Education
- PhD - Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge)
- MSLIS - Library & Information Science (Univ. of Illinois)
- MA - Germanic Languages and Literatures (Univ. of Illinois)
- BA - Humanities and German (hons.) (Univ. of Texas at San Antonio)
Academic Posts
- 2022-present: Assistant Professor of Digital Design History and Heritage (TU Delft)
- 2018-2022: Research Fellow/Data Steward - Industrial Design Engineering (TU Delft)
- 2024-2025: Visiting Researcher (National Library of the Netherlands)
- 2017-2018: Data librarian (Stockholm University)
- 2014-2017: Researcher (Dept. of Swedish and Multilingualism, Stockholm University)
- 2012-2014: Postdoc (The Arnamagnaean Institute, University of Copenhagen)
Taught courses (University-level)
- Understanding Design (Intro to Design bachelor course. course description)
- Technology Critique (Master Deep Dive)
- Context and Conceptualisation (ID4216) (track-editor: Digital Heritage)
- Data as a design material
- Responsible design for software-based products
- R for social sciences (cf. Data Carpentry)
- Data methods and management
- Old Norse language and literature
- Old English language and literature
- Medieval Nordic law
- Paleography and manuscripts
- Viking mythology
- German (elementary and intermediate)
Supervision
- N. Lee - ‘Designing Tangible Learning Experiences of Art Creation for Young Adults’ (MSc graduation, ongoing)
- U. Thomas - ‘The Diffusion of Textile Knowledge: should past practices be revived in a modern context?’ (MSc graduation, ongoing)
- P. ten Hagen - ‘From Curiosity to Research: Enhancing Citizen Science in Museums through Virtual Assistance’ (MSc graduation, 2024)
- M. Cai - ‘Enhancing Active Reading: A Human-Machine Co-Creation Journey for Visualized Narratives Reading’ (MSc graduation, 2024)
- X. Yu - ‘Universal Reading: Digital Reading Experience Enhancement for People with Dyslexia’ (MSc graduation, 2024)
- Y. Lei - ‘Supporting Casual Users to Explore Digital Collections’ (MSc graduation, 2024)
- L. Cazemier - ‘StoryTiles: Engaging students with Academic Heritage through tangible interactions’ (MSc graduation, 2024)
- E. Peeters - ‘In Praise of the Future: Using Speculative Design to Create an Experience that Lets People Reflect Critically’ (MSc graduation, 2024)
- Y. Wu - ‘An AI Text Summarization Tool to Improve Visually Impaired Individual’s Skimming Reading’ (MSc graduation, 2024)
- E. Tonelli - ‘Volunteering as a Support Tool for Navigating Life Transitions’ (MSc graduation, 2024)
- J. Zhao - ‘Empowering Reading: A Tool to Boost Novice Designers’ Motivation for Design Books’ (MSc graduation, 2024)
- S. Avellaneda Calleja - ‘Cultivating Awareness on the Value of Design Methods Beyond the Design Community in Transdisciplinary Projects’ (MSc graduation, 2024)
- G. Germano - ‘Ritualia: a toolkit for multi-cultural food ritual observations, analysis and idea generation’ (MSc graduation, 2023)
- M. van Geene - ‘Tip & Top in Virtual Reality: The integration of virtual materiality and interactive storytelling in a historical VR pop-up book experience’ (MSc graduation, 2023)
- A. Hemerik - ‘Redesigning the TU Delft Student Theses Repository’ (MSc graduation, 2023)
- S. Li - ‘Exploring a New Haptic Reading Experience’ (MSc graduation, 2022)
- S. Tang - ‘Getting Inspired by Museum Collections’ (MSc graduation, 2022)
- Y. Chu - ‘Describing Images to Visually Impaired Users: a Requirement Elicitation Approach’ (MSc graduation, 2021)
Research outputs
Digital resources
- ‘A Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law’, with Ulrika Djärv, Inger Larsson, Christine Peel and Erik Simensen. https://www.dhi.ac.uk/nordic/ (website and SQL database) [beta]
- The Stories for All Time. https://fasnl.ku.dk (website and eXist database)
