Raymond G. SiemensCitizenship: Canadian, American
Birth: March 7, 1966Department of English
University of Victoria
PO Box 3070 STN CSC
Victoria, British Columbia
Canada. V8W 3W1
Ph.: (250) 721-7272
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siemens@uvic.ca
http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htmEmployment
- Doctor of Philosophy, English Literature (U British Columbia, 1997).
- Master of Arts, English Literature (U Alberta, 1991).
- Bachelor of Arts (Hons.), English Literature, Co-operative Ed. Program (U Waterloo, 1989).
Publications and Presentations
- 2004-present: Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Victoria.
- 2003: Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College, University of London.
- 1999-present (currently on leave): University-College Professor, Department of English, Malaspina U-College.
- 1997-9: Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Research Fellow, U Alberta.
- 1997-8: Lecturer, Department of English, U Alberta.
- 1996-7: Lecturer, Department of English, Malaspina U-College.
- 1993: Lecturer, Department of English (Writing Program), U Winnipeg.
- 1990-1: Lecturer, Department of English, U Alberta.
- 1990-1: Lecturer, Faculty of Extension (Computing), U Alberta.
Book and Book-length Works
Awards, Distinctions, and Grants
- In progress or forthcoming:
- The Lyrics of the Henry VIII Manuscript (British Library Additional MS 31,922). In revision for publication by the Renaissance English Text Society; 340 pp.
- Mind Technologies: Humanities Computing and the Canadian Academic Community. With collaborator David Morman (SSHRC). In press, U Calgary P (2005).
- New Technologies and Renaissance Studies. In preparation with William R. Bowen (U Toronto). Toronto: [Renaissance Society of America] (2004).
- Working Papers from the First and Second Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis Research (CaSTA). In press, with co-editors Barbara Bond, Michael Best, and Peter Liddell (U Victoria). [A joint special issue of] Computing in the Humanities Working Papers and Text Technology (2005).
- Shakespeare's Sonnets. An edition undertaken for the Internet Editions of Shakespeare series, Michael Best, gen. ed. (Internet) Victoria: U Victoria; (CD-ROM) Toronto: U Toronto P.
- Early Modern Literary Studies, 1995-1999 (A TEI-Compliant SGML Archive). R.G. Siemens, ed., et al.; Kathryn Harvey, SGML Conversion. U Toronto, Electronic Publishing Centre (Forthcoming, 2005).
Journal
- Published
- The Blackwell Companion to Digital Humanities. With co-editors Susan Schreibman (U Maryland) and John Unsworth (U Illinois). Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. xxvii+611 pp.
- A New Computer-Assisted Literary Criticism? R.G. Siemens, ed. [A special issue of] Computers and the Humanities 36.3 (2002): 259-378.
- Wrestling with God: Literature and Theology in the English Renaissance. Essays to Honour Paul Grant Stanwood. W. Speed Hill (CUNY) and Mary Henley (U British Columbia), with R.G. Siemens, eds. Early Modern Literary Studies Special Issue 7 (2001). Rptd. Vancouver: EMLS Press, 2001. 336 pp.
- The Credibility of Electronic Publishing: A Report to the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada. R.G. Siemens (Project Co-ordinator), Michael Best and Elizabeth Grove-White (U Victoria), Alan Burk, James Kerr and Andy Pope (U New Brunswick), Jean-Claude Guédon (U Montréal), Geoffrey Rockwell (McMaster U), and Lynne Siemens (Malaspina U-College). Text Technology 11.1 (2002): 1-128.
- Scholarly Discourse and Computing Technology II. R.G. Siemens and W. Winder (U British Columbia), eds. [A joint special issue of] Computing in the Humanities Working Papers (2001) and Text Technology 10.2 (2001): 1-83.
- Renaissance Literary Studies and Humanities Computing. R.G. Siemens and D. Shore (U Ottawa), eds. [A joint special issue of] Early Modern Literary Studies (January 2000) and Text Technology 9.2 (1999): 1-72 and 9.3 (1999): 1-85.
- Technologising the Humanities / Humanitising the Technologies. R.G. Siemens and W. Winder (U British Columbia), eds. [A joint special issue of] Text Technology 8.2 (1998): 1-63 and 8.3 (1998): 1-76 and Computing in the Humanities Working Papers (September 1998).
