Education:

• PhD in Information Science (in progress) – School of Information Sciences
  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2022 to Present
  
• MFA in Creative Writing, Fiction Emphasis – Creative Writing International Program, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, graduated Spring 2017
  
• MA in Literary Studies – Department of English, Washington State University, graduated Spring 2022
  
• Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities – Digital Technology & Culture Program, Washington State University, graduated Spring 2022
  
• BA in English – Department of English, Winona State University, graduated Spring 2012

Academic Employment:

TEACHING APPOINTMENTS

• Teaching Assistant – School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois, 2022 to 2024. Courses: Information Science 312: Reading & Writing Data – Instructor of Record
• Teaching Assistant – English Department, Washington State University, 2020 to 2022. Courses: English 101: Composition – Instructor of Record; English 102: Writing Tutorial 1 – Instructor of Record; English 373: Global Literatures – Substitute Instructor
• Adjunct Faculty – English Department, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2017 to 2020. Courses: English 101: Composition – Instructor of Record; English 102: Composition – Instructor of Record
• Teaching Assistant – English Department, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2014 to 2017. Courses: English 101: Composition – Instructor of Record; English 102: Composition – Instructor of Record; English 205: Introduction to Creative Writing – Instructor of Record

RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS:

• Research Assistant – Virality of Racial Terror Project, University of Illinois, Fall 2024 to Present
• Research Assistant – Viral Texts Project, University of Illinois, Fall 2022, Summer 2023
• Editorial Assistant – Complete Works of Edith Wharton, Oxford University Press, 2020 to 2022

ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS:

• Assistant Director – Avery Microcomputer Lab, Washington State University, 2021 to 2022
• Writing Center Consultant – Writing Center, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2014 to 201

Publications:

DIGITAL PROJECTS

• Fiona Hartley Kroeger, Matthew Kollmer, Isabella Viega, and Loida Pan. Folklore, Place, and Song: Mapping Corridos Across Mexico and the American Southwest. Published with Omeka & ArcGIS, 2023.
  • GitHub Repository: https://github.com/matthewkollmer/corridos
  • Reviews in Digital Humanities by Ysabel Munoz Martinez: https://doi.org/10.21428/3e88f64f.fffd5fa3

BLOGS & POPULAR VENUES

• “First Edition Information by Publisher.” Collector’s Counsel, Evening Land Books blog, July 2024. https://eveninglandbooks.com/first-edition-by-publisher/
• “Glossary of Book Terms.” Collector’s Counsel, Evening Land Books blog, July 2024. https://eveninglandbooks.com/glossary-of-terms/
• “Condition Grading Scales.” Collector’s Counsel, Evening Land Books blog, July 2024. https://eveninglandbooks.com/condition-grading-scales/

Presentations:

• Featured Presenter – “Convergences of Generative AI and the Writing Process” – Data Cultures Lab in the School of Information Sciences, UIUC – February 2024
• Panelist – “So You Think You Want to Go to Grad School? Ask Graduate Students!” – Hosted by Student Affairs in the School of Information Sciences, UIUC – September 2023
• Panelist – “English Studies and Digital Humanities” – Graduate English Organization at Washington State University – March 2023
• Presenter – “Folklore, Place, and Song: Digital Ethnomusicological Mapping of Corridos of Mexico and the Rio Grande” – Global Digital Humanities Symposium at Michigan State University – March 2023
• Speaker – “Editing Edith Wharton in a Digital Age” – Center for Arts & Humanities Colloquium at Washington State University – October 2021
• Panelist – “Professional Development Considerations” – New Student Orientation at Washington State University – August 2021
• Presenter – Neon Lit Reading Series hosted by the Black Mountain Institute –
• April 2017, February 2017, March 2016, and September 2014
• Presenter – Emerging Writer Series hosted by the Black Mountain Institute – presented award with introduction for Kirsten Valdez Quade – September 2015

Conference Attendance:

• Global Digital Humanities Symposium at Michigan State University, as a presenter – March 2023
• Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference (AWP), as a Representative of Bauman Rare Books – Portland 2019
• Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference (AWP), as a Representative of the Black Mountain Institute – Washington D.C. 2017
• Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference (AWP), as a Representative of the Creative Writing International Program – Minneapolis 2015
• Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference (AWP), independently – Seattle 2013
• Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference (AWP), as a Representative of the English Department at Winona State University – Chicago 2012

Book Fair Attendance:

• Chicago Book & Paper Fair, as a Representative of Evening Land Books – 2024
• Chicago Book & Paper Fair, as a Representative of Evening Land Books – 2023
• Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair, as a Representative of Bauman Rare Books – 2018

Awards:

• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2024
• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Fall 2023
• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2023
• Master’s Student Achievement Award – awarded by the College of Arts & Sciences (CAS) at Washington State University, 2022
• Best Seminar Paper or Project Award at the M.A. level – awarded by the College of Arts & Sciences (CAS) & the English Department at Washington State University, 2021
• Black Mountain Institute Study Abroad Award – University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2016
• International Programs Office Scholarship – University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2016
• Graduate and Professional Research Funding Award – University of Nevada, Las Vegas 2016
• Dean’s List – Winona State University, 2010 to 2012
• Midwest Regional Student of the Month – awarded by the Midwest Affiliate of College and University Residence Halls (MACURH), January 2012

Service:

ACADEMIC SERVICE

• Literature Liaison – English Graduate Organization (EGO), Washington State University, 2021 to 2022
• Club Advisor – Undergraduate Book Club, Washington State University, 2021 to 2022
• Committee Member – Emerging Writers Series, UNLV, 2014 to 2017
• Reader – Witness Magazine, UNLV, 2014 to 2017
• Club Advisor – UNLV Undergraduate Creative Writing Club, Fall 2016 to 2020
• Activities Coordinator – Undergraduate Creative Writing Club, Winona State University, 2011 to 2012
• Director of Marketing – Stage One Group, Winona State University 2010 to 2012

PUBLIC SERVICE

• PR Committee Member – Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA), 2024 to present
• Utility Volunteer – Las Vegas Natural History Museum, 2016 to 2017

Organization Memberships:

• Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) – Individual Member, 2012 to Present
• Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA) – As Evening Land Books, 2023 to Present
• Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association (MWABA) – As Evening Land Books, 2023 to Present
• Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) – Individual Member, 2024 to Present
• Association for Computers & the Humanities (ACH) – Individual Member, 2024 to Present

Technical Skills:

SOFTWARE

• Microsoft Office Suite: high proficiency
• BBEdit: high proficiency
• Voyant Tools: high proficiency
• WordPress: high proficiency
• Scalar: intermediate proficiency
• Omeka: intermediate proficiency
• Adobe Suite: intermediate proficiency

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

• Python: high proficiency
• Markdown: high proficiency
• R: high proficiency
• HTML: high proficiency

Languages:

Spanish: Working Proficiency reading and writing

Coursework:

GRADUATE CLASSES

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign:

• IS 430: Foundations of Information Processing – Professor Kevin Trainor
• IS 445: Data Visualization – Dr. Jill Naiman
• IS 493: Native American Collaborations – Dr. Elizabeth Sutton
• IS 509: History & Foundations of Information Science – Dr. Kathleen McDowell
• IS 519: Research Design in IS – Dr. Ted Underwood
• IS 529: Doctoral ProSeminar – Dr. J. Downie
• IS 567: Text Mining – Dr. Halil Kilicoglu
• IS 578: Intro to Digital Humanities – Dr. Zoe LeBlanc
• IS 583: Print to Programming Dr. – Ryan Cordell
• IS 583: Book as Physical Object – Dr. Sidney Berger
• IS 583: Print Culture & Material Book – Dr. John Vincler
• IS 590: Critical Information Studies – Dr. Karen Wickett
• IS 597: Large Language Models – Dr. Halil Kilicoglu
• IS 597: Culture at Scale – Dr. Zoe LeBlanc

Washington State University:

• ENG 458: Corpus Linguistics – Dr. Michael Ford Thomas
• ENG 501: Methodology of Teaching Composition – Dr. Melissa Nicolas
• ENG 527: Gothic Romance – Dr. Kirk McAuley
• ENG 534: Technical Writing Pedagogies – Dr. Julie Staggers
• ENG 548: Science Fiction and Cloud Computing – Dr. Roger Whitson
• ENG 549: Contemporary Irish Literature – Dr. Donna Potts
• ENG 573: Editing in a Digital Age – Dr. Donna Campbell
• ENG 560: Intro to Digital Humanities – Dr. Roger Whitson
• ENG 580: Chaucer – Dr. Michael Hanly

University of Nevada–Las Vegas:

• ENG 696C: Contemporary Latino/a Literature – Dr. Vincent Perez
• ENG 705: Fiction Workshop – Dr. Douglas Unger
• ENG 705: Fiction Workshop – Dr. Maile Chapman
• ENG 705: Fiction Workshop – Dr. Alissa Nutting
• ENG 705: Poetry Workshop – Dr. Donald Revell
• ENG 729: Forms of Fiction – Dr. Maile Chapman
• ENG 729: Forms of Poetry – Dr. Donald Revell
• ENG 739: Translation – Dr. Douglas Unger
• ENG 749: Critical Essay – Dr. Vincent Perez
• ENG 760: Tolkien and Romance – Dr. John Bowers
• ENG 760: Memoir – Dr. Beth Rosenberg
• ENG 791: Teaching Literature and Language – Dr. Karen Roop

UNDERGRADUATE CLASSES

Winona State University:

• ENG 223: Classical Mythology – Dr. Gary Eddy
• ENG 224: Bible as Literature – Dr. Wayne Ripley
• ENG 290: Literary Studies – Dr. Jane Carducci
• ENG 304: Victorian and Post-Civil War Literature – Dr. Debra Cumberland
• ENG 305: Modernism and Beyond – Dr. Chris Buttram
• ENG 324: Romancing the Marketplace – Dr. Brandy Schillace
• ENG 327: Gothic Novel – Dr. Wayne Ripley
• ENG 390: Literary Criticism – Dr. Gary Eddy
• ENG 417: Shakespeare’s Works – Dr. Jane Carducci
• ENG 439: Technical Writing – Dr. Robert Brault

Private Sector Employment:

RARE BOOK TRADE

• Partner & Founder – Evening Land Books, 2022 to Present
• Owner & Operator – Kollmer Rare Books, 2020 to 2022
• Rare Bookseller – Bauman Rare Books, 2017 to 2020

PRE-CAREER POSITIONS

• Scoring Supervisor – Data Recognition Corporation, 2013 to 2014
• Deckhand – St. Croix Boat & Packet, 2008 to 2014
• Zamboni Driver – St. Croix Valley Recreation Center, 2010 to 2014
• Chairlift Operator – Afton Alps, 2008 to 2014
• Prep Cook & Dishwasher – St. Croix Boat & Packet, 2006 to 2014