Contact Information

Citizenship: United States of America and Republic of Lithuania (European Union)

Appointments

• Research Data Librarian, Research Data Services, Columbia University Libraries, Columbia University, New York, NY 2018–present
• Assistant Professor / Faculty Fellow, Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, New York University, New York, NY 2015–2018
• Lecturer, Department of Philosophy and Communication, Faculty of Creative Industries, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania 2014–2015

Education

University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

• PhD, English Language and Literature, 2014.
  • Dissertation: “The Site of the Novel: Objects in American Realism, 1930–1940”
  • Advisors: Lauren Berlant & Kenneth W. Warren
• AM, English Language and Literature, 2005.
• AB, English Language and Literature, 2004.

Honors

Fellowships

• Walter and Carol Blair Dissertation-Year Fellowship. University of Chicago, 2012–2013.
• Assistantship in Learning Technologies. University of Chicago, 2011–2012.
• Assistantship in Learning Technologies. University of Chicago, 2010–2011.
• Assistantship in Learning Technologies. University of Chicago, 2009–2011.

Awards

• General Honors, Honors in English Language and Literature. University of Chicago, 2004.

Grants

• Co-PI, “The Whys and Hows of Exceptional Scholarship and Research Data,” with Jonathan O. Cain and Jeremiah Trinidad-Christensen. Provost Interdisciplinary Teaching Award, $13,203. Columbia University, 2021–present.
• Project Teammember, “Increasing COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence,” with Rishi K. Goyal and Dennis Yi Tenen, Co-Leads. Columbia World Projects, Columbia University, 2021–present.
• Consultant, “COVID Information Commons Extension.” National Science Foundation, 2021.
• Consultant, “COVID Information Commons.” National Science Foundation, 2020.
• Consultant, “Towards an Understanding of Sustainability of Web-Based Digital Mapping Projects.” Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2019.
• Co-Organizer, “Mapping the Text 2018” Conference. Department of English Committee on Events and Public Programming Grant, $3000. New York University, 2018.
• Co-Organizer, “Mapping the Text 2018” Conference. Center for the Humanities Grants-in-Aid Grant, $1800. New York University, 2018.
• European Commission Erasmus+ Staff Teaching Mobility Grant, €989. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, 2015.
• European Commission Erasmus+ Staff Teaching Mobility Grant, €683. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, 2014.
• European Union Structural Fund Grant for Short-Term Scholarly Visit, €2,323. Research Council of Lithuania, 2014.
• Division of the Humanities Conference Grant, $400, University of Chicago, 2014.

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles & Chapters

• Fernández Quintanilla, Sylvia, Marissa López, and Moacir P. de Sá Pereira. “Introduction.” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 49, no. 1 (2024): 133–148. doi: 10.1525/azt.2024.49.1.133.
• “Chicago Ecology and James T. Farrell’s Studs Lonigan.” Chicago: A Literary History, ed. Frederik Byrn Køhlert. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. doi: 10.1017/9781108763738.018
• “Mixed Methodological Digital Humanities.” Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019, ed. Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019.

Reports

• Kreitz, Kelley, Marissa López, Lorena Gauthereau, and Moacir P. de Sá Pereira. “Pursuing the Potential of Digital Mapping in Latinx Studies: A White Paper for the NEH Office of Digital Humanities on Launching the ‘SIGuache’ Network.” HAA-277190-21. National Endowment for the Humanities. 2022. https://securegrants.neh.gov/publicquery/main.aspx?f=1&gn=HAA-277190-21.
• Kurgan, Laura J., Nancy Maron, Barbara A. Rockenbach, Moacir P. de Sá Pereira, and Jeremiah Trinidad-Christensen. “Towards an Understanding of Sustainability of Web-Based Digital Mapping Projects.” Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 2019. doi: 10.7916/d8-f8r9-g868.

Reviews

• “Repeating the Past. Carl Abbott. Imagining Urban Futures: Cities in Science-Fiction and What We Might Learn from Them. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 2016. 276 pp. $27.95 hc.” Science Fiction Studies 46, no. 2 (2019): 392–394. doi: 10.5621/sciefictstud.46.2.0392.
• “Toward Spatial Humanities: Historical GIS and Spatial History, by Ian N. Gregory and Alistair Geddes, eds.” The ALH Online Review Series VIII. 2016

Digital Scholarship

• (Un)Silencing Slavery. Celia Naylor, PI. 2022.
• Romans Abroad, alpha. Sailakshmi Ramgopal, PI. Forthcoming.
• Torn Apart / Separados. 2018.
• Plain Plain Text. 2018.
• Simple-CV. 2018.
• The JavaScripting English Major. 2017.
• “Fabula and Sjužet in ‘Wandering Rocks.’” 2017.
• Mapping Expatriate Paris: The Shakespeare and Company Lending Library Project. Princeton University, Joshua Kotin, PI. 2016–2019.

