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.
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| 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.
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| Neil Baldwin |
English 412, Representations of London, Fall 2002; BA honours student, English
language and literature, University of Windsor.
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| 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).
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| Suzanne Bebbington |
Shakespeare student, University of Windsor, Winter 2002.
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| Laura Braithwaite |
Shakespeare student, University of Windsor, Winter 2000.
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| Kim Brown |
MA 2001, Windsor; 2000. Funded by the Work Study program.
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| Jennie Butler |
Pageantry student and MA candidate, University of Windsor, Winter 2000.
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| 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.
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| James Campbell |
English 412, Representations of London, Fall 2002; research assistant, 2002–03; BA
honours student, English Language and Literature, University of Windsor.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Joy Cochrane |
MA student, Victoria, 2004. Funded by SSHRC Standard Research Grant.
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| Amy Collins |
English 520, Representations of London, University of Victoria, Summer 2008.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Althea Fletcher |
Shakespeare student, University of Windsor, Winter 2000.
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| Aleta Gruenewald |
English 520, Representations of London, Summer 2011. MA student, English and
cultural, social, and political thought, University of Victoria.
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| 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.
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| Julie Homenuik |
English 412, Representations of London, Fall 2002; BA honours student, English
language and literature, University of Windsor.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Emily Klemic |
English 520, Representations of London, Summer 2011. MA student, English,
University of Victoria.
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| Kane Klemic |
English 520, Representations of London, Summer 2011. MA student, English,
University of Victoria.
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| 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.
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| Alyssa Knox |
English 364, English Renaissance Drama, Spring 2006; BA honours student in English,
University of Victoria.
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| Cornelius Krahn |
Revenge tragedy student, University of Windsor, Winter 2001.
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| Tamara Kristall |
English 412, Representations of London; BA honours student, English language and
literature, University of Windsor, Fall 2002.
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| Charlene Kwiatkowski |
English 520, Representations of London, Summer 2011. MA student, English,
University of Victoria.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Quinn MacDonald |
Bio coming soon!
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| Callie MacKenzie |
BA Honours 2003, Windsor; 2002
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Beth Norris |
BA English (U of Victoria). Beth was a student in English 364 (English Renaissance
Drama) in Spring 2006.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Kerra St John |
English 520, Representations of London, Summer 2011. MA student, theatre,
University of Victoria. Director of ceremonies and events, University of
Victoria.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Katherine Young |
English 520, Representations of London, Summer 2011. MA student, English,
University of Victoria.
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| Can Zheng |
English 520, Representations of London, Summer 2011. MA student, English,
University of Victoria.
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This project is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.