Office address: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London,
Kay House, 7 Arundel Street, London WC2R 3DX, U.K. voice: +44 (0)20 7848-2784
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APPOINTMENTS & OFFICES
Academic
2005--. Reader in Humanities Computing, King's College London.
2005-8. Core Resource Faculty, "Contextualizing Classics. Renewal of Teaching
Practices and Concepts", University of Sofia, St Kliment Ohridski, Sofia,
Bulgaria (Open Society Institute, Higher Education Support Program, Regional
Seminar for Excellence in Teaching).
1996--2005. Senior Lecturer in Humanities Computing, Centre for Computing
in the Humanities, School of Humanities, King's College London.
1992-6. Adjunct professor and associate member, graduate faculty, Department
of Classical Studies, University of Toronto; Department of Italian Studies;
Department of English.
1990-2. Senior Fellow, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies,
Victoria Univ. in the Univ. of Toronto.
1981-4. Research Asst., Records of Early English Drama, Centre for Medieval
Studies, Toronto.
Other
2005--. Director of Teaching and Research, Centre for Computing in the
Humanities, King's College London.
1996--. Director of Information, Office of Humanities Communication, King's
College London.
1996-2001. Vice-President, Association for Computers and the Humanities
(ACH); 1994-96 member of the Program Committee, ACH/ALLC annual conference;
Nominating Committee for the Executive Council, 1999.
1991-96. Assistant Director, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Toronto.
1986-91. Academic Liaison Officer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities,
Toronto.
AWARDS & HONOURS
2006: holder of the 2006 Richard W. Lyman Award for ground-breaking
applications of Information Technology in the field of Humanities [X].
2005. Award for Outstanding Achievement, Computing in the Arts and Humanities,
Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour ordinateurs
en sciences humaines [X].
2003-4. Arts and Humanities Research Board, U.K., Research Leave Scheme,
for sabbatical book project; awarded Ј14,438.
2003-6. Arts and Humanities Research Board, U.K., for the Durham Liber
Vitae Project. Co-applicant, advisory capacity; Professor David Rollason
(History, Durham), Project Director; awarded Ј291,966.
1997. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Occasional
Research Conferences and International Congresses in Canada Grant 646-96-0098,
in aid of the 33rd annual Conference on Editorial Problems, "Computing the
Edition", November awarded $9,947.
1996. Dept. of Classical Studies, Univ. of Toronto, Grant-in-Aid, April,
conference travel grant, $500.
1994. Dept. of Classical Studies, Univ. of Toronto, Grant-in-Aid, February,
conference travel grant, $750.
1993. Social Sciences and Humanities Committee, Univ. of Toronto, Grant-in-Aid,
April; awarded $509.
1992. Social Sciences and Humanities Committee, Univ. of Toronto, conference
travel grant, March; awarded $1050.
1992-95. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Research
Grant 410-92-0748, "Collocation, Association, Echo: Investigating the Basis
for Multiple Unities in the Metamorphoses of Ovid, with a Focus on Narcissus";
awarded $37,885.
TEACHING & SUPERVISION
Courses, seminars, workshops
Current (Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London;
on sabbatical 2003-4)
Undergraduate minor programme [X].
I teach the first-year course [X]
and am Course Director for the final-year [X].
M. A. in the Digital Humanities [X].
I helped design the programme and now teach the courses in Corpus-based Text-analysis
and in the Material Culture of the Manuscript and Printed Book.
M.A. in Digital Culture and Technology [X];
occasional lectures in the core course.
Seminar in Humanities Computing [X],
an occasional series for which I am the organiser.
Humanist [X],
an electronic seminar for computing humanists, conducted under the sponsorship
of King's College London in conjunction with the Institute for Advanced Technology
in the Humanities (IATH, Virginia) and Computing and Information Technology
(Princeton University); it is also an allied publication of the American
Council of Learned Societies [X] and the
Association for Computers and the Humanities [X].
