Publications and Conferences Under Consideration Cozening, Cunning, and the Queen: Invoking Source Texts for "he Merry Wives of Windsor" (under consideration at Shakespeare Quaterly) Accepted for Publication Clapping, Pinching, and Sucking: the English Witch's Familiar as Interface Model, Co-written with Susan Liepert. Special issue of Text and Technology)
Journals "The Memoirs of Dolly Morton: Possible Source for James Joyce’s Ulysses?" Notes and Queries (in press) [with Stan Ruecker] "Binding the Electronic Book: Design Features for Bibliophiles" Visual Design 40.1, 2007
"Sidney Sondergard's Sharpening Her Pen: Strategies of Rhetorical Violence." [review] The Sixteenth-Century Journal, 35.2(2004): 612-613.
"Symposium Review." The James Joyce Broadsheet 57 (October 2000): 5.
Proceedings
[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. [abstract]
Other publications
[with Darren James Harkness]. Nasty: Academia at Its Brattiest. 15 online issues, refereed. [NLC Archive, Web Archive]
"Artless Tales as Literary Tapestry." Afterword. Artless Tales. Anna Maria Porter. Ed Lesley Robertson et al. Edmonton, AB: Juvenilia Press, 2003. 131-36.
"Selling Cherries, Buying Water." Luminarium. September, 2001.
"Sex, Death and the Single Romantic Woman." Nasty July, 2000.
Conference papers / posters
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. (under consideration)
[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.
[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. [co-presenter and co-organizer of this panel and workshop]
"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.
| Teaching experience Junior Courses
ENGL 108: Language and Literature, English 100: Introduction to English Literature, ENG 111: Language, Literature, and Culture, ENGL 112: Literature in Historical Perspective, ENGL199: English for Engineers Senior Courses
ENGL 312: 17th Century Literature, ENGL 340: Shakespeare, ENGL 390: Women's Writing/Writing by Women pre-1900 Teaching Positions
Limited Term Appointment, English 2007 - 2008
St. Francis Xavier
Sessional instructor, English 2004 - 2007
University of Alberta
Primary instructor, English 2000 - 2004
University of Alberta
I have taught senior English, English for Engineers, and 68 credit units of first-year undergraduate English, to a total of over 350 students. I have also given guest lectures at University of Alberta, University of Glouster, and elsewhere.
Academic service Member of Opposition Party
Faculty/Student Debate, Nov 2007
St. Francis Xavier University Judge
Dr. M.M. Coady Debate, Nov 2007
St. Francis Xavier University
User Cell/Interface Cell Member, RA
NORA Project / MONK Project 2006 - present
Executive Chair, Executive Board
Medieval and Early Modern Institute (MEMI) 2006 - 2007
Sessional Representative, Chair's Advisory Council 2006 - 2007
University of Alberta, Dept. of English and Film Studies
Co-chair, Executive Board 2003 - 2005
Medieval and Early Modern Institute (MEMI)
First-Year Committee Member 2003 - 2005
University of Alberta, Dept. of English and Film Studies
Member, Labour Committee 2003 - 2004
Graduate Students in English Association (GSEA)
Departmental Representative, First-Year Committee 2001 - 2002
Graduate Student Association (GSA)
Member, Editorial Board 2000 - 2003
Juvenilia Press
Workshops
Co-Organizer, MEMI Spring Colloquium: Reproducing Dissent in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods. University of Alberta, May 10, 2005
Co-Organizer MEMI Spring Workshop: Is that a Stylus in Your Pocket? Paleography Symposium. University of Alberta, May 11-12, 2005
Co-Organizer Working with Manuscripts from Beowulf to Bacon: MEMI Paleography Workshop, University of Alberta, April 11, 2005
Invited Talks
"Cyberculture" University of Gloucester. December 2004
"Teaching First Year English" Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta. September 2003, September 2002.
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. Upcoming Conferences
Submitted Dec 2007. “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 |