Software Development

• Wandertext, alpha. 2019–present.
• NYWalker. 2015–2018.

Cartography

• “The City of Gilgit and the Village of Shimshal, in Relation to Gilgit-Baltistan” in Ali, Nosheen. Delusional States: Feeling Rule and Development in Pakistan’s Northern Frontier. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. doi: 10.1017/9781108609166
• “Hyderabad State-Bombay Presidency Frontier Zone c. 1900” in Beverley, Eric Lewis. “Frontier as Resource: Law, Crime, and Sovereignty on the Margins of Empire.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 55, no. 2 (2013): 241–272. doi: 10.1017/S0010417513000029.
• “Reorganization of Princely Hyderabad” in Datla, Kavita. The Language of Secular Islam: Urdu Nationalism and Colonial India. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013.
• Multiple maps in Howard, Hugh. Mr. and Mrs. Madison’s War: America’s First Couple and the Second War of Independence. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Press, 2012.
• “Pakistan” in Ahmed, Manan. Where the Wild Frontiers Are: Pakistan and the American Imagination. Charlottesville, VA: Just World Books, 2011.

Popular (Selection)

• “Daina Mattis: Forever Wild.” With Adriana Furlong. Whitehot Magazine. December 2023.
• “Uncle Tom’s Cabin (with Moacir P. de Sá Pereira).” Dark & Stormy Nights podcast. June 13, 2022.
• “Job: A Comedy of Justice (with Moacir P. de Sá Pereira).” Dark & Stormy Nights podcast. November 22, 2021.
• “We Like to Party.” We Made Uranium! And Other True Stories from the University of Chicago’s Extraordinary Scavenger Hunt, ed. Leila Sales. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 171–175.
• “The Whale.” Popula. October 23, 2018.
• “Literatūros tyrinėtojas iš JAV: Andriaus Tapino „Vilko valanda“ įkūnija neoliberalų svajones.” 15min.lt. June 12, 2016.
• “Society and Soccer.” The Classical. March 18, 2014.
• “Paris Is Earning.” The Classical. January 9, 2012.
• “#JamesFrancoFacts.” The Chronicle Review. February 27, 2011.

Presentations

Keynotes & Invited Lectures

• “‘If Englande Crie oute, this Norumbega Offreth the Remedie’ — American Imaginaries after Cartography.” “Under-Mapped Spaces,” David Rumsey Map Center. Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 2022.
• “Cartography after Cartography: Situated Digital Mapping.” IDRH Digital Storytelling Fellows. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 2021.
• “Data Visualization in Literature Studies.” Data in Discourse Analysis. Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, 2020.
• “Torn Apart/Separados: Using Digital Humanities to Fight the Family Separation Crisis,” with Roopika Risam. Annual MLA Conference, Massachusetts Library Association, Framingham, MA, 2019.
• “A presentation and discussion of the digital project Torn Apart/Separados,” with Roopika Risam and Alex Gil. Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 2019.
• “Oedipa’s Rocks: Wandering without a Map,” critical keynote. “Transversing Spaces,” English Graduate Student Organization Conference, University at Albany, Albany, NY, 2018.
• “Romanų kartografija: kiekybinių ir kokybinių tyrimų mišinys.” Lietuvių katalikų mokslo akademija, Putnam, CT, 2017.
• “Data, Data Visualization, and Literary Analysis: From NYWalker to the Essay.” Bobst unCOMMON Salon, New York University, New York, NY, 2017.
• “Making Maps: Mixed Methods and Everyday Criticism.” Center for Digital Humanities, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2017.
• “What’s so Punk about Steampunk? European Nation-States, City-States, and Withered States.” Sla307, New York, NY, 2016.
• “Everyday Criticism; or, The View from the Ground Floor of the World Trade Center.” English Department, New York University, New York, NY, 2015.

Workshops & Institutes

• “Pursuing the Potential of Digital Mapping in Latinx Studies,” Marissa López and Kelley Kreitz, co-directors. National Endowment for the Humanities, 2020–2021.
• “Visualizing Flow and Movement in the Humanities,” Diana Stuart Stinton, director. National Endowment for the Humanities, 2011.
• “Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship,” Bethany Nowviskie, director. National Endowment for the Humanities, 2010.

