Publications

Books - Authored

• Thomas, Sue, Nature and Cyberspace: The Wild Surmise (forthcoming 2012) London: Bloomsbury Academic
• Thomas, Sue, Hello World: travels in virtuality (York: Raw Nerve Books, 2004) pp. 300 ISBN 0-9536585-6-2  http://travelsinvirtuality.typepad.com/helloworld/
  
• Thomas, Sue, Water (New York: Overlook Press, 1994; UK: Five Leaves Press, 1995) pp. 253, ISBN 0-87951-532-5
• Thomas, Sue, Correspondence (London: The Women's Press, 1992; New York: Overlook Press, 1993) pp. 153, ISBN 0-87951-529-5

Books – Author Edited

• Thomas, Sue (ed), Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories By Women Celebrating Women (New York: Overlook Press 1994; London: Vintage, 1994) pp 384, ISBN 0-09951-741-8 (including a piece of my own, All Strapped In - see Book Chapters)
• Thomas, Sue, and Hoskin, Teri (eds), The Noon Quilt  (Nottingham: trAce, 1999) pp. 112, ISBN 1-90322-900-6
• Thomas, Sue, Creative Writing: A Handbook For Workshop Leaders (Nottingham: University of Nottingham Press, 1995) pp. 164, ISBN 1-85041-078-X
• Thomas, Sue, ‘All Strapped In’, in Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories By Women Celebrating Women, ed. Sue Thomas, (New York: Overlook Press 1994; London: Vintage, 1994)

Journals – Edited

• Grigar, D. & Thomas, S. (co-editors) Leonardo Electronic Almanac Special Issue “Wild Nature and the Digital Life” November 2006 http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/LEA/LEA2004/authors.htm#digiwild
• Mills, S. Stewart, G. Thomas, S. (co-editors) Convergence Special Issue  “An End to the New? Re-assessing the claims for New Media Writing(s)” Volume 12 no 4, 2006  http://bit.ly/1fGQD

Refereed journal articles

• Thomas, Sue, 'When Geeks Go Camping - finding California in cyberspace' in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Vol. 15, No. 1, 13-30 (2009) DOI: 10.1177/1354856508097016 http://con.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/15/1/13
  
• Thomas, Sue, ‘The end of cyberspace and other surprises’ in Mills, S., Stewart, G., Thomas, S. (co-editors) Convergence Special Issue  “An End to the New? Re-assessing the claims for New Media Writing(s)” Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Vol. 12, No. 4, 383-391 (2006) DOI: 10.1177/1354856506068316  http://con.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/12/4/383
• Thomas, Sue, ‘Narratives of Digital Life at the trAce Online Writing Centre’, in G.E. Hawisher & C.L. Selfe, Eds, Computers and Composition, Volume 22, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 493-501 http://bit.ly/4cRSp1

