Vonda Jump is an Associate Professor in the Social Work department at Utah State University's College of Arts & Sciences , based in the USU Brigham Region (Brigham City, Kaysville, Tremonton). Her work bridges social work and early childhood development, emphasizing practical interventions for family support. Vonda Jump’s research focuses on parent-child interaction , home visiting programs , and language development . She specializes in creating and validating tools like the PICCOLO (Parenting Interactions with Children: Checklist of Observations Linked to Outcomes) and HOVRS-A+ (Home Visit Rating Scales—Adapted and Extended to Excellence) to assess and improve parenting behaviors and home visit quality. Her studies often target low-income and migrant families, including Latino communities, to address disparities in child outcomes. Her recent work highlights trauma-informed instruction for student resilience and technology-based design for inclusive education, particularly with deaf/hard of hearing populations . She has contributed to understanding how maternal warmth, responsiveness, and structured activities like family bookmaking enhance child attachment, vocabulary, and self-regulation. Her research spans longitudinal analyses of parenting stress , temperament , and maternal language strategies in early childhood settings.
Anna Mukamal is an Assistant Professor of Digital Culture and Design in the Department of English at Coastal Carolina University. Her interdisciplinary work bridges literary studies, digital humanities, and mental health discourse, focusing on how literature and digital media can function as therapeutic spaces. She teaches courses in digital culture, feminist digital humanities, and critical making, with a commitment to inclusive pedagogy and social justice. Dr. Mukamal's educational background includes: Ph.D. in English and Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities, Stanford University, 2022 B.A. in English and Spanish, Duke University, 2017 Her research centers on the intersection of literature, digital culture, and mental health, with particular attention to how therapeutic discourse appears in 20th and 21st century American literature. Dr. Mukamal examines how women and marginalized individuals use writing in therapeutic contexts to navigate issues of gender, sexuality, and race. She also investigates how reading literature can create therapeutic experiences for readers, helping them recognize and work through their own psychological complexities. Her work integrates feminist perspectives with computational text analysis to explore interpretive communities around feminist literature. Dr. Mukamal's publications reveal a consistent focus on therapeutic discourse in literature, feminist publishing practices, and computational approaches to literary analysis. Her work spans traditional literary criticism and digital humanities methodologies, often combining close and distant reading techniques to examine how literature functions as a space for psychological exploration and social critique. Recent publications address feminist editorial labor, therapeutic identification in reading, and computational analysis of short story form. Dr. Mukamal has received several prestigious awards: Alden Dissertation Prize for her Stanford PhD dissertation, "The Therapeutic Encounter" (2023) Apple Award for Professor of the Year in the Department of English at Coastal (2023) Inclusive Pedagogy Award for pre-tenure faculty (2023) Professional Enhancement Grant (2024-25) Sustainability Grant for "Book Arts and Embodied Experience" project (2024-25) Dr. Mukamal actively mentors students in the Digital Culture and Design program, guiding interdisciplinary projects that combine digital making with social justice concerns. Her current grant-funded project "Book Arts and Embodied Experience: Building Community and Empowering Social Change through Bookmaking" involves collaboration with Academic Engagement & Outreach Librarian Loren Mixon and Associate Professor of Art Meghan O'Connor. This project exemplifies her commitment to community engagement through interdisciplinary approaches to mental health and social change. While not explicitly mentioned as leading a formal lab, Dr. Mukamal collaborates extensively with the Stanford Literary Lab and has worked as Project Manager for the Modernist Archives Publishing Project. Her current work integrates digital humanities methodologies with mental health discourse, creating spaces for students to explore therapeutic dimensions of digital creation and literary engagement.
