MyNDIR

Trish Baer received her Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in the departments of English and History in Art from the University of Victoria in 2013. Her Interdisciplinary dissertation “An Old Norse Image Hoard: From the Analog Past to the Digital Present” was nominated for “The Governor General’s Gold Medal Award.” Her doctoral dissertation unites the long-established field of Old Norse Studies with the emerging field of Digital Humanities.

In addition to exploring the transmission, reception, and remediation of illustrations, Baer’s dissertation documents the creation of a digital image repository named: MyNDIR (My Norse Digital Image Repository). MyNDIR was launched at the UVic’s Digital Humanities Summer Institute (June 2013) and was awarded the 2013-14 “Digital Humanities Praxis Innovation Award.” Baer was awarded a Social Sciences and Research Council Insight Development Grant (2020 – 2023) for Visualizations of Norse Myths for Children in the Victorian and Edwardian Eras (1837-1915).

Martin Holmes is a programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre, specializing in digital editions and XML technologies.

Patrick works as a web designer at Humanities Computing and Media Centre. From mobile phones to desktop screens, he cares about how a website looks, reads, and performs for its viewers.

Gabrielle Eisenberg is a Greek and Roman Studies major and a Film minor, and a student in the Humanities Scholars Program at UVic. Gabrielle has studied the relationship between theory and myth. She is interested in the transmission and reception of mythology throughout the ancient Indo-European region up to the present day.

Sage Dunn-Krahn is an undergraduate student of Medieval Studies at UVic. They are especially interested in Norse Mythology, modern medievalism, gender transgression in early modern France and Mughal India. They work as a researcher and xml coder on MyNDIR.

They have also worked as a researcher on Perfecta, a digital project headed by Helene Cazes.

Joe Hansen is a Medieval Studies and Creative Writing Student at UVic. He is descended from Danish immigrants to the Pacific North West and has always been fascinated with the old stories since he first played Age of Mythology. His interests include the translation of the Middle Ages to modern times in pop cultural artifacts from Fantasy novels to "realistic" video games.

Camryn Cutter is a second year English student at the University of Victoria. She worked on MyNDIR for her HUMA 295 practicum in 2021 and joined the team in June 2021. Her interests include law, fairytales and folklore, and mythology.

Camille Laliberte is an English and Philosophy student at the University of Victoria. She has been on the MyNDIR project since 2020. Her research interests include the studies of fairy and folk tales in literature and culture.

Chloe Mee is an English Honours student starting her third year at the University of Victoria. She is working with MyNDIR through the Humanities Scholars Program starting in August 2023. Her research interests include Victorian fiction and the periodical press.

Gabrielle Eisenberg is a Greek and Roman Studies major and a Film minor, and a student in the Humanities Scholars Program at UVic. Gabrielle has studied the relationship between theory and myth. She is interested in the transmission and reception of mythology throughout the ancient Indo-European region up to the present day.

Haley England is a first-year Linguistics student at the University of Victoria with an interest in language acquisition. Haley researched biographical information and identified monograms for MyNDIR.

Trinity Blacklock is a first year Humanities university student at UVic. She contributed to the MyNDIR project by researching authors and illustrators in order to help create biographies. Going forward, Trinity plans to study History and English, before entering into the Education program.