I was founding editor, 1987-1990, and again editor, 1995--present.
Past
1994-96. ITA2020S, "Computer-assisted Research in Italian Studies", a directed
reading and research course developed in collaboration with Italian Studies
1991-96. Graduate courses: (1) CCH1001H, "An Introductory Survey of Basic
Applications in Humanities Computing"; (2) CCH1001H (History), a version
of the preceding for students of history; (3) CCH1002H, "Topics in Humanities
Computing".
1991-96. "Electronic Texts in the Humanities: Methods and Tools". Center
for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH), annual Summer Seminar, Princeton
Univ., New Jersey [X].
I was Co-Director of the Seminar with Mrs. Susan Hockey, then Director of
CETH, now Professor of Library and Information Science, University College
London.
1991-96. Occasional lectures & workshops at the departmental and faculty
level on the applications of computing to research in the Humanities, including
yearly participation bibliography courses for English and Italian.
Supervision & training
2005--. David Kaskel, Ph.D. candidate, Centre for Computing in the Humanities,
King's College London.
1998-2004. Monica Matthews, Ph.D., Department of Classics, King's College
London, as research assistant for my Analytical Onomasticon Project.
1995-96. Laura K. McRae, Ph.D. candidate, , Centre for Medieval Studies
(Toronto); Major Fields committee.
1993-96. Aara Suksi, Ph.D. candidate, Dept. of Classical Studies (Toronto),
as research asst. for my Analytical Onomasticon Project.
1993-95. Tamara O'Callaghan, Ph.D. candidate, Centre for Medieval Studies
(Toronto); Major Fields committee, dissertation committee.
1992-94. Burton Wright, Ph.D. candidate, Dept. of Classical Studies (Toronto),
research asst. for the Analytical Onomasticon Project.
1992-93. Gustaf Hansen, Ph.D. candidate, Dept. of Classical Studies (Toronto),
dissertation and thesis defense committees.
1992. Andrea Schutz, Ph.D. candidate, Centre for Medieval Studies (Toronto),
Major Fields committee.
1990-91. Birgitta Olander, Ph.D. candidate, Linköping University, Linköping,
Sweden, and the Faculty of Library and Information Science (Toronto), dissertation
committee.
1996. (with Ian Lancashire, John Bradley, Russon Wooldridge, Michael Stairs).
Using TACT with Electronic Texts. New York: Modern Language Association.
1988. (with Ian Lancashire) The Humanities Computing Yearbook 1988. Oxford:
Clarendon Press.
ARTICLES and CHAPTERS IN BOOKS (refereed)
2005-6 (forthcoming). "Being reborn: the humanities, computing and styles
of scientific reasoning". Iter [X]
and in Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies [X].
2005 (forthcoming). "Tree, turf, centre or archipelago? Poetics of disciplinarity
for humanities computing". Literary and Linguistic Computing. Plenary address
for "Computing Arts 2004" University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia, 8-9 July
[X].
2004. "Modeling: A Study in Words and Meanings". In Companion to Digital
Humanities, ed. S. Shreibman, R. Siemens and J. Unsworth (Oxford: Blackwell),
pp. 254-70. Penultimate version: [X].
2004. "As it almost was: historiography of recent things". Literary and
Linguistic Computing 19.2: 161-81. Penultimate version: [X].
2003, with Matthew Kirschenbaum. "Institutional Models for Humanities Computing".
Literary and Linguistic Computing 18.3: 465-89. In print and online; current
version: [X].
2003. "Knowing true things by what their mockeries be: Modelling in the
humanities". Simultaneously published in Text Technology 12.1, special issue
edited by Bill Winder (British Columbia) and Barbara Bond (Victoria); CH
Working Papers A.24 [X].
Delivered as a plenary address for the annual COCH/COSH Conference, "Inter/Disciplinary
Models, Disciplinary Boundaries", Toronto, Canada, 26 May 2002.
