Damien Thomas is a graduate student at Indiana University Bloomington, currently pursuing a dual master’s degree in information and library science, specializing in digital humanities. He previously attended IUB for his undergraduate degrees in computer science, specializing in artificial intelligence, and religious studies, specializing in Buddhism and Hinduism. His work has taken him from audio and video preservation, to music archival, to corporate archives, to software development for digital libraries, and finally to digital humanities scholarship and research. His HASTAC project will focus on the work of Victorian poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, specifically looking at how his writing was influenced by the works in his library that were gifted to him by his close friend and literary compatriot Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton.