Sydney A. Lines

Ph.D., English Literature	University of British Columbia; in progress	2026
M.A., Creative Enterprise and Cultural Leadership	Arizona State University Applied project title: “Museum of the Urban Desert: Exploring the Cultural Life of a Desert City” Passed without revision	2018
M.A., English	Arizona State University Thesis title: “Norse Romanticism: Subversive Female Voices in British Invocations of Nordic Yore” Passed without revision	2013
B.A., Art (Museum Studies) Minor: Italian	Arizona State University Summa Cum Laude	2016
B.A., English Literature Minor: European History	Arizona State University Summa Cum Laude	2011
A.A., General Studies (honors)	Mesa Community College Highest Distinction	2009

International Exchange

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Teaching & Advising

2018 | Co-Instructor (Study Abroad)

ITA/SOS 494: Comparative Cultures of Sustainable Small-Scale Farming: From Maricopa County to Le Marche, Italy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Co-created 4-week study abroad farm practicum with Dr. Juliann Vitullo onsite in San Severino Marche, Italy. Facilitated multimedia projects; led student excursions and field trips.

2019-2023 | Teaching Assistant

ENGL 110: Approaches to English, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Facilitated tutorial discussions and lectures, designed and graded assignments, and assessed student performance.

• Winter 1, 2023: Dr. Mary Chapman, "Intertextuality"
• Winter 2, 2023: Dr. Suzy Anger, "Ghosts, the Fantastic, Science, and Literary Theory"
• Winter 2, 2022: Dr. Suzy Anger, "Ghosts, the Fantastic, Science, and Literary Theory"
• Winter 1, 2021: Dr. Miguel Mota, "Identity and Place"
• Winter 2, 2021: Dr. Suzy Anger, "Ghosts, the Fantastic, Science, and Literary Theory"
• Winter 2, 2020: Dr. Ira B. Nadel, "City Fictions"
• Winter 1, 2019: Dr. Tiffany Potter, "Shipwrecks and Big Questions"

2015 | Teaching Assistant (Study Abroad)

BIS 401/484: Italy Internship, Culture and Careers, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Co-facilitated 8-week study abroad course with Dr. David Thomas onsite in Florence and Milan, Italy. Facilitated in-class discussions and lectures, led student excursions and field trips, graded assignments, and performed evaluations. Mediated student issues during internship placements and coached students on professional etiquette and cross-cultural communication.

Professional Experience

2024-current | Project Manager

Digital Scholarship in Arts (DiSA), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Organized workshops on TEI-XML; consult on digital tools and methods; co-organized events/information gathering sessions to research digital needs of UBC community.

2024-current | Project Manager

Pop Culture Cluster (PopCC), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Co-organized the Games & Social Justice lecture series and managed hybrid online webinars; oversaw redevelopment of the PopCC website (in progress).

May - August 2024 | Digital Developer (full-time PhD Co-op)

Heritage Vancouver Society, Vancouver, BC
Developed and designed Kuwentong Pamamahay, a collaborative storytelling project that aims to create an accessible and resilient digital resource of stories representing an intersectional Filipino Canadian community approaching place and culture and working through the realities of what it means to make a home.

2019-2024 | Project Manager

Public Humanities Hub, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Served as full-time Program Manager, Strategic Initiatives (PhD Co-op) from Aug-Dec 2020 and again from Aug-Dec 2022 as coordinator of the Games in Action conference. I inaugurated the Hub’s annual report and strategic plan in consultation with Hub leadership; initiated and managed new public humanities partnership with Vancouver-based Brock House Society to co-develop continued learning opportunities for 55+ community; including a collaborative grant proposal to develop a digital literacy event series, media lending library, and media archive at Brock House. I managed the Hub website; co-organized the Oct 2020 virtual Digital Humanities conference COLLABORATE and designed the physical and online program for the conference; and created and managed the Hub Youtube channel, including video editing and closed captioning. I led the Hub’s Graduate Committee in conducting a student survey and final report with recommendations for UBC humanities departments and Hub programming; co-developed public scholarship series and associated toolkits on podcasting, curating exhibitions, wikipedia, infographics, and op-eds; created and launched online Humaniseries video campaign and new Scholar Spotlight series; and developed new Public Humanities Seed Grant program; co-created “Making Space” program and event series with Heritage Vancouver Society and Museum of Vancouver. I am also the acting Graduate Student Representative of the Hub steering committee.

