Alex Gil
Senior Lecturer II And Associate Research Faculty Of Digital Humanities
Hamden, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Gil is a Senior Lecturer II and Associate Research Faculty in Digital Humanities at Yale University with 15 years of experience at the intersection of scholarship, pedagogy, and software-enabled research. He designs and teaches project-based courses in digital humanities, builds departmental infrastructure, and leads interdisciplinary initiatives including a Caribbean Studies program and the Critical Computing Initiative. His research combines Digital Humanities and Caribbean Studies while bridging analog and digital practices through the Creative Forum. Technically literate, he contributes to open-source tooling—enhancing the jekyll-scholar library’s citation and bibliography features—bringing scholarly rigor to backend development. Trained with a PhD in English from the University of Virginia and time at the Ecole normale supérieure, he blends deep humanities expertise with practical computational fluency. Colleagues describe him as a builder who moves students and institutions toward creative, critically informed computing.
15 years of coding experience
Ancien Pensionnaire, French Language and Literature, Ancien Pensionnaire, French Language and Literature at Ecole normale supérieureDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), English Language and Literature/Letters, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), English Language and Literature/Letters at University of Virginia
English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Dutch, Latin
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
bibtex10
jekyll10
bibliography10
ruby10
plugin9
static-site-generator8
github6
github-pages6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
inukshuk/jekyll-scholar
Jan 2016 - Jul 2019
jekyll extensions for the blogging scholar
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 4 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the jekyll-scholar library. Their contributions include adding a new method for link targets with a configuration for relative URLs. They added support for language values at the item level and refactored existing methods within the utilities module. Overall, their commits demonstrate a focus on refining and extending the core citation and bibliography features of the library.
jekyllrubystatic-site-generatorbibliographybibtex
minicomp/wax-facets
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
The second Wax theme. Good times.
Contributions:126 commits, 1 PR, 75 pushes in 10 months
waxtimessecond
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