Team

To see what our team has been up to over the last few years, check out our "Year in Review" posts for 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. 

Project Director:

• Michelle Levy (Jan. 2015 – Present) is a Professor of English at Simon Fraser University and Co-Director of the Digital Humanities Innovation Lab. She works in the fields of Romantic literary history, print and manuscript culture, and women’s book history.

Project Manager:

• Kate Moffatt (Jan. 2016 – Present) is a PhD student in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University. Her research interests include British Romanticism, women’s authorship, walking and pedestrianism, and print culture. She is also a co-host of The WPHP Monthly Mercury podcast.

Lead Editor:

• Kandice Sharren (Jan. 2015 – Present) is an Assistant Professor in the University of Saskatchewan’s Department of English. Her current book project, Politics, Paratexts, and Transatlantic Fiction, 1790–1840, investigates the period between the rise of circulating library publishers such as the Minerva Press, which linked individual works of fiction to a brand, and the 1820s and 1830s, which saw the emergence of highly regularized literary annuals and reprint series. She is also a co-host of The WPHP Monthly Mercury podcast.
  

Front End Developer:

• Andrew Gardener (Jan. 2023 – Present) is a Developer for the Digital Humanities Innovation Lab and has a Bachelor of Computing Science from Concordia University.

• Joey Takeda (April 2020 – Present) is the User Interface Developer for the Digital Humanities Innovation Lab. He has an MA in English (Science and Technology Research Stream) from the University of British Columbia.

• Catherine Winters (Fall 2018 – Summer 2019) was a User Interface Developer for the Digital Humanities Innovation Lab. 

Back End Developer:

• Michael Joyce (Summer 2016 – 2022) was a Developer at the Digital Humanities Innovation Lab and has developed the back in Symfony.

• Jenn Ross (Fall 2014 – Fall 2019) was a programmer and technical developer of our MYSQL database and web platform used for data creation, aggregation, normalization, and entry.

Contributing Scholars:

• Colette Colligan (April 2020 – Present) is a Professor of English at the Université d'Angers, and was previously a Professor at Simon Fraser University and Co-Director of the Digital Humanities Innovation Lab. She specializes in nineteenth and early twentieth-century literature and print and media culture. Her expertise has been consulted for the French titles of WPHP. 

• Melissa J. Homestead (April 2020 – Present) is a Professor of English, Program Faculty of Women’s and Gender Studies, and Director of the Cather Project at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her expertise has been consulted for the American titles of WPHP. 

• Kate Ozment (April 2020 – Present) is Team Lead of the Digital Scholarship group at Case Western Reserve University. She focuses primarily on women in the book trades in England in the early 1700s.

Research Assistants (alphabetized by surname):

• Aylar Adeh (Sep. 2021 – 2023) is a PhD candidate in Education at Simon Fraser University.  

• Isabelle Burrows (Jan. 2021 – Sep. 2023) holds a BA in the Humanities from Simon Fraser University. Her primary research interests are the experiences of European women in intellectual and artistic spaces in the modern period.

• Caelen Campbell (Sep. 2020 – 2022) completed her BA in Communications at Simon Fraser University, her BEd at the University of British Columbia, and is currently a MA Candidate in the MATE Program in the English Department at Simon Fraser University. 

• Kanksha Chawla (Jan. 2023 – Apr. 2023) is an Indian immigrant who grew up in Singapore and lives on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She is an organizer, writer, and student of English Literature at Simon Fraser University. Her work has appeared in anthologies and zines including Crazy Little Pyromaniacs: 35 Poets Under 35 (Math Paper Press) and We are the Fossil Free Future (S4F). You can reach her at kxchawla@gmail.com. 

• Grace Chen (Sep. 2017 – Jun. 2018) graduated with a major in English and a minor in health sciences from Simon Fraser University in 2018. She is completing a graduate degree in Library Information Science at the University of British Columbia.

• Kendal Crawford (Jan. 2017 – Jun. 2017) received her BA from Simon Fraser University in 2017 with a major in English and a minor in Publishing.

• Brenna Duperron (Jan. 2016 – Dec. 2016) received her MA from SFU in 2016 and is currently a PhD student at Dalhousie University.

• Belle Eist (Sep. 2021 – Present) is an MA student in Simon Fraser University's Department of English. Her research interests surround the social mores of the long eighteenth century and the women writers who sought to disrupt them.
  

• Emily Molinari (May 2017 – May 2019; Sep. 2023 - Jun. 2024) has a BA (Hons.) and BEd from SFU and is currently studying Creative Writing, with a focus in poetry. Her honours paper, “‘Til Duty Makes Passion a Virtue’: Feminine Self-Denial and the Eighteenth-Century Epistolary Novel,” won the 2017 Tom Grieve Honours English Program Award.