2016-2018 | Project Coordinator

The Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
I split my appointment between Sustainability Connect, the Food Systems Transformation Initiative, and Executive and Professional Education Programs. For Sustainability Connect, I was the first point of contact for requests and inquiries regarding sustainability projects, and I helped coordinate the development of new projects and programming that connect students with applied projects in the community. I also assisted with strategic planning and overall direction of the initiative. I managed all digital assets, projects and presentations and contributed to new site content, news, success stories, and other engagement activities. For Food Systems, I assumed similar roles while also managing events and program planning on food systems issues and integrating arts and humanities into programming and grant/project proposals. I provided similar coordinator role support for Executive and Professional Education Programs in helping to plan and coordinate an international cohort of Chinese students for a two-week custom course in sustainability at ASU and the development of an online Canvas course on sustainability for business professionals.

2015-2016 | Event Coordinator

The Origins Project (defunct), Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
I planned and managed everything from the venue logistics to identifying leading experts and talent as well as guiding the thematic strategy and structure of event programming. On average, I planned and managed 4 large scale public events (up to 3000+ attendees), 5 private donor events, and 5 private student events per semester. I managed all volunteers and was the onsite event manager and backstage manager at showtime. I also managed all Origins Project social media accounts and social strategy. Events I planned and managed include individual guests Peter Singer, Hugh Downs, Johnny Depp, Aomawa Shields, and Mariette DiChristina; panels and topics included Evolving Ethics: Food, Sex, & Death; Einstein’s Legacy; and Political Bodies: Sex, Gender & Reproductive Rights. I co-won the 2016 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences “Best Overall Marketing Campaign” award for the Mariette DiChristina event.

2011-2015 | Communications Program Coordinator

LightWorks, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
I edited and contributed copy for web content and social media for an academic unit interested in energy, climate, and sustainability; devised and implemented an integrated online communications strategy and analyzed and reported metrics; designed and assisted with marketing materials and event planning. Coordinated the integration of humanities and sciences in key projects. Managed and mentored a small team of student social media/journalist assistants. Administrative Adviser for the Energy Club at ASU.

Research Experience

2018-current | Digital Project Manager, The Winnifred Eaton Artchive (WEA)

Department of English Language & Literatures, UBC, Vancouver, BC
Project manager of the WEA and July 2023 WEA conference Onoto Watanna’s Cattle at 100, managing and organizing all team tasks in Asana dashboard as well as onboarding and working with new and existing student workers. I also research the works of Asian North American author Winnifred Eaton and helped advise on and create the digital archive by encoding texts, locating facsimiles of works, and re-configuring existing project management tools for a collaborative team environment; tools used include GitHub, Oxygen XML, Google Docs, Asana, and TEI.

Fall 2015 | Independent Study

School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Independent research project directed by Professor Juliann Vitullo; created a prototype and digital map for a future digital database of Italian women writers from Conte Leopoldi’s Biblioteca Feminile Italiana(1842) to reveal and document receptions, biographies, and related ancillary items.

Spring/Fall 2015 | Curatorial Research Intern

ASU Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Intern under Associate Director/Sr. Curator Heather Lineberry and Artist/Professor Angela Ellsworth. Assisted with organizational strategy, project planning, grant writing, design, and research for Project WALK and the new Museum of Walking in Tempe.

Fall 2011 | Graduate Research Assistant

School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Assistant to Dr. Hilde Hoogenboom. Researched pre-nineteenth century Italian women writers referred to in Conte Leopoldi’s Biblioteca Feminile Italiana (1842) and included biographies, works, and receptions in Women Writers' Networks database. Provided Italian-to-English translations.

Museum & Gallery Experience

Curatorial Work & Exhibition Design

September 28-30, 2023 | Early Chinese in Montreal, Exhibition Designer

JIA Foundation CHINATOWN REIMAGINED FORUM II. Montreal, QC & Online.
Designed physical pop-up banners and larger online exhibit.

September 2017-July 2018 | Tatanka: Spirit and Sacrifice, Curator

Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Exhibited on various wall spaces throughout Wrigley Hall.

February 12-March 12, 2017 | Tatanka: Spirit and Sacrifice, Curator and Exhibition Designer

Phoenix Institute for Contemporary Art (phICA), Phoenix, AZ.
Nominated and invited to conceptualize and curate show through phICA's Emerging Curator Initiative. Exhibited in pop-up shipping container gallery for Roosevelt Row's First Fridays art walk in Downtown Phoenix. Archived in online exhibit.