Edited Works - Contributions

• Thomas, S., Joseph, C., Laccetti, J., Mason, B., Mills, S., Perril, S., et al. (2007). Transliteracy: Crossing Divides First Monday, Volume 12 Number 12 - 3 December 2007 http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2060/1908
• Thomas, Sue, ‘Nature and Cyberspace a deep slow aggregation over time’ in Performance Research 11.4 Digital Resources issue, December 2006 ISSN 1352-8165 http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a783545923
• Thomas, Sue, ‘e-learning /\ e-publishing: why the great divide?’ Times Higher Education Supplement, November 2005
• Thomas, Sue, ‘Transliteracy - reading in the digital age’  Higher Education Academy English Subject Centre Newsletter, November 2005
• Thomas, S. 2005, ‘Growing up on the Web’, Lost and Found in Virtual Reality: Women and Information, eds. Isomäki, H. and Pohjola, A., Technology Studies in Research Methodology, (Department of Research Methodology) Lapland UP, Finland. ISBN 951-634-971-4
• Thomas, S. 2004, ‘Writing on the Web’, Literature Matters, British Council,
• Thomas, S. 2004, ‘Walter Ong and the problem of writing about LambdaMOO’ Process , trAce Online Writing Centre http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/Process/index.cfm?article=126 
• Thomas, S. 2003, ‘Spivak’ Barcelona Review 35 March-April 2003, http://www.barcelonareview.com/35/e_st.htm
• Thomas, S. 2003, ‘A New Sensibility? The qualities of a new media writer’ Process, trAce Online Writing Centre, http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/process/index.cfm?article=62
• Thomas, S. 2004, ‘Sistema Purificacion’ in Pulp.Net, January 2004 http://www.pulp.net/fiction/stories/10/sistema-purificacion.html 
• Thomas, Sue, ‘Writing Machines’ in Review, trAce Online Writing Centre, (2002) http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/review/index.cfm?article=36
• Thomas, Sue, ‘Correspondence – excerpt’, in Reload: Rethinking Women and Cyberculture, ed. by  Mary Flanagan & Austin Booth (Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, England: MIT Press 2002) pp. 195-208.
• Thomas, Sue and Adams, Randy, ‘Stephanie Strickland: Living in the Space between Print and Online’, Showcase, trAce Online Writing Centre, (2002) http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/showcase/index.cfm?article=30
• Thomas, Sue, ‘Tools of the Trade’, Process, trAce Online Writing Centre, (2002) http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/process/index.cfm?article=6
• Thomas, Sue, ‘No Visible Means of Support: Is there any money in New Media Writing?’, Opinion, trAce Online Writing Centre, (2002)
• http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/Opinion/index.cfm?article=12
• Thomas, Sue, ‘Evolving Practice: writers working online with trAce’ in Computers & Texts, CTI Textual Studies, Oxford, 18/19 Spring 2000 http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/publish/comtxt/ct18-19/supp08thomas.pdf
• Thomas, Sue, ‘Triandria’, in Inhuman Reflections: Thinking The Limits Of The Human, ed. by Scott Brewster, John Joughin & Richard Walker, (Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press 2000)
• Thomas, Sue, ‘Lines’, in Lux: notes for an electronic writing ed. Teri Hoskin, exhibition,  book, and website, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, (2000) http://ensemble.va.com.au/lux/   
• Thomas, Sue, ‘Correspondence, a reconfiguration’ Riding the Meridian, ed. Jennifer Ley (2000) http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/suethomas/correspondence/
• Thomas, Sue, & Hoskin, Teri, ‘Tremble’ in Speedfactory, ed. Bernard Cohen, (1999) http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/suethomas/crea/speedfactory1.htm
• Thomas, Sue, ‘All Strapped In’, in 47 Modern European Short Stories, (Copenhagen: Forlaget Systime, 1999) [German; Danish; Finnish]
• Thomas, Sue, ‘Lines’, in Lux: notes for an electronic writing ed. Teri Hoskin, exhibition,  book and website, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, (2000)
• Thomas, Sue, ‘The Talent For Virtuality’, in Crossing The Border ed. Lisa Tuttle, (London: Gollancz 1998) (Munich: German translation Der heimliche Spiegel, dtv 2000)
• Thomas, Sue, Creative Interaction In Cyberspace, in Cybersociology Issue 4, December 1998 http://members.aol.com/Cybersoc/issue4.html
• Thomas, Sue, ‘Imagining A Stone’, Ensemble Logic & Chorography, Adelaide, Australia July, 1998, http://ensemble.va.com.au/enslogic/index.html
• Thomas, Sue, ‘Sharing A Common Language’, Globewide Network Academy September, 1998 http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/online/gna.htm
• Thomas, Sue, Meditations on identity in the spaceland of MOO, Times Higher, October 1998
• Thomas, Sue, ‘Land: Textual MOO-based virtual landscapes alongside interpretations of the work of Andy Goldsworthy’ (1998) http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/suethomas/land/01.htm
• Thomas, Sue, ‘Correspondence – excerpt’, Infinity Plus Science Fiction & Fantasy Archive (1998) http://www.iplus.zetnet.co.uk/stories/corr.htm
• Thomas, Sue, ‘Revolver’ (1997) http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/suethomas/revolver/
• Thomas, Sue, ‘The Net of [+]Desire[+]’  First presented at the 8th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Chicago, September 1997, now online at the Infinity Plus Science Fiction & Fantasy Archive
• Thomas, Sue, Comic with a Universal Audience Times Higher, September 1997
• Thomas, Sue, ‘Pert Breasts and a Tiny White Leather Skirt’, Mute magazine, Issue 8, London, 1997
• Thomas, Sue, ‘Escape Velocity’, Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, No. 69,  Spring, 1997
• Thomas, Sue, ‘Irina’, Wired UK, January 1997
• Thomas, Sue, ‘Irina’ Matrix, British Science Fiction Association, January 1997
• Thomas, Sue, ‘Chickens’, The Tiger Garden: A Book of Writers' Dreams, ed. Nicholas Royle, Serpent's Tail 1996
• Thomas, Sue, ‘Cyberflesh Girlmonster’, Wired UK October 1996
• Thomas, Sue, ‘Self-Censorship’ Focus, British Science Fiction Association, Summer 1996
• Thomas, Sue, ‘Selected Internet Resources For Writers’,  Council for College and University English Newsletter, June 1996
• Thomas, Sue, ‘Technopolyamory: loving many machines’, GeekGirl #5, Australia, February 1996
• Thomas, Sue, ‘Between the Boys and their Toys’, in Where No Man Has Gone Before ed. Lucie Armitt, (London: Routledge 1990)

