Olson-photo2021 Liesl Olson is Director of Chicago Studies at the Newberry. Her research interests include twentieth-century literature, modernism, theories of the archive, feminism, disquisitional theory, trip the light fantastic, and the visual arts. She is writer of the prize-winning book Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis (Yale U P, 2017), a history of the literary and cultural centrality of Chicago in the first half of the twentieth century; and Modernism and the Ordinary (Oxford U P, 2009), which examines a broad range of twentieth-century works that correspond the habitual and unselfconscious actions of everyday life. She is curator of the Newberry exhibition Chicago Advanced: Five Women Ahead of Their Time (Fall 2021), which includes an accompanying catalog. Olson has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Newberry, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Beinecke Library. Olson completed her doctorate in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia Academy, and her BA from Stanford University.

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1619677178615 Raquel Flores-Clemons is the University Archivist and Manager of Archives, Records Direction, and Special Collections at Chicago State University, where she stewards drove, preservation, and access to institutional and historical records of Illinois' merely designated 4-year Predominantly Blackness Institution (PBI). In this function, she also serves as Vice-Chairperson for the Black Metropolis Enquiry Consortium (BMRC). She is besides a member of the collective of Black archivists, the Blackivists. An abet for disinterestedness and access, Raquel maintains a deep commitment to capturing historical narratives of communities of color and engages Hip Hop as a method of archival praxis. Raquel is passionate about connecting community members and organizers to valuable primary resource and intentional in ensuring that historical gaps are filled past documenting and amplifying the oftentimes underrepresented historical narratives and contributions of BIPOC communities to better support efforts to create a more equitable social club. Raquel received her Primary of Library and Information Science with Special Collections certification from the iSchool at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She besides has studied at Howard University and received her Bachelors in Liberal Arts and Sciences from the Academy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Kari KrausKari Kraus is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland. Her pedagogy and scholarship focuses on new media and the digital humanities; textual scholarship, print culture, and the history of the book; digital preservation; game studies; transmedia storytelling; and speculative pattern. Currently, Kraus is writing a book about how artists, designers and humanities researchers think about, model, and blueprint possible futures. Kraus has written for the New York Times and the Huffington Post, and her piece of work has been mentioned in the Atlantic, Baltimore Public Radio, the Huffington Post, Gamasutra, Wired, and the Long Now Foundation.

At the Newberry

Will HansenWill Hansen is Managing director of Reader Services and Curator of Americana, at the Newberry. He manages the Department of Reader Services, which serves researchers at the reference desks, in the reading rooms, and outside the Newberry's walls via email and other communications; every bit Curator of Americana he collects current monographs, antique books, and manuscript Americana for the Newberry. Mr. Hansen began his career in libraries at the Newberry in 2003. He holds a master's degree in library and data science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. From 2007 to May 2014 he was Assistant Curator of Collections at Duke University'southward David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and returned to the Newberry in June 2014. Mr. Hansen has published articles on Herman Melville, active learning with primary source materials, athenaeum of "born-digital" materials, and other topics. He has curated or co-curated exhibitions on Herman Melville, Charles Dickens, the Bloomsbury Group, female writers of the Victorian era, Alexander Hamilton, and other topics.

Hinderliter Image Alison Hinderliter is Lloyd Lewis Curator of Mod Manuscripts and Athenaeum at the Newberry. She has worked on a variety of archival projects at the library, including the Pullman Railroad Company Records, the Illinois Central Railroad Company Records, the Ann Barzel Dance Collection, Voices of the Prairie (social activity-related collections), and Headlines from the Heartland (journalism-related collections). She has been an archivist in Chicago for over twenty years, working for the Chicago History Museum, the Chicago Public Library, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Museum of Contemporary Fine art, and the Erstwhile Town School of Folk Music. She holds a BA in English from Oberlin College and an MLIS from the University of California, Berkeley.

Catherine Grandgeorge Catherine Grandgeorge is a Manuscripts and Archives Librarian at the Newberry. She has worked recently on processing the Newberry's Midwest Dance Collections, and crowdsourcing an archive of modern protest, including protest signs, photographs, and personal accounts. She received her BA in Women's Studies from The College of Wooster and her MLIS from the University of Washington.

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Analu Lopez is the Ayer Indigenous Studies Librarian at the Newberry Library. Analu is interested in underrepresented Indigenous narratives dealing with identity, linguistic communication, and decolonization. She writes and creates photographic-based projects exploring these topics. A student of the Nahuatl language for over ten years, she is also interested in Indigenous language preservation efforts. She holds a Main of Library and Information Sciences with a certificate in Athenaeum and Cultural Heritage Resource and Services from Dominican Academy and a Bachelor of Arts in Photography with a minor in Latin-American Studies from Columbia Higher Chicago.

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Rose Miron is the Managing director of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Ethnic Studies at the Newberry Library. Her work focuses on how Native peoples use tribal archives to claim say-so over the cosmos, assembly, and utilize of their historical materials. Centering on the Mohican Nation of Wisconsin, she shows how Native activism through the creation of archives enables tribal members to craft their ain historical narratives and to intervene in public representations of their history. She completed her PhD in American Studies at the University of Minnesota.