Elisa Beshero-bondar
Chair, TEI Technical Council at newtfire.org
Erie, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolElisa Beshero-Bondar is a Professor of Digital Humanities and Program Chair of Digital Media, Arts, and Technology at Penn State Behrend with over a decade of experience bridging literary scholarship and technical practice. She chairs the TEI Technical Council and has served on the council since 2016, directing long-running projects like the Digital Mitford edition that apply rigorous text-encoding and archival methods to literary corpora. Her work combines expertise in digital scholarly editing, text encoding, and archival research with hands-on platform design (newtfire.org), enabling reproducible digital editions and pedagogies. Known for shaping community-driven editorial standards, she brings a scholar’s attention to detail—proofreading and advising—together with technical leadership in open standards for humanities data.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, English, PhD, English at Penn State UniversityB.A., English, B.A., English at Washington & Jefferson CollegeUniversity of Pittsburgh
Spanish, English, Latin, French
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Github Skills (126)
digital-humanities10
lda10
tei10
collation10
encoding10
schema10
post-processing10
gift10
text-encoding10
stylesheets10
linked-open-data10
xquery10
meta-analysis10
openoffice10
stem10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
FrankensteinVariorum/fv-data
Oct 2018 - Jan 2020
TEI data for the Frankenstein Variorum project
Contributions:67 commits, 4 PRs, 115 pushes in 1 year 3 months
DigitalMitford/DM_poetry
Sep 2018 - Jun 2022
Contributions:61 pushes, 3 branches, 3 comments in 3 years 9 months
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