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Curriculum vitae

Willard L. McCarty, Ph.D.
Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk

Centre for Computing in the Humanities,
King's College London,
Kay House,
26-29 Drury Lane,
London WC2B 5RL, U.K.
voice: +44 (0)20 7848-2784
fax: +44 (0)20 7848-2980

  1. APPOINTMENTS & OFFICES

    1. Academic
      1. 2010--2012. Professor (fractional), Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney
      2. 2007--. Professor of Humanities Computing, University of London.
      3. 2007--. Academic staff member, Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication [X], King's College London.
      4. 2005-8. Member, Core Resource Faculty, "Contextualizing Classics. Renewal of Teaching Practices and Concepts" [X], University of Sofia, St Kliment Ohridski, Sofia, Bulgaria (Open Society Institute, Higher Education Support Program, Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching).
      5. 2005-7. Reader in Humanities Computing, University of London.
      6. 1996--2005. Senior Lecturer in Humanities Computing, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, School of Humanities, King's College London.
      7. 1992-6. Adjunct professor and associate member, graduate faculty, Department of Classical Studies, University of Toronto; Department of Italian Studies; Department of English.
      8. 1990-2. Senior Fellow, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria Univ. in the Univ. of Toronto.
      9. 1981-4. Research Asst., Records of Early English Drama, Centre for Medieval Studies, Toronto.
    2. Other
      1. 2008--. Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (July 2008-) [X].
      2. 2008-. Postgraduate Research Tutor, Convenor of the PhD Seminar and Admissions Tutor for the PhD Programme, Centre for Computing in the Humanities.
      3. 2006-7. Participant, Autonomy, Singularity, Creativity project [X], National Humanities Center.
      4. 2005--8. Director of Teaching, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, and Admissions Tutor for the PhD Programme.
      5. 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.
      6. 1991-96. Assistant Director, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Toronto.
      7. 1986-91. Academic Liaison Officer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Toronto.

  2. AWARDS & HONOURS

    1. 2006. Richard W. Lyman Award, National Humanities Center, U.S. [X].
    2. 2005. Award for Outstanding Achievement, Computing in the Arts and Humanities, Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines [X].
    3. 2003-4. Arts and Humanities Research Board, U.K., Research Leave Scheme, for sabbatical book project; awarded £14,438.
    4. 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 £291,966.
    5. 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.
    6. 1996. Dept. of Classical Studies, Univ. of Toronto, Grant-in-Aid, April, conference travel grant, $500.
    7. 1994. Dept. of Classical Studies, Univ. of Toronto, Grant-in-Aid, February, conference travel grant, $750.
    8. 1993. Social Sciences and Humanities Committee, Univ. of Toronto, Grant-in-Aid, April; awarded $509.
    9. 1992. Social Sciences and Humanities Committee, Univ. of Toronto, conference travel grant, March; awarded $1050.
    10. 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.