April 15-29, 2016 | Tag Back: Redefining Local Street Art, Co-Organizer and Online Exhibition Designer

West Annex and Harry Wood Annex, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Final project of Gallery and Exhibitions class selected to be exhibited at end of term.

Gallery Work

January-April 2016 | Gallery Assistant

Gallery 100, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Assisted with setup and teardown of shows in Gallery 100, Harry Wood Gallery, and Step Gallery at Arizona State University; assisted with the exhibition design and installation of the Nathan Cummings and Radical Devotions student shows.

Publications

Peer-Reviewed

Articles

Takeda, Joey and Sydney Lines. "How We Came to Build the Winnifred Eaton Archive." Recasting Winnifred Eaton: New Approaches to Onoto Watanna, edited by Dominika Ferens, Shoshannah Ganz and Rena M. Heinrich, McGill-Queens UP, pp. 381-396. (Forthcoming)

Lines, Sydney and Joey Takeda. "Recovering a Future Artifact: The Winnifred Eaton Archive and a Genealogy of Care." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, vol. 40 no. 1, 2023, p. 233-244. Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.1353/leg.2023.a917946.

Edited Volumes

Diamond, Sara; Bushey, Jessica; Dowson, Rebecca; Hebbard, Paul; Lines, Sydney; Takeda, Joey (Eds.). Sharing Across Digital Archives. Digital Humanities Quarterly. (In progress)

Scholarly Reference

Chapman, Mary; Lines, Sydney; Rennert, Heidi. “Winnifred Eaton.” Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature. Ed. Paul Lauter. New York: Oxford University Press, 23 November 2021. DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199827251-0009.

Public Writing

Chapman, Mary and Sydney Lines. “The first Asian screenwriter in Hollywood’s 1920s ‘dream factory,’ Winnifred Eaton, challenged its racism. The Conversation Canada. 10 Apr. 2023. Web. https://theconversation.com/the-first-asian-screenwriter-in-hollywoods-1920s-dream-factory-winnifred-eaton-challenged-its-racism-202292.

• Republished in UBC Magazine as “Hollywood’s first Asian screenwriter, Winnifred Eaton, challenged its racism.” 13 Apr. 2023. Web. https://magazine.alumni.ubc.ca/2023/arts-humanities/hollywoods-first-asian-screenwriter-winnifred-eaton-challenged-its-racism

Lines, Sydney and Gabrielle Olson. “Connecting the Humanities and Sustainability: An Interview with Joni Adamson.” ASU LightWorks News. ASU LightWorks, 17 Feb. 2015. Web. https://sustainability-innovation.asu.edu/lightworks/news/archive/connecting-humanities-and-sustainability-interview-joni-adamson/.

• Cited in Busl, Gretchen.“Humanities Research is Groundbreaking, Life-Changing…and Ignored.” The Guardian. The Guardian, 19 Oct. 2015. Web. https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2015/oct/19/humanities-research-is-groundbreaking-life-changing-and-ignored

Lines, Sydney. “ASU students experience cutting-edge technology at Sandia National Lab.” ASU Now. ASU LightWorks, 27 May 2014. Web. https://news.asu.edu/content/asu-students-experience-cutting-edge-technology-sandia-national-lab.

ASU19C [Sydney Lines]. “Digitization and Humanities: Navigating e-Text and Using Social Media as a Scholarly Database.” NASSR Graduate Student Caucus Homepage. NASSR Graduate Student Caucus, 15 Nov. 2013. Web.

Lines, Sydney. “ASU researchers showcase energy technologies at Innovation Summit.” ASU Now. ASU LightWorks, 7 Mar. 2013. Web. https://news.asu.edu/content/asu-researchers-showcase-energy-technologies-innovation-summit.

---. “ASU group seeks to collaborate, construct interdisciplinary energy narrative.” ASU Now. ASU LightWorks, 14 Nov. 2012. Web. https://news.asu.edu/content/asu-groups-seek-collaborate-construct-interdisciplinary-energy-narrative.

Invited Talks & Presentations

“Using Digital Archives in the Classroom.” Co-panelist with Dr. Mary Chapman for the Recovery Hub for American Women Writers’ Spring 2024 Tech Hours, Southern Illinois U-Edwardsville, IL, February 27, 2024.

“Winnifred Eaton: Instrument of Salvage in Early Hollywood.” Co-presented with Dr. Mary Chapman at the Hollywood & the Asian American Imagination Symposium hosted by the University of Richmond, February 20, 2024.