Conference Papers & Panels

• “Librarians and Crisis Response: The Case of COVID-19 Maker Response,” with Madiha Choksi and Alex Gil. HOPE 2020. Hackers on Planet Earth, New York, NY, 2020.
• “Tiny DH: Scholarly Practice One Novel at a Time with Wandertext.” Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2019.
• “DH in the Moment: Reaction, Response, Relevance.” NYCDH Week 2018. NYCDH, New York, NY, 2018.
• “AR/VR, Data Visualization & Mapping.” Data Services Research Day. New York University, New York, NY, 2017.
• “Fabula and Sjužet in ‘Wandering Rocks.’” Joyce in the Digital Age. Columbia University, New York, NY, 2017.
• “Culture Mapping in the Classroom: Research-led Teaching and Geospatial Data.” Culture Mapping @ NYU. New York University, New York, NY, 2017.
• “Mapping the Literature of New York City.” Center for the Humanities. New York University, New York, NY, 2016.
• “Poking out God’s Eye and Touching the Spatial Turn.” Visuality 2015: Intercultural Creative Discourses. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2015.
• “Stop Talking about Free Speech!” International Week, Université Catholique de Lille, Lille, France, 2015.
• “Sites in the Novel.” Futures of American Studies Instititute, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 2014.
• “Robert Jordan’s Nearest Neighbor: A For Whom the Bell Tolls GIS.” Telling Stories with Maps: the Geoweb, Qualitative GIS and Narrative Mapping. Digital Humanities Lab, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, 2014.
• “Where U.S.A. Characters Find Themselves in the USA.” NEH Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship, Scholar’s Lab, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 2010.

Teaching

New York University

• “Media History of New York.” Spring 2018.
• “Digital Literary Studies: Novel Maps of NYC.” Autumn 2017.
• “Introduction to the Study of Literature (English 101).” Spring 2017, Autumn 2017.
• “Digital Literary Studies: Does It Work?.” Autumn 2016.
• “Digital Literary Studies: The Map of the City that Is this Novel.” Spring 2016.
• “Writing New York,” with Prof. Thomas Augst. Spring 2016.

Vilnius Gediminas Technical University

• “Cultural Narratives” (“Kultūros naratyvai”). Autumn 2014.
• “Lithuanian to Foreign Students.” Spring 2014–Spring 2015.

École nationale des chartes

• Instructor of English. 2010–2011

University of Chicago

• “Male Fantasy Sports.” Winter 2008
• “Latina/o Intellectual Thought,” course assistant for Raúl Coronado, Jr. Spring 2008.
• “Shakespeare I: Histories and Comedies,” course assistant for David Bevington. Winter 2006.

Selected Workshops

• “The Dissertation Project.” Recurring, Columbia University, 2021.
• “Research Data Management (Plans and More).” Recurring, Columbia University, 2020.
• “Possible DHs.” Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University, 2019.
• “Git in a Jiff.” Recurring, Columbia University, 2019.
• “Scholar.txt 2: Simple JavaScript Maps.” Recurring, Columbia University, 2019.
• “Scholar.txt 1: Simple-CV.” Recurring, Columbia University, 2019.
• “Foundations of Collaborative Digital Web Projects.” Innovative Teaching Summer Institute, Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning, 2019.
• “FAIR & Data Management: Ethical, Sustainable, Collaborative Digital Research & Pedagogy.” Barnard College, 2019.
• “JavaScript for MapMaking.” Exploring the Geographic Information of Literature and Art History / Cartographie numérique en littérature et en histoire de l’art. New York University Paris Sciences Lettres Global Alliance, Paris, France, 2018.
• “Simple JavaScript Mapping Workshop.” Recurring, NYCDH Week, NYCDH, New York, NY, 2018.

Language Skills

(Self-assessed, using US Dept. of State Language Proficiency Definitions)

• English: 5 speaking, 5 reading
• Lithuanian: 4 speaking, 4 reading
• French: 3 speaking, 3 reading
• Portuguese: 2 speaking, 3 reading
• Spanish: 2 speaking, 3 reading
• Russian: 2 speaking, 2 reading
• German: 1 speaking, 2 reading
• Yiddish: 1 speaking, 1 reading
• Hindi/Urdu: 0 speaking, 0 reading
• Mandarin: 0 speaking, 0 reading

Technical Skills

Data Analysis

• Python: Pandas, Geopandas

Web Development

• Ruby: Sinatra, Jekyll
• JavaScript: Ember (contributor), Gatsby, Leaflet, D3

Geospatial Visualization

• Python: Geopandas
• JavaScript: Turf.js (contributor), Leaflet, D3
• Applications: ArcGIS, Qgis, Adobe Illustrator