TEI-C Elections 2020

Introduction

In 2020, TEI Members will hold an election to fill 5 open positions on the TEI Technical Council (4 for 3-year terms, 1 for a 2-year term) and 3 on the TEI Board of Directors (2 for 3-year terms, 1 for a 2-year term). We are also electing 1 new member to the TAPAS advisory board. The following persons have been nominated to the TEI Nominating committee and have agreed to stand as candidates for election to the TEI Technical Council, the TEI Board, and the TAPAS advisory Board. They have all supplied a statement covering two aspects:

1. a candidate statement in which they discuss their reasons for wishing to serve on the Board, TAPAS or Technical Council and what their particular goals would be.

2. a biographical description focusing on their education, training, research, etc., relevant to the TEI.

A Note on Voting

Voting will be conducted via the OpaVote website, which uses the open-source balloting software OpenSTV for tabulation. OpenSTV is a widely used open-source Single Transferable Vote program.

TEI Member voters, identified by email address, will receive a URL at which to cast their ballots. Upon closing of the election, all voters who cast a vote will be sent an email with a link to the results of the election, from which it is also possible to download the actual final ballots for verification. Individual members may vote in the TEI Technical Council elections. The nominated representative of institutions with membership may vote for both the TEI Board and TEI Technical Council.

Voting closes on TBD at 23:59 Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time (HAST) as it offers the latest global midnight.

Candidate Statements: TAPAS Advisory Board

Laura Estill

Statement of purpose

As a literary scholar with a focus on the early modern period, for years, my teaching did not include the digital humanities, which have been so central to my research. I have slowly been able to integrate more digital humanities, including TEI, into my teaching. The extensive scholarship on editing, TEI, digital pedagogies, and, of course, the areas/subjects of a given class or research project can be daunting, to say the least. TAPAS can support learning across these areas, or, to play on its name, can encourage small tastes of multiple cuisines. I’d like to continue and extend TAPAS’s participation with existing scholarship and pedagogical initiatives.

I am particularly interested in promoting the use of the “TAPAS Classroom,” and, as Flanders et al recommend, thinking about how TAPAS can help instructors use TEI to meet a variety of course goals (2019, https://journals.openedition.org/jtei/2144). As a TAPAS advisory board member, I would hope to continue to build a welcoming and inclusive community of educators and scholars; I would, likewise, uphold TAPAS’s commitment to open publication and open pedagogy.

Biography