“Performing Heritage: Winnifred Eaton and Romantic Re-Enactment at the Lake Windermere Gathering.” Presented at the Onoto Watanna’s Cattle at 100 conference, University of Calgary, July 27, 2023. Session: On Performance.

“An Introduction to the Winnifred Eaton Archive.” Co-presented with Joey Takeda at Onoto Watanna’s Cattle at 100, Calgary, AB, July 27-29, 2023. Session: The Winnifred Eaton Reeve Fonds.

“The Winnifred Eaton Archive.” Co-presented with Joey Takeda and Dr. Mary Chapman at the Antiracist Markup Symposium hosted by the Women Writers Project at Northeastern University, May 15, 2023.

“Revitalization and Creative Placemaking in Phoenix.” Presented at Forming Transatlantic Networks through the Creative Industries. Chapman University. Orange, CA June 6-8, 2017.

Conference Presentations

“Laura Goodman Salverson and The Making of an ‘Icelandic Canadian’." Presented at the Society for Scandinavian Studies Conference, Minneapolis, MN, April 24-26, 2025. Stream: Canadian Nordic Studies. Nominated for the Aurora Borealis Prize.

“Interlibrary Collaborations: Forging Antiracist, Decolonial, and Inclusive Markup Interventions in Partnership.” Co-presented with Joey Takeda at “Texts, Languages, and Communities,” TEI Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 7-11, 2024.

“‘Roll on, reels of celluloid, as the great earth rolls on!’: Preserving Early Hollywood Archives and Enacting Social Scholarship with The Winnifred Eaton Archive.” Co-presented with Joey Takeda (Simon Fraser U) and Leean Wu (U British Columbia) at Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) 2024 - Creative Approaches to Open Social Scholarship: Canada. Montreal, QC, June 17-18, 2024.

“The Saga of Whiteness in Laura Goodman Salverson’s North American Viking Novels.” Presented at the Society for Scandinavian Studies Conference, Seattle, WA, May 8-11, 2024. Session: Nordic Settler Experiences in North America IV.

“Lights, Camera, Slugline? Encoding Screenplays in TEI.” Co-authored with Joey Takeda at “Encoding Cultures” joint MEI/TEI Conference, Paderborn, Germany, September 4-8, 2023.

"The Winnifred Eaton Archive: Re-recovering Onoto Watanna." American Literature Association, Chicago, IL, May 26-29, 2022. Session: Unique Archives: Digital Projects and Preservation Outside the Canon Organized by the Digital Americanists society.

“Recovering Onoto Watanna: The Winnifred Eaton Archive.” Virtual C19: Dissent, Video Conference, October 16-18 + 23-25, 2020.

“The Winnifred Eaton Archive.” Presented at “Being Human,” Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA, January 9-12, 2020.

“The Winnifred Eaton Digital Archive: Collecting and Coding Eaton’s Oeuvre.” Presented at CAAS Symposium, Montreal, QC, October 25-27, 2019.

“Using Github and its Integrations to Create, Test, and Deploy a Digital Edition.” Co-presented with Joey Takeda at “What is text, really? TEI and Beyond,” TEI Conference, Graz, Austria, September 16-20, 2019.

"The Paradox of De Stael’s Feminist Sybil." Presented at "-isms, -ologies, and -istics: Conversations Across the Disciplines," SouthWest English Symposium, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, February 15-16, 2013.

Campus Talks & Presentations

Presenter, “The Laura Goodman Salverson Archive: Using CollectionBuilder for Digital Literary Recovery.” University of British Columbia Arts Graduate Student Showcase on Digital and Computational Scholarship. Vancouver, BC, April 11, 2025.

Guest Lecturer, “The Genre of the Western and the Cinematography of Winnifred Eaton's Cattle.” University of British Columbia ENGL 110 (Dr. Mary Chapman). Vancouver, BC, October 30, 2023.

Guest Lecturer, “Knowledge Mobilization in the Public Humanities.” University of British Columbia ASTU 260 (Dr. David Gaertner). Vancouver, BC, August 16, 2023.

Panelist, “Bridging Boundaries: Community Engagement and Knowledge Mobilization in the Humanities.” Partnering in Research Conference hosted by UBC Community Engagement and Knowledge Exchange Unit, June 15, 2023.

Moderator, “Key Messaging: Effectively Articulating the Why’s and How’s of Your Research.” Hosted by UBC Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, February 16, 2023.

Panelist, “How to Engage Community: A Project Showcase” with Dr. Ben Bryce, Noah James, Dr. Maria Carbonetti and Kyle Nelson. UBC Public Humanities Hub. Vancouver, BC, November 21, 2022.

