MyNDIR Editor and SSHRC Insight Development Grant Project
Lead: P. A. Baer
Trish Baer received her Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in the departments of
English and History in Art from the University of Victoria in 2013.
Her Interdisciplinary dissertation “An Old Norse Image Hoard: From
the Analog Past to the Digital Present” was nominated for “The
Governor General’s Gold Medal Award.” Her doctoral dissertation
unites the long-established field of Old Norse Studies with the
emerging field of Digital Humanities.
In addition to exploring
the transmission, reception, and remediation of illustrations,
Baer’s dissertation documents the creation of a digital image
repository named: MyNDIR (My Norse Digital Image Repository). MyNDIR
was launched at the UVic’s Digital Humanities Summer Institute (June
2013) and was awarded the 2013-14 “Digital Humanities Praxis
Innovation Award.” Baer was awarded a Social Sciences and Research
Council Insight Development Grant (2020 – 2024) for Visualizations
of Norse Myths for Children in the Victorian and Edwardian Eras
(1837-1915).
Programmer Consultant: Martin Holmes
Martin Holmes is a programmer at the University of Victoria
Humanities Computing and Media Centre, specializing in
digital editions and XML technologies.
Programmer Consultant: Patrick Szpak
Patrick Szpak is a web designer at Humanities Computing and Media Centre. From mobile phones
to desktop screens, he cares about how a website looks, reads, and
performs for its viewers.
Humanities & Social Sciences Librarian:
Michael Lines
Michael Lines is Humanities & Social Sciences Librarian
at the Mearns Centre for Learning - McPherson Library at the
University of Victoria. He has a background in Medieval Studies and
an interest in book history and bookbinding.
Research Assistants
Research AssistantSeptember 2025 -
current: Stella Artemis
Stella is a first year undergraduate Geography student
at UVic, with a focus on the human geography side; politics,
sociology, religion and history among others. His interests
outside of school include drawing, D&D, anything outdoors,
reading and various board and card games.
Research Assistant
September 2024 - May 2024: Emma
Smith-Carrier
Emma is a third year History major at the University of
Victoria. She is interested in medieval studies, folklore, and
criminal history with a particular interest in Northumbria. She
started working on MyNDIR as a volunteer and was then hired as a
research assistant through the University of Victoria's Work
Study program.
Research Assistant
2023 - current: M.L. Prenger
("Mandy")
Mandy is a grad student in the English program at UVIC.
She/they contacted Trish Baer while working on an archival
project regarding Louis Moe's Valkeryian - and serendipitously discovered there
was a little place for her at University after all! It makes
sense that a child born in the remote lands of Northwest Ontario
(Thunder Bay) who grew up loving the woods, spending childhood
summers immersed in great lake fishing and sharpened
stick/imaginary bear hunting along the Kaministiquia, a child
who sat in classrooms and frustrated teachers with her near
constant daydreams of paddling-to-the-sea, tucking into tea with
Mr. Tumnus, or looking down at her wide feet and wondering if
she was also in need of an adventure - would eventually find
herself working on the MyNDIR project. Myth and legend, trolls
and wolves, gods and giants, Norse mythology is full of the good
stuff. In her spare time, Mandy thinks about Missed Connections,
birding, her children, her dogs, how she has fallen in love with
Louis Moe (and how to break it to her partner) and how to be
less cringy when interacting with the human world. Mandy
assisted with the Vanquished Viking Gods exhibition and is
currently working on Wikipedia pages for Olive Bray, Katherine
Boult and Mabel Cummings.
Research Assistant
January 2024 - May 2024: Elif Cansu
Gümüşpala
Cansu is a second-year master's student in the Sociology
department at UVic, with a focus on Cultural, Social, and
Political Thought. Their research interests include the
philosophy of art and queer theory, as well as the sociology of
gender and female impersonation in Turkish history. They work as
a research assistant on MyNDIR. In their free time, Cansu enjoys
practicing tango and guides queer tango
workshops.
Research Assistant
September 2023 - May 2024: Camryn Cutter
Camryn is a third year student at the University of
Victoria. She enjoys folklore, Scandinavian studies, and video
game studies. She is currently working on MyNDIR as a
volunteer.
Research Assistant
2023 - January 2024: Chloe Mee
Chloe Mee is an English Honours student in her third
year at the University of Victoria. She first worked with MyNDIR
through the Humanities Scholars Program in August 2023. Her
research interests include Victorian fiction and the periodical
press.
Research Assistant
2022: Gabrielle Eisenberg
Gabrielle Eisenberg is a Greek and Roman Studies major
and a Film minor, and a student in the Humanities Scholars
Program at UVic. Gabrielle has studied the relationship between
theory and myth. She is interested in the transmission and
reception of mythology throughout the ancient Indo-European
region up to the present day.
Research Assistant
2020 - 2023: Sage Dunn-Krahn
Sage Dunn-Krahn is an undergraduate student of Medieval
Studies at UVic. They are especially interested in Norse
Mythology, modern medievalism, gender transgression in early
modern France and Mughal India. They work as a researcher and
xml coder on MyNDIR.
They have also worked as a researcher
on Perfecta, a digital project headed by Helene
Cazes.
Research Assistant
2022: Joe Hansen
Joe Hansen is a Medieval Studies and Creative Writing
Student at UVic. He is descended from Danish immigrants to the
Pacific North West and has always been fascinated with the old
stories since he first played Age of Mythology. His interests
include the translation of the Middle Ages to modern times in
pop cultural artifacts from Fantasy novels to "realistic" video
games.
Research Assistant
2021 - 2022: Camryn Cutter
Camryn Cutter is a second year English student at the
University of Victoria. She worked on MyNDIR for her HUMA 295
practicum in 2021 and joined the team in June 2021. Her
interests include law, fairytales and folklore, and
mythology.
Research Assistant
2020 - 2022: Camille Laliberte
Camille Laliberte is an English and Philosophy student
at the University of Victoria. She has been on the MyNDIR
project since 2020. Her research interests include the studies
of fairy and folk tales in literature and culture.
Scholars' Program: Internship
Internship
2022: Gabrielle Eisenberg
Gabrielle Eisenberg is a Greek and Roman Studies major and a Film
minor, and a student in the Humanities Scholars Program at UVic.
Gabrielle has studied the relationship between theory and myth.
She is interested in the transmission and reception of mythology
throughout the ancient Indo-European region up to the present
day.
Internship
2023: Chloe Mee
Chloe Mee is an English Honours student starting her
third year at the University of Victoria. She is working with
MyNDIR through the Humanities Scholars Program starting in
August 2023. Her research interests include Victorian fiction
and the periodical press.
Digital Humanities Practicum Students
HUMA 180 Practicum Student
2021: Haley England
Haley England is a first-year Linguistics student at the
University of Victoria with an interest in language acquisition.
Haley researched biographical information and identified
monograms for MyNDIR.
HUMA 180 Practicum Student
2021: Trinity Blacklock
Trinity Blacklock is a first year Humanities university
student at UVic. She contributed to the MyNDIR project by
researching authors and illustrators in order to help create
biographies. Going forward, Trinity plans to study History and
English, before entering into the Education program.