Sam Baker is the faculty director of the eComma project. He is an assistant professor in the English department of the University of Texas at Austin and has recently completed a book about British Romantic writers and the sea, entitled Written on the Water: British Romanticism and the Maritime Empire of Culture (forthcoming from the University of Virginia Press in 2009).

Travis Brown is the chief programmer and an assistant director of the eComma Project. He is a doctoral student in the English department, and studies British romantic narrative poetry, prosody, and computational linguistics. He has had previous experience as a sysadmin and intranet application developer. Contact Travis with questions about eComma’s programming and development.

Katharine Beutner is head of development and serves as the second assistant director. She is an English doctoral student and is writing a dissertation on conflict between literary women in the early eighteenth century. She is also an intern at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. Contact her with questions about collaboration or other administrative matters.

Laura T. Smith manages the testing of eComma. She is an English doctoral student concentrating on poetry and poetics.

Kevin Bourque is an assistant grantwriter. He is a doctoral student in English, with a focus on textual studies and eighteenth-century literature.

Will McCutchen is an undergraduate programming assistant.

James Calcaben is an undergraduate programming assistant.