2003. "Depth, Markup and Modelling". Simultaneously published in Text Technology 12.1,
special issue edited by Bill Winder (British Columbia) and Barbara Bond (Victoria);
CH Working Papers A.25 [X].
Delivered as a conference paper in a session on "Deep Markup", ACH/ALLC 2003,
University of Georgia, Athens GA, 30 May.
2003. "Humanities Computing". In Encyclopedia of Library and Information
Science, 2nd edn. Ed. Miriam Drake. (New York: Marcel Dekker), pp. 1224-35.
Penultimate draft [X].
2003. "Computing the embodied idea: modeling in the humanities". Semiotic
Frontline, in the Open Semiotics Resource Center [X].
A paper delivered at Körper - Verkörperung - Entkörperung / Body - Embodiment
- Disembodiment, 10. Internationaler Kongress, Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Semiotik, Universität Kassel, 19 July 2002.
2002. "New Splashings in the Old Pond: The Cohesibility of Humanities Computing",
Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie 4: 9-18; online [X],
s.v. Artikel.
2002. "A Network with a thousand entrances: Commentary in an electronic
age?". In The Classical Commentary: Histories, Practices, Theory, ed. Roy
K. Gibson and Christina Shuttleworth Kraus (Leiden: Brill): 359-402; penultimate
draft [X].
An analytical bibliography developed in support of research for this essay, "A
serious beginner's guide to hypertext", is online [X].
2002. "Humanities computing: essential problems, experimental practice".
Literary and Linguistic Computing 17.1 (April): 103-25; penultimate draft
[X].
2001. "Through an unknown, remembered gate: Interdisciplinary meditations
on humanities computing". Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 26.3: 173-82.
Delivered as a Lansdowne Public Lecture, University of Victoria, Canada,
12/2/01 [X].
2001. "Poem and algorithm: humanities computing in the life and place of
the mind". In New
Media and the Humanities: Research and Applications, ed. Domenico Fiormonte
and Jonathan Usher. Oxford: Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford,
pp. 1-9. Delivered as a keynote address, humanITies. Information technology
in the arts and humanities: Present applications and future perspectives,
The Open University, Milton Keynes, 10/10/98 [X].
1996. "Peering through the Skylight: Towards an Electronic Edition of Ovid's
Metamorphoses". In Susan Hockey and Nancy Ide, eds., Research in Humanities
Computing 4: Selected Papers from the ALLC/ACH Conference, Christ Church,
Oxford, April 1992. Oxford: Clarendon Press: 240-262.
1996. "Cannot without procéss of speech be told: Learning from the Failures
of Computational Modeling". In Technology Enhanced Language Learning: Focus
on Integration, ed. Ana Gimeno. Servicio de Publicaciones SPUPV, No. 3029.
Valencia, Spain: Universidad Politécnica de Valencia: 19-34. Delivered as
keynote address, EuroCALL Conference, Valencia, Spain, 7 September 1995.
[X].
1995. "Encoding Persons and Places in the Metamorphoses of Ovid. Part 2:
the Metatextual Translation". Texte 15/16:
261-305.
1994. "Encoding Persons and Places in the Metamorphoses of Ovid. Part 1:
Engineering the Text". Texte 13/14:
121-72.
1993. "Discontinuity, Metamorphosis, and Coherence: methodologies for computer-assisted
textual analysis, with reference to the Metamorphoses of Ovid". In Origins
and Method: Towards a New Understanding of Judaism and Christianity. Essays
in Honour of John C. Hurd. Ed. Bradley H. McLean. Journal for the Study of
New Testament, Suppl. ser. 86. Sheffield, U.K.: Sheffield Academic Press:
302-32.
1993. "Handmade, computer-assisted, and electronic concordances of Chaucer".
In Computer-Based Chaucer Studies, ed. Ian Lancashire. CCH Working Papers
3. Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities: 49-65.
