Phoebe Zerwick is an Associate Professor of the Practice in the English Department, where she teaches writing and journalism. She comes to the digital humanities from a career in journalism, where digital tools have transformed storytelling and the reporting and distribution of the news.  She uses digital platforms in her writing and journalism classes to share student work with a readership outside the classroom. She also uses multimedia to produce web-based, public humanities projects, among them “Story of My Life” and the “Yadkin River Story.”

Dr. Jerid Francom, Associate Professor of Spanish & Linguistics. Dr. Francom’s research focuses on the use of large-scale language archives (‘corpora’) from a variety of sources (news, social media, and other internet sources) to better understand the linguistic and cultural similarities and differences between varieties of the Spanish language (native dialect and non-native/ learner language) for both scholarly and pedagogical projects. He has published on topics including the development, annotation, and evaluation of corpora and explored computational methodologies such as text classification and clustering algorithms. He has experience working with and teaching web development, database design, and scripting languages such as R and Python.

As an archivist, I have long been interested in creating connections between researchers, students, the communities in which we live, and the historical record, which documents who we are. The digital humanities offers new ways of sharing and seeing the record of the past, and I consider myself an active collaborator in representing the archival perspective. Participating in the St. Benedict the Moor Catholic Church anniversary project has been a tremendous experience, allowing me to assist both a community church and Wake Forest students engaged in learning.

I have been teaching U.S. and regional history for 25 years, 16 of them at Wake Forest, and I have always been interested in the ways learning about the past can help students engage more fully in the communities around them. My recent partnership with students, staff, and community members on documenting the history of St. Benedict the Moor Catholic Church, and my introduction to the Digital Humanities work of my colleagues through the DH Community’s DH Kitchen, has opened my eyes to the sharing of information and the building of broader communities that making humanities work digital invites.

Cindy Hill is a documentary filmmaker and Teaching Professor at Wake Forest University. She currently serves as Co-Director of the Documentary Film Program and teaches courses in media production, documentary storytelling and media story editing. Cindy joined the Wake Forest University faculty in 2010.

Cindy has worked on numerous film projects that have aired nationally on PBS and have been distributed internationally. Most recently she has served as an associate director for The Last Flight of Petr Ginz, which screened in more than 40 countries and is available in seven languages, and as a co-director for Living in the Overlap, which has won four best short film festival awards and has screened in more than a dozen countries. At present, she is working on two film projects—Five Minutes, an animated documentary short about regenerative medicine and wounded vets—and The Silence of War, a transmedia project about a small group of African-American vets from rural North Carolina who are slowly coming to terms with their PTSD.