J.D. Porter

J.D. Porter received his PhD in English from Stanford University in 2017 and then worked as the Associate/Technical Director at the Stanford Literary Lab. He specializes in text mining, American modernism, and race and ethnicity theory, with occasional forays into jazz studies, network analysis, and ordinary language philosophy. His work has appeared in (or is slated to appear in) Episteme, Cultural Analytics, the pamphlet series of the Stanford Literary Lab, and the edited volumes Ralph Ellison in Context and The Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story.

Emily F. Brooks

Emily F. Brooks received her PhD in English and graduate certificate in digital humanities from the University of Florida in 2020 and has taught a variety of courses such as Coding for Humanists, Creativity and Design Thinking for Innovation, and Digital Media and Design for Communication for Coastal Carolina University, University of Florida, and University of Tampa. As her academic persona, the “makeademic,” she emphasizes experimentation to advance knowledge at the intersections of digital humanities, book history, pop culture, and design. She enjoys teaching others how to become makers using various forms of technology including microcontrollers, laser-cutters, 3D printers, augmented reality, and more to create prototypes that span the analog/digital divide. In 2016 her work on digitizing movable books was featured in The American Scholar, in 2018 she was an invited guest speaker at the Movable Book Society Conference and a NEH Summer Scholar, and recently she’s been published on pop-up books, digital fabrication, and physical computing in B is for Baldwin (2022), Keywords in Design Thinking (2022) and Keywords in Making (2024), respectively.