Jennifer Burek Pierce is professor in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa, jointly appointed in the University of Iowa Center for the Book and becoming professor emerita in 2027. Her books include Sex, Brains, and Video Games, 2nd ed. (ALA Editions, 2017), What Adolescents Ought to Know (UMass, 2011), and Narratives, Nerdfighters, and New Media (UIowa Press, 2020). Narratives, Nerdfighters, and New Media has been praised by John Green and The Lion and the Unicorn, which called it “an important book . . . drawing attention to a significant we-are-living-through-it shift in the history of reading.” She has been awarded research fellowships at the American Antiquarian Society; Winterthur Museum, Library, and Gardens; and the De Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her research has won the Donald G. Davis Article Award and the Windsor Library History Essay Award from the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association.
Nancy A. Henke is a Teaching & Learning Librarian with an Open Education Focus at the Auraria Library, which serves the University of Colorado Denver, Metropolitan State University of Denver, and the Community College of Denver. Previously, she was an assistant professor and Textbook Affordability Librarian at the University of Northern Colorado Libraries. In her library roles, she focuses on developing, curating, and advocating for affordable and open educational resources. In addition to her degree in LIS, she holds an MA in Literature from Colorado State University where she spent thirteen years as an instructor prior to her career in librarianship. In that role she taught undergraduate composition and literature courses, mentored and supported professional development for graduate teaching assistants in the First-Year Composition Program, and directed the Composition Placement Program.
SLIS Graduate Assistants Danae Bassett and Theo Prineas have, in previous semesters, contributed to this book by enhancing the technical functions that promote readability and access, among other responsibilities.
Fall 2023 Contributors: Tyler Berrio, Charlotte Brookins, Kate Burke, Corey Epley, Anna Luria, and Josée Varbonceur.
Fall 2024 Contributors: Madison Creery, Nolan Rochford-Volk.