- Scholarly Discourse and Computing Technology: Perspectives on Pedagogy, Research, and Dissemination in the Humanities. R.G. Siemens and W. Winder (U British Columbia), eds. [A joint special issue of] Text Technology 6.3 (1996): 137-216 and Computing in the Humanities Working Papers (April 1997).
- Tottel's Miscellany (1557a), ed. R.G. Siemens. In Ian Lancashire, et al., eds. Using TACT with Electronic Texts: A Guide to Text-Analysis Computing Tools. New York: Modern Language Association, 1996. 232-5 (descr.); /Br_ir_lt/Engl_lit/1500_599/Tottelsm/ (3 files, 1,869 kb).
- Robert Cawdrey's A Table Alphabeticall (1604), ed. R.G. Siemens. Renaissance Electronic Texts. Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, 1994. (1 file, 204 kb). Rev. 1997. Rptd. in Ian Lancashire, et al., eds. Using TACT with Electronic Texts: A Guide to Text-Analysis Computing Tools. New York: Modern Language Association, 1996. /Br_ir_lt/Engl_lit/1500_599/Cawdrey/ (2 files, 219 kb). Rptd. in Ian Lancashire, ed., Early Modern English Dictionaries Database. Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1997.
Articles and Papers
- Early Modern Literary Studies: A Journal of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century English Literature (ISSN 1201-2459; publ. U Toronto and Sheffield Hallam U); founded (1994, at U British Columbia) and edited 1994-9 by R.G. Siemens. Currently Senior Editor, Advisory.
- In progress:
"Text Analysis and the Dynamic Edition? Some Concerns with an Algorithmic Approach in the Electronic Scholarly Edition." In preparation for Working Papers from the First and Second Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis Research (CaSTA). [A joint special issue of] Computing in the Humanities Working Papers and Text Technology.
- "Donne's La Corona." To be edited, with commentary, for Representative Poetry (U Toronto P).
- Currently under consideration/review or forthcoming:
- "The Devil is in the Details: An Electronic Edition of the Devonshire MS (British Library Additional MS 17,492), its Encoding and Prototyping." With Barbara Bond (U Victoria) and Karin Armstrong (Malaspina U-C). Under consideration with New Technologies and Renaissance Studies (RSA / U Toronto P; 39 pp.).
- "Peer Review for Humanities Computing Software Tools: What We Can Draw from Electronic Academic Publication." A section, co-authored with Jean-Claude Guédon, of "Peer Review for Humanities Computing Software Tools" an article cluster, in progress, with Stéfan Sinclair (U Alberta), Geoffrey Rockwell (McMaster U), John Bradley (King's College, London), and Stephen Ramsay (U Georgia); 15 pp.
- "Disparate Structures, [Re]Considered." Invited to Shakespeare and Information Technology, a special issue of College Literature. [Reprint, with extended introduction, of "Disparate Structures, Electronic and Otherwise: Conceptions of Textual Organisation in the Electronic Medium, with Reference to Editions of Shakespeare and the Internet."]
- "'What two crownes shall they be?': 'Lower' Criticism, 'Higher' Criticism, and the Impact of Scholarly Publication in the Electronic Medium." Invited for publication in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III (Renaissance English Text Society, forthcoming 2004; 20 pp.).
- "The Canadian Arts and Humanities Computing Centre: Past, Present, and Possible Futures." With Alan Burk (U New Brunswick), Terry Butler (U Alberta), Peter Liddell and Scott Gerrity (U Victoria), and Geoffrey Rockwell (McMaster U). Mind Technologies: Humanities Computing and the Canadian Academic Community (U Calgary P, 2004; 25 pp.).
Reviews and Notes
- Published:
- "The Digital Humanities and Humanities Computing: An Introduction." With Susan Schreibman (U Maryland) and John Unsworth (U Illinois). The Blackwell Companion to Digital Humanities. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. xxiii-xxvii.
- "A New Computer-Assisted Literary Criticism?" An introduction to A New Computer-Assisted Literary Criticism? R.G. Siemens, ed. [A special issue of] Computers and the Humanities 36.3 (2002): 259-267.
