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This site was conceived and supervised by Dr. Janelle Jenstad, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Victoria. For more information on citing our work, click here.
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Victoria Abboud
Revenge Tragedy Student, University of Windsor, Winter 2001. Ms. Abboud completed her M.A. in English at Wayne State University in 2003, and her Ph.D. at Wayne State in 2010. She is now an Instructor in the Arts and Education Department at Grande Prairie Regional College (Alberta).
Neil Adams
Research Assistant, 2010-present. Neil Adams completed a B.A. (First Class Honours) in History at the University of Kent, Canterbury (UK) in 2008, and an M.A. in History at the University of Victoria in 2010. His M.A. paper analyzed the historiography of Canadian conscripts during the Second World War. A keen historian of early modern London, he is responsible for redrawing the ward boundaries.
Neil Baldwin
English 412, Representations of London, Fall 2002; B.A. Honours Student, English Language and Literature, University of Windsor.
Benjamin Barber
English 520, Representations of London, Summer 2011. M.A. Student, English, University of Victoria.
Suzanne Bebbington
Shakespeare Student, University of Windsor, Winter 2002.
Laura Braithwaite
Shakespeare Student, University of Windsor, Winter 2000.
Jennie Butler
Pageantry Student and M.A. candidate, University of Windsor, Winter 2000.
James Campbell
English 412, Representations of London, Fall 2002; Research Assistant, 2002-2003; B.A. Honours Student, English Language and Literature, University of Windsor.
Dominic Carlone
Hypertext Student, University of Windsor, Fall 1999; Shakespeare Student, University of Windsor, Winter 2000. Dominic was one of the three students who created the first version of MoEML in 1999.
Melanie Chernyk
Research Assistant 2004-2008; B.A. Honours, 2006; M.A., English, University of Victoria, 2007. Ms. Chernyk went on to work at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria. She also has her own editing business at http://26letters.ca.
Glenn Clark
Dr. Glenn Clark (Ph.D. Chicago) is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, Film and Theatre at the University of Manitoba. His research interests currently include the relationship between English drama and the post-Reformation pastoral ministry, and the significance of commercialized hospitality in Tudor-Stuart culture. He is the author of articles on Shakespeare and other aspects of early-modern English drama in journals and book collections including ELR, Renaissance and Reformation, Religion and Literature, Shakespeare and Religious Change (Palgrave, 2009), and Playing The Globe: Genre and Geography in English Renaissance Drama (Fairleigh Dickinson/Associated UP, 1998). He is co-editor of the volume City Limits: Perspectives on the Historical European City (McGill-Queen's, 2010).
Amy Collins
English 520, Representations of London, University of Victoria, Summer 2008.
Michael Davis
M.A. candidate, University of Windsor, Fall 2000. Mr. Davis went on to complete a Master's in Library and Information Science at the University of Western Ontario.
Marina Devine
ENGL 520, Representations of London, Summer 2008; M.A. Candidate, English, University of Victoria. Formerly an instructor of literature at Aurora College in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, she is now the Manager of Adult and Post-Secondary Education with the Government of the Northwest Territories. She resides in Yellowknife, NT.
Tara Drouillard
Hypertext and Shakespeare Student, University of Windsor, Winter 2000; Research Assistant 2000-2002. Ms. Drouillard received her M.A. in English from Queen's University in 2003 and now works in Information Technology.
Natalia Esling
Undergraduate Research Scholar (URS) 2010-2011, Department of English, University of Victoria. Natalia completed her B.A. Honours in English with a Major in French in 2011. She begins an M.Sc. in Literature and Modernity at the University of Edinburgh in September 2011.
Laura Estill
English 328, Drama of the English Renaissance, Winter 2003; B.A. Combined Honours Student, English Language and Literature and Drama, University of Windsor. Laura went on to earn her M.A. in English from the University of Toronto, and her Ph.D. in English Literature and Culture before 1700 from Wayne State University in Detroit. Her dissertation was entitled "The Circulation and Recontextualization of Dramatic Excerpts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts." In 2010, she was appointed Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the Université de Moncton, Campus Edmundston. She will be joining the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL) at the University of Victoria in Fall 2011 as a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow. Laura has two articles forthcoming in 2011: "Richard II and the book of life," will appear in Studies in English Literature, and the second, "Proverbial Shakespeare: The Print and Manuscript Circulation of Extracts from Love's Labour's Lost," will appear in the journal Shakespeare. Laura's book chapter, "Shakespearean Texts in Manuscript," co-written with Arthur F. Marotti, will be published in The Oxford Handbook to Shakespeare, ed. Arthur F. Kinney, also in 2011. Laura has presented at many national and international conferences, including the MLA, the Renaissance Society of America (RSA), and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS). Laura's research has been funded, in part, by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) doctoral fellowship and a Renaissance Society of America research grant.
