Mary Flanagan

Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities and Director of Tiltfactor Lab at Dartmouth College

Mary Flanagan is a leading innovator, artist, educator and designer, whose works have included everything from game-inspired art, to commercial games that shift people’s thinking about biases and stereotypes. Her interest in play and culture led to her acclaimed book, Critical Play, with MIT Press (2009). Her fifth academic book, Values at Play in Digital Games, with philosopher Helen Nissenbaum, was just released from MIT. Flanagan established the internationally recognized game research laboratory Tiltfactor in 2003 to invent “humanist” games and take on social through games. At Tiltfactor, designers create and research catchy games that teach or transform “under the radar” using psychological principles.

Neil Fraistat

Professor of English and Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), University of Maryland

Neil Fraistat is Professor of English and Director of the Maryland Institute forTechnology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland. He has chaired the international Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations and is Co-Founder and Co-Chair of centerNet, an international network of digital humanities centers, as well as Vice President of the Keats-Shelley Association of America. Fraistat is Co-Founder and General Editor of the Romantic Circles Website and has published widely on the subjects of Digital Humanities, Romanticism, and Textual Studies in various articles and in the ten books he has authored or edited. He has been awarded both the Society for Textual Scholarship’s biennial Fredson Bowers Memorial Prize and the biennial Richard J. Finneran Prize, the Keats-Shelley Association Prize, honorable mention for the Modern Language Association’s biennial Distinguished Scholarly Edition Prize, and the Keats-Shelley Association’s Distinguished Scholar Award.

Andrea Wiggins

Assistant Professor in the College of Information Studies, University of Maryland

Dr. Wiggins is an Assistant Professor at Maryland’s iSchool and director of the Open Knowledge Lab at UMD. She studies the design and evolution of sociotechnical systems for large-scale collaboration and knowledge production. Andrea’s current work focuses on the role of technologies in citizen science, evaluating individual and collective performance and productivity in open collaboration systems, and the dynamics of open data ecosystems. Andrea serves on several working groups and advisory boards for citizen science projects across a variety of disciplines, and regularly advises federal agencies and nonprofit organizations on citizen science project and technology design.