Conferences/Events Organised

• The IOCT Salon: new media writing series co-organised with Chris Joseph 2006-08
• NLab Social Networks, 19 June 2008, De Montfort University
• Transliteracy Workshop, January 2008, IOCT
• Transliteracy Unconference, September 2007, IOCT
• Women Business Blogging, 8 June 2007, De Montfort University
• Transliteracy Colloquium, May 2007, IOCT
• Incubation trAce International Conference on Writing and the Internet 12-14 July 2004, Nottingham Trent University, UK (Chair)
• Incubation trAce International Conference on Writing and the Internet 19-21 July 2002, Nottingham Trent University, UK (Chair)
• Littérature et Internet: Nouvelles formes d'écriture électronique, 15-16 March 2002, Sorbonne, Paris (co-organiser)
• Net.Work Day, November 2001, Nottingham Trent University
• Incubation trAce International Conference on Writing and the Internet 10-12 July 2000, Nottingham Trent University, UK (Chair)
• Writers and the Internet October 1998, Nottingham Trent University, UK (Chair)

Conference Contributions – Refereed

• Mason, B. L. and Thomas, S. 2007. Tags, networks, narrative: exploring the use of social software for the study of narrative in digital contexts. In Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Manchester, UK, September 10 - 12, 2007). HT '07. ACM, New York, NY, 39-40. 
• Thomas, S. 2006, “Nature and Cyberspace a deep slow aggregation over time”, Digital Resources in the Humanities, Dartington
• Thomas, S. 2005. The tools of online community: the first five years of the trAce online writing centre. In Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Creativity & Cognition (London, United Kingdom, April 12 - 15, 2005). C&C '05. ACM Press, New York, NY, 63-70. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1056224.1056235  ISBN:1-59593-025-6
• Thomas, S. 2005 “Archiving the trAce Online Writing Centre 1995-2005”, Digital Resources in the Humanities, University of Lancaster
• Thomas, S. 2005 “Virtuality and Air”, Altered States: transformations of perception, place, and performance, The Liquid Press, University of Plymouth
• Thomas, S. 2005 "The Tools of Online Community -- the first five years of the trAce Online Writing Centre" Creativity & Cognition 5, Creative Process and Artefact Creation: Practice, Digital Media and Support Tools, Goldsmiths College, University of London
• Thomas, S. 1999 "Early Engagements of Writers with Online Media" Creativity & Cognition 3, 1999 Intersections and Collaborations: Art, Music, Technology and Science An ACM SIGCHI International Conference October 11-13th, University of Loughborough

