Ray Siemens is Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Professor of English at the University of Victoria; President of the Society for Digital Humanities; and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London, and Visiting Research Professor at Sheffield Hallam University. Director of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute and founding editor of the electronic scholarly journal Early Modern Literary Studies, Siemens has authored numerous articles on the interconnection between literary studies and computational methods.
Susan Schreibman is the Long Room Hub Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities at Trinity College Dublin. She is a member of the School of English. Previously she was the founding Director of the Digital Humanities Observatory, a national digital humanities centre developed under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy (2008-2011); Assistant Dean for Digital Collections and Research , University of Maryland Libraries (2005-2008); and Assistant Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (2001-2005). Dr Schreibman is the Founding Editor of The Thomas MacGreevy Archive, Irish Resources in the Humanities, and The Versioning Machine. She is the co-editor Companion to Digital Humanities (2004), and the author of Collected Poems of Thomas MacGreevy: An Annotated Edition (1991). She is the founding editor of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative.