author of Bookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age (Columbia UP, 2020) and Digital Modernism: Making It New in New Media (Oxford UP, 2014), co-author, with Mark C. Marino and Jeremy Douglass, of Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone’s Project for Tachistocope {Bottomless Pit} (Iowa UP, 2015), and co-editor, with N. Katherine Hayles, of Comparative Textual Media: Transforming the Humanities in a Postprint Era (Minnesota UP, 2013). She is a recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). Her full CV can be found at www.jessicapressman.com.
Joanna Brooks
English and Comparative Literature
Dr. Joanna Brooks is the Associate Vice President of Faculty Affairs and a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University. She is a national voice on religion and American life and the author or editor of six books on race, gender, colonialism, and religion in American literature and culture. Her recent books include The Book of Mormon Girl:
A Memoir of An American Faith (Simon & Schuster, 2012), winner of the 2012 award in memoir from the Association of Mormon Letters, Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions (Oxford UP, 2012), and Why We Left: Untold Songs and Stories of America's First Immigrants (University of Minnesota, 2013). Her scholarship has been supported and honored with awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Association, and the Modern Language Association. She has appeared as a commentator or guest on NPR, MSNBC, and the Daily Show, and her writing has also appeared in the Washington Post, Huffington Post, Tablet, Salon, and ReligionDispatches.org. See more at joannabrooks.org.
Jessica Pressman
English and Comparative Literature
See bio above.
Directors and Founder plus:
Noah Arceneaux
Journalism and Media Studies
Mike Borgstrom
English and Comparative Literature
Marva Capello
Education
Clarissa Clò
European Studies
Gabriel Doyle
Linguistics
D.J. Hopkins
Theater, Film, Television
Pam Jackson
Library
William Nericcio
English and Comparative Literature
Nathian Rodriguez
Journalism and Media Studies
Sweta Sarkar
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mathias Schulze
European Studies
Eric Smigel
Music and Arts Alive
Ming-Hsiang Tsou
Geography
Chris Werry
Rhetoric & Writing Studies
April Anson
Classics and Humanities
Dani Bedau
Theatre, Television, and Film
David P. Cline
History
Anna Culbertson
Special Collections, Library
Lashon Daley
English and Comparative Literature
Raechel Dumas
History
Dustin Edwards
Rhetoric and Writing Studies
Blas Falconer
English & Comparative Literature
James Frazee
Chief Academic Technology Officer, Associate Vice President, Learning Technologies
Bridget Gilman
Art + Design
Jennifer Imazeki
Associate Vice President for Faculty and Staff Diversity
Risa Levitt
Religious Studies
Amira Jarmakani
Women's Studies
Sureshi M. Jayawardene
Africana Studies
Diana Leong
English & Comparative Literature
Mary Lyman-Hager
Language Acquisition Resource Center
Shelley Orr
Theater, Television, and Film
Beth Pollard
History
Daniel L. Reinholz
Center for Research in Mathematics and Science Education
Kylie Sago
European Studies
Linda Salem
Library
Amy Schmitz Weiss
Journalism and Media Studies
Sam Shpigelman
Art + Design
André Skupin
Geography
Ricardo Vasconcelos
Spanish and Portuguese
Jess Whatcott
Women's Studies
David Wallace-Hare
Classics and Humanities
David Wallace-Hare is a Roman social, economic, and environmental historian and epigrapher. Since 2018, he has been an investigator on the HESPERIA: Palaeohispanic Languages Data Bank, an ongoing epigraphic project at the Universidad del País Vasco. At SDSU, David will carry out an investigation of bee forage plants mentioned in Late Antique and medieval textual sources from the Visigothic Kingdom and al-Andalus. His work provides a vehicle for applying historical data concerning bee forage plants to the current environment, healing the future with the past by recreating more stable ecosystems for bees through tailored replanting of historical bee forage plants. A long-term goal of this work is to create a global historical bee-forage database to allow individuals and communities to keep bees more sustainably based on models from the past.
Brent Ameneyro
DH E-lit Programs Assistant
Brent Ameneyro is an MFA poetry student in his final semester. During his time at SDSU, he has been the recipient of the following awards: 2019 Sarah B. Marsh Rebelo Excellence in Poetry Scholarship, 2020 San Miguel Poetry Week Fellowship, 2020 Master’s Research Scholarship, and the 2021 SRS Research Award for Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice. He will be working with the Digital Humanities team to strengthen the support of experimentation in poetry through Electronic Literature on campus and within the community. Visit Brent at BrentAmeneyro.com.
Harmit Chima
DH Programs Assistant
My first experience with Digital Humanities was in Dr. Jessica Pressman’s ENG 560: “Digital Literature” class (Spring 2020), where I created a digital final project that exposed me to the healing powers of digital humanities during a pandemic. I graduated with a major in Statistics from San Diego State University in 2020. I am now starting my MS in Big Data Analytics and plan to accentuate GIS through the digital humanities realm. I'm excited to be part of the DH@SDSU team!
Romain Delaville
DH Center Programs Specialist
Romain Delaville is the Digital Humanities Center Programs Specialist. He received his Ph.D. in French from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.S. in Software Development from Dominican University. Romain's experiences and training blend years in the classroom with hands-on expertise in application development. Prior to joining SDSU, he held several teaching positions at the University of Oxford, UC Irvine, Oberlin college, and the University of Chicago. His research on postcolonial studies, critical race theory, and the intersection of literature and visual technologies has appeared in such journals as Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: SITES, and earned him the “recherche au présent” award.
If you are interested in joining our Affiliate Faculty, please email us! digitalhumanities@sdsu.edu.