HEB STAFF

Brooke Belott is Associate Editor for ACLS Humanities E-Book. She joined HEB in September 2007. She also works as a grant writer and administrator for GALLOPNYC, a nonprofit organization that provides therapeutic horseback riding to people in NYC. She graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, with a double B.A. in Dance and English.

Shira Bistricer is Assistant Editor for ACLS Humanities E-Book. She is currently studying in New York University’s World History M.A. Program. She holds a double B.A. in Jewish Studies and Philosophy from Queens College. When not at school or HEB, she enjoys traveling, hiking, and writing.

Eileen Gardiner holds a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature, with a specialization in medieval literature, from Fordham University. She has taught on the university level and published several articles and books on medieval vision literature, including her Visions of Heaven and Hell Before Dante. She is the winner of an American Association of University Women Fellowship. She has worked in many aspects of the book trade since 1967, and in 1985 cofounded Italica Press in New York City. Since 1986 she has been active in developing Italica Press’s series of electronic books in medieval studies and is the editor of The Holy Land on Disk. She is also the editor of Hell-on-Line a website that comprises a comprehensive collection of visions, tours and descriptions of the infernal otherworld from various religious and cultural traditions; and The Pilgrim’s Way to St. Patrick’s Purgatory, an online project that traces for the modern pilgrim the medieval route from Dublin to Lough Derg in County Donegal. With Dr. Musto she is the co-author of the article on “The Electronic Book” in the newly published The Oxford Companion to the Book.

Nina Gielen is HEB’s Editor for Digital Content and Production. Her work primarily involves development and print-to-digital conversion of XML books. She holds a B.A. in English from Wesleyan University and an M.A. in Media Studies from The New School, where she specialized in film theory and film production.

Ronald G. Musto holds a Ph.D. in History from Columbia University and specializes in the Italian Trecento. He has served as an adjunct professor at Columbia, NYU and Duke universities. He has held American Academy in Rome, NEH and Mellon Foundation fellowships and published seven books and various articles, including Apocalypse in Rome: Cola di Rienzo and the Politics of the New Age (AHA Marraro Prize, 2004); and Renaissance Society and Culture (ed., with John Monfasani). He has worked in the book trade since 1967 and in 1985 with Dr. Gardiner he cofounded Italica Press, where he has developed numerous print and electronic projects. With Dr. Gardiner he co-authored “The Electronic Book” in The Oxford Companion to the Book. He is editor of Peacedocs.com, general editor of the five-volume Documentary History of Naples, and co-author of Medieval Naples, 400–1400. His forthcoming contributions include “Introduction: Naples in Myth and History,” in Marcia B. Hall, Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance: Naples (New York: Cambridge University Press); and “Cola di Rienzo,” “Rome,” and “Naples” in Oxford Bibliographies Online: Renaissance and Reformation, ed. Margaret King (New York: Oxford University Press). He is working on two books: one on Giovanna I of Naples, and one on Trecento historians in the Italian South. With Dr. Gardiner, he has been co-director of ACLS Humanities E-Book since 1999.

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