Curriculum Vitae
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CIRCA Scholar |
Education Ph.D., English 2006 Post-baccalaureate, English 1999 B.A., English 1996 |
Professional profile
I am a specialist in seventeenth-century literature, early modern cultural studies, and women's writing. My Ph.D. research looked at the intersections of witchcraft and prophecy in early modern English culture. My current work combines theories taken from Cognitive Science and Social Neuroscience with tools and research practices borrowed from Digital Humanities to help elucidate issues of monstrophy and spiritual messiness in Early Modern England including the intersections of prophecy, witchcraft, possession, and popular cultures. I am also studying how digital textualities, platforms, and visualizations function to facilitate pattern tracing and user comprehension in university level research. I am an active member in a number of national and international Digital Humanities projects, societies, and conferences, a regular participant in Humanities conferences and colloquia and workshops, and an enthusiastic and challenging teacher.
Major Digital Projects
Witches in Early Modern England: A Digital Humanities project for Unveiling Witchcraft Narratives.
Publications
Book Manuscripts
The Witch and Prophet in Print 1500-1700. Athabasca University Press (Forthcoming 2012)
Refereed Articles
"Embodied Spiritualities, Salacious Biographies, and the Hog-Faced Prophetical Witch," in The Devil in Society in the Premodern World, ed. Richard Raiswell and Peter Dendle (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto, (forthcoming 2011).
[with Darren James Harkness] "Consider the Source: Critical Considerations of the Medium of Social Media" Boundaries of Literature. ed. Paul Budra and Cliff Burnham. Indiana University Press. (forthcoming 2011).
"The which is also new": Accessibility, Economics, and Electronic Early Modern Women’s Writing. Media: Culture: Pedagogy 15 n. 01/02, July 2011
"Rage Possession: A Cognitive Science Approach to Early English Demon Possession," Studies in Early Medicine, Oxford: Archaeopress, 2010.
"Cunning, Cozening, and Queens in The Merry Wives of Windsor," Shakespeare (6:1, April 2010, 20-33)
[with Susan Liepert] "Clapping, Pinching, and Sucking: the English Witch's Familiar as Interface Model," Digital Studies / Le champ numerique. 1:3, 2009
"The Memoirs of Dolly Morton: Possible Source for James Joyce's Ulysses?" Notes and Queries 55:4, December 2008.
[with Stan Ruecker] "Binding the Electronic Book: Design Features for Bibliophiles," Visual Design 40:1, 2007.
"Artless Tales as Literary Tapestry," Afterword. Artless Tales. Anna Maria Porter. Ed Lesley Robertson et al. Edmonton, AB: Juvenilia Press, 2003. 131-36.
Other Publications
[with Tanya Clement, Sara Steger, and John Unsworth] "How Not to Read a Million Books," (Online. Originally read at Harvard University, October, 2008).
[Review] "Sidney Sondergard's Sharpening Her Pen: Strategies of Rhetorical Violence." The Sixteenth-Century Journal, 35.2. 2004: 612-613.
"Selling Cherries, Buying Water: Reworking Female Sexual Economics in Thomas Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside." Luminarium. September, 2001.
"Writing Up the Rite: Impressions of Joyce 2000: The Right to Write: XVII International James Joyce Symposium," James Joyce Broadsheet, 57:1, October 2000
"Sex, Death and the Single Romantic Woman." Nasty July, 2000
AwardsSixth Annual Nebraska Digital Workshop: Early Career Scholar Principal Investigator:"Witches in Early Modern England (WEME) Project." Best Idea for Improving a Current Tool University of Victoria (British Columbia) Humanities Computing & Media Centre Graduate Student Award, 2008 Sarah Nettie Christie Graduate Award (University of Alberta), 2004 Mary Louise Imrie Graduate Award (University of Alberta), 2002 James F. Forrest Graduate Award in
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Grants and BursariesAlliance for Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) Award, 2009 Society for Digital Humanities (SDH/SEMI) Travel Bursary, 2007 Graduate Internship Tuition Supplement, 2003 Sarah Nettie Christie Travel Bursary, 2003 Attending to Women Travel Grant, 2003 Graduate Research Assistantship Scholarship, 2003 Graduate Internship Tuition Supplement, 2002 Sarah Nettie Christie Travel Bursary, 2000 |
Teaching experienceExtensive experience with upper- and lower-division courses at institutions of different sizes and classroom composition, including (alongside Language and Literature, surveys of literature, and professional writing courses): ENGL 416: Milton |
Teaching positionsAssistant Professor and Post-Doctoral Fellow, Assistant Professor LTA, |
Editorial PositionsEditor Associate Editor Editor and Chief Editorial Board |
Major Collaborative ResearchCollaborator Test Bed Lead Lead Use Case Principle Investigator Research Assistant |
Significant Academic Service
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Other Academic Service (select)Collaborator Faculty / Student Debate |
Talks
"Practicing the Craft: Alternate Models of Academic Inquiry into the Malefic." CIRCA Series. Canadian Institute for Research Computing. February 17, 2011
[with Marie Ciavarella] "E-Learning for Historical Studies." Department of History. University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana Champaign. February 24, 2010.