Lucy Amelia Jane Bell is a Research Fellow at Sapienza University of Rome's Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies. Previously, she served as a Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Languages and Cultures at the University of Surrey (2013–2022). Her work bridges literary analysis, social theory, and activist practices. University of Cambridge BA (2008), MPhil (2009), PhD (2013) Her research focuses on Latin American literature and culture as instruments for social transformation. Key areas include cartonera publishing , prison reform , waste studies , and decolonial theory . She collaborates across disciplines with social anthropologists in marginalized communities. Recent publications explore intersections of necropolitics , environmental justice , and gender resistance , with a focus on Mexico and Brazil. Her 2022 book Taking Form, Making Worlds won the LASA Book Prize and pioneered trans-formal methodologies combining literary analysis with action research. Grants: AHRC, Global Challenges Research Fund, BBC Arts, Secretaría de la Cultura (Mexico) Projects: 'Cartonera Publishing' (2017–2020), 'Prisoner Publishing' (2020–2022)
Zhou Zhou is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney. His academic roles include Senior Lecturer (2022–present) and Lecturer (2018–2021) at the University of Sydney, as well as postdoctoral positions at the University of Michigan and University of Minnesota. He holds a Ph.D. in Applied & Interdisciplinary Mathematics from the University of Michigan (2015) and a B.S. in Mathematics from Nankai University (2010). His research focuses on stochastic control, mathematical finance, and game theory, with particular emphasis on time-inconsistent problems, optimal stopping, and equilibrium strategies. Key areas include applications in financial mathematics, stochastic processes, and dynamic optimization. His work has been published in journals such as Mathematical Finance, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, and Finance and Stochastics. Zhou has secured grants including the 2023 Faculty of Science Startup Scheme for time-inconsistent control research and the 2022 Australian Research Council grant on green investment impacts. He teaches courses like Arbitrage Pricing in Continuous Time and supervises research students in financial mathematics. His academic contributions span over 50 publications, with notable work on binomial-tree approximations for stopping problems, equilibrium strategies in mean-field games, and policy iteration for stochastic control. Presentations include talks at international conferences and universities worldwide, emphasizing interdisciplinary applications of stochastic analysis.
Barbara E. Mundy is a Professor of Art History and holds the Martha and Donald Robertson Chair in Latin American Art at Tulane University's Newcomb Art Department within the School of Liberal Arts. She earned her Ph.D. from Yale University. Her research focuses on colonial Latin America, particularly Mexico/New Spain, examining Indigenous-settler interactions, cartography, urban history, and the history of the book. She has held prestigious fellowships including the 2021-22 Kislak Chair at the Library of Congress and contributed to major projects like Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America (1520-1820). Research Interests: Indigenous mapping traditions, decolonization methodologies, Nahuatl language studies, and digital humanities. Notable Works: The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan (prize-winning), The Mapping of New Spain , and forthcoming Rock, Paper, Scissors . Her work bridges art history with ethnohistory and material culture, emphasizing Indigenous agency in colonial contexts. Mundy serves on editorial boards for The Americas and is a past president of the American Society for Ethnohistory.
David A. Macaulay is a Senior Lecturer at Dartmouth College and renowned author-artist specializing in architecture, design thinking, and science communication. Born in 1946, he earned a B.Arch from the Rhode Island School of Design (1969) and transitioned from architecture and teaching to creating acclaimed educational books. His work bridges technical expertise with artistic clarity, focusing on STEM education and historical/technological systems. Education: Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch), Rhode Island School of Design, 1969 Research & Contributions: Macaulay’s books demystify complex systems, such as machinery, human biology, and architectural structures. He emphasizes visual storytelling to engage audiences in STEM fields, blending illustration with explanatory writing. His courses like ENGS 11: 'The Way Things Work' exemplify this approach. Awards: MacArthur Fellowship (2006) James Smithson Medal (Smithsonian Institution, 1993) Caldecott Medal (1993) Charles Frankel Prize (2002) Professional Activities: He served as Vice President and founding board member of the National Children’s Book and Literacy Alliance. Media features include CBS Sunday Morning (2023) and Vox (2021), highlighting his role as a 'explainer-in-chief' of historical and scientific concepts.
