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Research Assistant, 2020-present. Amogha Lakshmi Halepuram Sridhar is a third year student at University of Victoria, studying English and History. Her research interests include Early Modern Theatre and adaptations, decolonialist writing, and Modernist poetry.
Research Assistant, 2020-present. Molly Rothwell is an undergraduate student at the University of Victoria, who is planning to graduate with a double major in English and History. During her time at MoEML, Molly primarily worked on encoding and transcribing the 1598 and 1633 editions of Stow’s
Project Manager, 2020.
Research Assistant, 2020-2021. Managing Encoder, 2020-2021. Jamie Zabel is an MA student at the University of Victoria in the Department of English. She completed her BA in English at the University of British Columbia in 2017. She published a paper in University College London’s graduate publication
Technical Documentation Writer, 2020-present. Nicole Vatcher is an honours student in the Department of English and is minoring in Professional Communication at the University of Victoria. Her research interests include women’s writing in the modernist period.
Research Assistant, 2018-present. Lucas Simpson is a student at the University of Victoria.
Research Assistant, 2018-2020. Chris Horne was an honours student in the Department of English at the University of Victoria. His primary research interests included American modernism, affect studies, cultural studies, and digital humanities.
Project Manager, 2020-2021. Assistant Project Manager, 2019-2020. Research Assistant, 2018-2020. Kate LeBere completed her BA (Hons.) in History and English at the University of Victoria in 2020. She published papers in
Junior Programmer 2018-2020. Research Associate 2020-2021. Tracey received her PhD from the Department of English at the University of Victoria in the field of Science and Technology Studies. Her research focuses on the
Research Assistant, 2019. Kaylen Dwyer was a student at the School of Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and a graduate assistant in the Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing. Her work has appeared in
Research Assistant, 2018. Carly was a graduate student in the Department of English at the University of Victoria. Her primary research interests included early modern literature, specifically drama and performance. She had a special interest in contemporary adaptations of early modern drama, especially the portrayal of onstage violence.
Programmer, 2018-present. Junior Programmer, 2015-2017. Research Assistant, 2014-2017. Joey Takeda was a graduate student at the University of British Columbia in the Department of English (Science and Technology research stream). He completed his BA honours in English (with a minor in Women’s Studies) at the University of Victoria in 2016. His primary research interests included diasporic and indigenous Canadian and American literature, critical theory, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.
Research Assistant, 2017-2019. Chase Templet was a graduate student at the University
of Victoria in the Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) stream. He was specifically
focused on early modern repertory studies and non-Shakespearean early modern drama,
particularly the works of
Project Manager, 2015-2019. Katie Tanigawa was a doctoral candidate at the University of Victoria. Her dissertation focused on representations of poverty in Irish modernist literature. Her additional research interests included geospatial analyses of modernist texts and digital humanities approaches to teaching and analyzing literature.
Research Assistant, 2015-2017. Brandon Taylor was a graduate student at the
University of Victoria in the Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) stream. He was
specifically focused on the critical reception of
Research Assistant, 2016-2017. Jasmeen Boparai was an undergraduate English major and Medieval Studies minor at the University of Victoria. Her primary research interests included Middle English literature with a specific interest in later works, early modern studies, and Elizabethan poetry.
Research Assistant, 2016-2018. Brooke Isherwood was a graduate student in the Department of English at the University of Victoria, concentrating on medieval and early modern Literature. She had a special interest in Shakespeare as well as lesser-known works from the Renaissance.
Research Assistant, 2016, 2018. Student contributor enrolled in
Research Assistant, 2014-2015. Katie McKenna was a third-year English literature major at the University of Victoria with an interest in the digital humanities, particularly digital preservation and typography. Other research interests included philosophy, political theory, and gender studies.
Research Assistant, 2014-2016. Catriona was an MA student at the University of Victoria. Her primary research interests included medieval and early modern Literature with a focus on book history, spatial humanities, and technology.