Invited Conference Contributions, Talks & Lectures

• Visionary Landscapes, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA, May 2008 (Invited keynote) Transliteracy: Crossing Divides, University of Bangor, 2008
• Writing.Wise, Vancouver, BC, Canada Institute for the Future, FutureCommons Event, Menlo, CA Washington State University, 8 Nov 2007 School of Arts and New Media, University of Hull, October 2007 ‘Footprints in cyberspace: stories of virtual life and the natural world’ Lapidus Annual Conference, Leicester University, September 2007 (Invited Keynote)
• ‘The Uses of Transliteracy’ at Narrative and Multimodality: Language, theory, contexts Conference, School of English, University of Central England, April 2007 (Invited Plenary)
• “Children of Web 2.0” at The Production Ecology of Pre-School Television Research Seminar, 19 January 2007, University of Westminster (Invited Plenary)
• Transliteracies - the future of reading, writing and research, University of Westminster, November 2006
• Transliteracy & Elearning, EduBlog Conference, London, June 2006
• Hello World, reading,  Bambu Café for Pulp-Net, Leicester June 2006
• Internet as Text, Dartington College of the Arts, University of Plymouth, May 2006
• Internet as Site, Dartington College of the Arts, University of Plymouth, May 2006
• The Future of Writing, panel, Cultural Xchanges, De Montfort University, February 2006
• Brave New Worlds,  Café Scientifique, Leicester, November 2005
• Resisting Fiction – Writing about Real Life in Virtuality. Keynote. Near and Dear Conference, University of Hull, May 2005
• Will the internet change literature? The Centre for Humanities Computing, University of Oxford, February 2005
• Hello World: some challenges of location and identity in cyberspace. Research Seminar at The Centre for Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester, October 2004
• Planning and Promoting Web-based Activities, British Council Moscow, June 2004
• Opening the Space: the internet as a location for writing, The Centre for Humanities Computing, University of Oxford, February 2004
• Planning and Promoting Web-based Activities, British Council Delhi, January 2004
• Mapping the Transition from Page to Screen, Open Space Gallery, Victoria, Canada 2003
• Mapping the Transition from Page to Screen, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada 2003
• Online Writing Courses for Creative People: the challenges of managing an international web-based learning environment. Telus Centre for Learning Technologies, University of Alberta, Canada. October 2003
• Writing, Reading and Promoting New Media Writing, Department of English, University of Alberta, Canada, October 2003
• Mapping the Transition from Page to Screen: what happens when writers move onto the web?, The Centre for Humanities Computing, University of Oxford, 2003
• Live Literature & New Media, The Voice Box, Royal Festival Hall, London, January 2003
• Imagination and Reality: print-based writers working on the web, Transcriptions Project, English Department, University of California at Santa Barbara, October 2002
• Electronic Literature in the University, State of the Arts Symposium, Electronic Literature Organisation, UCLA, April 2002
• Colloque International Litterature et Internet: Nouvelles Formes d'Ecriture Electronique, The Sorbonne University (Paris IV), March 2002
• Hewlett Packard Research Laboratories, Bristol, July 2001
• BBC Imagineering Dept, London, July 2001
• Digital Technologies and the Creative Economy, British Council, London, July 2001
• Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, May 2001
• British Council Literature Department, London, May 2001
• Wayne State University, Detroit, USA, April 2001
• Digital Arts & Culture Conference, Brown University, Providence RI, USA, April 2001
• Literaturhaus, Book Festival, Munich, Germany, March 2001
• BBC Online Communities Dept, London, February 2001
• Dept of Art & Design, MA in Digital Practices, University of Hertfordshire, December 2000
• Cheltenham Literature Festival, Cheltenham, October 2000
• Virtual Communities Conference, London, September 2000
• Digital Resources in the Humanities Conference, Sheffield, September 2000
• Digital Arts & Culture Conference, Bergen, Norway, August 2000
• Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham, July 2000
• Wired & Dangerous Conference, Leicester, July 2000
• Oxford CTI Texts Closing Seminar, Oxford, June 2000
• National Disability Arts Forum Summer School, Kielder Water, Northumberland, June 2000
• Dartington College of the Arts, Dartington, Devon, May 2000
• The Poetry Society, London, April 2000
• University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, March 2000
• University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia, March 2000
• Contemporary Arts Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, March 2000
• Adelaide Festival, Adelaide, Australia, March 2000
• Digital Arts & Culture Conference, Atlanta, USA, October 1999
• Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, June 1999

