Justin earned his bachelor's degree from Kenyon College (2009) and a master of arts from the University of Alabama (2014). He is now a doctoral student in the Joint Program in Art & Architectural History at the University of Virginia, where he works on topics pertaining to late medieval and early modern art in Italy. His dissertation, entitled “Bessarion’s World: Art, Science, and Crusade,” examines the patronage and collecting practices of Byzantine émigré Basilios Bessarion (b. Trebizond c. 1408, d.

Scholarly and Technical Communications Officer, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities

Brandon is Head of Student Programs in the Scholars’ Lab. His research focuses on modern and contemporary fiction, especially on Anglophone modernisms and the novel in relation to sound studies and musicology. Before coming to the Scholars’ Lab, he was Mellon Digital Humanities Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of English in the Washington and Lee University Library. He received his PhD in English from UVA, where he held the Digital Humanities and Praxis Program Fellowships in the Scholars’ Lab and acted as Project Manager for NINES.