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A1 - Jenstad, Janelle
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T1 - Research Assistant Contract
T2 - The Map of Early Modern London
ET - 7.0
PY - 2022
DA - 2022/05/05
CY - Victoria
PB - University of Victoria
LA - English
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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.
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.
Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of
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.
Our editorial and encoding practices are documented in detail in the Praxis section of our website.
All MoEML student team members hired in Summer 2018 were given contracts based on the following template. We were asked to share our template with our Humanities colleagues. This contract has now been used by other Principal Investigators on SSHRC-funded projects based in HCMC.
Your initial appointment begins on [insert date] and concludes on [insert date]. In that period, we expect you to work [insert hours] per week. With prior consent from the
Your rate of pay will be [insert rate] per hours, plus 4% vacation pay to be added by Payroll. The employee share of EI and CPP contributions will be deducted from your paycheque. To be paid, you must submit your hours to [insert designated person] no later than two working days before the submission date for the next pay period. For example, you must submit your hours for May 1-May 15 (Payperiod SM10) no later than May 26 (two working days before the deadline for Payperiod SM11).
You will work in the collaborative and supportive environment of the Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC), either on bookable workstations or on your own laptop at the large table. To book workstations and/or space at the table, contact [insert contact]. Liaise with the Project Manager about any additional restrictions (e.g., needing to work at the same time as a particular team member). You may not work in other locations without prior consent of the Project Director or Lead Programmer.
MoEML is committed to following the Collaborators’ Bill of Rights and the Student Collaborators’ Bill of Rights. I will work with you to ensure that your contributions to MoEML are acknowledged in ways that work for you as well as the project. We enter into this contract on the understanding that you will likely identify areas of the project of particular interest to you, and that MoEML will be flexible in accommodating your need for further training and your desire to reframe your responsibilities as your skills develop. MoEML’s success is built on the contributions of many commited team members, and I fully anticipate that you will change MoEML for the better with the skills and ideas you bring to the project.
MoEML is a SSHRC-funded project, which means that the Principal Investigator (MoEML’s Director) has two obligations: (1) to ensure that the work is completed within the timeline of the grant; and (2) to offer learning opportunities to students.
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