- "Henry VIII and the Poetry of Politics." With Peter Herman (San Diego State U). Peter Herman, ed. Reading Monarchs Writing: The Poetry of Henry VIII, Mary Stuart, Elizabeth I, and James VI/I. Tempe: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 2002. 11-34.
- "Reading Monarchs Writing: Introduction." With Peter Herman (San Diego State U). Peter Herman, ed. Reading Monarchs Writing: The Poetry of Henry VIII, Mary Stuart, Elizabeth I, and James VI/I. Tempe: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 2002. 1-10.
- "Henry VIII's Lyrics, from the Henry VIII MS (London, British Library Additional Manuscript 31,922)." R.G. Siemens, ed. Peter Herman, ed. Reading Monarchs Writing: The Poetry of Henry VIII, Mary Stuart, Elizabeth I, and James VI/I. Tempe: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 2002. 217-228.
- "Canadian Literary Awards and Prizes." Bill New, ed. Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Toronto: U Toronto P, 2002. 39 pp. [An electronic pre-print of this work is available.]
- "Unediting and Non-Editions." In The Theory (and Politics) of Editing. Anglia 119.3 (2001): 423-455. [Reprint of "Shakespearean Apparatus," with additional introduction.]
- "Shakespearean Apparatus? Explicit Textual Structures and the Implicit Navigation of Accumulated Knowledge." Text: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies 14. Ann Arbor: U Michigan P, 2002. 209-240. Electronic pre-print published in Surfaces 8 (1999): 106.1-34.
- "Peer Review and Imprint." With Jean-Claude Guédon (U Montréal). In The Credibility of Electronic Publishing: A Report to the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada. R.G. Siemens, et al. Text Technology 11.1 (2002): 17-34.
- "The Credibility of Electronic Publishing: Introduction and Overview." In The Credibility of Electronic Publishing: A Report to the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada. R.G. Siemens, et al. Text Technology 11.1 (2002): 2-17.
- "'I haue often such a sickly inclination': Biography and the Critical Interpretation of Donne's Suicide Tract, Biathanatos." In W. Speed Hill and Mary Henley, with R.G. Siemens, eds. Wrestling with God: Literature and Theology in the English Renaissance. Early Modern Literary Studies Special Issue 7 (2001): 10.1-26. Rptd. Vancouver: EMLS Press, 2001. 139-153 (+ 297-306).
- "Milton's Works and Life: Select Studies and Resources." 268-90 in Dennis Danielson, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Milton. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999. Rptd. Early Modern Literary Studies (1999).
- "The Janus-Face of Early Modern Literary Studies: Negotiating the Boundaries of Interactivity in an Electronic Journal for the Humanities." With Paul Dyck (U Alberta), Jennifer Lewin (Yale U), and Joanne Woolway Grenfell (Oriel College, Oxford). In R.G. Siemens and D. Shore (U Ottawa), eds. Renaissance Literary Studies and Humanities Computing. [A joint special issue of] Early Modern Literary Studies (January 2000) and Text Technology 9.2 (1999): 45-62.
- "Disparate Structures, Electronic and Otherwise: Conceptions of Textual Organisation in the Electronic Medium, with Reference to Editions of Shakespeare and the Internet." 6.1-29 in Michael Best, ed. The Internet Shakespeare: Opportunities in a New Medium. Early Modern Literary Studies 3.3 / Special Issue 2 (1998).
- "Re-wiring the Conference Circuit: New Technologies and the Future of Academic Conferences." With Jeff Miller (British Columbia). 21-47 in Paul Delany, ed. Universities, Languages, and the Global Information Infrastructure. [A special issue of] Text Technology 7.3 (1997).
- "'As strayght as ony pole': Publius Cornelius, Edmund de la Pole, and Contemporary Court Satire in Henry Medwall's Fulgens and Lucres." Renaissance Forum 1.2 (1996): 1-37.