• Bran Eveland Cron (Sep. 2016 – Aug. 2018) completed their BA in the Department of Linguistics at Simon Fraser University, with a minor in First Nations Studies.

• Victoria DeHart (Sep. 2019 – 2022) received her BA in Archaeology with a minor in History at Simon Fraser University.  

• Hanieh Ghaderi (Sept. 2019 – 2023) is an MA candidate in SFU's Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies. She completed her first BA in Persian Language & Literature at the University of Tehran and her second BA in Gender Studies at SFU. Her academic interests center on language and gender with a focus on the ways different languages produce different systems of power, hierarchy, and patriarchy.

• Timon Glaesser (May 2023 – Dec. 2023) is a fifth year BBA student majoring in Marketing and minoring in Social Data Analytics. His research focuses on processing, analyzing, and visualizing data from the WPHP database.

• Julia Gorospe (May 2023 – Aug. 2024) is a third-year undergraduate student majoring in English at Simon Fraser University.

• Reese Alexandra Irwin (May 2016 – 2018) has a BA (with a minor in Publishing, 2016) and MA (2018) in English from Simon Fraser University. She was also a graduate student at the University of British Columbia, completing a degree in Library Information Science. Her interests lie in women’s writing, the digital humanities, print and manuscript culture, and the preservation of rare books and archival materials. 

• Aliya Kazmi (Sept. 2018 – Dec. 2018) was an undergraduate student at Simon Fraser University, majoring in English.

• Maja Lampa (Jan. 2018 – May 2019) is a Political Science major at Simon Fraser University.

• Amanda Law (Jan. 2020 – Present) is an MA candidate in UBC's Department of English and completed her BA (Hons) in English with a Humanities minor at SFU. Her research centers on Asian American representation in young adult and popular cultural productions. 

• Rachel MacPhail (May 2016 – July 2016) received her BA (Hons) in English from Simon Fraser University in 2016.

• Sara Penn (Dec. 2018 – Aug. 2024, June 2025) is a PhD Student at New York University and earned both her B.A. and M.A. from Simon Fraser University's Department of English. She researches print and manuscript cultures of Britain’s long eighteenth century, with particular interests in women’s book history, bibliography, and digital humanities. 
  

• Navi Rai (Sept. 2018 – Dec. 2018) is an undergraduate student majoring in Political Science at Simon Fraser University.

• Hannah Smith (Sep. 2020 – Apr. 2021) is an undergraduate student majoring in Psychology at Simon Fraser University.

• Serena Spacek (May 2023 – Aug. 2024) is a fourth-year undergraduate student majoring in English at Simon Fraser University.

• Naomi Stewart (May 2018 – Aug. 2018) received a BA in Education and English Literature from the University of Cambridge in 2015, and was in the MATE program at Simon Fraser University.

• Tamanna (Tammy) T. (Jan. 2022 – 2023) is a fourth-year BA majoring in English and minoring in Publishing. Her research centers on the Bluestockings and the Aikin family, as well as Romanticism and its portrayal in contemporary literature. 

• Lauretta Umukoro (Jan. 2024 – Apr. 2024) is a fourth-year BA major in Sociology with a minor in Contemporary Arts at SFU. She specializes in the intersections between race, gender, and class.

• Angela Wachowich (May 2021 – 2022) is a PhD student at the University of Chicago and completed her BA (Hons) in English at Simon Fraser University. Her research centres around long eighteenth-century literary historiography, with a particular interest in manuscript culture, women and queer writers, and digital humanities.

• Julianna Wagar (May 2021 – Aug. 2024) is a PhD Student at the University of Alberta. She was a Digital Fellow in Communications & Textual Editing at the Digital Humanities Innovations Lab at SFU, where she completed her MA and BA in English. Her research interests include eighteenth-century Scottish literature, women's literature, and Scottish women's travel writing.

• Salena Wiener (Sept. 2023 - Present) is a PhD student in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University. Her research interests include British Romanticism, women’s book history, and fair copying. As a poet, she is the author of bodies like gardens (Cactus Press, 2023).

• Abdul Zahir (Jan. 2016 – May 2016) received his MA in English from Simon Fraser University in 2018.

Mascot:

• Tessa Levy (2020 – Present) received her PhD, or Dog-ter of Philosophy, from Simon Fraser University in 2021. Her dissertation, "(Wo)man's Best Friend and Book History," informs her forthcoming book contract with CUP (Canine University Press). When she is not co-authoring articles with her esteemed colleague, Michelle Levy, she enjoys long walks on the beach, destroying toilet paper, and dismantling the print culture patriarchy.