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Charlotte Russell Cox
Dr. Charlotte Russell Cox is an Instructional Designer in the Office of e-Learning at North Carolina Central University where she provides support to faculty to create innovative online learning experiences. Dr. Russell Cox previously served as the Instructional Technology Specialist for Academic Computing Services at Technology Campbell University where she assisted faculty members with integrating technology into their courses. Prior to her work in higher education, she was a Technology Teacher and Instructional Technology Specialist/Webmaster in a K-12 school system. Her research interest has a focus on adult learning, online education, professional development, instructional design, MOOCs, and communities of practice. Dr. Russell Cox has fifteen years of experience in the educational technology field. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Education/Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, a Master of Science in Instructional Technology from North Carolina A&T State University, and an E-Learning graduate certificate from North Carolina State University. She earned her doctoral degree in the Adult and Community College Education program at North Carolina State University. -
Mary Borgo Ton
As a scholar of nineteenth-century visual culture and global history, I am particularly excited to support Black Studies projects that incorporate multimedia and intertextual sources. My enthusiasm for digital publication platforms like Scalar stem for their ability to offer interactive reading experiences. Designing a digital born dissertation transformed my writing process, teaching me how to pivot to multiple audiences and modes of scholarly communication. These experiences have made me eager to help authors adapt their own writing processes to digital publishing workflows. Whether it’s brainstorming how to make multiple paths through your material or making the transition to digital publishing as smooth as possible, I’m delighted to support you at any stage of the publication process. Before joining the IOPN team, I earned my Ph.D. in British Literature with a concentration in Victorian literature and a Graduate Certificate in Digital Arts and Humanities from Indiana University. My background in teaching professional writing and composition has given me a pragmatic approach to writing. Contributing to multimodal digital collections of materials from the global south, including Livingstone Online, One More Voice, and Archivo Mesoamericano, has helped me to synthesize humanities-based interpretive practices with technical expertise. As a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow for Latin America and Caribbean Studies and as the Digital Pedagogy Specialist for the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities at Indiana University, I have honed my pedagogy skills by leading numerous workshops on multimedia writing and digital approaches to global history. In my current position, I support authors and editors in all stages of the publication process as they create long-form digital scholarly works in Pressbooks, Omeka, and Scalar for the Illinois Open Publishing Network. -
Dan Tracy
As a member of the AFRO PWW 2 Tech Team and in my role directing the Illinois Open Publishing Network (IOPN), I look forward to teaching digital publishing concepts to participants in the Institute and working with authors and editors seeking to publish their projects through the AFRO-PWW series at IOPN. My research, across different disciplines, has engaged with design for imagined and real audiences in both print and digital contexts. My dissertation work and related publications examined how United States mass magazines in the early twentieth century imagined their audiences and created ideas about experimental modernism on a large scale. In my work in the library, I focus more specifically on user experience of digital publications and digital publishing platforms. How do digital publications impact the ways users read and absorb academic and literary writing, and what are the implications for thinking about audience when creating a digital publication—especially if it departs from the design of traditional books or articles? How can we make digital publishing platforms easy to use and create for those audiences? At the University of Illinois Library, I am an Associate Professor and Head, Scholarly Communication and Publishing. Before my work in the library, I received a PhD in English and MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois. At IOPN I help develop strategic partnerships, publishing policy, and manage our relationships with journals, as well as participating in outreach, education, and consultation work with authors and editors. -
Alex Dryden
In my role as the visiting research programmer for IOPN, much of my work takes place behind the scenes, where I manage the technical infrastructure that supports the IOPN publication platforms. So, as a member of the AFRO PWW 2 Tech Team, I am looking forward to helping scholars learn how to use our publishing systems. Before joining the IOPN team, I earned a Master of Science in Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, studying digital librarianship, web design, and data analytics. My research interests include using automated text analysis methods to better understand and manage collections. I also hold an MFA in Poetry from The New School, which I used to teach literature and creative writing in New York City before joining IOPN. My literature interests focused on collage, recombination and erasure, and I appreciate the ways that digital publishing allows authors and readers to rethink how they engage with texts. I am excited to explore with authors the many new ways we can leverage digital publishing and open access publishing to meet their professional and research goals. In the Institute, I can help you better understand the functions and capabilities of our publishing systems, learn and implement various web technologies, and troubleshoot any technical issues you encounter.