Guest Lecturer, “Culture, Power, and Nature in John Millington Synge's Riders to the Sea.” University of British Columbia ENGL 110 (Dr. Suzy Anger). Vancouver, BC, April 4, 2022.

Presenter, “Pixellating Project Showcase: The Winnifred Eaton Archive.” UBC Library. Vancouver, BC, May 20, 2020.

Panelist, “Climate Fiction – Science, Stories or Seeds of Transformation?” Arizona State University Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative (ICF). Tempe, AZ, Apr. 2, 2015.

Panelist, “Alt-Ac Career Placement.” Arizona State University Graduate Scholars of English Association. Tempe, AZ, Oct. 24, 2014.

Public Scholarship & Community-Engaged Projects

Workshops

Co-Organizer & Co-Presenter, “Transcribing Texts in the Winnifred Eaton Archive.” Organized and facilitated a hands-on, public transcribe-a-thon at the University of Calgary to introduce participants to newly digitized Winnifred Eaton texts and have their transcriptions included and encoded on the Winnifred Eaton Archive. Calgary, AB, July 29, 2023.

Organizer, “ASU-K-12 School Gardens.” Organized, planned, and facilitated a one-day workshop with local K-12 teachers and administrators, ASU Ed professors, local non-profits, and ASU Ed students to build new networks and projects on community garden projects at local schools. Tempe, AZ, May 15, 2018.

Organizer and Facilitator, “Indigenous Food Systems.” Organized and facilitated a cross-disciplinary one-day workshop between scholars, graduate students, and the editors of the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development to plan a special issue call for papers on pedagogical practices, case studies, and research on indigenous food sovereignty. Tempe, AZ, Nov. 1, 2017.

Performances & Experiences

Co-Organizer, “RESISTories: Stories from Resistors" (event series) in partnership with Alyssa Sy de Jesus (Museum of Vancouver). ResiStories convened under/misrepresented historically, persistently, systemically marginalized (HPSM) communities to tell their own stories on their own terms in Vancouver’s oldest museum and further engaged HPSM UBC students and faculty working in and with HPSM peoples and cultures in public-facing work and service. The project compensated local HPSM community knowledge holders, artists, and activists engaged in reparative work and supported ongoing collaborative work between academic institutions and community organizations. This event series was competitively funded by the UBC Strategic Equity & Anti-Racism Enhancement Fund.

• Jan 11, 2024 | Reimagining Refugee Memoirs: a compelling reading of excerpts from the memoirs, Landbridge by Y-Dang Troeung and Carmen Aguirre‘s Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter. Both Y-Dang and Carmen’s works resist traditional forms of the refugee memoir and examine the problematic image of the “grateful” refugee’s arrival in Canada. The readings were followed by a conversation between Carmen Aguirre, Chris Patterson (Kawika Guillermo), and Dr. Amanda Cheong. This programming engaged with Pier21’s travelling exhibition Refuge Canada—on view at the MOV until February 2nd, 2024.
• June 29, 2024 | Building Community Futures: Vancouver is full of built environments that are the result of urban planning, grassroots community place-making, and sometimes a bit of both. Depending on their histories, consultation processes, and the intention behind the project, these built environments can be spaces of inclusion for some and exclusion for others. Inspired by The MOV exhibition with artist Yao Jui-Chung, Mirage: Disused Public Property in Taiwan, we ask: who are built environments in Vancouver for and why? What can be done to address the inequities of public space-making? At this lunch-and-learn, two graduates of the UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA) presented their research and proposals on the local urban planning process and its effects on community spaces and futures.
• Aug 22, 2024 | Living Archives of Pride: This event aimed to honour our local 2SLGBTQIA+ icons and histories and the “living archive” today’s community embodies and represents. Emceed by Shay Dior, attendees witnessed drag performances by Continental Breakfast, Count Cupid, and Mx Bukuru, who all took inspiration from queer historical moments and icons to create their sets. Scholars of queer culture and archives—and drag—gathered with the drag artists in a panel discussion about the queer references, histories, and memory embodied in their performances.

Co-Organizer, “Making Space" (event series) in partnership with Alyssa Sy de Jesus (Museum of Vancouver) and Bill Yuen (Heritage Vancouver Society). The event series aimed to make space for community dialogue around topics of culture and heritage in conversation with the exhibit “A Seat at the Table,” which celebrated Chinese Canadian Heritage identities and experiences through the lens of food and restaurant culture.