Conference Contributions – Other

• “The Transliterate Screen”, Interactive Futures: The New Screen, Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival, November 2007
• “Tags, Networks and Narrative: Investigating the use of Social Software for the Study of Narrative in Digital Contexts” with Bruce Mason, Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0 Conference, York September 2007
• “Are you transliterate?” Panel with Pullinger and Laccetti, Renewals English Subject Centre Conference, Royal Holloway, July 2007
• “Becoming transliterate” Workshop with Laccetti, Renewals English Subject Centre Conference, Royal Holloway, July 2007
• “Transliteracies: the future of reading, writing and research” Interfaces: English Studies and the Computer, University of Newcastle, November 2005
• “Voices from Everywhere” The Work of Stories, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2005
• “Hello World: wired and comfortable” the 2005 Electronic Culture and Communications Forum at the 2005 Popular Culture Association Conference, San Diego, March 2005
• “36 Years Online: Have we grown up yet?” Futures of Feminist Technoscience, ESRC Seminar, University of Surrey, January, 2005
• “Travels in virtuality” New Media and Technological Cultures, Prague, August, 2004
• “Hello World: travels in virtuality” Dust or Magic Conference for New Media Workers, Wadham College, Oxford. March 2004
• “Mapping The Transition From Page To Screen” Association of Internet Researchers 4.0, Toronto, October 2003
• “Using the web to broaden the visitor experience; the resource implications, skills and access issues of this approach.” With Antonia Byatt and Kate Pullinger, Brighton Museums Conference, September 2003
• “A New Literature? An introduction to new media writing and why you need to think about it.” The Condition of the Subject. English LTSN Conference, London, July 2003
• “Imagining A Stone: Virtual Landscapes & The Work Of Andy Goldsworthy”, Associated Writing Programs Conference, Albany NY, April 1999
• “The Writing Community Online”, AWP Conference, Albany NY, April 1999
• “Online Communication & Misunderstanding”, Writing & Computers Conference, Cambridge, 1999
• “Hypertext And Interactive Authorship” Writing & Computers Conference, Cambridge, 1999
• “Cyberliterature Today” Creativity & Consumption, University of Luton, 1999
• “!XENOPHOBIA!” Next 5 Minutes Tactical Media Conference, Amsterdam, 1999
• Recipient of a Special Invitation to the Harvard Conference on Internet & Society 1998
• “Fiction On The Internet”, talk/reading, University of Massachusetts, 1998
• “The [+]Net[+] Of Desire”, International Symposium of Electronic Arts, Chicago 1997

