Dr. Alejandra Juno Rodríguez Villar joined Hanover College in 2018 as the Early Modern scholar of the Spanish Program in the Modern Languages Department. Originally from Santiago de Compostela, Spain, she has been always an active theater practitioner as an actress, director and playwright, with a special dedication to Early Modern Spanish Theater. She specializes in early modern Spanish literature and theater. Her research and scholar production focus on cognitive studies, performance studies, humor, translation, and digital humanities. She is the author of Cuando Compostela subió el telón. Crónica sentimental de la década dorada del teatro santiagués, 1960-1970. Santiago de Compostela: Alvarellos, 2011 and numerous articles that have appeared in Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, Comedia Performance, EHumanista/Cervantes.

Esther Fernández works on Iberian Studies, with a special interest in the history of theatre and its relationship to an emerging civil society in Spain. Her most recent book, To Embody the Marvelous (2021), explores the role of puppets and automata in early modern Spain for the development of a rationalized sense of wonder that questioned the normative authority of religious and artistic traditions. Fernández is also a founding member of the Dragoncillo Puppet Troupe, a public engagement project dedicated to bilingual storytelling with shadow puppets. She is also a regular theatre critic on both sides of the Atlantic and she has published critical editions of early modern dramatists, such as Lope de Vega and Tirso de Molina, but also of contemporary Spanish authors, such as Carmen Martín Gaite. At Rice, Fernández has served as Program Advisor for Spanish and Portuguese, Divisional Advisor for the Humanities, Resident Associate at Wiess College, and Fellow at the Center for Teaching Excellence. She received the Sophia Meyer Farb Prize for Teaching in 2018 and the George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching in 2022. In 2018, she was a Summer Fellow at the National Humanities Center.

Jacob Herald is a bilingual software developer, web designer, and digital humanities programmer with a passion for creating accessible, user-friendly digital platforms that bridge the gap between technology and the humanities. With a background in computer science and languages, Jacob has been instrumental in developing the Comedia Stages database through his interdisciplinary experience. His expertise lies in building scalable web applications, implementing interactive data visualizations, and ensuring that complex datasets are presented in an intuitive manner. Jacob is committed to making digital humanities research more accessible to scholars, educators, and the general public.

Haris Skiadas is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Hanover College in Indiana, USA. He earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Chicago, specializing in Algebraic Geometry, with a focus on algebraic connections and D-modules. Since joining Hanover College in 2006, Dr. Skiadas has expanded his academic interests to include theoretical computer science, discrete mathematics, computational and applied statistics, and digital humanities. He is particularly passionate about leveraging computers to enhance students' learning experiences. Dr. Skiadas is also an active contributor to the open-source community, maintaining over 140 repositories on GitHub. His projects often focus on programming education and statistical computing, with a particular emphasis on the R programming language.

Rodney Dunning (PhD, Wake Forest University, 2002) is a computational physicist and software developer with deep experience in solid-state physics, numerical modeling, and scientific programming. Originally from Mount Airy, NC, he has spent his career crafting clean, elegant solutions to complex analytical problems. His research interests span computational linguistics, digital humanities, and solar system dynamics.