• Nov 19, 2022 | Banning BBQ Meats: a lunch and learn screening of the short documentary film “Under Fire: Inside a Chinese Roasted Meat Shop in Vancouver.” After the screening, participants broke into smaller discussion groups to “make space” for food cultures as an important part of one’s heritage.
• May 18, 2023 | Asian Heritage Month: in this panel of four local activists who are working for their communities in mindful and intersectional ways through cultural food justice, we asked what we have learned from the exhibition, and how we can continue to work with Asian Canadian Communities in the future. In the context of curatorial practices and beyond, how can cultural institutions intentionally make space for the responsibilities and reciprocities of representation?

Co-Organizer and Experience Designer, DJ Donpasta. Organized and planned with Dr. Juliann Vitullo and Dr. Enrico Minardi a multi-day visit from Italian performance artist and food activist Daniele De Michele (DJ Donpasta), which included a musical culinary performance during a plant-based food celebration, a private reception, and a public artist artist lecture. Tempe, AZ, Mar. 29, 2018.

Co-Organizer, Experience Designer and Graphic Designer, Dinner 2040. Designed a community charrette with Dr. Joan MacGregor, artist Joan Baron, and farmer Maya Dailey to convene various community stakeholders, policymakers, and humanities scholars interested in local food justice, food sovereignty, and sustainability to examine our food system through a values-based perspective. Designed toolkit post-event. Phoenix, AZ, Nov. 14, 2016.

Digital Projects

Digital Developer, Kuwentong Pamamahay. A collaborative storytelling project that aims to create an accessible and resilient digital resource of stories representing an intersectional Filipino Canadian community approaching place and culture and working through the realities of what it means to make a home. Completed as part of a MITACS-funded co-op placement with Heritage Vancouver Society in partnership with Sliced Mango Collective, UBC's Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies, and the UBC Public Humanities Hub. Vancouver, BC. May-August 2024.

Project Director, Museum of the Urban Desert (MUD). For my MA applied project I created a prototype of an online museum devoted to the cultural life of a desert metropolis using OMEKA. The museum collections consisted of both images and mapped geo-locations of local street art and museums in the community. Tempe, AZ, January-August 2018.

Digital Toolkit Designer, Real-World Learning Experiences for Sustainability. Brundiers, Katja; Redman, Aaron; and Broomall, Dorothy (authors); Lines, Sydney (designer) (2017). Real-world learning experiences for sustainability: Templates for progressive learning activities inside and outside the classroom. https://sustainability.asu.edu/real-world-learning

Project Director of Design and UX, Developing Wassaja. Collaborated in a multidisciplinary leadership team with the ASU Institute for Humanities Research Nexus Lab to advise on and train participants on the web application developed to create a sustainable, digital humanities archive of a rare collection of 20th century Yavapai newsletters hosted by ASU Libraries. Funded by an ASU Institute for Humanities Seed Grant. January-May 2015.

Professional Development

Certificates

The Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities/Certificat canadien en Humanités Numériques (cc:DH/NH), Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Société canadienne des humanités numériques (CSDH/SCHN) and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada / Alliance de recherche numérique du Canada. 2024.

Certificate, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, “Code the X-Files using the XML Family of Languages.” University of Victoria. Victoria, BC, Canada, June 10-14, 2024.

Certificate, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, “Text Encoding Fundamentals and their Application.” University of Victoria. Victoria, BC, Canada, June 3-7, 2024.

Certificate, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, “Creating Digital Collections with Minimal Infrastructure: Hands On with CollectionBuilder for Teaching and Exhibits.” University of Victoria. Victoria, BC, Canada, June 5-9, 2023.

Certificate in Pedagogy, Department of English Language and Literatures, University of British Columbia. Vancouver, BC, Canada, August 29, 2019.

Certificate, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, “Fundamentals of Programming/Coding for Human(s|ists).” University of Victoria. Victoria, BC, Canada, June 3-7, 2019.

Certificate, CITI Training (Research Ethics), “Human Research: IRB - Social and Behavioral Research.” Arizona State University. Tempe, AZ. July 11, 2017.

Certificate, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, “Models for DH at Liberal Arts Colleges (& 4 Yr Institutions).” University of Victoria. Victoria, BC, Canada, June 12-16, 2017.

Workshops & Training

Participant, TA Focused - Getting Started with Canvas, ARTS ISIT, University of British Columbia. September 7, 2023.

