WWP People

WWP Staff

The WWP currently has four permanent staff:

• Director: Julia Flanders
• Senior XML Programmer/Analyst: Syd Bauman
• XML Applications Programmer: Ash Clark
• Associate Director: Sarah Connell

Current Research and Encoding Specialists

• Amina Alhassan
• Emily Boyer
• Mia Jeffries
• Jennie Koh
• Cassidy Loft
• Maisie Saganic
• Colleen Nugent
• Emily O’Brien
• Emily Sullivan
• Catherine Trusky

Current WWP Interns and Research Fellows

• Laura Deluca

Our text encoding has been done by a team of current and past graduate and undergraduate students. Job openings are posted at the Northeastern University Student Employment web site, but for information please contact us at wwp@neu.edu.

WWP Advisory Board

Executive Committee

• Nicole Aljoe, Northeastern University
• Elizabeth Dillon, Northeastern University
• Lara Dodds, Professor of English, Mississippi State University
• Isobel Grundy, Professor Emerita of English, University of Alberta
• Jessica H. Lu, University of Maryland
• Kirsten Mendoza, University of Dayton
• Melinda Rabb, Professor of English, Brown University
• Jacqueline Wernimont, Dartmouth College
• Heather Wolfe, Curator of Manuscripts and Archivist, Folger Shakespeare Library

WWP Collaborators

Pedagogical Development Consultants

• Amanda Barnett, Texas Christian University
• Liza Blake, University of Toronto
• Sandra Burr, Northern Michigan University
• Susan Civale, Canterbury Christ Church University
• Jaime Goodrich, Wayne State University
• Jessica Kane, University of Michigan
• Christopher Leary, Queensborough Community College
• Marina Leslie, Northeastern University
• Paschalina Minou, Independent Scholar
• Victoria Muñoz, The City University of New York, Hostos Community College
• Christopher Leary, Queensborough Community College
• Jason Payton, Sam Houston State University
• Kevin Smith, Northeastern University
• Amanda Stuckey, York College of Pennsylvania
• Deborah Uman, St. John Fisher College
• Shu Wan, SUNY Buffalo
• Tanya Zhelezcheva, Queensborough Community College

Research Partners

• Kristen Bennett
• Kasra Ghorbaninejad
• Jill Makin
• Olivia Mastrosimone
• Mary Erica Zimmer

WWP Alumni

Former Staff and Affiliates

The following people have contributed to the WWP in a variety of capacities, and we gratefully acknowledge their work!

• Elaine Brennan: Assistant Director, 1988–1993
• Ann Caldwell: Consulting Librarian, Brown University, 2004–2013
• Dominique Coulombe: Consulting Librarian, 1999–2004
• Carol DeBoer-Langworthy: Project Director, 1994–1998
• Maria Fish: Project Administrator, 1992–1995
• Walter Frieberger: Consultant on the WWP’s RWO research, 1997–1999
• Wendy King: License Manager, 1999–2000
• John Lavagnino: Textbase Editor, 1994–1997
• Carole Mah: Programmer/Analyst, 1993–1999
• John Melson: Textbase Editor and Project Manager, 2008–2013
• Karen Murphy: Project Administrator, 1995–1998
• Richard Noble: Consulting Bibliographer, Brown University, 2000–2013
• Alicia Peaker: Project Manager, 2013–2014
• Allen Renear: Project Co-director, 1993–1994
• Elena Rivera: Senior Encoder, 1997–1999
• Helen Schmierer: Consulting Librarian, 1999–2004
• Kristen Soule: Student Computing Coordinator
• Lisa Vaillancourt: License Manager, 2000–2002
• Paul Caton, Electronic Publications Manager, 1994–2007
• Jacqueline Wernimont: Project Manager and Textbase Editor, 2007–2008
• Susanne Woods: Project Director and Co-director, 1988–1994

Former Students

Over the years the WWP has been fortunate to have an extraordinary (and extensive) staff of student encoders and proofreaders, who because of their sheer numbers are listed separately here.

Founding Advisors

Patricia Caldwell

Stuart Curran

Margaret Ezell

Elizabeth Hageman

Susanne Woods

Former Advisors

The WWP gratefully acknowledges the advice and support we have received from former members of our advisory and research boards:

• Patricia Akhimie
• Kristin Allukian
• Elaine Beilin
• Susan Brown
• Elizabeth Bryan
• Victoria Burke
• Vera Camden
• Dominique Coulombe
• Carol DeBoer-Langworthy
• Marilyn Deegan
• James Egan
• Stephen Foley
• Neil Fraistat
• Elizabeth Hageman
• Margaret Hannay
• Elaine Hobby
• Marina Leslie
• Joanne Leedom-Ackerman
• Sarah McNamer
• Naomi Miller
• Elan Paulson
• Allen Renear
• C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
• Katherine Singer
• Sara Jayne Steen
• Samuel Streit
• Kathryn Sutherland
• Merrily Taylor
• Janet Todd
• Georgianna Ziegler

The Women Writers Project reports to the Director of the Digital Scholarship Group at Northeastern University.