KOOISTRA, Lorraine Janzen, Department of English, Ryerson University
Lorraine Janzen Kooistra is internationally acclaimed for her pioneering research on the complex relationships between pictures and words in nineteenth-century print culture. Her innovative methodology and collaborative, interdisciplinary approach have advanced illustration studies and demonstrated the fundamental utility of bibliographical and textual studies in literary criticism. Her digital editions, searchable for both visual images and printed text, are models of interdisciplinary practice and open-access public scholarship in the humanities.