1993. "A Potency of Life: Scholarship in an Electronic Age". Serials Librarian 23.3-4:
79-97. Also published in If We Build It: Scholarly Communications and Networking
Technologies, Proceedings of the North American Serials Interest Group, ed.
Suzanne McMahon et al. New York: Haworth: 79-97 [X].
1993. "Language, Learning, and the Computer: desultory postpriandial investigations",
in CALL: Theory and Application, ed. Peter Liddell. Proceedings of CCALL2/CCELAO2,
The Second Canadian CALL Conference. Victoria, BC: Univ. of Victoria: 37-55
[pdf].
1992. "Humanist: Lessons from a Global Electronic Seminar". Computers and
the Humanities 26.3: 205-22 [X].
1991. "Finding Implicit Patterns in Ovid's Metamorphoses with TACT". In
A TACT Exemplar, ed. T. Russon Wooldridge. CCH Working Papers 1. Toronto:
Centre for Computing in the Humanities: 37-75; republished in Computing in
the Humanities Working Papers B.3 [X].
1990. "Delilah, Beatrice, or Athena? The Computer in Literary Studies".
In Italian Literature in North America: Pedagogical Strategies, ed. John
Picchione and Laura Pietropaolo. Biblioteca di Quaderni d'itanianistica.
Toronto: Canadian Society for Italian Studies: 262-70.
1989. "The Shape of the Mirror: Metaphorical Catoptrics in Classical Literature",
Arethusa 22: 161-95.
1987. "The Catabatic Structure of Satan's Quest", University of Toronto
Quarterly, 56: 283-307.
1984. "Wheels within Wheels: A Topology for Scholarly Publishing". Scholarly
Publishing, 15: 229-35.
1984. "Patrons of Drama" (Appendix 7) and the index, in Norwich, 1540-1642,
ed. David Galloway. Records of Early English Drama. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto
Press.
LECTURES AND PAPERS (invited, unpublished; not included here if mentioned
above)
2005. "Getting closer by going further away: Close reading and text-processing".
Teaching Close Reading. English Subject Centre [X].
Woburn House, London, 28 October.
2005. "An anomalous end-maker conversation: 41, 21, 18, 13 or 8 years computing
the humanities". Plenary award address, Consortium for Computers in the Humanities
/ Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines (see above, under awards).
2003. "Modelling the intractable: inchoate thoughts toward a computational
grammar of personification". Dublin Computational Linguistics Seminar, University
College Dublin, 21 February.
2001. "Computing on the 'rough ground' of the humanities, here, now, with
what we've got, and the qualities of imagination it takes", for New
Technologies for the Arts and Humanities. Institute of Romance Studies,
School of Advanced Study, Senate House, University of London, 20-21 September.
2001. "Humanities computing, contemplative and communicative", an introduction
to the "Tavola rotonda sui methodi e i risultati dell'analisi informatica
dei testi filosofici e scientifici", in the 10th International Colloquium
of the Lessico Intellettuale Europeo (CNR, Italy) on Experientia, Rome, 6
January.
2000. "The telephone isn't a radio, so what isn't the Web?". Danske Sprogseminarer,
Copenhagen, Denmark, 7 November.
2000. "Simple tools, profound effects: Markup, Access and Scholarly Research".
Documents of Ireland launch, University College Cork.
2000. "Humanities computing and the future of reading" for The Future of
Reading in the Internet Era, a conference in the Honors Program, Augustana
College (U.S.A.), 14-15 April.
2000. "Humanities computing: essential problems, experimental practice",
Stanford University, 3 April 2000; University of Georgia, 12 April.
2000. "Essential problems of humanities computing", for What’s all the
Hype in Hypertext About? A Humanities Computing Colloquium, University College
Dublin, 10-11 March.
1999. "We would know how we know what we know: Responding to the computational
transformation of the humanities", for the conference "The Transformation
of Science -- Research between Printed Information and the Challenges of
Electronic Networks" held by the Max Planck Gesellschaft, Schloss Elmau,
31 May to 2 June. [X].
1999. "Humanities computing as interdiscipline"; for the seminar Is humanities
computing an academic discipline?, Institute for Advanced Technology in the
Humanities, University of Virginia, 5 November. [X].
