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Map of London: Student Assistants

Student research assistants and encoders have been involved in MoEML since its inception as an intranet project at the University of Windsor. With the support of the Humanities Computing and Media Centre, subsequent students at the University of Victoria have helped to redesign, re-encode, expand, and maintain the project.
Name Bio
Victoria Abboud
Revenge tragedy student, University of Windsor, Winter 2001. Ms. Abboud completed her MA in English at Wayne State University in 2003 and her PhD at Wayne State University in 2010. She is now an instructor in the arts and education department of Grande Prairie Regional College, Alberta.
Neil Adams
Research assistant, 2010–11. Neil Adams completed a BA (first class honours) in history at the University of Kent, Canterbury (UK) in 2008 and an MA in history at the University of Victoria in 2010. His MA 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; BA honours student, English language and literature, University of Windsor.
Benjamin Barber
Benjamin Barber is a PhD student at the University of Ottawa. His recently completed MA research at the University of Victoria analyzed the role of mimetic desire, honour, and violence in Heywood’s Edward IV Parts 1 and 2 and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. His current research explores the influence of Shakespearian protagonists on Lord Byron’s characterization of Childe Harold and Don Juan. He has articles forthcoming in Literature and Theology (Oxford UP) and Contagion: Journal of Violence Mimesis and Culture (Michigan State UP). He has also contributed an article to Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology (UCLA).
Suzanne Bebbington
Shakespeare student, University of Windsor, Winter 2002.
Laura Braithwaite
Shakespeare student, University of Windsor, Winter 2000.
Kim Brown
MA 2001, Windsor; 2000. Funded by the Work Study program.
Jennie Butler
Pageantry student and MA candidate, University of Windsor, Winter 2000.
Cameron Butt
Encoder, research assistant, and copy editor, 2012–13. Cameron completed his undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2013. He minored in French and has a keen interest in Shakespeare, film, media studies, and popular culture. He is also passionate about en dashes, em dashes, Canadian spelling, down style capitalization, and the Oxford comma.
James Campbell
English 412, Representations of London, Fall 2002; research assistant, 2002–03; BA 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, 2004–08; BA honours, 2006; MA English, University of Victoria, 2007. Ms. Chernyk went on to work at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria and now manages Talisman Books and Gallery on Pender Island, BC. She also has her own editing business at http://26letters.ca.
Patrick Close
Undergraduate research assistant and encoder, 2013. Patrick is a fourth-year honours English student at the University of Victoria. His research interests include media archaeology, culture studies, and humanities (physical) computing. He is the current editor-in-chief of The Warren Undergraduate Review.
Joy Cochrane
MA student, Victoria, 2004. Funded by SSHRC Standard Research Grant.
Amy Collins
English 520, Representations of London, University of Victoria, Summer 2008.
Michael Davis
MA candidate, University of Windsor, Fall 2000. Mr. Davis went on to complete an MA in library and information science at the University of Western Ontario.
Marina Devine
ENGL 520, Representations of London, Summer 2008; MA Candidate, English, University of Victoria. Formerly an instructor of literature at Aurora College in Fort Smith, NT, 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 MA in English from Queen’s University in 2003 and now works in information technology.
Telka Duxbury
Telka is an MA student at the University of Victoria. Since 2010, she has been a research assistant for the Internet Shakespeare Editions.
Natalia Esling
Undergraduate research scholar (URS) 2010–2011, department of English, University of Victoria. Natalia completed her BA honours in English with a major in French in 2011. She began an M.Sc. in literature and modernity at the University of Edinburgh in September 2011.
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. MA student, English and cultural, social, and political thought, University of Victoria.
Paul Hartlen
English 520, Representations of London in Early Modern Literature and Culture, Summer 2008; BA University of Victoria; currently an MA student, University of Victoria.
Julie Homenuik
English 412, Representations of London, Fall 2002; BA honours student, English language and literature, University of Windsor.
Joanna Hutz
Research assistant, 2002–03; BA Honours Student, English Language and Literature, University of Windsor. Ms. Hutz received a Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to pursue her MA.
Dalyce Joslin
English 520, Representations of London in Early Modern Literature and Culture, Summer 2008; BA honours, English, University of Victoria; MA candidate, English, University of Victoria; teaching assistant, 2005–07. Dalyce’s research interests include representations of identity, place, and diaspora in Canadian literature. Now that she has completed her MA, Dalyce spends much of her time at the Camosun College library reference desk helping students with their research needs.
Noam Kaufman
Research assistant, 2012. Noam Kaufman completed his Honours BA in English literature at York University’s bilingual Glendon campus, graduating with first class standing in the spring of 2012. An incoming MA student specializing in Renaissance drama, he is currently researching early modern London’s historic cast of characters and neighbourhoods, both real and fictional.
Emily Klemic
English 520, Representations of London, Summer 2011. MA student, English, University of Victoria.
Kane Klemic
English 520, Representations of London, Summer 2011. MA student, English, University of Victoria.
Alison Knight
English 520, Representations of London, Fall 2005; MA student, English, University of Victoria. Alison received her MA in 2006 and is now completing her doctoral studies at Cambridge University.
Alyssa Knox
English 364, English Renaissance Drama, Spring 2006; BA honours student in English, University of Victoria.
Cornelius Krahn
Revenge tragedy student, University of Windsor, Winter 2001.
Tamara Kristall
English 412, Representations of London; BA honours student, English language and literature, University of Windsor, Fall 2002.
Charlene Kwiatkowski
English 520, Representations of London, Summer 2011. MA student, English, University of Victoria.
Tye Landels
Encoder and research assistant, 2013 to present. Tye Landels is a BA Honours candidate within the Department of English at the University of Victoria. He has a passionate interest in geohumanities, urban theory, and early modern literature.
Jennifer Lo
Having finished her bachelor’s degree at the University of Victoria, Jennifer went on to take a postgraduate degree at King’s College London. She completed her master’s in 2010 and is currently working on a PhD at King’s. Her doctoral project involves early modern non-literary documents and organizational theory.
Quinn MacDonald
Bio coming soon!
Callie MacKenzie
BA Honours 2003, Windsor; 2002
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 completed her MA 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 . This topic interests her, although she specializes in Victorian literature, because she frequently works on how Victorian literature portrays France and French culture. She is also a contributor for Routledge’s online databaseAnnotated Bibliography of English Studies.
Lacey Marshall
English 412, Representations of London, Fall 2002; BA combined honours student, English language and literature and German, University of Windsor. Lacey went on to study speech-language pathology at Dalhousie University.
Kimberley Martin
English 412, Representations of London, Fall 2002; BA combined honours student, English language and literature and history, University of Windsor. Ms. Martin defended her MA in history at the University of Guelph in October 2004, began doctoral studies at the University of Warwick, and is now completing her PhD at the University of Western Ontario.
Sarah Mead-Willis
BA English, University of Alberta; MA library and information science, University of Alberta; MA, English, University of 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 a rare book cataloguer.
Sarah Milligan
Graduate research assistant, 2012. Sarah Milligan is an MA student at the University of Victoria. Her research focuses on deviance in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese. She also works with Dr. Alison Chapman on the Victorian Poetry Network , compiling an index of Victorian periodical poetry.
Beth Norris
BA English (U of Victoria). Beth was a student in English 364 (English Renaissance Drama) in Spring 2006.
Johanne Paquette
English 520, Representations of London, Fall 2005; MA student, English, University of Victoria. Johanne is currently a PhD candidate in the department of English.
Serina Patterson
At the time of her contribution to MoEML, Serina Patterson was an MA student in English at the University of Victoria. She is now a PhD student at the University of British Columbia with research interests in late medieval literature, game studies, and digital humanities. She is also the recipient of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada CGS Joseph-Bombardier Scholarship and a four-year fellowship at UBC for her work in Middle English and Middle French game poems. She has published articles in New Knowledge Environments and LIBER Quarterly—The Journal of European Research Libraries on implementing an online library system for digital-age youth. She also has a forthcoming article in Studies in Philology and a chapter on casual games and medievalism in a contributed volume published by Routledge. She is currently editing a forthcoming contributed volume titled Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature for the Palgrave series, The New Middle Ages. In addition to her academic work, Serina is a web developer for the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria and owner of her own web design studio, Sprightly Innovations.
Nathan Phillips
Graduate research assistant, 2012-13. Nathan Phillips is an MA student at the University of Victoria specializing in medieval and early modern studies. His research focuses on 16th- and 17th-century poetry and drama, as well as the editorial questions one can ask of both in the twisted mire of 400 years of editorial practice. In addition to questions of editorial theory, he is interested in the religious climate during which the plays and poems of the period came into being.
Daniel Powell
Daniel Powell, MA, English, University of Victoria; graduate research assistant on MoEML in 2010. His research focuses on linguistic anxiety in the mid-sixteenth-century play Ralph Roister Doister by Nicholas Udall. He is preparing an online critical edition of the play for digital publication. He returned to the U of Victoria in September 2011 to undertake doctoral studies and works with the ETCL on the Devonshire Manuscript.
Eoin Price
Eoin Price is a doctoral student at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. His PhD, 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
Encoder, 2010. At the time of his work with MoEML, Liam was a fourth-year honours English student at the University of Victoria. He now works at MetaLab.
Kevin Scott
English 412, Representations of London, Fall 2002; BA 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. MA student, theatre, University of Victoria. Director of ceremonies and events, University of Victoria.
Morag St. Clair
Undergraduate Research Scholar (URS) 2009–10, Department of English, University of Victoria. Ms. St. Clair was a third-year English Honours student at the time she held the scholarship.
Michael Stevens Graduate research assistant, 2012. Michael Stevens is an MA candidate at the University of Victoria. He began his MA at Trinity College Dublin, then transferred to the University of Victoria. His research focuses on transnational modernism and geospatial considerations of literature. He is currently preparing a digital map of James Joyce’s Ulysses for his MA project.
Camille Van der Marel
BA Honours 2006, MA 2008, Victoria; student assistant 2004-2008. Funded by SSHRC Standard Research Grant.
Zaqir Virani
Graduate research assistant. Zaqir Virani is an MA candidate at the University of Victoria. He received his BA from Simon Fraser University in 2012, and has worked as a musician, producer, and author of short fiction. His research focuses on the linkage of sound and textual analysis software and the work of Samuel Beckett.
Dana Wiley
English 412, Representations of London, Fall 2002; BA honours student, English language and literature, University of Windsor. Ms. Wiley completed an MA in library science at the University of Western Ontario.
Katherine Young
English 520, Representations of London, Summer 2011. MA student, English, University of Victoria.
Can Zheng
English 520, Representations of London, Summer 2011. MA student, English, University of Victoria.

This project is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

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