Richard Higginbottom is a Senior Lecturer in Photography at the School of Digital Arts (SODA) , Manchester Metropolitan University. His practice-based research explores urban space through photographic studies, focusing on human gesture, movement, and material interactions. Co-founded Surface Editions , an independent platform for photographic books and workshops (2024) Founded Tide Press (2015) for disseminating experimental photographic works Research interests span: Urban space representation via photography Body language and movement documentation Experimental bookmaking techniques Interdisciplinary visual narratives His publications include: Singularities (2023), Sea of Glass (2022), and Room One (2019), all employing innovative printing methods like Risograph and digital offset. Selected works were exhibited in the 2024 Thinking Outloud group exhibition at Manchester School of Art.
Professor Ian McHale is a leading academic in sports statistics and gambling market analysis at the University of Liverpool. His research focuses on statistical methodologies for sports performance evaluation, gambling regulation impact, and audience behavior. He has served as founding Chair of the Royal Statistical Society's Statistics in Sport Section and is an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Forecasting and Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sport . His work bridges academia and industry through collaborations with football clubs, the Premier League, bookmakers, and regulatory bodies like GambleAware. Key professional activities include developing the EA SPORTS Player Performance Indicator for the Barclays Premier League and leading the Sports Analytics Machine (SAM), which provides BBC Spot forecasts for football matches. His research addresses topics such as player rating systems, match-fixing detection, and lottery player behavior. He actively engages in educating stakeholders via courses on sports analytics and forecasting. Notable contributions include methodologies for age-dependent performance analysis in golf and snooker, Bayesian models for detecting judging biases in MMA, and evaluations of gambling market dynamics. His work emphasizes practical applications, such as improving sports integrity, optimizing betting strategies, and enhancing audience engagement through data-driven insights. Though no formal awards are listed, his prolific publication record and industry collaborations underscore his significant influence in sports analytics. He advises on strategic business research and data analytics in sports management through university modules like 'Football Economics and Analytics.'
Naomi Kasumi is a Professor and Director of the Design Program at Seattle University's College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Visual Art. Born in Kyoto, Japan, she established the Digital Design Program (now Design Program) in 2003. Her work explores themes of presence/absence, memory, and healing through ritualistic installations, book art, and design projects. Research interests: Kasumi's practice spans memorial installations using handmade objects as therapeutic processes, ecological art addressing water pollution, and community-engaged design pedagogy. She integrates Japanese cultural perspectives into interdisciplinary projects that bridge art, design, and social awareness. International exhibitions include Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, Senckenberg Museum (Germany), Soji-ji Temple (Japan), and venues across 15+ countries. She directs study-abroad programs in Japan and Italy, focusing on bookmaking traditions. Community engagement: Leads service-learning projects in Zambia and Belize, integrating art with social support initiatives.
A. Kendra Greene is a Visiting Writer and Teaching Professor specializing in creative nonfiction, book arts, and museum studies. She holds an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Iowa and has held residencies at the Dallas Museum of Art and Nasher Sculpture Center. Her work bridges literary arts and visual culture, focusing on themes of collections, cultural preservation, and environmental narratives. Key affiliations include: Harvard University Library Innovation Lab Fellow Former Writer in Residence at Dallas Museum of Art Visiting Artist at Nasher Sculpture Center Research interests span creative writing pedagogy, book history, and interdisciplinary projects combining text and visual media. Notable awards include the CLMP Firecracker Award and Best American Essays recognition. She teaches creative nonfiction courses at the University of Texas at Dallas and University of Iceland, emphasizing experimental forms and community-engaged writing. Her publications explore intersections between literature and material culture, including The Museum of Whales You Will Never See (Penguin, 2020) which blends travel writing with ecological critique. Recent essays appear in The Guardian , Wall Street Journal , and Atlas Obscura , examining topics from Icelandic museum practices to global book preservation efforts.
Dr Nasser Hussain is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University. His work bridges contemporary poetry, conceptual writing, and creative experimentation. Research interests: contemporary experimental writing, embodiment and performance, ethics of appropriation, and recuperating 'lost' language fragments. Current projects: SKY WRI TEI NGS (poetry from IATA codes), a trilogy on mass transit, and a critical article on bpNichol's television writings. Editorial roles: Member of Coach House Books' Editorial Board and Ledbury Emerging Critic. Teaching: Poetry, Contemporary Literary Studies, Writer's Workshop, and Rewritings (MA). Recognition: His 2018 poetry book listed among Canada's top 12 by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Contact: Portland, Room 209, City Campus. Email: N.Hussain@leedsbeckett.ac.uk . ORCID: 0000-0003-1289-418X.