1999. "Thinking with markup: the case of personification", ACH/ALLC 1999,
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 9 June.
1998. "Basic challenges of electronic publication" Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung,
Universität Tьbingen, July [X].
1998. "Computers and the future of the English department", Stanford University,
10 March.
1998. "Ovid in a computational mediasphere: First fruits of the Analytical
Onomasticon Project", University of California at Berkeley, 11 March 1998;
Reed College, 3 March.
1998. "What is humanities computing? Toward a definition of the field",
Reed College, 2 March; University of Liverpool, 20 February. [X].
1997. "The Shape of Things to Come is Continuous Change: Fundamental Problems
in Online Publication", for the conference on Electronic Publishing, Centre
for English Studies, University of London, January. [X].
1997. "Theft of fire: meaning in the markup of names" [X], "Institutional
Support in the Advancement of Technology in the Humanities: Roles, Models,
and Collaboration" (panel participant), "Root, trunk, and branch: institutional
and infrastructural models for humanities computing in the U.K." (session
organiser and chair), for the ACH/ALLC conference, Kingston, Ontario, Canada,
3-7 June [X].
1997. Presenter, "Economic and Institutional Realities, Assumptions, and
Infrastructures", Computing And The Humanities: Promise And Prospects, A
National Arts and Humanities Computing Roundtable, Computer Science and Telecommunications
Board of the National Research Council, the Coalition for Networked Information,
the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage, and the Two Ravens
Institute (U.S.), Washington, D.C., 28 March. Published as "Computing and
the Humanities: Summary of a Roundtable Meeting", ACLS Occasional Paper 41
(ISSN 1041-536X). [X].
1997. "In nova fert animus: Computing Ovid's Metamorphoses in the Analytical
Onomasticon project". Seminar in Humanities Computing, King's College London,
18 March.
1997. "The Shape of Things to Come is Continuous Change: Fundamental Problems
in Online Publication". Office for Humanities Communication and Centre for
English Studies, University of London, one-day conference on electronic publishing
[X].
1997. "Because It's Time: A Commentary on the Program Session", for the
colloquium, "Internet-Accessible Scholarly Resources for the Humanities and
Social Sciences", annual meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies,
April 1996. In American Council of Learned Societies Newsletter, 4.4 (February).
[X].
1996. "In nova fert animus: Computing the Metamorphoses in the Analytical
Onomasticon Project", American Philological Association, 28 December, New
York [X].
1996. "Institutional, Professional, and Disciplinary Issues". Scholarly
and Educational Applications of Advanced Technology, National Humanities
Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, May.
1996. "Typologies of electronic publication: laying the groundwork for
an Electronic Publishing Centre". Consortium for Computers in the Humanities,
Learned Societies Congress, Brock University (St. Catherines, Ont., Canada),
May.
1996. Discussant in Section VI: "Setting the Agenda -- The Role of Colleges
and Universities, Research Libraries, Professional Organizations, and Institutes
for Advanced Study", of the planning meeting, " Scholarly and Educational
Applications of Advanced Technology at the National Humanities Center", National
Humanities Center (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, U.S.), 3-4 May.
1996. Discussant for the session on "Internet-Accessible Scholarly Resources
for the Humanities and Social Sciences". American Council of Learned Societies,
Annual Meeting (Washington, DC), 26 April,
1995. "Literary and mechanical thinking: a position paper on the boundaries
of computer-assisted literary analysis". Center for Medieval and Renaissance
Studies, University of California at Los Angeles, November [X].
