Titilola Aiyegbusi is a Ph.D student at the University of Toronto where she studies Black Canadian life writing. Specifically, she examines how the narratives of Black women have impacted Black consciousness in Canada. She is also intrigued by the transformational potential of digital humanities and explores how it can be deployed to uncover marginalized narratives, thereby making them easily accessible. As a complement to her interest in the Canadian landscape, Aiyegbusi follows the development of DH in Africa. She is currently investigating the digital culture of developing communities with the goal of teasing out explanations for the divide between digital literacy and DH activities in such spaces.

I am currently writing my dissertation titled Gothic Ontography: Changing Materialism in British Ghost Stories, 1764-1913. It argues that literary ghosts of the period were always material by examining long nineteenth-century British Gothic writers’ spectral imagination as a prism that reflects a human conception of realities and the relationship between subjects and objects in those realities as scientific materialism started to exert its influence on human’s perception of the natural and the supernatural. Specifically, I analyze literary ghosts’ association with antiquarianism in Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764), meteorology in P. B. Shelley’s poems, pecuniary inheritance (property) in Charlotte Riddell’s The Uninhabited House (1875) compared to Wilkie Collins’s The Haunted Hotel (1878), and scientific investigation of ghosts (spiritualism and Society for Psychotherapy Research) in the collections of psychic detective stories of Algernon Blackwood and William Hope Hodgson. As for my approach to digital humanities, I apply Word2Vec and anomaly detection to a corpus of the long nineteenth-century Gothic literature that I have been building to discuss the value of ghost stories as a genre in terms of literary and statistical outliers. In addition, I am also interested in DH pedagogy and data analysis of research questions that Korean researchers in English literary studies have posed since 2000.

Associate Professor in Linguistics; Head of the Department of Cameroonian Languages and Cultures at ENS Bertoua (Cameroon); Director of the Archive of Languages and Oral Resources of Africa (ALORA); Member of the Governance Committee of ELP; Member of the Committee of HumaNum.My research interests lie at the intersection of languages, cultures, and technology. I have initial training in descriptive linguistics with primary focus on Bantu languages. I am the local lead person in the organization of the first edition of the Institute of Digital Humanities for French Africa (InHuNum-AF) which will be run from 21-26 March 2022 in Yaoundé (Cameroon).

Adam is a doctoral candidate from the English Department at the University of Saskatchewan under the supervision of Peter Robinson. He is a research assistant on the Canterbury Tales Project. His BA and MA are from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). His other interests are Spanish Medieval literature and Mexican traditional riddles. His doctoral dissertation researches the textual tradition of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde. To aid his research he uses phylogenetic software in order to establish the relationships that the 18 witness of the chaucerian poem bear.