Lisa Boyce is a Professor and Executive Director of the DDE Center for Early Care and Education within the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at Utah State University. Her research focuses on early childhood development and intervention for at-risk populations through quantitative methodologies. Education Background: PhD in Family and Human Development, Utah State University (1999) M.Ed. in Psychological Services, Idaho State University (1992) BS in Psychology, Idaho State University (1991) Pre-Technical Biology, Ricks College (1989) Research Focus: Dr. Boyce investigates early language development, emergent literacy, and parent-child interactions, with emphasis on dual language learners and children in poverty. Her current projects include classroom bookmaking interventions for Head Start children, dissemination of the SHELLS curriculum for migrant families, evaluation of Ecuador's early education curriculum, and predictors of language development in bilingual children. She employs rigorous program evaluation frameworks to assess intervention efficacy. Publication Trends: Her recent work demonstrates consistent focus on practical, scalable interventions that strengthen parent-child language interactions. Key themes include adapting bookmaking/storytelling techniques for diverse populations, measuring longitudinal impacts on school readiness, and developing culturally responsive strategies for migrant families and dual language learners within Head Start frameworks. Awards & Honors: Solnit Fellow (Zero to Three, 2001) Research Assistant of the Year (College of Family Life & Family and Human Development Department, 1996) Research Scholars Grant Award (Head Start, 1996) Graduated with Honors (Idaho State University, 1991) Kasiska Foundation Scholarship (Idaho State University, 1990) Leadership Scholarship (Ricks College, 1987) Advising & Grants: Dr. Boyce has mentored 15+ graduate students in Human Development and Family Studies. Her grant portfolio includes SHELLS (Storytelling for Home Enrichment of Language and Literacy Skills), PEECSE (Promoting Effective Engagement, Communication, and Self-regulation with English language learners), and UTELL (Using Technology for Emergent Literacy and Language), all targeting early language development in vulnerable populations. Leadership: As Executive Director of the DDE Center for Early Care and Education, she oversees translational research connecting academic scholarship with community implementation in early childhood systems.
Federica Formiga is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cultures and Civilizations at the University of Verona. Her academic career spans teaching, research, and administrative leadership, with a focus on History of Books and Publishing , archiving, and cultural heritage. She serves on committees for academic quality, web communication, and third mission initiatives, including bibliotherapy programs. Research : Director of the Centro di ricerca Biblioterapia e Shared reading , member of ERC research groups, and coordinator of projects like Editoria e pubblicità . Teaching : Offers courses in Bibliography, History of Printing, and Editorial Processes across undergraduate and postgraduate programs in Humanities, Cultural Heritage, and Communication. Publications : Specializes in 17th–18th century Italian printing history, digital archiving, and bibliotherapy applications. Third Mission : Involved in professional master’s programs, continuous training courses, and public engagement initiatives.
Laura Pani is Full Professor of Latin Palaeography at the University of Udine's Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage, where she has served since 1994. She coordinates modules on Palaeography, Codicology, and Diplomatics, previously for the Faculty of Humanities (now split into multiple degree programs). Her research focuses on Carolingian manuscript studies Medieval book production during epidemics Latin diplomatics Manuscript transmission across the Eastern Alps Lately, she has explored 20th-century manuscript distribution networks and paleographic education in Italy. Her 2022 paper on Lothar's manuscripts and 2021 work on lay scribes remain particularly influential. Prof. Pani contributes to the Chartae Latinae Antiquiores series and maintains active involvement in manuscript conservation and education initiatives.
Matilda Plöjel is a Senior Lecturer and researcher at Linnaeus University's Department of Design, Faculty of Arts and Humanities. She works within the BFA Visual Communication + Change program, combining academic work with practice-based creative research. Graphic design Critical bookmaking practices Founder of Sailor Press Interdisciplinary design research
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