1994. Seminar. University of Bergen, Norway, 18 November (Computing Centre
for the Humanities)
1994. Two seminars. University of Oslo, Norway, 14-15 November (Historical-Philosophical
Faculty)
1994. Keynote speech. University of Minnesota, 6 June (local conference)
1994. Four seminars. Göteborg University, Sweden, April (Centre for Humanities
Computing, Department of Classical Studies, Department of Literature)
1994. Two seminars. University of Münster, Germany, April (Zentrum für
angewandte Informatik, Theologische Fakulität)
1994. Two conference papers. Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing
/ Association for Computers and the Humanities, annual conference, Paris
I (Sorbonne), Paris, France, April.
1994. After-dinner speech. CALICO conference, University of Arizona, Flagstaff,
March.
1993. Special lecture. Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. Johns,
Arts Faculty)
1993. Special lecture. Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., December (Arts
Faculty)
1993. Seminar. University of Toronto, March (Dept. of Classical Studies)
1992-1983. Conference papers, University of Toronto.
1992. "Electronic publishing". Getty Art History Information Program and
the American Council of Learned Societies, University of California at Santa
Cruz, Oct.
1991. Conference paper. American Theological Library Association conference,
Toronto.
1991. Seminar. University of Toronto, Centre for Renaissance and Reformation
Studies.
1991. Discussion paper. University of California, Coalition for Networked
Information
1991. Seminar paper. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Centre for
Renaissance Studies and the Department of Literary Theory
1990. "Literary classics: what are they, and what are they for?", What
Makes the Classics Classic?, American Society of Information Science, Toronto,
7 November [X].
1990. Plenary address and conference paper. ALLC/ACH, Universität Siegen,
Germany
1990. Special lecture. Universität Münster, Germany, Zentrum für angewandte
Informatik & Theologische Fakultät
1990. Special lecture. Universität Bonn, Germany
1990. Special lecture. Universität Tübingen, Germany
1990. Special lecture. Università di Roma (La Sapienza), Italy
1990. Special lecture. Università degli Studi, Siena, Italy
1989. Conference paper. Modern Language Association conference, Washington,
DC
1988. Conference paper. ALLC conference, Hebrew University, Jerusalem,
Israel
1987. Panel discussion. Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio
1987. Conference paper. International Conference for Computing in the Humanities.
University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C.
1985. "The Biblical Structure of Paradise Lost. University of Western Ontario,
London, Ont.
EDITORIAL BOARDS & CONFERENCE COMMITTEES
2005--. Editorial Board, Digital Humanities Quarterly [X]
2003--. Editorial Board, Digital Semiotics Encyclopedia [X].
2002--. Editorial Board, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (Institute of
Materials, London).
1997. Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication, an international
conference and special issue of Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue
Electronique de Communication. [X].
1995--. Co-editor, with Russon Wooldridge (French, Toronto) and William
Winder (French, British Columbia), CH Working Papers (CHWP, formerly TCH
Working Papers), an online refereed publication series for scholarly work
in humanities computing, at Toronto [X]
and London [X]. CHWP is
successor to the print series CCH Working Papers (1991-95), of which I was
founding Associate Editor (also with Russon Wooldridge).
1995-6. Member, Committee of the Conference on Editorial Problems, Univ.
of Toronto; organizer of the Conference on Electronic Editing, 11/97.
1990--. Editorial boards of Text Technology, McMaster University (1992--).
1989-90. Founding editor, FICINO, an international electronic seminar in
Renaissance and Reformation studies, publication of the Centre for Reformation
and Renaissance Studies (Victoria College, Toronto).
1988-91. Founding editor, Canadian Humanities Computing (formerly Ontario
Humanities Computing).
COMPUTING APPLICATIONS
I have been involved in an advisory and research capacity in various projects,
most notably:
2003-6. Technical co-director, Durham Liber Vitae project (above, II. Awards)
1989-96. Member of the TACT Development Group (with John Bradley, Ian Lancashire,
Michael Stairs, Russon Wooldridge, and others)
1988-90. Collaboration with Geoffrey Rockwell on the development of Macintosh
research software for scholarly note-keeping
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Departmental, King's College London
Chair, Research Committee, with the brief to help develop a strong research
culture in the department.
