Dr. Mary Traester is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities for Humanities Core. Her fellowship is supported by the Mellon Foundation. At UCI, Mary is developing and integrating digital technologies for use in large lectures and smaller discussion sections, collaborating on a series of workshops and training in emerging methods and tools, developing and expanding student and instructor websites, and evaluating the impact that new technologies and digital reading have on student engagement and learning.
Mary received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Southern California, where she researched the ethics and politics of identity formation in modern poetry through the present day. Before coming to UCI, she worked on the pilot program of FemTechNet—a network of scholars, students, and artists interested in technology, science, and feminism—to create an alternative format to MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses).