Current Staff

Maria Bonn (Michigan, project manager)
Maria is the Director of the Scholarly Publishing Office (SPO) at the University of Michigan Library. She has a 1990 PhD in English Literature from the State University of NY at Buffalo, with a specialization in contemporary American fiction. She also earned a 1997 Masters of Information from The University of Michigan School of Information. In her role as Director of SPO she designs and oversees efforts to explore and develop library-based electronic publishing and manages publishing partnerships with commercial and non-profit organizations.

Olivia Bottum (Michigan, Evans reviewer)
Olivia holds an MA in English from the University of Michigan, with a concentration in early English language and literature. She worked for 15 years on the production staff of the Middle English Dictionary, including four years as Head of Production. The MED production department handled the copy editing of the MED's entries, the proof-reading of its numerous Middle English (and Latin and French) quotations, and the layout of its dense pages.

Simon Charles (Oxford, ECCO reviewer)
Simon studied the history and communication of eighteenth-century ideas (in particular, the pre-Romantic response to industrialisation) during a first degree in environmental studies and an MA in English. He has worked in the publishing industry since 1989, as, at various times, academic bookseller, proofreader, copy-editor, production editor (for both books and journals). His more recent work has included editing, encoding, and proofreading for Oxford University Press (from scientific journals to English dictionaries and the Dictionary of National Biography) and for the Bodleian Library.

Jason Colman (Michigan, half-time TCP workflow manager and EEBO reviewer)
Jason Colman holds a BA in History from the University of Michigan, where he wrote his honors thesis on the Chronica Majora Sancti Albani of Matthew Paris and was the co-founder of the Michigan Squirrel Club. He is currently on the verge of completing a master's degree from the School of Information at Michigan. As workflow manager, he manages the intake, validation, and distribution for proofing of thousands of encoded SGML texts each month for the EEBO, Evans, and ECCO projects. His other interests include digital preservation, video encoding, and technical writing.

Sian Davies (LlGC, Aberystwyth, part-time EEBO reviewer)
Golygydd llyfrau yn yr iaith Gymraeg.

Taryn Hakala (Michigan, part-time EEBO reviewer)
Taryn is working toward her PhD in English at the University of Michigan.

Emma (Leeson) Huber (Oxford, EEBO reviewer)
Emma has a BA in French and German from Oxford University. She has recently completed an MScEcon in Information and Library Studies by distance learning, from the University of Wales at Aberystwyth. Prior to working on the EEBO project Emma worked for the Head of the Systems and Electronic Resources Service (SERS) in an administrative capacity. She has attended conferences and summer schools on XML, XSLT and the TEI. More recently, Emma has divided her time between TCP and her position as Assistant Librarian at Linacre college, Oxford.

Alexis (Ali) Jakobson (Michigan, ECCO and Evans reviewer)
Currently based in Chicago, Ali is a graduate of the University of Michigan with an arts degree and experience in web design.

Morfudd Nia Jones (LlGC, Aberystwyth, part-time EEBO reviewer)
Golygydd llyfrau yn yr iaith Gymraeg.

John Latta (Michigan, EEBO reviewer and text Selector)
John received his AB in English from Cornell University, where he founded the literary magazine Chiaroscuro. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Virginia and a PhD in English at the State University of New York, Albany. John's first collection of poems, Rubbing Torsos, appeared in 1979 (Ithaca House). A new collection, Breeze, winner of the 2003 Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry, was published in 2002 by the University of Notre Dame Press. John has received numerous awards, including two creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. His poems have appeared in dozens of magazines and other publications, including Boston Review, New American Writing, the Gettysburg Review, Jacket, and Chicago Review. John joined the staff of Michigan's Digital Library Production Service in 2000 to manage the proofreading and markup review of texts belonging to the online Corpus of Middle English as well as several other electronic text projects, before becoming the first reviewer for EEBO TCP early in 2001. He had previously worked in several other Library departments (Cataloguing, Preservation, Serials); as a French-to-English translator in Paris; and as the editor, publisher, designer, and typesetter for a small press in Ithaca, New York.

Scott Lepisto (Michigan, part-time EEBO reviewer)
Scott is a 2006 graduate of the University of Michigan in classical languages and plans to take up graduate study in classics in the fall of 2009.

