Fostering innovative and open methods and tools in the classroom and beyond.
Expanding the scope and impact of traditional and digital humanities for the contemporary world.
Thinking critically about the role and design of technology, data and the social sciences in our lives and learning.
Promoting openness, access, and diversity in technology, and education in service of an equitable society.
Promoting change in schools, museums, libraries, and other organizations.
Advocating for new forms of scholarly communications, including blogging, multimedia, open publishing, and academic journals and presses.
Elisa Beshero-Bondar is the Principle Investigator and lead Technical Coordinator of the Digital Mitford project. She is also working on the Frankenstein Variorum project to illuminate how the text of Frankenstein changed from the manuscript notebooks through five major revision stages through Mary Shelley's lifetime. She used to be a professor of English Literature at Pitt-Greensburg but now teaches Digital Humanities and serves as Program Chair of the Digital Media, Arts, and Technology (DIGIT) major at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College. She is an elected member of the TEI Technical Council, which maintains and updates the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). Outside of HASTAC, she maintains two blogs: Confessions of a Digital Romanticist and Digital Mitford, which tell her adventures with coding and digital humanities.
Elisa Beshero-Bondar fancies herself a Digital Romanticist. She is the Principle Investigator and lead Technical Coordinator of the Digital Mitford project and hosts a usually annual coding school connected with the project to "pay forward" experience with text encoding and project development with perspective on real-time digital project issues. She is also working on the Frankenstein Variorum project to illuminate how the text of Frankenstein changed from the manuscript notebooks through five major revision stages through Mary Shelley's lifetime. Learning to code to build digital archives changed her life as a teacher and researcher. She used to be a professor of English Literature at Pitt-Greensburg but now teaches Digital Humanities and serves as Program Chair of the Digital Media, Arts, and Technology (DIGIT) major at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College. She is an elected member of the TEI Technical Council, which maintains and updates the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). Outside of HASTAC, she maintains two blogs: Confessions of a Digital Romanticist and Digital Mitford, which tell her adventures with coding and digital humanities.