Interviews & Reviews

• Sue Thomas interviewed in Mark and John - The Fantasists part of the Making of a Monster series on the Crime and Investigation Network. 29 May 2008 9pm
• Sue Thomas interviewed for Kill Me If You Can, Channel Four TV, 23 August, 2005 (TV)
• Hello World: travels in virtuality, review by Greg Beatty in Tekka, May 2005, http://tekka.net/
• Hello World: travels in virtuality, review by Josephine Wilson in RealTime, December 2004, http://www.realtimearts.net/rt64/wilson_thomas.html
• Sue Thomas interviewed by Simon Morton for Digital Life, Radio New Zealand, 23 October, 2004 http://www.radionz.co.nz/digitallife/  (radio)
• Hello World: travels in virtuality, review by Susan Whittaker, County Lit, Summer, 2004 (Issue 17) http://travelsinvirtuality.typepad.com/helloworld/2004/08/county_lit.html 
• Hello World, review by Christina Patterson, The Independent, Book Reviews, 27 August, 2004, http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/story.jsp?story=555388
• Sue Thomas interviewed for Computerra Magazine, Moscow (Russian only) August, 2004
• http://travelsinvirtuality.typepad.com/helloworld/2004/08/computerra_maga.html 
• Sue Thomas interviewed by Jim McClellan. Blurring the Boundaries, The Guardian Online, 29 July, 2004, http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1270830,00.html
• Hello World: travels in virtuality, reviewed by Alan Sondheim in Nettime, May 2004, http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0405/msg00023.html
• Hello World: travels in virtuality, BBC Nottingham, 24 May, 2004
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/culture/2004/05/hello_world.shtml
• Sue Thomas interviewed by Michelle Draper for Arts Hub News, Tracing the Future of New Media Writing, 30 September, 2003 http://www.artshub.co.uk/ah1/news/news.asp?Id=46737
• Sue Thomas interview "The Future of Literature" in Talking Nottinghamshire, Autumn 2002
• "E Is for E-Book Murder Mystery" Sue Thomas interviewed by M.J. Rose, Wired News on M is for Nottingham? project, 4th June, 2002
• "A British University Uses a Murder Mystery to Teach the Craft of Online Writing" Sue Thomas interviewed by Michael Arnone in The Chronicle of Higher Education, USA, 29th May, 2002
• Sue Thomas interviewed with Professor David Crystal on 'Internet Writing' Front Row, BBC Radio 4, January, 2002
• Sue Thomas, interviewed by Andrew Gallix, 3am Magazine, Paris, 2001 http://www.3ammagazine.com/magazine/issue_3/articles/intertext_interview_sue_thomas_trace_website.html
• Sue Thomas interviewed by Victoria Bernal for Building Online Communities: Transforming Assumptions Into Success, Benton Foundation, USA, May 2001
• Sue Thomas interviewed for 'Sounds of Cyberspace' with Robin Rimbaud, Front Row, BBC Radio 4, February, 2001
• Sue Thomas interviewed by The Observer for "Virtual Relationships", Sunday, 21st January, 2001
• Sue Thomas interviewed for 'Life Online' Front Room, BBC TV, 2000 (TV)
• Sue Thomas interviewed for  'Family History on the Net', You and Yours, BBC Radio 4 1999 (radio)
• Sue Thomas, interviewed by Nancy White for Hosts on Hosting, a series on the hosts of virtual communities, Full Circle Associates, Seattle, USA 14 June, 1999 http://www.fullcirc.com/community/suethomas.htm
• "Tracing the Future" Sue Thomas interviewed by M.J. Rose, Wired News, 28th September, 1999
• "The Literary Life Online" Sue Thomas interviewed by Reena Jana, Wired News, 12th February, 1999
• "Weaving New Literary 'web'" Sue Thomas interviewed for the Nottingham Evening Post, 18th March, 1999
• Sue Thomas interviewed by Hari Kunzru, The Lounge, SKY TV 1999 (TV)
• "Online novels and virtual poetry" Sue Thomas interviewed for The Independent, 19th October, 1998
• Sue Thomas interviewed for The Formula BBC Radio 5 1998 (radio)
• Sue Thomas interviewed for The Morning Show BBC Radio Nottingham 1998 (radio)
• Sue Thomas interviewed for The Arts Programme BBC Radio Leicester 1998 (radio)
• Sue Thomas interviewed by  Quentin Cooper for The Network BBC Radio 4, 1998 (radio)
• Sue Thomas interviewed for The Network BBC Radio 4 1997 (radio)
• ‘Wired world: the maker of connections’, Sue Thomas interviewed by Lizzie Bailey for Connected, The Daily Telegraph, 4 November 1997
• Thomas, Sue ‘All Strapped In’ Morning Story BBC Radio 4 1994 (repeated) (radio)
• Thomas, Sue ‘Horror Movies’ Without Walls, Channel 4 1992 (TV)

Curriculum Vitae