Symposium Speakers

Outside Presenters

James Neal is Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia Universities, where he provides leadership for university academic computing and a system of twenty-five libraries. His responsibilities include the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning and the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship. He is a frequent speaker and author on a wide variety of topics related to academic and research libraries, including scholarly communication and digital library programs.

Niko Pfund is Vice President and Publisher for Trade and Academic Books at Oxford University Press in New York. He began his publishing career as an editorial assistant at Oxford in 1987, after graduating from Amherst College. From 1990 to 2000 he held increasingly responsible positions at New York University Press--as editor for history, law, and politics; director; and editor-in-chief--before returning to Oxford as Publisher of its Academic Division.

Robert Stein is a Visiting Scholar at New York University and the Founder and Director of The Institute for the Future of the Book. The institute is a small "think and do tank" that explores and influences the evolution of new forms of discourse moving from printed pages to networked screens. Previously Stein was the founder of the Voyager Company where he led the development of over 300 titles in the Criterion Collection, a series of definitive films, and more than 75 CD-ROM titles, including the CD Companion to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

Oberlin College Faculty

Julia Christensen, Luce Visiting Assistant Professor of Emerging Arts
Gary Kornblith, Professor of History
Anne Trubek, Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition