Amaury de Burgos
Amaury De Burgos obtained his Bachelor of Science, majoring in Pure Mathematics, from the University of British Columbia Okanagan in 2023. During his undergraduate degree, he worked as a Spanish translator for the Go Global program. He is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Mathematics at the University of British Columbia Okanagan.
Amaury de Burgos
Graduate Student
Francisco Gago Jover
Francisco Gago-Jover is Professor of Spanish at the College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, Massachusetts). He studied at the University of Valladolid, receiving a BA in Geography and History in 1985. Later he pursued doctoral studies in Linguistics and Spanish Romance Philology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His doctoral thesis was a study of the Castilian military lexicon in the Middle Ages. He is the author of two dictionaries of military terminology, an edition of the Spanish version of Arte de bien morir, various articles on lexicography, creation of linguistic corpus and stylometrics, and numerous paleographic transcriptions of Spanish medieval texts.
He has taught doctoral courses at different universities in the United States (University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Boston University) and in Spain (Universidad de León, Universidad de Valladolid and Universitat de les Illes Balears), and has offered numerous workshops on different applications of the digital humanities (paleography and automatic transcription of texts, stylometry, design of linguistic corpus, etc.).
As Director of Digital Projects at the Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, he is in charge of the Digital Library of Old Spanish Texts, the Lexical Studies of Medieval Textsbibliography, and the Old Spanish Textual Archive, a linguistic corpus, lemmatized and morphologically labeled, of nearly 35,000,000 words, of medieval texts written in Castilian, Asturian, Leonese, Navarro-Aragonese and Aragonese.
Francisco Gago Jover
Co-Director (Research) and Team Coordinator
Anas Ghrab
Following his studies in music and musicology (University Lyon 2), he obtained his PhD from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. Former director of the Center for Arab and Mediterranean Music (Ennejma Ezzahra Palace), he now teaches at the University of Sousse (Higher Institute of Music). He is also a researcher at the L3S laboratory (ENIT), associate researcher at IreMus (Paris), regional representative of the ICTM, and leads several interdisciplinary projects related to digital arts and humanities, in particular the Musée du Patrimoine Écrit, in collaboration with the National Library of Tunisia and the Tunisian Academy Beït al-Hikma-Carthage.
Anas Ghrab
Co-Applicant
Hussein Keshani
Dr. Keshani initially studied architecture and design at the University of Manitoba, as well as urban planning. Troubled by the endemic Eurocentricism in his required art history coursework, he decided to pursue studies in art history with a focus on the Islamic World and South Asia at the University of Victoria (UVic), where he completed his MA thesis on the Delhi’s Dargah of Nizamuddin and his PhD dissertation on Lucknow’s Bara Imambara complex. He went on to complete postdoctoral fellowships at UVic, Stanford (IHUM), and MIT (AKPIA). He has been an invited to speak in the UK, Australia, and Algeria and has presented his scholarship at major international scholarly gatherings, which include the Association for Art History, Modern Language Association, College Art Association, and American Historical Association.
As a scholar and a teacher, Keshani’s work crosses multiple disciplines including history, religious and gender studies, digital art history/humanities, world literature, interpretation and art and architectural history. His diverse research practices include, archival and museum research, fieldwork at architectural sites and botanic gardens, coding, and analytical renderings of architectural drawings and digital models.
Hussein Keshani
Collaborator
F. Javier Pueyo Mena
F. Javier Pueyo Mena is a tenured researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). He earned his MA in Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Southern California and his Ph.D. in Hispanic Philology at the University of Deusto (Spain). He is currently living in the United States, where he has been appointed as a research associate at the Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies.
His main fields of research are Judeo-Spanish and Medieval Spanish, in particular Jewish Biblical translations into Ladino. He is also involved in several projects in the area of the Digital Humanities, mainly developing Historical Linguistic Corpora and Natural Language Processing tools applied to Judeo- Spanish and Old Spanish. He has published several books and articles, which include the editions of two medieval Jewish Biblical translations: mss. RAH 87 and BNE 10288, and two Ladino Biblical translations: Abraham Asa’s Ladino translation of the book of Ruth and the book of Genesis from the Ladino Biblical glossary Sefer Ḥesheq Shelomoh. He is currently co-authoring the annotated edition of the 15th century manuscript containing the Arragel Bible and Commentary.
Contact: test@email.com
F. Javier Pueyo Mena
Co-Applicant
Kelly Romero
PhD in Psychopathology of children, adolescents and adults. Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (Spain). Currently: MA in Education. University of British Columbia. Okanagan Campus.
Kelly Romero
Antonio Rubio Flores
Antonio R. Rubio Flores (Córdoba, 1965) holds a PhD in Romance Philology from the University of Granada. He has been a professor of Spanish Literature at Duke University, and won a position as Spanish Advisor at the Missouri University of Columbia. He was part of rock bands in the 90’s as a producer, composer, lyricist and multi-instrumentalist. He is currently a professor at the University of Granada and director of the Research Group “Rhetoric of the image, text and medieval sound”, in which he has published numerous scientific papers related to the work of Alfonso X the Wise and the troubadours. He has received mentions for teaching excellence and transfer of research results. In the area of creation, he has three books of poetry: Las soledades de las salamandras (2010), El paraíso de los perros (2022) and Redención en el dulce reino de Trankimazin (2023).
Antonio Rubio Flores
Co-Applicant
Jalal Sarrami
Jalal Sarrami holds a BSc in Horticultural Science from Isfahan University of Technology and an MSc in Landscape Design from the University of Tehran. He is currently pursuing an MA in Digital Arts & Humanities at UBC Okanagan to further enhance his expertise. His extensive experience in landscape design is enhanced by his personal enthusiasm for jewelry design, demonstrating his wide array of interests in creativity. Jalal’s expertise in technical matters and artistic sensibilities showcase his dedication to the aesthetics of the environment and his passion for creative self-expression.”
Jalal Sarrami
Graduate Student
Michael Eberle Sinatra
Michael E. Sinatra is Professor of English at the Université de Montréal. Trained as a Romanticist at Oxford and a specialist of Leigh Hunt, he has been involved in electronic publications and digital humanities for twenty years. He is the founding editor of the SSHRC-funded e-journal Romanticism on the Net (founded in February 1996). With Marcello VItali-Rosati, he launched an innovative collection entitled “Parcours numériques” in the spring of 2014, which includes their volume Manuel des pratiques de l’édition numérique. He is also the team leader of the FRQSC-funded “Groupe de recherche sur les éditions critiques en contexte numérique“.
Sinatra is the Director of Research Dissemination of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2015-2017, re-elected 2017-2019). He is a member of the comité de coordination of the francophone DH association Humanistica (2014-2016, re-elected 2016-2019), and the past President of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Société canadienne des humanités numériques (for which he served as President (French) from 2009 to 2015). He was also the president of the CFI-funded project Synergies: The Canadian Information Network for Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities (2007-2012).
Michael Eberle Sinatra
Co-Applicant
Annie Wan
Dr Annie WAN is an international digital media scholar, primarily research interests in adopting extended realities technologies for well-being and for social good. In 2012 she earned a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Washington, United States (one of the Public Ivies, ranked 16th best in the World (ARWU 2020)), in Digital Arts and Experimental Media. She grew up in Singapore and UK, has been living in Sweden and the US.
Wan was a Course Leader of BA Virtual Reality in the University of the Arts London, an Assistant Professor in Hong Kong Baptist University and Hong Kong Education University. She was the Principle Investigator of a European Commission’s European Regional Development Fund funded project, ACE IT, which supports London-based start-ups and SMEs to conceptualise, research and develop innovative products and services in the area of virtual/ augmented/ mixed reality/ mobile solutions in 2020-2022.
Her creative works have been exhibited in festivals in Europe, Asia and North America, including Hong Kong Human Rights Art Prize 2018, Art Neureau: A neuroscience- inspired art show in Seattle in 2017, The Hong Kong Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB), Hong Kong in 2015, Hong Kong Contemporary Art Awards 2012 (Hong Kong, China) and International Festival of Creativity, Ogaki Biennale 2010 (Ogaki, Japan), Innovation & Digital Culture (Canary Islands, Spain), ZeroOne/ ISEA 2006 (San Jose, United States), French Pavilion in 10th Venice Architecture Biennale (Venice, Italy), Art +Communication Festival 2004 (Riga, Latvia), Multimedia Art Asia Pacific Conference 2004 (Singapore), etc.
Other past collaborators include West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, Hong Kong Museum of Art and Hong Kong’s Leisure and Cultural Services Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Department of Psychology on the Hong Kong’s first IT platform for mental health and well-being.
Annie Wan
Co-Applicant and Team Coordinator
Leonor Zozaya Montes
Leonor Zozaya-Montes holds a degree (1993/98) and a PhD in History from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM, 2008), where she was Professor of Historiographical Sciences and Techniques (2006/11). She is currently a lecturer at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain). She was a scholarship holder at UCM (1997/98) and at the Institute of History of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC, 1999-2006). She did a research period at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris for a full year (2002/03). She was a FormArte grantee at the Spanish National Library Archive (Madrid, 2012/13). Between 2014 and 2019 she was an FCT post-doctoral fellow at the CHSC of the University of Coimbra. She is the author of about fifty scientific publications. She is principal investigator of the Project on “Archivos, documentos y memoria de la Época Medieval a la Contemporánea”
Contact: leonorzozaya@gmail.com
Leonor Zozaya Montes
Collaborator