Dr Katherine Aske is a scholar of eighteenth-century literature and the digital humanities. After completing her PhD at Loughborough University in 2015, Aske undertook a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Université de Bretagne Occidentale in 2016, working on the digital humanities project ‘DIGITENS: Digital Encyclopaedia of European Sociability’. She has since worked on several research projects with Northumbria University, including the current AHRC-funded Sterne Digital Library.