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Professor Leah Tether is a specialist in medieval literature, book history and publishing in the Department of English. She has a particular interest in the materiality of medieval books related to the legend of King Arthur. She is the President of the International Arthurian Society鈥檚 British Branch, International Secretary of the International Courtly Literature Society and Editor-in-Chief of the global Journal of the International Arthurian Society. Professor Tether made international news when she identified fragments of a 13th-century copy of an Old French manuscript of the Merlin story hidden in a library. This discovery is the subject of a new book called 'The Bristol Merlin: Text and Context'. Her work on the connections between medieval and digital reading practices, the history of the UK's second oldest paper mill, and the discovery of a book once belonging to Queen Elizabeth I have also attracted media interest.

Education
2004 - MA Medieval French Literature, Durham University, 2009 - PhD Medieval French Literature, 
Durham University

Accomplishments
2014 - Awarded Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, 2018 - Elected President of the International Arthurian Society British Branch, 2019 - Elected International Secretary of the International Courtly Literature SocietyPublishing

Dance legend, Liz Lerman, is a choreographer, performer, writer, educator and speaker and recipient of numerous honors. 
A key aspect of her artistry is opening her process to various publics from shipbuilders to physicists, resulting in both research and outcomes that are participatory, relevant, urgent, and usable by others.

Lerman was named the first Institute Professor at ASU鈥檚 Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts in 2016 and is the recipient of numerous honors, including a 2002 MacArthur "Genius Grant" and a 2011 United States Artists Ford Fellowship in Dance.

She founded Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in 1976 and led it until 2011. She conducts residencies on Critical Response Process, creative research, the intersection of art and science, and the building of narrative within dance performance at such institutions as Harvard University, Yale School of Drama, Wesleyan University, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and the National Theatre Studio among others. 

Department: English, Libraries 
Areas of expertise:

Digital Humanities
Artificial intelligence and machine learning
Digital libraries and museums
Open access and scholarly publishing 

Nowviskie is the Dean of Libraries and a professor of English. She was previously the executive director of the Digital Library Federation and a Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Distinguished Presidential Fellow. She was president of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and chair of the Modern Language Association’s Committee on Information Technology. 
Her research interests include digital humanities, digital libraries, community-based archives, Nineteenth-century literature, material culture, textual criticism, machine learning, environmental humanities in the context of climate change, indigenous ways of knowing and the history of the book. 
Nowviskie earned a bachelor's degree in English and archaeology at the University of Virginia, a master's degree in English education at Wake Forest University and a doctorate in English at the University of Virginia.

Zachary Turpin joined the English Department at University of Idaho in 2017. His research focuses on nineteenth-century periodical culture, archival research methods, digital humanities, and the history of epistemology and the sciences. Prior to joining U of I, he rediscovered two book-length works by the poet Walt Whitman: a novella (Life and Adventures of Jack Engle, 1852) and an urban men’s wellness manifesto (Manly Health and Training, 1858). Besides hunting for further possible Whitman publications, Turpin has worked with a number of collaborators to uncover unaccounted-for periodical works by American authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including Rebecca Harding Davis, Emma Lazarus, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Anne Sexton, and Cormac McCarthy.
In 2017, he became a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress (Washington, DC), and in 2020 he was awarded a short-term Peterson Fellowship by the American Antiquarian Society (Worcester, MA). His teaching experience includes courses on American literature pre-1865, archival research methods, Great American Novels of the nineteenth century, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, nineteenth-century women’s literature, American Transcendentalism, and academic and professional writing.