Organizing Committee

 

Thank you to this year’s Organizing Committee!

Danyse Golick is a PhD student in the English Department and the Book History and Print Culture Collaborative Program at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include digital literary communities, fandom, and contemporary North American literature.

Annie Heckman is a PhD student in the Department for the Study of Religion and the Book History and Print Culture Collaborative Program at the University of Toronto. Her research explores how depictions of craft and labor appear across genres in pre-modern Tibetan Buddhist institutions, and how these depictions relate to known material realities of resource extraction and the construction of public projects. She is the founder and owner of StepSister Press, a small publishing company based in the Chicago area, and worked as a studio artist and faculty member at DePaul University for several years before returning to her studies. She holds a BFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago, an MFA from New York University, both in Studio Art; and an MA in the Study of Religion with a focus on Buddhist Studies from the University of Toronto. Annie has participated in several research teams, including “Story Nations: The Diary of a Missionary on Ojibwe Land” with Pamela Klassen, “Nettle: Tibetan Language Learning Online” with Frances Garrett, and “Buddhism from the Margins: Marginalia, Colophons, and other Codicological Considerations in the Dating and Assessment of Chinese and Tibetan Ritual Manuscripts from Dunhuang” with Amanda K. Goodman. 

Olena Karbach is a Master of Information student at the University of Toronto in the Library Science, Information and Knowledge Management streams. Olena is also part of the Collaborative Program in Book History and Print Culture. She holds a B.A.Hons. and M.A. in Art History and Curatorial Studies from York University where she specialized in Medieval Art, Architecture and Architectural Revival styles. Her professional and research interests include early printed books, medieval manuscripts and cultural history of the Middle Ages, special collections, and book illustration.

Roxanne Korpan is a doctoral student in the Department for the Study of Religion and the Collaborative Program in Book History and Print Culture at the University of Toronto, and completed her MA and BA (Honours) at the University of Regina. Roxanne’s research centres on print culture, colonialism, and North American religion. Her dissertation project examines the colonial ideologies and material and economic infrastructures supporting and supported by Bible translation, publication, and distribution in nineteenth-century Canada. Roxanne is a Research Trainee with Dr. Pamela Klassen (Department for the Study of Religion); Fellow in the research group “Material Economies of Religion in the Americas” with the Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion at Yale University; member of the Jackman Humanities Institute working group “Decolonial Disruptions: Indigenous Literatures of Turtle Island;” Graduate Student Member-at-Large for the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion; and a Teaching Assistant (Department for the Study of Religion). Roxanne is also a professional contemporary dance artist and letterpress Printing Apprentice in the Massey College Bibliography Room at the University of Toronto.

Philippe Mongeau is a Master’s student in the Faculty of Information and the Book History and Print Culture Collaborative Program at the University of Toronto. He currently works as a Toronto Academic Library Intern at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. He also serves as Editor of The Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Canada. His research interests center around early Canadian literary publishing and reception history, with a particular emphasis on longform narrative poetry. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University.