"Rage and Possession in Early Modern England" A Major Link: Understanding our World Through Culture and Art Series. University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Urbana Champaign. February 15, 2010.
[with Milena Radzikowska] "Varied Visceral Visualizations: Pattern Finding and Prototyping in the WEME project" University of Alberta. Enterprise Square. May 7th, 2009.
"The Great Electric Show & Dance: Adventures in the evolution of e-readers and e-research" Teaching and Research using Technology in the Humanities: Virtual communities in the Humanities 2009 Symposium. University of Victoria. April 2009.
"Titillating Trends and Tools: Visualization and Research in DH" Farleigh Dickinson University. Vancouver, British Columbia, March 25, 2009
"Cyberculture." Department of English, University of Gloucester. December 2004.
"Teaching First Year English" Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta. September 2003, September 2002.
Workshops
Workshop on Witches; Witches in Early Modern England: A Digital Humanities Project for Unveiling Witchcraft Narratives. Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference, 2010. Victoria, British Columbia October 21-23 2010.
[with Paul Budra] Shakespeare and Social Nueroscience. Shakespeare Association of America, Chicago, April 1-3, 2010.
[with MEMI executive], MEMI Spring Colloquium: Reproducing Dissent in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods. University of Alberta, May 10, 2005
[with MEMI executive] MEMI Spring Workshop: Is that a Stylus in Your Pocket? Paleography Symposium. University of Alberta, May 11-12, 2005.
[with MEMI executive] Working with Manuscripts from Beowulf to Bacon: MEMI Paleography Workshop, University of Alberta, April 11, 2005.
[with Sylvia Brown et al.] "Women and the Missionary Position: Gendering Encounters with the Ethnic Other in Quaker and Catholic Writings." Attending to Early Modern Women: Structures and Subjectivities (Centre for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, University of Maryland). College Park, Maryland. 6-8 November 2003. [panel and workshop]
Guest Lectures
Guest Lectures: UIUC
"Visualization Tools for Teaching." March, 2010
Guest Lectures: St. Francis Xavier
"Early Modern Magic." October, 2007.
Guest Lectures: University of Alberta
"Witchcraft and Research." May 2007.
"Truman Capote's In Cold Blood." January 2006.
"Neuromancer." February 2004.
"Prophecy in William Blake's Book of Job." November 2003.
"Dolly Morton and James Joyce." December, 2002.
"John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress." September 2001.
"Julian of Norwich." September 2001.
Conference Papers and Posters
"This Magic Moment: Digital Interactions with Events in Early English Witchcraft." SDH/SEMI. University of New Brunswick, Canada. May 30-June 1, 2011
"Medicalizing the Malefic: When Emerging Sciences Sustained Witchbeliefs" Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies. University of New Brunswick, Canada. May 27-30, 2011
"The Devil and Mother Shipton: Serendipitous Associations and the MONK Project." Panel: Use Cases Driving the Tool Development in the MONK Project. Digital Humanities 2009. University of Maryland, USA. June 22-25, 2009.
[With Teresa Dobson] "Googling Google Books: Integrated use of Fragmentary Information Display in Google Book Preview of Electronic Books." Digital Humanities 2009. University of Maryland, USA. June 22-25, 2009.
"Throwing Bones" T-Rex Poster Cluster. Digital Humanities 2009. University of Maryland, USA. June 22-25, 2009. [Poster]
"What was she Thinking: Ways of Thinking / Ways of Working in a DH Context" SDH/ SEMI. Carleton University, Ottawa. May 25-27, 2009.
[with Stan Ruecker] "With His Tung': In the Search of Early Modern Malefic Sexuality" Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies. May 23-25, 2009.
[With Stan Ruecker] "Conjuring and Transmogrifying: A Review of Two Digital Tools in the Context of Studying Early Modern Witchcraft Trials" SDH/ SEMI. Carleton University, Ottawa. May 25-27, 2009.