Data Manager, 2015-2016. Research Assistant, 2013-2015. Tye completed his undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2015.
Research Assistant, 2013-2014. Zaqir Virani completed his MA at the University of Victoria in April 2014. He received his BA from Simon Fraser University in 2012, and has worked as a musician, producer, and author of short fiction. His research focused on the linkage of sound and textual analysis software and the work of Samuel Beckett.
Research Assistant, 2012-2013. Michael Stevens began his MA at Trinity College Dublin and then transferred to the University of Victoria, where he completed it in early 2013. His research focused on transnational modernism and geospatial considerations of literature. He prepared a digital map of James Joyce’s
Research Assistant, 2000–2002. Hypertext student and Shakespeare student at the University of Windsor in Winter 2000. Tara Drouillard received her MA in English from Queen’s University in 2003 and now works in Communications.
Research Assistant, 2002. Student contributor enrolled in
Research Assistant, 2002–2003. Student contributor enrolled in
Research Assistant, 2010. At the time of his work with MoEML, Liam Sarsfield was a fourth-year honours English student at the University of Victoria. He now works at MetaLab.
Research Assistant, 2012–2013. Cameron Butt 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, popular culture, and the geohumanities.
Research Assistant, 2013-2014. Meredith hailed from Edmonton where she completed a BA in English at Concordia University College of Alberta. She did an MA in Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Victoria. In her spare time, Meredith played classical piano and trombone, scrapbooked, and painted porcelain. A lesser known fact about Meredith: back at home, she had her own kiln in her basement!
Research Assistant, 2013. Patrick Close was a fourth-year honours English student at the
University of Victoria. His research interests included media archaeology, culture studies,
and humanities (physical) computing. He was the editor-in-chief of
Research Assistant, 2013. Quinn MacDonald was a fourth-year honours English student at the
University of Victoria. Her areas of interest included postcolonial theory and texts, urban
agriculture, journalism that isn’t lazy, fine writing, and roller derby. She was the
director of community relations for
Research Assistant, 2012-2014. Nathan Phillips completed his MA at the University of Victoria specializing in medieval and early modern studies in April 2014. His research focused on seventeenth-century non-dramatic literature, intellectual history, and the intersection of religion and politics. Additionally, Nathan was interested in textual studies, early-Tudor drama, and the editorial questions one can ask of all sixteenth- and seventeenth-century texts in the twisted mire of 400 years of editorial practice. Nathan is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of English at Brown University.
Research Assistant, 2012-2013. 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. He was an MA student specializing in Renaissance drama, and researched early modern London’s historic cast of characters and neighbourhoods, both real and fictional.
Research Assistant, 2010–2011. 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, Neil Adams was responsible for redrawing the ward boundaries on the Agas Map.
Research Assistant, 2010. MA English, University of Victoria. Daniel Powell’s research focused on linguistic anxiety in the mid-sixteenth-century play
Research Assistant, 2004–2008. BA honours, 2006. MA English, University of Victoria, 2007. Melanie 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.
Research Assistant, 2008-2009. Though not an early modernist by training, Camille van der Marel’s research engaged extensively with theories of mapping and the relationship between place and space in representations of the metropole and the periphery, especially in postcolonial and transnational literatures. She is now a doctoral candidate at the University of Alberta.
Research Assistant, 2002–2003. Joanna Hutz was an English Language and Literature honours student at the University of Windsor. She received a Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to pursue her MA.
Research Assistant, 2002. BA honours, 2003, University of Windsor.
Research Assistant, 2004. MA, University of Victoria.
Research Assistant, 2000. MA, University of Windsor. Michael Davis went on to complete an MA in library and information science at the University of Western Ontario.
Research Assistant, 2000. MA, 2001, University of Windsor.