Jeremy Fairall
Hypertext Student, University of Windsor, Fall 1999. Jeremy was one of the three students who created the first version of MoEML in 1999.
Althea Fletcher
Shakespeare Student, University of Windsor, Winter 2000.
Aleta Gruenewald
English 520, Representations of London, Summer 2011. M.A. Student, English and CSPT (Cultural, Social, and Political Thought), University of Victoria.
Paul Hartlen
English 520, Representations of London in Early Modern Literature and Culture, Summer 2008; B.A. University of Victoria; currently an M.A. Student, University of Victoria.
Julie Homenuik
English 412, Representations of London, Fall 2002; B.A. Honours Student, English Language and Literature, University of Windsor.
Joanna Hutz
Research Assistant, 2002-2003; B.A. Honours Student, English Language and Literature, University of Windsor. Ms. Hutz received a Canada Graduate Scholarship from SSHRC to pursue her M.A.
Janelle Jenstad
Janelle Jenstad, Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Victoria, is the general editor and coordinator of The Map of Early Modern London project. She has taught at Queen's University, the Summer Academy at the Stratford Festival, the University of Windsor, and the University of Victoria. Articles have appeared in the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Early Modern Literary Studies, Elizabethan Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism, and The Silver Society Journal. Book chapters have appeared (or will appear) in Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007), Approaches to Teaching Othello (Modern Language Association, 2005), Shakespeare, Language and the Stage, The Fifth Wall: Approaches to Shakespeare from Criticism, Performance and Theatre Studies (Arden/Thomson Learning, 2005), Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society (Brill, 2004), New Directions in the Geohumanities: Art, Text, and History at the Edge of Place (Routledge, 2011), and Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives (MLA, forthcoming). She lectures regularly both on London Studies and on Shakespeare in Performance. More information is available here.
Dalyce Joslin
English 520, Representations of London in Early Modern Literature and Culture, Summer 2008; B.A. Honours, English, University of Victoria; M.A. candidate, English, University of Victoria; Teaching Assistant, 2005-2007. Dalyce's research interests include representations of identity, place, and diaspora in Canadian literature. When she is not pursuing her studies, Dalyce spends much of her time at the Camosun College Library Reference Desk helping students with their research needs.
Emily Klemic
English 520, Representations of London, Summer 2011. M.A. Student, English, University of Victoria.
Kane Klemic
English 520, Representations of London, Summer 2011. M.A. Student, English, University of Victoria.
Alison Knight
English 520, Representations of London, Fall 2005; M.A. Student, English, University of Victoria. Alison received her M.A. in 2006 and is now completing her doctoral studies at Cambridge University.
Alyssa Knox
English 364, English Renaissance Drama, Spring 2006; B.A. Honours Student in English, University of Victoria.
Cornelius Krahn
Revenge Tragedy Student, University of Windsor, Winter 2001.
Tamara Kristall
English 412, Representations of London; B.A. Honours Student, English Language and Literature, University of Windsor, Fall 2002.
Charlene Kwiatkowski
English 520, Representations of London, Summer 2011. M.A. Student, English, University of Victoria.
Jennifer Lo
English 364, English Renaissance Drama, Spring 2006; Double Major B.A. Student in English and Writing, University of Victoria. Jennifer went on to do an M.A. at King's College, London (2009).
Matt MacTavish
Hypertext Student, University of Windsor, Fall 1999; Shakespeare Student, University of Windsor, Winter 2000. Matt MacTavish was one of the three students who created the first version of MoEML in 1999.
Paisley Mann
English 520, Representations of London, Summer 2008. Paisley Mann (now Paisley Claire) completed her M.A. at the University of Victoria and went on to doctoral work at the University of British Columbia. Her work on Thomas Heywood's 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody began with a term paper on the play's portrayal of illicit French sexuality, a topic she has also researched for the website Representing France and the French in Early Modern English Drama. Although she is a specialist in Victorian literature, this topic interests her because she frequently works on how Victorian literature portrays France and French culture. She is also a contributor for Routledge's Annotated Bibliography of English Studies online database.