"The Devil Made Me Do Him: Mother Shipton, the Devil, the Witch, and the Prophet." The Devil in Society in the Pre-Modern World, October 17-18 2008, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria College, University of Toronto
[with Stan Ruecker.] "A Book is not a Display: A Theoretical Evolution of the E-Book Reader." Paper presented in the panel "The Building Blocks of the New Electronic Book" chaired by Ray Siemens at the Digital Humanities. Oulu, Finland. June 25-29, 2008.
[with Darren James Harkness]. "Normalizing Identity: The Role of Blogging Software in Creating Digital Identity." Digital Humanities, Oulu, Finland, June 25-29, 2008
"Cozening, Cunning, and the Queen: the Representation of Witches, Cunning women, and Fairies in Elizabethan Law, Ephemera, and the Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor" Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of British Columbia. British Columbia. May 31-June 2, 2008
"Data-mining with Flags and Highlighters: Interdisciplinary Pedagogy and the MONK Project" Thinking Beyond Borders: The Promise of Computing for the Humanities, SDH-SEMI 2008. Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of British Columbia. University of British Columbia June 2 - 3, 2008.
[with Sara Steger] "Visualizing Patterns: MONK," [Poster Presentation] MLA Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois. 27-30, December, 2007.
[with Susan Liepert] "Interface and the Extension of Identity: The Witches in Early-Modern England (WEME) Project." Bridging Communities: making public knowledge / making knowledge public. SDH/SEMI Annual Conference (Congress). Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. 28-30 May, 2007.
"Reprobate Authority: The Self-Aware Author/Subject of Early Modern Ephemera" Women Reading Writing Conference: Past and Present, Local and Global. Edmonton, Alberta. 4-6 May, 2007
[with Stan Ruecker] "Playing with Witchcraft: Digitizing, Structuring and Visualizing Early Modern English Witchcraft Texts." Rooms of Their Own: Women in the Knowledge Economy and Society (Royal Society). Edmonton, Alberta. 2-4 May, 2007.
"Possession/Obsession: Exorcizing Spiritual Ephemera in Early Modern England."
Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society 2007 Annual Conference. Calgary, Alberta. 27-28 April, 2007.
[with Darren James Harkness] "The Witches in Early Modern England Project" [poster presentation]. Text Encoding Initiative; 2006 Annual Member"s Meeting. Victoria, BC. 27-28 October 2006.
[with Stan Ruecker et al.] "Watch My Moves: From Digital Plays To the Digital Playbook." Ninth IASTED International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education (CATE 2006). Lima, Peru. 4-6 October, 2006.
"Inwardly Pricked: Seventeenth-Century English Gallows Confessions as Performances of Christian Piety." Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society. Banff, Alberta. 5-7 May 2005.
"Wrangling Witches/Fondling their Familiars: Constructing a Database of Early Modern English Witches and Their Spiritual Second Selves." Medieval and Early Modern Instutite (MEMI). Edmonton, Alberta. 8-9 December 2004.
"These and These are the Words of the Radical Milton." 7th International Milton Symposium. Beaufort, South Carolina. 4-8 June 2002.
"Reworking Female Sexual Economics in Thomas Middleton"s A Chaste Maid in Cheapside." Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society. Vancouver, British Columbia. 10-12 May 2001.
"Whip Me, Spank Me, and Call Me Dolly." 17th Annual International James Joyce Symposium. London University, London, UK. 24-30 June 2000.
"Keyhole Hedonism, Literature, and the Throbbing Juvenile Pen." Association of Canadian College and University Teachers in English (ACCUTE). Edmonton, Alberta. 23-27 May 2000.
"Sex, Death, and the Single Romantic Woman." Association of Canadian College and University Teachers in English (ACCUTE). Edmonton, Alberta. 23-27 May 2000.
Proceedings
“The Devil and Mother Shipton: Serendipitous Associations and the MONK Project.” Proceedings of Digital Humanities 2009. Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH): Maryland, 2009
[with Teresa Dobson] Googling Google Books: Integrated use of Fragmentary Information Display in Google Book Preview of Electronic Books. Proceedings of Digital Humanities 2009. Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH): Maryland, 2009
[with Darren James Harkness] Normalizing Identity: The Role of Blogging Software in
Creating Digital Identity” Proceedings of Digital Humanities 2008. University of Oulu, Finland: English Philology, 2008
[with Stan Ruecker.] "A Book is not a Display: A Theoretical Evolution of the E-Book Reader." Paper presented in the panel "The Building Blocks of the New Electronic Book" Proceedings of Digital Humanities 2008. University of Oulu, Finland: English Philology, 2008
[with Stan Ruecker et al.] "Watch My Moves: From Digital Plays to the Digital Playbook." Proceedings of the Ninth IASTED International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education (CATE 2006). Calgary, AB: ACTA Press, 2006