Mona Logarbo (Michigan, EEBO reviewer)
Mona earned her BA in English and French at Louisiana State University, her MA in romance philology at the same university, and her PhD in medieval English, theology, and Latin paleography at Fordham. After teaching at Fordham University and Bellarmine College, she came to Michigan to join the staff of the Middle English Dictionary, where she worked for ten years as a lexicographer, editor, and proofreader. Mona has also logged thousands of miles on the footpaths and national trails of the UK, including the Pennine Way, Wainwright's Coast-to-Coast Path, the West Highland Way, the Dales Way, Offa's Dike Path, St. Cuthbert's Way, etc., many of them several times.

Megan Marion (Michigan, part-time EEBO reviewer)
Megan earned her BA in art history from the University of Michigan, and is currently a Masters student at the UM School of Information specializing in preservation.

John Pas (Michigan, EEBO reviewer)
John is a 2006 graduate of the University of Michigan in classical languages (with a minor in history).

Lauren Proux (Michigan, part-time EEBO reviewer)
Lauren holds a BA in psychology and an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan.

Mark Sandler (CIC, Head of Library Initiatives; formerly Michigan collection development officer)
As the Collection Development Officer for the University of Michigan, Mark was primarily responsible for inventing the TCP and making it a reality. Mark holds a PhD in Sociology from Michigan State University and an MLS from the University of Michigan. While not schooled in the content of historic corpora like those produced by TCP, Mark's interest in the Text Creation Partnership project grew out of the licensing terms and business arrangements that draw on the respective strengths and needs of academic communities and commercial scholarly publishers. Having moved to the CIC, Mark continues to take an active interest in the TCP's activities and future.

Paul Schaffner (Michigan, production manager)
Paul did his undergraduate work at Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges and at the Universities of Pennsylvania and Cambridge, receiving a BA in early English from Haverford and an MA in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic from Cambridge, followed by a PhD in early English, French, Welsh, and Norse from Cornell and an MLS from the School of Information at the University of Michigan. He came to Michigan in 1989 to join the staff of the Middle English Dictionary where he worked as a lexicographer for eight years. In 1997 he moved to the University Library to manage the production of an electronic version of the MED and the other components of Michigan's online Middle English Compendium. In 1999 he took on overall management of electronic text production for the library's Digital Library Production Service, in which capacity he now supervises the production of TCP texts. In his spare time he manages technical services for Jackson (Michigan) Community College library, serves as the cataloguer for his church library, and catalogues his own accumulation of 10,000+ books and old hand tools.

Judith Siefring (Oxford, EEBO reviewer)
Judith comes from a background in Early English literature. She did her first degree in English Language and Literature at Glasgow University, which she followed up with postgraduate work at Oxford University, specialising in early medieval lives of female saints. Before joining EEBO TCP, she worked for three years as an editor in the English dictionaries department at Oxford University Press. Like Emma, Judith has attended conferences and summer schools on XML, XSLT and the TEI.

Pip Willcox (Oxford, EEBO reviewer)
Pip is a medievalist with experience on the Malory Project, the Canterbury Tales Project, and an electronic edition of an early paper Chaucer manuscript (CUL Dd.4.24).

In addition to the current staff, thanks are due to the following editors (proof-readers and reviewers) who have worked on the TCP texts before moving on to better things: (Michigan part-timers) Sarah Allison, Robyn Anspach, Stephanie Batkie, Angela Berkley, Jason Bredle, John Cords, Robert Cosgrove, Kirk Davis, Sara Gothard, Daniel Haig, Elspeth Healey, Tonya Howe, Simon Hyoun, Marika Ismail, Dave Karczynski, Jennifer Kietzman, Derek Lee, Allison Liefer, Rachel Losh, Celeste Ng, Sean Norton, Haley Pierson, Melanie Sanders, Chris Scherer, Jonathan Smith, Anna Van Cleave, and Amanda Watson; (at Toronto) Lisa Chen, Nicole Fallon, Christian Knudsen, Kris Kobold, Milton Kooistra, Jess Paehlke, and Sean Winslow; and (full-time Oxford) Jonathan Blaney, (full-time Michigan) Andrew Kuster, Ben Griffin, and Rina Kor. Also to Shawn Martin, TCP project outreach librarian.