Lacey Marshall
English 412, Representations of London, Fall 2002; B.A. Combined Honours Student, English Language and Literature and German, University of Windsor.
Kimberley Martin
English 412, Representations of London, Fall 2002; B.A. Combined Honours Student, English Language and Literature and History, University of Windsor. Ms. Martin defended her M.A. in History at the University of Guelph in October 2004 and is now a doctoral candidate at the University of Warwick.
Sarah Mead-Willis
B.A. English (Alberta); M.LIS. (Alberta); M.A., English (Victoria); English 521, Representations of London, Summer 2008. Mead-Willis won the Lieutenant Governor's Silver Medal (top master's other than thesis, all faculties). After her graduation in 2009, she returned to the University of Alberta as Rare Book Cataloguer.
Beth Norris
B.A. English (University of Victoria). Beth was a student in English 364 (English Renaissance Drama) in Spring 2006.
Helen M. Ostovich
Helen Ostovich is professor of English at McMaster University, and editor of the journal Early Theatre. Her published work, aside from articles on Jonson and Shakespeare, includes editions of Jonson and Shakespeare, most recently Jonson's The Magnetic Lady (Cambridge Works of Ben Jonson) and All's Well that Ends Well (Internet Shakespeare Editions) with Karen Bamford and Andrew Griffin. She is also editing Richard Brome and Thomas Heywood's The Late Lancashire Witches (Richard Brome Electronic Edition). She is a general editor for The Revels Plays (Manchester University Press) and for The Plays of the Queen's Men (Internet Shakespeare Editions - Annex). She collaborated with Elizabeth Sauer (as co-editor) and about 80 contributors to produce Reading Early Modern Women (Routledge, 2005).
Johanne Paquette
English 520, Representations of London, Fall 2005; M.A. Student, English, University of Victoria. Johanne is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English.
Serina Patterson
Serina Patterson is a doctoral student at the University of British Columbia, with research interests in late medieval literature and digital humanities. She obtained her M.A. from the University of Victoria in 2008. She is also the recipient of the SSHRC CGS Joseph-Bombardier Scholarship and a four-year fellowship at UBC for her work in game design in Middle English and Middle French narrative. She has published articles in the journal "New Knowledge Environments" and has a forthcoming publication in the journal "LIBER Quarterly - The Journal of European Research Libraries." In addition to her academic work, Serina is a web developer for the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria, the technical editor for the journal "Digital Studies," and owner of her own web design studio, Sprightly Innovations.
Daniel Powell
Daniel Powell, M.A., English, University of Victoria. Research Assistant on MoEML in 2010. His research focuses on linguistic anxiety in the mid-16th century play Ralph Roister Doister by Nicholas Udall. He is preparing an online critical edition of the play for digital publication. He will undertake doctoral studies at the University of Victoria in September 2011.
Eoin Price
Eoin Price is a doctoral student at The Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. His Ph.D., on political privacy in English Renaissance commercial drama, is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). He researches in the fields of intellectual and theatre history in the English Renaissance and has taught Shakespeare and early modern literature courses at the University of Birmingham. He regularly reviews modern productions of Renaissance plays and books on theatre history for scholarly journals.
Liam Sarsfield
Liam Sarsfield is a fourth year honours English student at the University of Victoria. In addition to working on the MoEML, Liam is attempting to write his first book of poetry. While Liam spends most of his time coding articles, he is more generally concerned with bringing MoEML's interface up to date
Kevin Scott
English 412, Representations of London, Fall 2002; B.A. Honours Student, English Language and Literature, University of Windsor. Mr. Scott is now an elementary school teacher.
Kerra St John
English 520, Representations of London, Summer 2011. M.A. Student, Theatre, University of Victoria. Director of Ceremonies and Events, University of Victoria.
Morag St. Clair
Undergraduate Research Scholar (URS) 2009-2010, Department of English, University of Victoria. Ms. St. Clair was a third-year English Honours student at the time she held the scholarship.
Dana Wiley
English 412, Representations of London, Fall 2002; B.A. Honours Student, English Language and Literature, University of Windsor. Ms. Wiley completed an M.A. in Library Science at the University of Western Ontario.
Katherine Young
English 520, Representations of London, Summer 2011. M.A. Student, English, University of Victoria.
Can Zheng
English 520, Representations of London, Summer 2011. M.A. Student, English, University of Victoria.

This research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

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