Participant, Classroom Climate: CTLT Indigenous Initiatives, University of British Columbia. September 17, 2021. A two-part synchronous and asynchronous training module on creating inclusive learning environments in the classroom.

Participant, Digital Pedagogy Institute, University of Waterloo. August 10-11, 2021. A two-day institute with presentations and keynotes focused within four thematic streams: Digital Pedagogy during the Pandemic; Anti-racist and decolonized approaches to Digital Pedagogy; Inclusivity, Accessibility, and Digital Pedagogy; and Digital Pedagogy and the Post-Truth society.

Participant, Knowledge Exchange (Kx) Summer Institute, “Driving Positive Change With Your Research.” University of British Columbia. Vancouver, BC, July 20-23, 2020. A week-long workshop with talks, presentations, and individual and group assignments that culminated in a personal action plan for a knowledge exchange project.

Participant, Alliance of American Museums Conference, “Educate, Engage, Elevate! Museums on the Rise.” Phoenix, AZ. May 6-9, 2018.

Participant, PAVE Symposium, “Arts Entrepreneurship In, With, and For Communities.” Arizona State University. Tempe, AZ, May 5-6, 2017. Included keynotes, an interactive workshop on Critical Response Theory, and concurrent sessions on theory, practice, and pedagogy for arts entrepreneurship, especially as it relates to community engagement and creative placemaking. Included field excursions to downtown Phoenix and downtown Mesa to visit creative placemaking initiatives with artists and arts administrators.

Invited Participant, Workshop with Paolo Bacigalupi, “The Imagination Drought – Speculative Fiction as Tool for Warning and Empowerment.” Arizona State University. Tempe, AZ, Sept. 17, 2015. Focus: to explore ideas for creative research and teaching projects that link art and science to strengthen society’s engagement with the future and climate change. Hosted by the Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative.

Invited Participant, Workshop with Margaret Atwood, “Art, Science and Imagination – Developing Transdisciplinary Research to Shape the Future.” Arizona State University. Tempe, AZ, Nov. 5, 2014. Focus: to explore ideas for creative research and teaching projects that link art and science to strengthen society’s engagement with the future. Hosted by the Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative.

Participant, THATCamp Southwest Unconference, Arizona State University. Tempe, AZ, Apr. 4-5, 2014. Sessions: Mapping in Digital Humanities, Curation as Interpretation or Archive (what is an object?), Digital Pedagogies and Online Teaching, Network Visualizations, Curating Places (Urban, Rural, etc), Outreach and Crowdsourcing, Tools (building and research), Curating Text and Orality, and Alternatives in Scholarly Publication.

Department/Professional Service

University of British Columbia

• Member, Digital Arts Strategy Working Group (2024-current)
• Board Member, Public Humanities Hub Advisory Board (Sept 2019-current)
• Wellness Committee Founding Member, the UBC English Graduate Caucus (Sept 2019-20)
• Organizing Committee Member for Endnotes, the UBC English Graduate Conference (Sept 2018-19)

Arizona State University

• Activity designer and coordinator for annual Walton Sustainability Solutions Festival and Night of the Open Door at Arizona State University (Spring 2013-2018)
• Committee Member, theWALK fundraising event for the Museum of Walking (Fall 2016-Spring 2017)
• Assistant to the Organizing Committee for the 2016 HASTAC conference (May 11-14, 2016)
• Assistant to the Organizing Committee for the 2012 International Conference in Romanticism (Nov 8-11, 2012)