Research Assistant, 2012-2014. MoEML Research Affiliate. Sarah Milligan completed her MA at the University of Victoria in 2012 on the invalid persona in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s
Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–present. Associate Project Director, 2015–present. Assistant Project Director, 2013-2014. MoEML Research Fellow, 2013. Kim McLean-Fiander comes to
Mark Kaethler received his PhD from the University of Guelph and completed his MA and HBA at Lakehead University. He teaches early English literature at Medicine Hat College and serves as the Assistant Project Director of Mayoral Shows for the Map of Early Modern London at the University of Victoria as well as the President of the Medicine Hat College Faculty Association. He is a co-applicant with project lead Janelle Jenstad, fellow co-applicant Martin Holmes, and various collaborators on a SSHRC Insight Grant and a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant. He is a co-editor with Janelle Jenstad and Jennifer Roberts-Smith of
Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of
Kylee-Anne Hingston completed her PhD in 2015 at the University of Victoria on
disability and narrative form in Victorian fiction. She has also worked with Dr.
Alison Chapman on the
Dr. Erica Zimmer is a Lecturer in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Concourse Program and teaches in MIT’s Digital Humanities Lab. Previously, she worked with
John Schofield, Ph.D., FSA, is now a freelance archaeologist and architectural historian, who worked at the Museum of London from 1974 until 2008. He specialised (and still does) in urban archaeology of London from the Roman period onwards. He is currently Cathedral Archaeologist for St. Paul’s Cathedral and has written several books on medieval London, including
Shamma Boyarin is a professor in the English Department at the University of Victoria,
with a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (Hebrew and Arabic) from UC Berkeley. He explores the
relationship between Hebrew and Arabic in the Middle Ages-particularly in a literary
context-and the interplay between discourses that we identify as a
Kristen Abbott Bennett has been a MoEML pedagogical partner and module mentor; she is now Assistant Director, Pedagogy. She is an Assistant Professor in the English Department of Framingham State University, where she teaches classics, medieval and early modern British literature, and digital humanities. In addition to her contributions to MoEML as a guest editor, Dr. Bennet is the editor of
Dr. Michael Best is professor emeritus, University of Victoria, and coordinating editor of
Jean E. Howard is George Delacorte professor in the humanities at Columbia University where she teaches early modern literature, Shakespeare, feminist studies, and theater history. Author of several books, including
Dr. Ian Gregory is senior lecturer in digital humanities, department of history, Lancaster University.
Sally-Beth MacLean is professor of English, University of Toronto.
Helen Ostovich is professor of English at McMaster University and editor of the journal
Jeremy Smith is assistant librarian, graphics and digital collections team, London Metropolitan Archives. Consultant.
Ian W. Archer has, since 1991, been associate professor of history at Keble College, Oxford. He is the author of numerous books and articles on early modern London, including
Ian Gadd is professor in English literature at Bath Spa University.
Alexandra Gillespie is professor in English at the University of Toronto.
Julia Merritt is associate professor of early modern British history at the University of Nottingham and co-convenes the Medieval and Tudor London seminar, held at London’s Institute of Historical Research. She has published extensively on the social, religious and political history of early modern London and her books include
David Bergeron is Professor Emeritus of The University of Kansas. His landmark study
Anne Lancashire is the author of
Dominic was born and brought up in London. He studied architecture at Cambridge before returning to London for postgraduate study at UCL. He practiced as an architect on a variety of public and private buildings including the award-winning Queen’s Stand at Epsom Racecourse and the Sherlock Holmes Museum in Meiringen, Switzerland.
He became Pageantmaster of the Lord Mayor’s Show in 1992 and has held the post longer than anyone since it was first described in 1531. For the 800th Anniversary of the Show in 2015 he edited
He has held the leading roles of London Film Commissioner and Executive Director of the
Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race. He has worked on the London Marathon and a series of
significant commemorative events beginning with the VJ Day fiftieth anniversary
commemorations. He was the Director of the Royal Society’s 350th Anniversary Programme where
he worked closely with many London museums and galleries. Following the programme, the Royal
Society received the 2011 Prince of Asturias award, the jury highlighting the
multidisciplinary nature of the institution, in which the links between science, humanities
and politics are made evident
.
Dominic was appointed OBE in the 2003 New Year’s Honours List for services to the City of London and The Queen’s Golden Jubilee. He is one of Her Majesty’s Commissioners of Lieutenancy for the City of London, Sergeant-at-Mace of the Royal Society, and Honorary Colonel of City of London and NE Sector, Army Cadet Force.
Dr. Tracey Hill is a Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at Bath Spa University. Her specialism is in the literature and history of early modern London. She is the author of two books:
Dr. Natalie Aldred is an independent scholar. She specializes in the editing and
bibliographical studies of early modern English vernacular texts, as well as book history,
early book advertisements, sixteenth-century theatre history, digital humanities, and
professional playwrights, notably
Dr. Ronda Arab (PhD Columbia) is an assistant professor of English at Simon Fraser University. Her research interests include intersections of class, gender, and work on the early modern English stage; non-elite culture and its challenges to patriarchy; the role of literature and theatre in the construction of cultural discourse and social practice; and the city of London. She is the author of
Yan Brailowsky is a lecturer in early modern literature and history at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (France). His research interests currently include prophecy in early modern drama, the history of the reformation, and the relationship between gender and politics in Renaissance Europe. He is the author of
A sad tale’s best for winter: Approches critiques du Conte d’hiver de Shakespeare
David Carnegie, FRSNZ, after a BA at Toronto and PhD at University College London, taught at Guelph, Birmingham, Otago, and McGill before settling at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, where he is now Emeritus Professor of Theatre. He is co-editor of the
Dr. Glenn Clark (PhD 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
Dr. Laura Estill is Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University. She is editor of the World Shakespeare Bibliography. Her book,
Laura was one of MoEML’s earliest contributors, having participated in
J. Caitlin Finlayson is an Associate Professor of English Literature at The University of Michigan-Dearborn. Her research
focuses on
Andrew Griffin is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he does research concerning early modern drama, early modern historiography, and the history of editing.
Chris Highley is a Professor of English at The Ohio State University. He grew up near Manchester in the north of England. After studying English at the University of Sussex, he earned his Masters and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California and Stanford University (1991) respectively. He specializes in Early Modern literature, culture, and history. He is the author of
Dr. Brett Greatley-Hirsch is university academic fellow in textual studies and digital
editing at the University of Leeds. He is coordinating editor of Digital Renaissance Editions, co-editor
of the journal Shakespeare, and a trustee of the British Shakespeare Association. He is the
author of Style, Computers, and Early Modern Drama: Beyond
Authorship (Cambridge UP, 2017; with Hugh Craig) and essays on early modern drama and
culture, scholarly editing, and computational stylistics. To find out more about Dr.
Greatley-Hirsch, visit his website, not
without mustard.
Diane K. Jakacki is the Digital Scholarship Coordinator at Bucknell University. Her research interests include digital humanities applications for early modern drama, literature and popular culture, and digital pedagogy theory and praxis. Her current research focuses on sixteenth-century English touring theatre troupes. At Bucknell she collaborates with faculty and students on several regional digital/public humanities projects within Pennsylvania. Publications include a digital edition of
Dr. Mary Ann Lund is lecturer in Renaissance literature at the University of Leicester. She is the author of
Dr. James Mardock teaches Renaissance literature at the University of Nevada. He has
published articles on
Dr. Harvey Quamen is an Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. He specializes in science studies, cyberculture, and Modern and Postmodern literature. One of his works-in-progress,
artificialityfrom nineteenth-century evolutionary theory to twentieth-century cyberculture and artificial intelligence. He is also working on a textbook that teaches the web technologies PHP and MySQL to humanities students. Other current interests include representations of science in popular culture, Internet Culture and web scripting languages.
