Meet the ETCL Team
The Meet the ETCL Team series introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab as well as some of those who have worked with us in the past.

Meet the ETCL Team: Janine Wulz
Janine joined the lab in January 2023 via an Open Knowledge Practicum. Originally from Austria, she, along with her partner, live partly in Vienna and partly in Victoria. Janine believes in open education and is working hard to make education accessible for everyone....
Meet the ETCL Team: E. B. Klassen
E. B. Klassen rejoined the lab in January 2023 as a Community Fellow working on the Climate Action Plan (CAP). As part of his current project, E. B. is converting the Sooke Climate Action Plan into an open-source, plug-and-play document. His goal is to make relevant...
Meet the ETCL Team: Archie To
Archie joined the lab as a research assistant in May 2023. His main responsibility is fixing bugs and developing new features for the HSSCommons website. As a Computer Science student, Archie possesses a profound passion for web development. He has been building...
Meet the ETCL Team: Shera Potka
Shera is a visiting master’s student from the University of Cologne (Germany) majoring in Media Informatics. She started working in the lab in October 2022. She is passionate about social media and technology in general and eager to become a future leader in Media and...
Meet the ETCL Team: Adar Charlton
Adar joined the lab as the Acting Coordinator of Operations in March 2023. She provides operational support to the team and helps the lab run smoothly and efficiently. In a typical day, Adar opens the lab and responds to emails, answers the phone, processes paperwork,...
Meet the ETCL Team: Kyle Dase
Kyle joined the lab in September 2022 as a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow shortly after completing his PhD at USask. HHe applied for the fellowship with the lab out of a desire to collaborate with the lively and encouraging ETCL community he first met at DHSI in 2019. For...
Meet the ETCL Team: Bea Grigsby-Larson
This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab and who have worked with us in the past Bea joined the team in April 2022 as the lab's Coordinator of Operations. She keeps the lab running smoothly and...
Meet the ETCL Team: Hilda Chan
This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab and who have worked with us in the past Hilda is a Mitacs Globalink intern from Hong Kong. She started working in the lab in May 2022 and will stay for three...
Meet the ETCL Team: Maggie Mylove Sardino
This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab and who have worked with us in the past Maggie is a MITACS Globalink intern from Syracuse, New York. She started in the lab in May 2022 and will stay for...
Meet the ETCL Team: Sajib Ghosh
This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab and who have worked with us in the past. Sajib joined the team in January 2022 as a Graduate Research Assistant and Communications Coordinator. He...
Meet the ETCL Team: Hanh Pham
This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab and who have worked with us in the past. Hanh joined the lab in January 2022 as a Graduate Research Assistant. She is involved with a handful of team...
Meet the ETCL Team: Victoria Philibert
This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab and who have worked with us in the past. Victoria joined the team in October 2021 as the lab’s Coordinator of Operations. She keeps the lab running, provides...
Meet the ETCL Team: Alan Colín Arce
This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab and who have worked with us in the past. Alan is a Mitacs Globalink research intern from Mexico. He is joining the ETCL team remotely for 3 months during the...
Meet the ETCL Team: Jesse Thomas Kern
This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab and who have worked with us in the past. Jesse (they/them) is a genderqueer lesbian residing on the unceded territory of the Musqueam peoples at the...
Meet the ETCL Team: Talya Jesperson
This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab and who have worked with us in the past. Talya has been working as a graduate research assistant at the Lab since Fall 2020. She contributes to the lab’s...
Meet the ETCL Team: Ansh Thayil
This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab and who have worked with us in the past. Ansh started at the lab in the fall of 2020 as an undergraduate research assistant. He is a third-year computer...
Meet the ETCL Team: Bernardo Bueno
This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab and who have worked with us in the past. Bernardo joins the lab for three months as a Visiting Scholar from the Pontifical University of Rio Grande do Sul...
Meet the ETCL Team: Simin (CiCi) Li
This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab and who have worked with us in the past. Simin (CiCi) Li joined the lab as a Digital Scholarship Fellow (DSF) in the fall of 2019, but she learned about the...
Meet the ETCL Team: Graham Jensen
This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab and who have worked with us in the past. Graham joined the lab in September 2019 as a Digital Scholarship Fellow. He is based in the English Department at...
Meet the ETCL Team: Matt Huculak
This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab and who have worked with us in the past. Matt was first introduced to the lab in 2010, as a postdoctoral researcher at Dalhousie University for Editing...
Meet the ETCL Team: Alex Christie
This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab and who have worked with us in the past. Alex Christie joined the lab in 2012 while completing his PhD in the English Department at UVic. As a research...
Meet the ETCL Team: Laura Estill
This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab and who have worked with us in the past. Laura Estill joined the lab as a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow from 2011–2013, working on DEx: A Database of Dramatic...
Meet the ETCL Team: Jon Martin
This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab and who have worked with us in the past. Jon is the lab’s resident “server wizard” or, more officially, our Developer/Systems Administrator. He builds and...
Meet the ETCL Team: The Spring 2019 OKP Fellows
This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab and who have worked with us in the past. January marked the beginning of the seventh term of the Open Knowledge Practicum program, which invites researchers...
Meet the ETCL Team: Constance Crompton
This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab. In this second part of the series, we're catching up with people who used to work with us. If you’re reading this, go join a lab! This is the advice of Dr....
Meet the ETCL Team: Tyler Fontenot
This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab. Tyler joined the lab recently as a Graduate Research Assistant, and his main project is creating an annotated bibliography of texts about online research...
Meet the ETCL Team: Alyssa Arbuckle
This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab. As the lab’s Associate Director, Alyssa works with Ray to facilitate the lab’s research endeavors. This involves leading grant applications, coordinating...
Meet the ETCL Team: Caroline Winter
This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab. Caroline started in the lab as an Open Knowledge Practicum (OKP) fellow in the fall of 2017, working on a digital edition of Mary Shelley’s Gothic Tales in...
Meet the ETCL Team: Ian Sampson
This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab. Ian is based in the English department at Brown University and is joining the lab as a Digital Scholarship Fellow. He is in the final stages of writing his...
Meet the ETCL Team: Randa El Khatib
This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab. After meeting some members of the ETCL team at the Leipzig summer school, Randa decided to apply to the English PhD program at UVic. In 2015, she started as...
Meet the ETCL Team: Jannaya Friggstad Jensen
This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab. Jannaya joined us in January as the lab’s Coordinator. She manages the day to day operations of the lab to help keep the place running, provides various...
Meet the ETCL Team: Derek Siemens
This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab. Derek is the lab’s self-described “jack of all trades.” He helps run and organize DHSI and its various events, takes care of all sorts of office related...
Meet the ETCL Team: Lindsey Seatter
This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab. Lindsey has worked as a Graduate Research Assistant (GRA) in the lab since the fall of 2014, just after starting a PhD in English at UVic. Her first project...
Meet the ETCL Team: Luis Meneses
This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab. Luis has been working in the lab for the past two years as a postdoctoral researcher. He has an MSc and PhD in Computer Science from Texas A&M...
Meet the ETCL Team: Alix Shield
This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab. Alix joined the lab in January 2019 as a Digital Scholarship Fellow. She is a PhD Candidate in the English department at Simon Fraser University (SFU), where...
Meet the ETCL Team: Tim Sobie
This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab. Tim has worked in the lab since 2015, long enough to remember when a flood nearly hit the lab when it was still located in the basement of the Clearihue...
Meet the ETCL Team: Trish Baer
This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab. Trish and her research project—MyNDIR, My Norse Digital Image Repository—have been a part of the lab since 2006, when she was conducting her...