  3. TEACHING & SUPERVISION

    1. Courses, seminars, workshops
      1. Current (Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London)
        1. M. A. in the Digital Humanities [X]. I teach courses in Corpus-based Text-analysis and in the Digital Analysis of Literature.
        2. London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, [X] (organizer and convenor, 2006--).
        3. "Exploring Disciplines" [X], for the Graduate School, King's College London.
        4. 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 Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations [X]. I was founding editor, 1987-1990, and again editor, 1995--present.
      2. Past
        1. 1996-2007. Seminar in Humanities Computing [X] (organizer and convenor).
        2. 1994-96. ITA2020S, "Computer-assisted Research in Italian Studies", a directed reading and research course developed in collaboration with Italian Studies
        3. 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".
        4. 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. I was Co-Director of the Seminar with Mrs. Susan Hockey, then Director of CETH.
        5. 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.
    2. Supervision & training
      1. 2010-. Raffaele Viglianti, Ph.D. candidate, Centre for Computing in the Humanities and Department of Music (co-supervisor with Professor Roger Parker).
      2. 2009-. Gabrielė Šalčiūtė -Čivilienė, PhD candidate, Centre for Computing in the Humanities and Department of German.
      3. 2009-. Thomas Salyers, Ph.D. candidate, Centre for Computing in the Humanities.
      4. 2009-. Matteo Romanello, Ph.D. candidate, Centre for Computing in the Humanities and Department of Computer Science (co-supervisor with Dr Jonathan Ginzburg)
      5. 2009-. Øyvind Eide, Ph.D. candidate, Centre for Computing in the Humanities.
      6. 2008-. Honza Rod, Ph.D. candidate, Centre for Computing in the Humanities.
      7. 2008-. Susan Bennett, PhD candidate, Department of History and Centre for Computing in the Humanities (co-supervisor with Professor Ludmilla Jordanova).
      8. 2008-. William Garrood, PhD candidate, Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek and Centre for Computing in the Humanities (co-supervisor with Professor Charlotte Roueché).
      9. 2008-. Ioanna Doutsou, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Education and Professional Studies, School of Social Science and Public Policy and Centre for Computing in the Humanities (co-supervisor with Dr Jannis Androutsopoulos).
      10. 2006--. Luke Blaxill, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History and Centre for Computing in the Humanities (co-supervisor with Dr Paul Readman).
      11. 1998-2004. Monica Matthews, Ph.D., Department of Classics, King's College London, as research assistant for my Analytical Onomasticon Project.
      12. 1995-96. Laura K. McRae, Ph.D. candidate, , Centre for Medieval Studies (Toronto); Major Fields committee.
      13. 1993-96. Aara Suksi, Ph.D. candidate, Dept. of Classical Studies (Toronto), as research asst. for my Analytical Onomasticon Project.
      14. 1993-95. Tamara O'Callaghan, Ph.D. candidate, Centre for Medieval Studies (Toronto); Major Fields committee, dissertation committee.
      15. 1992-94. Burton Wright, Ph.D. candidate, Dept. of Classical Studies (Toronto), research asst. for the Analytical Onomasticon Project.
      16. 1992-93. Gustaf Hansen, Ph.D. candidate, Dept. of Classical Studies (Toronto), dissertation and thesis defense committees.
      17. 1992. Andrea Schutz, Ph.D. candidate, Centre for Medieval Studies (Toronto), Major Fields committee.
      18. 1990-91. Birgitta Olander, Ph.D. candidate, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, and the Faculty of Library and Information Science (Toronto), dissertation committee.

  4. PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS

    1. BOOKS (refereed)
      1. 2010. (forthcoming edited volume). Text and genre in reconstruction: Effects of digitization on ideas, behaviours, products & institutions. London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship 1. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers.
      2. 2005. Humanities Computing. Houndmills, Basingstoke (U.K.): Palgrave. Reviewed by Johanna Drucker, "Philosophy and Digital Humanities", Digital Humanities Quarterly 1.1 (2007) [X].
      3. 1996. (with Ian Lancashire, John Bradley, Russon Wooldridge, Michael Stairs). Using TACT with Electronic Texts. New York: Modern Language Association.
      4. 1988. (with Ian Lancashire) The Humanities Computing Yearbook 1988. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