Kevin A. Quarmby is a MoEML Pedagogical Partner and a member of MoEML’s Editorial Board. He is Assistant Professor of English at Oxford College of Emory University. He is author of
Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) who maintained the
Contract programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
(HCMC) who created the first version of the multi-layered map (the
Mike is a graduate of the University of Victoria in anthropology and computer science. During his contract with the Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) in the mid-2000s, he co-developed the TEI encoding guidelines for
Eric collaborated with
Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC). Martin ported the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database implementation in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been lead programmer on the project and has also been responsible for maintaining the project schemas. He was a co-applicant on MoEML’s 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant.
Programmer at the University of Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) who worked on graphics and layout for the site in the fall of 2011.
Office administrator, Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC). Judy Nazar began her career as Language Laboratory Assistant with the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre, formerly known as the Language Centre, in 1968. Her love of languages, and in particular, interests in American Sign Language and Deaf Culture and Studies, has led to a fascinating and rewarding career at the University of Victoria. Administrative, training, academic and technical responsibilities evolved with the growth of the Centre. Currently she is responsible for administering operations of the Centre; assisting with special project(s) management; organizing and participating in various academic conferences and multimedia workshops; maintaining the archives, inventory and media data-bases. Judy also maintains departmental websites, with a focus on those based on the current university templates. With specific interests in languages and student learning, Judy is currently co-coordinating the development of American Sign Language and Deaf Culture/Studies credit courses on campus.
Administrative Assistant, Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC).
Dr. Laurel Bowman’s area of interest lies specifically in Greek tragedy, a genre she says has inspired countless other works of literature, right up to modern day film and television.
Dr. Bowman persistently highlights the roles of women in these texts, or lack thereof, the construction of gender, and the significance of that construction in any text she looks at.
Some of her research focuses on a recent translation of Homer’s
Another research project focuses on the myth of the sacrificial virgin and its presence in pop culture, specifically the works of writer/director Joss Whedon of
She brings her research on
Dr. Robert Clark, MoEML consultant, is reader in English literature at the University of East Anglia. He devised and developed
Jillian Player was born in south India and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She has resided in Victoria, British Columbia since 1987. She has been creating art all her life and completed her formal art education in 2010 with a Post-Diploma in Fine Arts, with a focus in painting and video installation, from the Vancouver Island School of Art. She works with MoEML as a consultant artist, drawing in missing sections of the Agas map. Her portfolio can be found here.
Ian MacInnes (B.A. Swarthmore College, Ph.D. University of Virginia) is the director of pedagogical partnerships (US) for MoEML. He is Professor of English at Albion College, Michigan, where he teaches Elizabethan literature, Shakespeare, and Milton. His scholarship focuses on representations of animals and the environment in Renaissance literature, particularly in Shakespeare. He has published essays on topics such as horse breeding and geohumoralism in
Click here for Ian MacInnes’ Albion College profile.
Student contributor enrolled in
Student contributor enrolled in
Hypertext student at the University of Windsor in Fall 1999. Jeremy Fairall was one of the three students who created the first version of MoEML in 1999.
Hypertext student at the University of Windsor in Fall 1999. Shakespeare student at the University of Windsor in Winter 2000. Matt MacTavish was one of the three students who created the first version of MoEML in 1999.
Hypertext student at the University of Windsor in Fall 1999. Shakespeare student at the University of Windsor in Winter 2000. Dominic Carlone was one of the three students who created the first version of MoEML in 1999.
Shakespeare student at the University of Windsor in Winter 2000.
Shakespeare student at the University of Windsor in Winter 2000.
Shakespeare student at the University of Windsor in Winter 2002.
Revenge tragedy student at the University of Windsor in Winter 2001.
Revenge tragedy student at the University of Windsor in Winter 2001. Victoria 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.
Student contributor enrolled in
Research Assitant, 2020-present. Student contributor enrolled in
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