Member, Undergraduate Programme Board.
External evaluator/examiner
Dissertations
1999. MSc, University of Kent at Canterbury
1999. M.A., University of Lancaster
Grant applications & fellowships
2004. Calgary Institute for the Humanities (Canada)
2004. Lynne Grundy Trust, London
2004. Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
2003. Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Studies, London
2003. National Science Foundation (U.S.)
2003. Wellcome Trust (U.K.)
2002. Ryskamp Fellowship Program, American Council of Learned Societies
2001, 2002, 2005. Arts and Humanities Research Board (U.K.)
2001, 2002. British Academy
2000-2001. Canada Innovations Foundation
1999. Canada Council, Killam Fellowship
1996, 1997, 2000. Australian Research Council
1995, 2000, 2002. National Endowment for the Humanities (U.S.)
1994-96. Humanities Research Committee, King's College London
1993, 2000-3. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Publications
1997, 2002, 2005. Routledge, London
1997. Modern Language Association of America, New York
1996. Oxford University Press
1996. Cambridge University Press
1995. University of Michigan Press
1995. Phoenix, journal of the Classical Association of Canada
1995. Yale University Press
Tenure and promotion
2004. Promotion to Librarian, University of Houston Libraries (U.S.)
2003. Tenure, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2003. Tenure, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Duquesne
University (U.S.).
2001. Promotion to full professor, Department of French, Queen's University
(Canada)
2000. Promotion to full professor, Department of English, University of
Southern California (U.S.)
1999. Promotion to Professor, Department of Linguistics, Lancaster University
(U.K.)
1999. Promotion to Professor, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese,
University of Virginia (U.S.)
1999. Tenure, Faculty of the Humanities, McMaster University (Canada)
1996. Tenure, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto (Canada)
1996. Promotion, University Libraries, University of Iowa (U.S.)
Prize committees
2001. Selection Committee, Lyman Award ($25,000 annually for innovative
application of information technology to scholarship), National Humanities
Center, North Carolina, U.S [X].
2000--. Advisory Council, The Lincoln Prize ($50,000 annually for the finest
scholarly work in English on the era of the American Civil War), Gettysburg
College, Pennsylvania, U.S. [X].
1999--. Selection Committee, Busa Award ($1,000 every three years for outstanding
contribution to humanities computing), Association for Computers and the
Humanities, Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing [X].
Miscellaneous
1993. Session chair and respondent, "Dante and the 'Fair School' of Poetry:
Poetic Authority and Challenge", University of Toronto, December
1993. Executive Committee, Computer Studies in Language and Literature
Discussion Group, MLA, and session chair
1992-96. Advisory Board, University Language Teaching Resource Unit / Seminario
per Richerche in Glottodidacttica, Univ. of Toronto
1991. Chair & organizer for session, Modern Language Association (MLA)
convention
1989. Organizer, software and hardware fair, ALLC/ACH conference, Toronto
1988. Session chair, MLA
1988. Session chair, International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, Toronto
1988. Session chair, ALLC/ACH, Jerusalem
1987. Conference coordinator, Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural
Studies, Univ. of Toronto.
1981-85. Convener of the Graduate English Renaissance Group, Univ. of Toronto.
EDUCATION
1984. Ph.D., English Literature, Nov. 1984, Univ. of Toronto;
1976. M.A., Portland State Univ., Portland, OR, U.S.A.;
1970. B.A., Reed College, Portland, OR.
Languages: (natural) German, classical Greek and Latin; (computing) BASIC,
FORTRAN, various assemblers, dBase, HTML.
COMMUNITY WORK
2003--. Independent Custody Visitors Panel, London Borough of Waltham Forest
[X]; Chair, 2003--4; Vice-Chair 2004-5;
member since 2001.
1998--. Member, Abbotts Park / Midland Road Neighbourhood Group.
Core Resource Faculty 