    2. ARTICLES and CHAPTERS IN BOOKS (refereed)
      1. 2010 (forthcoming). "Special Effects; or, The Tooling is Here. Where are the Results?" In Nachum Dershowitz and Ephraim Nissan, eds., Language, Culture, Computation: Studies in Honour of Yaacov Choueka.
      2. 2009. "Literary enquiry and experimental method: What has happened? What might?" In Storia della Scienza e Linguistica Computazionale: Sconfinamenti Possibili, ed. Liborio Dibattista. 32-54. Milano: Francoangeli. Paper from the International workshop, Crossing boundaries: History of science and computational linguistics, Università di Bari, Italy, 28 April 2008 [X] and ppt slides [X].
      3. 2009. "That uneasy stare at an alien nature". Festschrift in honour of Ian Lancashire. Digital Studies / Le champ numérique [X].
      4. 2009 (2005). "Being reborn: the humanities, computing and styles of scientific reasoning". New Technology in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 1: 1-23 [X]. Invited paper originally delivered at the Renaissance Society of America conference, Clare College, Cambridge, 7 April 2005.
      5. 2008 (forthcoming). "Beyond the word: Modelling literary context". Special issue of Text Technology. Based on a plenary lecture for "Breadth of text: A joint computer science and humanities computing conference", Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis [X], Fredericton, New Brunswick, 12 October 2006. [X].
      6. 2008. "What's going on?" Literary and Linguistic Computing 23.3: 253-61. Originally given as a plenary lecture for "Countries, Cultures, Communication: Digital Innovation at UCLA" [X], Institute for Digital Research and Education, University of California at Los Angeles, 10 May 2007 [X], [X].
      7. 2008. "Response: Perspectives of Literary Theory". Journal of Literary Theory 1.2: 458-60.
      8. 2008. "Knowing...: modeling in literary studies". Companion to Digital Literary Studies. Oxford: Blackwell [X, 21].
      9. 2007 (published 2008). "An Anomalous End-Maker Conversation: Foreward for Digital Humanities and the Networked Citizen". Text Technology 15.1: 1-10 [X].
      10. 2006. "Tree, turf, centre, archipelago -- or wild acre? Metaphors and stories for humanities computing". Literary and Linguistic Computing 21.1 Plenary address for "Computing Arts 2004" University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia, 8-9 July. [X]
      11. 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. [X], 19
      12. 2004. "As it almost was: historiography of recent things". Literary and Linguistic Computing 19.2: 161-81. [X]
      13. 2003, with Matthew Kirschenbaum. "Institutional Models for Humanities Computing". Literary and Linguistic Computing 18.3: 465-89.
      14. 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.
      15. 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.
      16. 2003. "Humanities Computing". In Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, 2nd edn. Ed. Miriam Drake. (New York: Marcel Dekker), pp. 1224-35. [X]
      17. 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.
      18. 2002. "New Splashings in the Old Pond: The Cohesibility of Humanities Computing", Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie 4: 9-18; online [X], s.v. Artikel.
      19. 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. [X]
      20. 2002. "Humanities computing: essential problems, experimental practice". Literary and Linguistic Computing 17.1 (April): 103-25. [X]
      21. 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]
      22. 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.
      23. 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.
      24. 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]
      25. 1995. "Encoding Persons and Places in the Metamorphoses of Ovid. Part 2: the Metatextual Translation". Texte 15/16: 261-305. [X]
      26. 1994. "Encoding Persons and Places in the Metamorphoses of Ovid. Part 1: Engineering the Text". Texte 13/14: 121-72. [X]
      27. 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.
      28. 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. [X]
      29. 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.
      30. 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.
      31. 1992. "Humanist: Lessons from a Global Electronic Seminar". Computers and the Humanities 26.3: 205-22. [X]
      32. 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].
      33. 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.
      34. 1989. "The Shape of the Mirror: Metaphorical Catoptrics in Classical Literature", Arethusa 22: 161-95.
      35. 1987. "The Catabatic Structure of Satan's Quest", University of Toronto Quarterly, 56: 283-307.
      36. 1984. "Wheels within Wheels: A Topology for Scholarly Publishing". Scholarly Publishing, 15: 229-35.
      37. 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.

    3. REVIEWS (invited)
      1. 2008. Review of Mind Technologies: Humanities Computing and the Canadian Academic Community, ed. Raymond Siemens and David Moorman (Alberta, 2006). University of Toronto Quarterly 77.1: 138-40. [X].
      2. 2008. Rev. of Siegfried Zielinski, Deep Time of the Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means, MIT Press, 2006. Literary and Linguistic Computing 23.1: 125-8.
      3. 2005. "Complexity and simplicity". Rev. of David Yeandle et al., eds., Stellenbibliographie zum Parzival Wolframs von Eschenbach für die Jahrgänge 1984–1996. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2002. Literary and Linguistic Computing 20.4 [X]

