Lisa Spiro
I direct Rice University's Digital Media Center, where I help manage digital library projects, develop training materials on using and creating digital resources, run a digital media lab, and pitch in with whatever else needs to be done. I have spoken or written about a range of topics, including open repositories, digital scholarship, emerging technologies in education, the significance of video databases for learning, using the web for research, and more. I was the PI for the LESTER database of emerging technologies (sponsored by Microsoft Research) and TIMEA, an online archive focused in travel in Egypt (sponsored by IMLS and KIIT). I got my Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia, where I served as a project assistant at the Electronic Text Center and managing editor of Postmodern Culture. My blog, "Digital Scholarship in the Humanities," contains my musings on emerging tools and methods for humanities scholarship and chronicles my attempts to turn my dissertation on bachelorhood in American literature into a work of digital scholarship.