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Anne Cong-Huyen is a student of English at UC Santa Barbara. She received in BA in Literatures of the World from UC San Diego, and an MA in Literature and Writing from Cal State University San Marcos. Her research interests include theories of hospitality, migration, and representations of migrant labor across media in the late 20^th and early 21^st century. She is also interested in minor/minority literatures, graphic narratives, and science fiction. She has worked for the UC Transliteracies Project, as a project coordinator and research assistant. She has also been a HASTAC scholar, where she co-hosted a forum on Race, Ethnicity, and Diaspora in the Digital Age.

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Renee Hudson earned her BA in English at Stanford University and is currently a PhD student in English at UCLA. She specializes in twentieth and twenty-first century American literature. Her research interests include media theory, terrorism, and political violence. Renee was a Research Assistant for the UC Transliteracies Project, under the guidance of Alan Liu, where she has contributed several research reports and research papers on various new media interfaces and platforms for the RoSE Project. Through the Transliteracies project, Renee explored the relationship between reading interfaces and metaphor, arguing for the ontological implications that undergird the metaphors used in different interfaces. She has also worked with Todd Presner (UCLA German), and studied under N. Katherine Hayles (UCLA English), and Rita Raley (UCSB English).

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Jeremy Schmidt is a PhD student in English at UCLA. He received his BA from Yale in 2005 and an MA in English from UCLA in 2010. His interests include twentieth and twenty-first century American literature, poetry and poetics, and science studies. His research focuses on literature’s uneasy relationship to numbers, calculation, and measurement. More specifically, he is currently working on projects analyzing the language of the U.S. Census and the influence of discrete labeling processes on contemporary poetic practice. He also has experience helping design an online digital concordancing program (northText) and has studied with N. Katherine Hayles (UCLA English), Rita Raley (UCSB English), and Mark Hansen (UCLA Statistics).

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