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Prof. Charles Travis holds a PhD in Geography, conferred by Trinity College, The University of Dublin (TCD), MA degrees in Geography (Toledo) and Mass Communication (Bowling Green) and a BA in Psychology (Toledo). He is currently an Assistant Professor of Geography with the Department of History at the University of Texas, Arlington (UTA), and visiting Research Fellow with the School of Histories and Humanities at TCD. Prof. Travis is conducting research in literary, historical, cultural and human geography, the digital and environmental humanities and the development of digital humanities and geographical information systems methodologies and applications. He is an Editorial Board Member of the journal Literary Geography. His work is published in the International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Historical Geography and other peer-reviewed publications. In addition he has contributed to several books, including The Digital Arts and Humanities: Neogeography, Social Media and Big Data Integrations and Applications and History and GIS: Epistemologies, Reflections and Considerations (both published at Springer Press, sharing co-authorship with Alexander Von Lunen).
Dr. Armida de la Garza is Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Director of International Strategy for the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences at University College Cork in Ireland. She hold a PhD from the London School of Economics, a MA from Royal Holloway University of London and a BSc from the National University of Mexico. Dr. De la Garza is Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK. She also chairs the China Regional Working Group and was a founding member and for 4 years Deputy Head of the Division of International Communication at the China Campus of the University of Nottingham. In 2011 she was hired to set up Communication and Media Studies at Xian