    4. LECTURES, PAPERS, SEMINARS & PRESENTATIONS (invited, unpublished unless otherwise noted; not included here if mentioned above)
      1. 2010. "In the age of explorations" [X] and slides [X]. Closing keynote address for Exploring the Archive in the Digital Age [X], King's College London, 8 May.
      2. 2010. "Computing and reading". A series of 5 invited lectures, as Distinguished Visitor, Office of Interdisciplinary Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, 7-14 April [X].
      3. 2010. "Making friends, or before the science". Invited lecture, Undergraduate Research Conference 2010: UG Research in Computer Science -- Theory and Applications [X] , 24 March. Paper [X] and slides [X].
      4. 2010. "Attending from and to the machine". Inaugural lecture, King's College London, 2 February [X], ppt slides [X] and podcast [X].
      5. 2010. Roundtable discussion, "The Past's Digital Presence", Yale University, 20 February [X (with podcast)].
      6. 2010. "Pasts, present and futures of the digital humanities". Digital Humanities Lecture Series, Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University, 16 February.
      7. 2009. "Quondam et futurus". Workshop on Problems and Futures, Tools for Collaborative Scholarly Editing over the Web, Institute for Textual Scholarship and Scholarly Editing, University of Birmingham, 25 September 2009 [X].
      8. 2009. "Cybernetics and the humanities". Presentation for a workshop on collaboration, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, 7 August.
      9. 2009. "Imagining the hunt: Cutting-edge, collaborative, digitally human & reciprocal" [X] and slides [X]. Keynote lecture for InferFace 2009 [X].
      10. 2009. "What Keywords might be". Presentation to the Keywords Project, Jesus College, Cambridge, June.
      11. 2009. Two for the Alumni College, Reed College, 4 June [X]: (1) a lecture, "Without its machinery not more than a machine", notes [X] and slides [X]. "A counterfeit life? The humanities in a technoscientific world" [X];
      12. 2009. "Exploring the archipelago of disciplines", a seminar for the Interdisciplinary Leadership Seminar Series [X] at King's, for which I have designed a PhD-level course [X].
      13. 2008. "Evidence in and evidence of 'Evidence of Value'". AHRC ICT Methods Network Expert Seminar, 5 November [X]
      14. 2008. "Digitising is questioning, or else". Long Room Hub Lecture Series, Trinity College Dublin, April 2008 [X] and ppt slides [X]
      15. 2008. "Can we build it? Lessons and speculations on literary computing". Talk for the An Foras Feasa seminar, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 8 April 2008 [X] and ppt slides [X]
      16. 2008. "Can we build it? Lessons and speculations on literary computing". Talk for the Computer Science seminar, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 8 April 2008 [X] and ppt slides [X]
      17. 2008. "Neglected, not rejected: Is there a future for literary computing?" Talk for the School of Humanities 20/20/20 Lecture Series, 12 March [X]
      18. 2007. "Beyond retrieval? Computer science and the humanities". Keynote lecture for the CATCH Midterm Event, Den Haag, Netherlands, 30 November [X] and ppt slides [X]
      19. 2007. "'Steaming down the sunlight'". Plenary lecture for the first conference of Humanities Serving Irish Society, Galway, Republic of Ireland, 17 November [X] and ppt slides [X]
      20. 2007. "Four views of computing: disciplinary, cultural, philosophical, historical". Presentation for Thinking through Computing [X], Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, 2-3 November [X].
      21. 2007. "Looking backward, figuring forward: Modelling, its discontents and the future". Paper for Digital Humanities 2007 [X], 2-8 June. Paper [X] and ppt slides [X]
      22. 2007. "Teaching the classics digitally". Annual conference of the Classical Association, University of Birmingham, 12 April [X].
      23. 2006. "Bridge-building; or, talking at parallel purposes in a non-Euclidian situation". First conference of the project, Autonomy, Singularity, Creativity: The Human and the Humanities [X], National Humanities Center, North Carolina, 9 November 2006.
      24. 2006. "The imaginations of computing". Lyman Award Lecture, National Humanities Center, North Carolina, 6 November 2006 [X].
      25. 2006. "Smell of food on the wind, then and now". 30th anniversary celebration, Oxford Text Archive, Oxford, 24 September [X].
      26. 2006. "Presence and genre in digital scholarship", Master Class in Textual Studies, Centre for Textual Scholarship, De Montfort University, 1 June [X].
      27. 2006. "Convergent games on common ground? Humanities computing, computer science and cultural artefacts". Seminar for the Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, 25 May [X].
      28. 2006. "Humanities computing: A plural community of method". Lecture for the HumLab, Umeâ, University, Sweden, April [X].
      29. 2006. "Individual matrix, communal workshop and 'the living condition of the human mind'". Plenary keynote address to VALA2006 ("Connecting with Users"), the 13th Biennial Conference of the Victorian Association for Library Automation, 8-10 February, Melbourne, Australia. Text and podcast [X].
      30. 2006. "The sound of two hands clapping is sometimes hard to hear, or Comments on the digital vs the invocative views of computing for the arts and letters". Seminar, University of Sydney, February [X]
      31. 2006. "The plural community of method". Invitational conference, University of Western Sydney, February.
      32. 2005. "Getting closer by going further away: Close reading and text-processing". Teaching Close Reading. English Subject Centre [X]. Woburn House, London, 28 October.
      33. 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). [X], [X]
      34. 2005. "Computing literature: An intellectual tale of progressive dissatisfaction & meaningful failure". Seminar, Alpha Informatica, University of Groningen, 25 May [X].
      35. 2003. "A computational approach to a narratological problem: Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Analytical Onomasticon Project". Seminar for the Forschungsgruppe Naratologie, Universität Hamburg, April.
      36. 2003. "The case for humanities computing". Debate, Historisch- Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung, Universität Köln, 24 April.
