English instructor Elizabeth Vincelette currently teaches American literature at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. A doctoral candidate, Elizabeth Vincelette balances her priorities as a teacher with her responsibilities as a student. Elizabeth Vincelette expects to earn her Ph.D. in English in May 2010 with a concentration in Digital Humanities. Elizabeth Vincelette’s dissertation project, entitled Independent Women, will involve digitizing and encoding an archival collection of letters and manuscripts from the 19th century newspaper The Independent. Vincelette will focus particularly on the collection’s female writers. Prior to entering graduate school, Elizabeth Vincelette received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Virginia, where she garnered Intermediate Honors for her academic excellence. Elizabeth Vincelette then continued to Old Dominion University to earn her Master’s degree. As an instructor, Elizabeth Vincelette teaches her students American literature and composition and particularly encourages the use of digital media for research. Her responsibilities as an instructor include writing original lectures for her classes, grading papers, and meeting individually with students for writing conferences. Elizabeth Vincelette has received a number of accolades and travel grants for her excellence as a student and an instructor. Most recently, Elizabeth Vincelette garnered a Scholarship to the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. For the second year in a row, Vincelette will continue her education in Textual Encoding Initiative (TEI). Elizabeth Vincelette also received a Pegasus Travel Scholarship from the Old Dominion University English Department for the Spring 2009 semester. Elizabeth Vincelette has written and co-authored three articles published in peer-reviewed journals like The Edgar Allan Poe Review and the NeoAmericanist. Elizabeth Vincelette’s online teaching portfolio and blog are available at www.elizabethvincelette.com. Her blog, focusing on textual history, new media, and literature, can be found at www.techtonicsblog.blogspot.com.

At the Faculty Awards banquet at Old Dominion University held on May 4, 2010, Elizabeth Vincelette received the university-wide award for Classroom Instructor from among all nominated graduate teaching assistants in all departments of the university. The following information regarding Elizabeth Vincelette has been paraphrased from the program for the event: Elizabeth Vincelette is pursuing her Ph. D. in English. She has taught a number of English classes, including both writing and literature sections, such as American Writers, American Experiences and English Composition. Her nominator highlighted how she “draws on her own love of learning to motivate her students to do their best,” and described her as an “engaging teacher.” In her writing classes, Elizabeth Vincelette strives to give her students something to walk away with from the class, including confidence and ownership that allow the students to “connect what is meaningful to them.” Vincelette has received the Shining Star Award from her students and several scholarships from both Old Dominion University and the University of Victoria. Her publications have been featured in The Edgar Allan Poe Review, NeoAmericanist, and Copy(write): Intellectual Property in the Writing Classroom. She is also a member of Digital Americanists, the Association for Computing in the Humanities, and the Modern Language Association.