title: Kristine Hildebrandt
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affiliation: "Southern Illinois University Edwardsville"
position: "Professor of English Language and Literature"
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Kristine Hildebrandt

Professor of English Language and Literature · Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Kristine Hildebrandt is a Professor of English Language and Literature at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and co-director of its Interdisciplinary Research and Informatics Scholarship Center. Her work documents Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal's Manang District, including NSF-funded projects archiving under-documented Himalayan languages and a corpus of 2015 earthquake survivor narratives. She is also a project director of the DLI Community of Science, an NSF-funded initiative that brings linguists, Indigenous knowledge-holders, and researchers from fields such as computing and the environmental sciences together to advance cross-disciplinary language documentation and treat endangered languages as scientific data worth preserving.