Center for Digital Humanities and Culture

Dr. Adrian S. Wisnicki, Dr. Kenneth Sherwood, Dr. Gian Pagnucci(not pictured)

Dr. Gian Pagnucci is Chair of IUP’s Department of English. He was selected as IUP’s University Professor for 2009-2010, IUP’s highest academic award. He has been an English faculty member at IUP for 17 years. Dr. Pagnucci’s teaching specialties are technical writing, composition, and technology-based pedagogy. He has won a Reflective Practice Teaching Award and an international award for innovative teaching with technology. Dr. Pagnucci is the author of Living the Narrative Life: Stories as a Tool for Meaning Making, published Heinemann Boynton/Cook. He also was co-editor for Re-Mapping Narrative: Technology’s Impact on the Way We Write, published by Hampton Press. In addition, Dr. Pagnucci has published in such leading journals as Computers and Composition, English Journal, and English Education. While these other accomplishments are nice, he is probably most proud of writing the book Don’t Count Your Chickens! Stories for Kids to Tell, a big hit with children at library story hours across the country.

Dr. Kenneth Sherwood, Associate Professor of English, co-founded the Center for Digital Humanities and Culture at IUP. He has designed and taught graduate courses in contemporary Electronic Literature, Digital Scholarship in English Studies, and Digital Teaching; most recently he proposed and has taught the workshop in Digital Writing for the undergraduate writing track. He conducts research in poetics, oral performance, digital culture, and new media literature. He edited poet Louis Zukofsky's A Useful Art Essays and Radio Scripts on American Design (Wesleyan UP, 2003). His research in oral performance “Elaborate Versionings: Characteristics of Emergent Performance in Three Print/Oral/ Aural Poets” (Oral Tradition 21.1) is reflected in the prototype website http://www.audibleword.org. His engagement with digital culture and writing dates back to 1993, when he co-founded the first “e-zine” of postmodern literature at SUNY Buffalo. In 2009, he curated an exhibition of new media literature along with graduate students at Indiana University of PA; the companion website can be found at http://readingrebooted.iupdhc.org. He has been actively involved in academic computing at IUP, leading a digital repository initiative, proposing IUP's blog service, and implementing prototype wiki, audio blogging (http://www.i-cast.org) and digital journal services. Currently, he chairs the ACPAC Emerging Technology Committee. A published poet and oral performer, his chapbooks include That Risk, Text2 Box, and Hard Return. He also presents original, digitally-mediated creative writing. Current research focuses on the programming language and development tool "Processing" as a composition environment for poetry.

Dr. Adrian S. Wisnicki has recently joined IUP as Assistant Professor of Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Co-Director of the DHC. He is also Project Director of the David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project (http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/), Project Co-Director of Livingstone Online (http://www.livingstoneonline.ucl.ac.uk/), and an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London. Adrian specializes in nineteenth-century British literature, colonial and postcolonial literature, and the digital humanities. His most recent research explores the role of intercultural dynamics in the development of Victorian colonial literature and discourse, especially in the context of Africa. He also has interests in collaborative digital project development, and in the application of advanced digital imaging to the study of damaged nineteenth-century manuscripts. Wisnicki’s monograph, Conspiracy, Revolution, and Terrorism from Victorian Fiction to the Modern Novel (2008), is published by Routledge. Articles have appeared in Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, Studies in Travel Writing, History in Africa, and the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. His research projects have been funded by grants from the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities and the British Academy.