      37. 2003. "Modelling the intractable: inchoate thoughts toward a computational grammar of personification". Dublin Computational Linguistics Seminar, University College Dublin, 21 February.
      38. 2002. Seminar, Institut für Englische Philologie, Universität München, December.
      39. 2001. Public lecture and seminar, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon, November.
      40. 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.
      41. 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.
      42. 2000. "The telephone isn't a radio, so what isn't the Web?". Danske Sprogseminarer, Copenhagen, Denmark, 7 November.
      43. 2000. "Simple tools, profound effects: Markup, Access and Scholarly Research". Documents of Ireland launch, University College Cork.
      44. 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.
      45. 2000. "Humanities computing: essential problems, experimental practice", Stanford University, 3 April 2000; University of Georgia, 12 April.
      46. 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.
      47. 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.
      48. 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.
      49. 1999. "Thinking with markup: the case of personification", ACH/ALLC 1999, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 9 June.
      50. 1998. "Basic challenges of electronic publication" Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung, Universität Tübingen, July.
      51. 1998. "Computers and the future of the English department", Stanford University, 10 March.
      52. 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.
      53. 1998. "What is humanities computing? Toward a definition of the field", Reed College, 2 March; University of Liverpool, 20 February. [X].
      54. 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.
      55. 1997. "Theft of fire: meaning in the markup of names", "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].
      56. 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].
      57. 1997. "In nova fert animus: Computing Ovid's Metamorphoses in the Analytical Onomasticon project". Seminar in Humanities Computing, King's College London, 18 March.
      58. 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.
      59. 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].
      60. 1996. "In nova fert animus: Computing the Metamorphoses in the Analytical Onomasticon Project", American Philological Association, 28 December, New York.
      61. 1996. "Institutional, Professional, and Disciplinary Issues". Scholarly and Educational Applications of Advanced Technology, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, May.
      62. 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.
      63. 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.
      64. 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,
      65. 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.
      66. 1994. Seminar. University of Bergen, Norway, 18 November (Computing Centre for the Humanities)
      67. 1994. Two seminars. University of Oslo, Norway, 14-15 November (Historical-Philosophical Faculty)
      68. 1994. Keynote speech. University of Minnesota, 6 June (local conference)
      69. 1994. Four seminars. Göteborg University, Sweden, April (Centre for Humanities Computing, Department of Classical Studies, Department of Literature)
      70. 1994. Two seminars. University of Münster, Germany, April (Zentrum für angewandte Informatik, Theologische Fakulität)
      71. 1994. Two conference papers. Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing / Association for Computers and the Humanities, annual conference, Paris I (Sorbonne), Paris, France, April.
      72. 1994. After-dinner speech. CALICO conference, University of Arizona, Flagstaff, March.
      73. 1994-1990. Guest lectures, yearly. Computer Studies Programme, Trent University.
      74. 1993. Special lecture. Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. Johns, Arts Faculty)
      75. 1993. Special lecture. Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., December (Arts Faculty)
      76. 1993. Seminar. University of Toronto, March (Dept. of Classical Studies)
      77. 1992-1983. Conference papers, University of Toronto.
      78. 1992. "Electronic publishing". Getty Art History Information Program and the American Council of Learned Societies, University of California at Santa Cruz, Oct.
      79. 1992. "The Analytical Onomasticon Project". Oxford University, Literae Humaniores (special lecture)
      80. 1992. Conference paper. ALLC/ACH.
      81. 1991. Conference paper. American Theological Library Association conference, Toronto.
      82. 1991. Seminar. University of Toronto, Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies.
      83. 1991. Discussion paper. University of California, Coalition for Networked Information
      84. 1991. Seminar paper. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Centre for Renaissance Studies and the Department of Literary Theory
      85. 1990. "Literary classics: what are they, and what are they for?", What Makes the Classics Classic?, American Society of Information Science, Toronto, 7 November.
      86. 1990. Plenary address and conference paper. ALLC/ACH, Universität Siegen, Germany
      87. 1990. Special lecture. Universität Münster, Germany, Zentrum für angewandte Informatik & Theologische Fakultät
      88. 1990. Special lecture. Universität Bonn, Germany
      89. 1990. Special lecture. Universität Tübingen, Germany
      90. 1990. Special lecture. Università di Roma (La Sapienza), Italy
      91. 1990. Special lecture. Università degli Studi, Siena, Italy
      92. 1989. Conference paper. Modern Language Association conference, Washington, DC
      93. 1988. Conference paper. ALLC conference, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
      94. 1987. Panel discussion. Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio
      95. 1987. Conference paper. International Conference for Computing in the Humanities. University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C.
      96. 1985. "The Biblical Structure of Paradise Lost. University of Western Ontario, London, Ont.

