Ellen Forget

Ellen Forget is a PhD student at the University of Toronto in the Faculty of Information and the Book History and Print Culture collaborative program and a Critical Digital Humanities Initiative fellow. They are a graduate of the Master of Publishing and Editing Certificate programs at Simon Fraser University. Ellen’s doctoral research focuses on accessibility in contemporary publishing, primarily looking at production processes and materiality of braille books. They are currently working on developing an optical character recognition model to recognize embossed braille and a braille TEI schema. Ellen has presented their research at conferences for the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP), Bibliographical Society of Canada, and Textual Encoding Initiative, among others. Ellen also works as a freelance editor, alt text writer, and accessibility consultant.

Accessible book formats, braille, digital publishing, contemporary publishing, book history, bibliography, digital humanities, text encoding, speculative fiction genres

• Unified English Braille Transcription – Canadian National Institute for the Blind (in progress 2023)
• Master of Publishing – Simon Fraser University
• Editing Certificate – Simon Fraser University
• Bachelor of Arts in English, minor in publishing – Simon Fraser University
• Associate of Arts in English – Kwantlen Polytechnic University

• Critical Digital Humanities Initiative Fellow , 2023-2024
• SSHRC Doctoral Fellow, 2023-2025
• Book History and Print Culture Student Research Awards, 2021 and 2022