Awards, Fellowships & Grants

• Faculty of Arts Graduate Research Award ($2,000 CAD), 2025 (Vancouver, BC)
• PhD CoLab Award ($78,200 CAD), Co-Principal Investigator (PI Mary Chapman), "The Adaptive TEI Network," 2024 (Vancouver, BC)
• UBC StEAR Fund ($9,200 CAD), "RESISTories: Stories from Resistories," Jan-Aug 2024 (Vancouver, BC)
• MITACS Business Strategy Innovation Grant ($7,500 CAD), "Kuwentong Pamamahay: Stories of Home and Homemaking," June-Oct 2024 (Vancouver, BC)
• UBC Graduate Travel Award ($500 CAD), 2024 (Vancouver, BC)
• President's Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award ($6,696 CAD), 2022-24 (Vancouver, BC)
• UBC Public Scholar Award ($10,000 CAD), 2022-23 (Vancouver, BC)
• UBC Community Engagement Partnership Recognition Fund ($1,500 CAD), "Making Space: Asian Heritage Month," May 2023 (Vancouver, BC)
• Stanley M Grant Scholarship in English ($13,458 CAD), 2022-23 (Vancouver, BC)
• William Royce Butler and Jean Campbell Butler Scholarship ($2,450 CAD), 2022 (Vancouver, BC)
• UBC Four Year Fellowship ($48,000 CAD), 2018-2022 (Vancouver, BC)
• MITACS Research Training Award ($5,000 CAD), Aug-Dec 2020 (Vancouver, BC)
• UBC David Macaree Memorial Scholarship in English ($8,500 CAD), 2018-2019 & 2021-2022 (Vancouver, BC)
• UBC Faculty of Arts Graduate Award ($9,850 CAD), 2018 & 2021 (Vancouver, BC)
• ASU Arizona Graduate Scholar Award ($2,000 USD), 2016-2018 (Tempe, AZ)
• ASU Graduate & Professional Student Association Travel Grant ($750 USD), Fall 2017 (Tempe, AZ)
• ASU Graduate College Travel Award ($1,000 USD), 2017 (Tempe, AZ)
• ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts Student Enrichment Award ($800 USD), 2017 (Tempe, AZ)
• ASU Graduate & Professional Student Association Travel Grant ($750 USD), Spring 2017 (Tempe, AZ)
• Snorri Foundation Grant ($4,000 USD), 2014 (Reykjavík, Iceland)
• Guttormsson Family Foundation Grant ($2,000 USD), 2014 (Duluth, MN)
• ASU Study Abroad Travel Grant ($1,000 USD), 2012 (Tempe, AZ)

Courses Taken

University of British Columbia

• ENGL 500: Research in English Studies
• ENGL 525: The 18th Century and Representations of the Other
• ENGL 530: Romanticism and the Sciences
• ENGL 535: Victorian Literature and Print Culture
• ENGL 553: New Feminisms
• ENGL 692: Dissertation

Arizona State University

• ART 592: Renaissance Art and Ovidian Myth (independent study in Italy)
• ASB 591: Learning in Museums
• ASB 591: Museums and New Media
• ENG 500: Research Methods, Literature
• ENG 530: Old English Language and Literature
• ENG 534: English Revenge Tragedies in an Italian Setting (in Italy)
• ENG 535: Survey of 19th Century Fiction
• ENG 538: Studies in Modern/Contemporary American Poetry
• ENG 592: Victorian Desire and the Erotics of Scale (independent study)
• ENG 599: Thesis
• ENG 602: Posthumanism
• ENG 635: Literature and Science: Two Cultures?
• GRA 501: Creative Environment and Collaborative Leadership
• HDA 511: Leadership in Creative Industries
• HDA 512: Strategy in Creative Industries
• HDA 513: Creativity and Design Thinking
• HDA 521: Arts, Culture and the Economy
• HDA 522: Media Literacy and Distribution
• HDA 583: Fieldwork (in New York City)
• HDA 593: Applied Project
• HDA 598: Arts, Culture and Community Revitalization
• HDA 598: Artists, Institutions, and Change
• NLM 562: Social Entrepreneurship

Language Skills

• Intermediate speaking and reading ability in Italian; Spanish and Old English with a dictionary.
• Programming languages: TEI-XML, XML, HTML.

Research & Teaching Interests

The long, transatlantic 19th century and its effects with emphasis on empire, race, and nationalism; Norse mythology and Scandinavian studies; ethnic studies; women’s writing and artmaking; museums; food studies; digital humanities; and public arts and humanities

Memberships and Affiliations

• Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada (2025-current)
• The Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (2023-current)
• Modern Language Association (2019-2024)
• University of British Columbia’s English Graduate Caucus, Member (2018-current)
• --- C19 Reading Group, Founding Member (2018-2021)
• Arizona State University, Commission on the Status of Women, Mentee (2015)
• --- Institute for Humanities Research Nexus Lab, Affiliate (2014-2017)
• --- Climate Futures Initiative, Affiliate (2014-2015)
• --- Graduate Women’s Association, Member (2013)
• --- 19th Century Graduate Colloquium, Member (2012-2015)
• --- Graduate Scholars of English Association, Member (2011-2013)

References

Dr. Mary Chapman, Professor, Department of English, University of British Columbia, Buchanan Tower, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Mary.Chapman@ubc.ca

Dr. Suzy Anger, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of British Columbia, Buchanan Tower, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, anger@mail.ubc.ca

Dr. JP Catungal, Assistant Professor, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, University of British Columbia, 1097 – 1873 East Mall Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z1, catungal@mail.ubc.ca