Craig Rustici

  

• Professor and Department Chair
• Hofstra University

I specialize in early modern English literature and have published "The Afterlife of Pope Joan." I am completing my first year as chair of the English Department at Hofstra University. I approach questions of accessibility and digital humanities from an experiential basis in that I am a legally blind user of screen magnification and screen reading technologies. As a member of Hofstra's nascent Digital Research Center, I am developing a project, AccessScholar, that will attempt through advocacy, crowd sourcing, and other measures to improve the accessibility of digital primary and secondary research materials.