  5. EDITORIAL BOARDS & CONFERENCE COMMITTEES

    1. 2009--. Editorial Board, Informatica Umanistica [X]
    2. 2005--. Editorial Board, Digital Humanities Quarterly [X]
    3. 2003--. Editorial Board, Digital Semiotics Encyclopedia [X].
    4. 2002--7. Editorial Board, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (Institute of Materials, London).
    5. 1997. Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication, an international conference and special issue of Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication. [X].
    6. 1995--2008. 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).
    7. 1995-6. Member, Committee of the Conference on Editorial Problems, Univ. of Toronto; organizer of the Conference on Electronic Editing, 11/97.
    8. 1990--. Editorial boards of Text Technology, McMaster University (1992--).
    9. 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).
    10. 1988-91. Founding editor, Canadian Humanities Computing (formerly Ontario Humanities Computing).

  6. COMPUTING APPLICATIONS

    7. I have been involved in an advisory and research capacity in various projects, most notably:

  7. OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

    1. External evaluator/examiner
      • Dissertations
        • 2010. PhD, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
        • 2009. PhD, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
        • 2006. MSc, Warwick University
        • 1999. MSc, University of Kent at Canterbury
        • 1999. M.A., University of Lancaster
      • Grant applications, fellowships and funding programmes
        • 2009. Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Vienna.
        • 2009. Loyola University, Chicago; MA programme proposal.
        • 2008. Keck Foundation
        • 2008. Warwick Research Development Fund
        • 2007. Marie Curie Fellowship
        • 2007. Economic & Social Research Council (U.K.)
        • 2007, 2009. Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions, Higher Education Authority, Republic of Ireland
        • 2006, 2007. National Humanities Center (U.S.)
        • 2006. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (U.S)
        • 2005. Ministry of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Republic of Ireland
        • 2004. Calgary Institute for the Humanities (Canada)
        • 2004, 2006, 2007. Lynne Grundy Trust, London
        • 2004, 2007. Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
        • 2003-4. 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, 2006. Arts and Humanities Research Council (U.K.)
        • 2001, 2002. British Academy
        • 2000-2001, 2008. Canada Innovations Foundation
        • 1999. Canada Council, Killam Fellowship
        • 1996, 1997, 2000. Australian Research Council
        • 1995, 2000, 2002, 2008. National Endowment for the Humanities (U.S.)
        • 1994-96. Humanities Research Committee, King's College London
        • 1993, 2000-3, 2005, 2007, 2010. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
      • Publications
        • 2007. Journal of Computers (JCP), Academy Publisher
        • 2006. Illinois University Press
        • 2005. Computing and the History of Art Yearbook, London.
        • 2005. Blackwell's, Oxford
        • 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
        • 2009. Tenure, Humanities Computing and English, University of Alberta
        • 2008. Tenure, Department of English, University of Virginia
        • 2007. Promotion to full professor, Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia, McMaster University (Canada)
        • 2006. Promotion to University Professor, University of Calgary (Canada)
        • 2006. Tenure, University of Western Ontario (Canada)
        • 2006. Tenure, McMaster University (Canada)
        • 2005. Promotion to Senior Lecturer, King's College London
        • 2004. Willson Professorship, University of Georgia (U.S.)
        • 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.)
    2. 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].
    3. 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.

  8. EDUCATION

    1. 1984. Ph.D., English Literature, Nov. 1984, Univ. of Toronto;
    2. 1976. M.A., Portland State Univ., Portland, OR, U.S.A.;
    3. 1970. B.A., Reed College, Portland, OR.
    4. Languages: (natural) German, classical Greek and Latin; (computing) BASIC, FORTRAN, various assemblers, dBase, HTML.

  9. COMMUNITY WORK

    1. 2003-8. Independent Custody Visitors Panel, London Borough of Waltham Forest [X]; Chair, 2003--4; Vice-Chair 2004-5; member since 2001.
    2. 1998--. Member, Abbotts Park / Midland Road Neighbourhood Group.
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