Directory of Associated Independent Scholars

Independent scholars come in all colours and stripes. Their contact information can sometimes be hard to find since they don’t appear in university and college directories. We therefore created our own directory!

Here are some of the scholars associated with the Independent Scholars Community, in alphabetical order of their last name:

Care to join our community of independent scholars? Then please contact us via indy.scholars.community_at_gmail.com. If you would like to be listed in our directory, please provide us with the following information: name, e-mail, Twitter and other social media handles, website, your research interests, and an introductory text if you wish to do so.

Independent Scholars

Alison Hedley

Website alisonhedley.net
E-Mail afhedley@gmail.com
Twitter @hedleyalison
LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/alisonhedley/
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4236-0763
Research interests print media history; data visualization history; writing and research pedagogy

(last updated: 21 May 2021)

Amy Hildreth Chen

Amy Hildreth Chen received her PhD in English in 2013 from Emory University. She spent 2013 to 2015 at the University of Alabama on a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship then moved from 2015 to 2020 to the University of Iowa, where she served as the Special Collections Instruction Librarian and then the English and Communications Librarian. Since 2020, Chen has worked as the Manager, Medical Publications  (medical editor and project manager) at JMI Laboratories in North Liberty, Iowa. Chen wrote Placing Papers: The American Literary Archives Market, Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020; developed pedagogical card games, including Codex Conquest; and is active in discussions surrounding surviving and thriving in alt-ac and post-ac roles.

Website amyhildrethchen.com
E-Mail amyhildrethchen_at_gmail.com
Twitter @amyhildrethchen
Research interests literary archives, humanities careers, game development

(last updated: 17 May 2021)

Marie Léger-St-Jean

Marie is co-founder of the Independent Scholars Community. A book historian, digital humanist, and freelancer based in Montréal, she edits Price One Penny: A Database of Cheap Literature, 1837-1860, for which she received the 2020 Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Field Development Grant. Her research focuses on early Victorian fiction published in penny weekly numbers and its role as a nexus in a Western transmedia popular culture. She also enjoys thinking in a scholarly way about contemporary popular culture, including reality television. To earn a living, she is a freelance translator and researcher. She loves opportunities to build communities and facilitate projects, and would be delighted if her paid work could move in that direction.

Website marielegerstjean.info
E-Mail marie.leger.st.jean_at_gmail.com
Twitter @Marie_LSJ
Research interests Book history, digital humanities, popular culture, Victorian studies, research project facilitation

(last updated: 17 May 2021)

Jodie Lea Martire

Jodie researches small presses and social change. She just finished her Master’s thesis and there’ll probably be a gap until she can start the PhD – making her an “indy scholar”, busily trying to extract publications and conferences from the research she already has. Happy to correspond in Spanish, also; can read French reasonably well but don’t expect her to write it!

Website www.jodiemartire.net
Twitter @jodiemartire
Research interests small press, community publishing, under-represented voices, social change, social justice

(last updated: 19 May 2021)

Linda Maynard

Linda is a social and cultural historian working on family relationships in wartime with a particular emphasis on emotions, gender, grief, material culture, ageing and memory keeping. Her debut book, Brothers in the Great War (2021) offers a sibling’s-eyed perspective on the emotional lives of fighting men and their families.

E-Mail lindahmaynard@gmail.com
Twitter @drlindamaynard
Linkedin linkedin.com/in/lindahmaynard/

(last updated: 24 May 2021)

Helga Müllneritsch

Helga is a postdoc in German at the Department of Modern Languages with a research interest in female agency, manuscript cookery books, and book history in the long eighteenth century. Previously, she has worked as Lecturer in German Studies at Bangor University (Wales). As a postdoc, she is primarily focused on research into female agency in the eighteenth century, but she also teaches German literature. She holds a PhD from the University of Liverpool, UK (2019), and an MA and BA from the University of Graz, Austria. She has worked as a proof-reader and copy-editor for German, and as German language tutor for more than ten years (self-employed).

Website hcommons-staging.org/members/helgamuellneritsch/
E-Mail h.muellneritsch@hotmail.com
Twitter @mullneritsch
LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/helgamuellneritsch
Research interests History of the Book; Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts; Women’s Cultural Production; German Studies

(last updated: 19 May 2021)

Alison Newman

Special collections librarian and archivist, based in Milwaukee (currently unaffiliated/orphaned). My scholarly interest is the business and art of books during the hand-press period. Professionally, I love listening to and learning from scholars to improve my knowledge of curating collections and providing researchers access to primary source materials. I’m open to work and collaboration.

Twitter @alisonMnewman
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alison-newman-01/

(last updated: 19 May 2021)

Laura Ntoumanis

Laura Ntoumanis is an early adopter of the Independent Scholars Community.

Twitter @melusinagr

(last updated: 19 May 2021)

Simon Rosenberg

Simon Rosenberg is co-founder of the Independent Scholars Community. He is currently working as Coordinator for the Münster branch of the non-profit organization Eleganz Bildungsplattform. He worked in academia for over 12 years teaching and researching book history throughout the centuries (from William Caxton onwards). He is hosting “Rosenberg’s Book Club about Book Prizes”, discussing long- and shortlisted books of prestigious book prizes with students, academics and people interested in reading. He is also a freelance translator (German-English; English-German) and proof-reader.

Website hcommons-staging.org/members/simros/
E-Mail simonrosenberg02@gmail.com
Twitter @SimonRosenber11
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-rosenberg-4426101b0/
Research interests 15th-, 19th– & 21st-century book history; book prize culture; books in video games

(last updated: 19 May 2021)

Natalia Tolstopyat

Natalia Tolstopyat has a Master of Arts degree in British, American and Postcolonial Studies from Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU), Münster. She has academic background in Linguistics and Language Teaching from an Omsk State University named after F.M. Dostoyevsky in Russia. She is a co-founder and co-Chief Editor of 2018, 2019, 2020 issues of Satura, the student journal of the English Department, WWU. She is also one of four founding members of book history podcast Biblio Banter. She completed 6 months of Volontariat program with dp DIGITAL PUBLISHERS in Stuttgart, Germany. Her academic interests include contemporary literature, book history, digital reading communities, literature in translation, podcasting about books, publishing and literature.

E-Mail natalia.tolstopyat_at_gmail.com
Twitter @bookwormylife
Instagram @bookwormylife @bibliobanter_podcast @satura_journal
Research interests Contemporary literature, book history, digital reading communities, literature in translation, podcasting about books, publishing and literature.

(last updated: 17 May 2021)

Michelle Urberg

Michelle Urberg is a medieval musicologist by training and a librarian by trade. She has a PhD in Music History and an MS in Library and Information Science and is passionate about improving the scholarly communications life cycle. Digital Humanities projects, open access publication, and metadata associated with the publications life cycle are her particular interests. As a musicologist, she continues to study how medieval monastics learned to read and write music. She works toward bringing the sonic experience of monastic music to life through a born-digital project.

Website hcommons-staging.org/members/murberg/
E-Mail maurberg_at_gmail.com
Twitter @michelleurberg1

(last updated: 11 June 2021)

Laura Vivanco

Laura Vivanco is a popular romance scholar and has been conducting independent research for decades.

Website vivanco.me.uk

(last updated: 18 May 2021)

Care to join our community of independent scholars? Then please contact us via indy.scholars.community_at_gmail.com. If you would like to be listed in our directory, please provide us with the following information: name, e-mail, Twitter and other social media handles, website, your research interests, and an introductory text if you wish to do so.