Co-founder, HASTAC; Co-PI, HASTAC, MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition.
Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English and John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies

Co-founder, HASTAC; Co-PI, HASTAC, MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition.
Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute; Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of Criminology, Law & Society, UC Irvine

DB/web/IT/maps geek, PhD candidate in Comparative Lit at UCLA, interested in intersections between (digital) tech + humanities, digi-flâneuse, deutschsprachig.

Ruby specializes in strategies that connect people to each other, sometimes known as “network-centric advocacy,” “social media,” “Web 2.0,” or “grassroots organizing,” depending upon what type of geek one is. She is also the founder and editor of OrangePolitics.org, a progressive multi-author weblog with a vibrant community discussing local issues around her hometown of Chapel Hill, NC.