TANJA GRUBNIC, Co-Founder and Lead Director of DLC+, is a researcher of digital literary culture and a 2022-2023 Fulbright Scholar at Duke University. She completed her PhD in English in December 2024 at Western University. Her dissertation, titled “Art or Con? Exloring Instapoetry at the Intersection of Influencer Culture, Authour-Entrepreneurism, and Literary Innovation” studies the convergence of artistic and entrepreneurial activity evident in instapoetry, a type of born-digital literature. Her interests include understanding how new readers engage with literature online for therapeutic purposes; the evolution of twenty-first century authorship into an entrepreneurial endeavour; and the shifting purposes of writing in the new attention economy. Follow her on Twitter @tanjagrubnic or Bluesky @tanjagrubnic.bsky.social.

CAMILLA HOLM SOELSETH, Co-Founder and Co-Director of DLC+, has a PhD in Library and Information Science from Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), Norway, where she is currently employed as an assistant professor. She is the current head of the Norwegian national research network for digital humanities and culture organization (DHKO), as well as elected secretary of the organization Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB). She is also a curator of Oslo International Poetry Festival. Her research interests include social media, digital literature, pop culture, cultural metadata, and the use of digital methods in research. You may reach her at [email protected] or follow her on BlueSky at @supercamilla.bsky.social.

KIERA OBBARD (she/her), Co-Director of DLC+, is a poet and the 2024-2026 Michael Ridley Postdoctoral Scholar in Digital Humanities at the University of Guelph, where she studies the feminization and subsequent denigration of women’s writing and associated publishing technologies, from the 19th-century poetess to contemporary social media poets. Her current book project examines the complex social, cultural, technological and economic conditions that have enabled the success of social media poetry in Canada. She completed her SSHRC-funded (CGS-D) PhD in Literary Studies at the University of Guelph in August 2024. Previously, she completed an MA in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory at McMaster University, and a BAH in English and Communication at the University of Ottawa. Kiera is a member of the THINC Lab Executive Committee, a collaborator on the Digital Feminist Network of Canada, and an editorial board member of the Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies.

MAGDALENA KORECKA, Network Officer of DLC+, is a PhD candidate and research associate in the ERC project “Poetry in the Digital Age” at the Universität Hamburg in Germany. In her dissertation, she investigates the interrelation of visual aesthetics and platformization in socially engaged (e.g. feminist) poetry in English, German, and Polish across several social media platforms through a mixed methods approach. She co-organized (with Dr. Wiebke Vorrath) the conference “Poetry and Contemporary Visual Culture / Lyrik und zeitgenössische Visuelle Kultur” (May 2022) and co-edited a subsequent publication. With degrees in “Anglophone Literatures and Cultures” as well as “Journalism and Communication Science” (Universität Wien), her research interests include post-digital socio-political aesthetic spaces, including poetry and art, as well as the methodological and ethical implications of researching them. You may reach her at [email protected] or follow on Twitter at @m_e_korecka.

HANNAH JORGENSEN is is a PhD candidate in English at Duke University. She is working on a dissertation on the influence of the digital on literary character. She was a Rhodes Doctoral Fellow in Computational Humanities and her work includes computational and digital humanities methodologies. She works on contemporary literature, fan studies, popular culture studies, and performance studies, with an abiding interest in readers. She may be reached at [email protected].