Carol Braun Pasternack is on the faculty of English and Medieval Studies at UCSB and has been a member of Transcriptions-Transliteracies, as well as the History of Reading Group, since their inceptions. In addition to various classes on the Middle Ages and the History of the English Language, she teaches courses in the department’s Literature and the Culture of Information specialization: “From Scroll to Screen,” “The Voice and the Page,” and “The Material Lyric.” She writes on topics of textuality and sexuality in Anglo-Saxon England, having written The Textuality of Old English Poetry, and co-edited Vox intexta: Orality and Textuality in the Middle Ages, Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages, and Sex and Sexuality in Anglo-Saxon England. Her current project is a monograph on Sex, Text, and Power in Anglo-Saxon England. She’s interested in using the theories and modeling of social computing as a way to theorize the sorts of communities that informed the production and uses of texts in Anglo-Saxon England and also as a way to produce new sorts of interfaces and structures for web-facsimiles of early medieval manuscripts.