Publications
- ‘Artificial Curators: Design Considerations for Interactive Chatbot Experiences in Cultural Heritage Settings’, with H. Gu and J. Vandommele. (under review; forthcoming 2025) [8000 words]
- ‘Benedict of Nursia’, with Stephanie Clark, Shannon Godlove and Amity Reading. In Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture. Ed. Frederick Biggs et al. (under review with Amsterdam UP; forthcoming 2025) [8000 words]
- ‘Legendary Sagas and Legendary Rimes’. In Philology, Poetics and Early Modern Icelandic: New Norse Studies. Ed. Shaun Hughes. Islandica. Ithaca: Cornell UP. (forthcoming spring 2025) [19000 words]
- ‘On the Role of Materials Experience for Novel Interactions with Digital Representations of Historical Pop-up and Movable Books’, with Willemijn Elkhuizen, Stefano Parisi and Elvin Karana. In CHI ‘24: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, May 2024. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642142
- ‘Archaeological Trails and Contemporary Art: Soundscapes for visually impaired visitors’, with Angeliki Antoniou, Ioanna Lykourentzou, Heng Gu and Maria Stathi. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Accessibility and Multimodal Interaction Design Approaches in Museums for People with Impairments co-located with MobileHCI 2023 Conference Athens, Greece, September 26, 2023. Ed. Christos Fidas et al. 2024. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3622/paper2.pdf
- A Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law, with Ulrika Djärv, Inger Larsson, Christine Peel and Erik Simensen. 2020. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0188
- ‘Árni’s Archives: The Arnamagnæan Diplomatic Collection in Copenhagen’. 2020. In Medieval Documents as Artefacts. Ed. Eef Dijkhof et al. Hilversum: Verloren. online description
- ‘Gnýs æfintýr’, with Beeke Stegmann and Tom Birkett, ed. and trans. 2016. In Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana XLVIII. Opuscula XIV. Ed. Britta Olrik Frederiksen. Hafniæ: Museum Tusculanum. 25-87. PDF on academia.edu
- ‘Erik’s Law of Zeeland’, trans. with Helle Vogt. 2016. In The Danish Medieval Laws. Ed. Helle Vogt and Ditlev Tamm. Oxford: Routledge.
- Review of Már Jónsson. 2012. Arnas Magnæus Philologus. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark. Saga Book XXXIX (2015): 127-29.
- ‘The Medieval Nordic Legal Dictionary’. 2015. In The Sixteenth International Saga Conference: Sagas and Space. Ed. Jürg Glauser et al. Zürich: Universität Zürich. 188. [abstract]
- ‘A Handbook for Princes (AM 243 b α fol.)’, ‘Norwegian Crusaders (NRA AM fasc. 3 nr. 1)’ and ‘Labours of the Month (AM 249 a fol.)’. 2015. In 66 Manuscripts from the Arnamagnæan Collection. Ed. Matthew James Driscoll and Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum. 100-01, 132 and 144-47. [also published in Icelandic (2013) and Danish (2015)]
- The Reception of Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century. 2013. Münchner Nordistische Studien, Bd. 14. München: Utz Verlag. [333 pp.]
- ‘The Organization of Poetic Quotations in Hervarar Saga ok Heiðreks’. 2012. In The Legendary Sagas: Origins and Development. Ed. Ármann Jakobsson, Annette Lassen and Agneta Ney. Reykjavík: University of Iceland Press. 153-69.
In preparation
- ‘Artificial Curators’ (in preparation)
- Járnsíða, trans. Medieval Nordic Laws (MNL) Project.
- Kristinréttr Árna Þorlákssonar (1275), trans. Medieval Nordic Laws (MNL) Project.
Other Materials
- Love, J. & N. Rikalo. ‘Summary of Insights from WebDocs interviews’ (user study and design specifications for Digital Humanities scholars underlying the SamePage tool)
- Martinez-Lavanchy, P.M., van Schöll, P. & Zormpa, E. ‘TU Delft Research Data Management 101 course’ (minor contributions to teaching material)
