About Us

The GLAM Incubator is an initiative of the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto.

Our Team

Claire Battershill is Director of the GLAM Incubator and an Assistant Professor jointly appointed in the Faculty of Information and the Department of English. Her research focuses on the history and future of the book. Specifically, her work examines relationships between feminist experimental publishing, literary aesthetics, and practices of book making in 20th and 21st-century literature. Professor Battershill is a Co-Director of the Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP), a critical digital archive of early 20th-century publishers’ records, the author of a collection of short stories, Circus (McClelland & Stewart, 2014) and the Co-Creator of ‘Make Believe,’ a collaborative research-creation project funded by the Canada Council for the Arts. Her most recent books are Women and Letterpress Printing: Gendered Impressions (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and Using Digital Humanities in the Classroom (revised 2nd edition, Bloomsbury, 2022).

Cate Cleo Alexander is Coordinator of the GLAM Incubator and PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Cate’s lifelong passion for history has taken her from archaeological field digs in Kastro Kallithea (Greece) and Roccagloriosa (Italy) to the digital realms of online archives. Her dissertation examines digital public history through feminist new-materialist and political economic theory in order to establish a better understanding of how platforms influence the production, distribution, and consumption of public history. When she is not studying cultural heritage, digital humanities, or media theory, Cate can be found swing dancing, making memes, or watching long video essays on YouTube. Cate’s research is generously funded by a SSHRC Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship — Doctoral (CGS-D) Award.

Steering Committee

• Prof. Claire Battershill, Director, GLAM Incubator
• Prof. Javed Mostafa, Dean, Faculty of Information
• Prof. Matt Ratto, Associate Dean, Research, Faculty of Information
• Prof. Maggie Hutcheson, Museum Studies, Faculty of Information
• Sabrina Greupner, Director (retired), Design and Interpretation, Ontario Science Centre
• Loryl MacDonald, Associate Chief Librarian for Special Collections and Director of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
• Donna Bernardo-Ceriz, Managing Director, Ontario Jewish Archive
• Andrea Mills, Executive Director, Canada, Internet Archive