- "A New Humanism? Toward a Reconsideration of the Ideals and Pragmatics Shaping Electronic Scholarly Publication in the Arts Today." 167-81 in R.G. Siemens and W. Winder, eds. Scholarly Discourse and Computing Technology: Perspectives on Pedagogy, Research, and Dissemination in the Humanities. [A special issue of] Text Technology 6.3 (1996); rptd. Computing in the Humanities Working Papers B.33 (1997).
- "The New Scholarly Edition in the Academic Marketplace: A Speculation on the Future of Computer-Assisted Literary Criticism." Text Technology 6.1 (1996): 35-50.
- "Lemmatization and Parsing with TACT Preprocessing Programs." Computing in the Humanities Working Papers A.1 (1996).
- "The Acorn of the Oak: A Stylistic Approach to Lexicographical Method in Robert Cawdrey's A Table Alphabeticall." 109-21 in Ian Lancashire and T. Russon Wooldridge, eds. Early Dictionary Databases. [CCH Working Papers 4.] Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, 1994. Rptd. 109-21 in Bernard Quemada, gen. ed. Informatique et Dictionnaires Anciens. [Dictionnairique et Lexicographie 3.] Paris: Didier Erudition [Publications de l'Institut National de la Langue Francaise], 1995. Rptd. in Computing in the Humanities Working Papers B.11 (1996).
Conference Papers
- In progress:
- "James Joyce, Nora Barnacle, and a Lyric by Henry VIII, 'A the syghes that cum fro my hart.'"
- Published:
- "New Evidence on Wyatt's 'Ah robyn,' in BL Add. MS 31,922." Notes and Queries n.s. 46 (1999): 189-91.
- "'Respect': Verses Attributed to Henry VIII in a Prayer Book Owned by Katherine Parr." Notes and Queries n.s. 46 (1999): 186-9.
- "A Review of the Arden Shakespeare CD-ROM: Texts and Sources for Shakespeare Studies." Early Modern Literary Studies 4.2 (September, 1998): 28.1-10.
- "Thomas Wyatt, Anne Boleyn, and Henry VIII's Lyric 'Pastime with Good Company.'" Notes and Queries ns. 44 (1997): 26-7.
- "Internet Publisher for WordPerfect 7 (Windows 95)." Chorus (1997).
- "The Early Beginnings of an Electronic Publishing Solution: Internet Publisher for WordPerfect 6.1 (Windows), Beta B." Chorus (1996).
- "Evolution and Growth in On-line Resources." Early Modern Literary Studies 1.3 (1995): 1.1-10.
- "A Brief Look Backward and Forward from EMLS' Second Issue." Early Modern Literary Studies 1.2 (1995): 1.1-7.
- "Early Modern Literary Studies: An Editor's Prefatory Statement." Early Modern Literary Studies 1.1 (1995): 1.1-7.
- "Textual Collation Software for the PC: A Review of PC-CASE, UNITE, and the Donne Variorum Collation Program." Text Technology 4.3 (1994): 209-22.
- "A Review of Bibliographic Access to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts." Canadian Humanities Computing 6.3 (1993). Reprinted, Computer Assisted Research Forum 2.1 (1993): 14-5.
- "A Review of Critical Essays on Charlotte Brontë." Victorian Review 16.1 (1990): 103-4.
- Accepted / Invited for Future Presentation:
- "Editing the Early Modern Miscellany: Contemporary and Potential Future Practice, with Examples from the Henry VIII MS (BL Add MS 31,922) and the Devonshire MS (BL Add MS 17,492)." Invited for presentation at the Renaissance English Text Society's Josephine R. Roberts Forum (The Manuscript Miscellany in the English Renaissance) at the meetings of the Modern Language Association, Philadelphia (December, 2004), and the Renaissance Society of America, Cambridge, UK (April, 2005).
Public Lectures and Talks
- Presented:
- "Modelling Humanistic Activity in the Electronic Scholarly Edition." Presented at The Face of Text (CaSTA: The Third Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis Research), McMaster U (November, 2004).
- "Basic Literacies and Core Communicative Activities." Presented at "A Multitude of the Wise: Teaching Writing," U Victoria, Victoria (September, 2004).
- "Toward and Electronic Edition of the Devonshire MS (BL Add MS 17,492)." Presented at meeting of the International Association of University Professors of English, U British Columbia, Vancouver (August, 2004).
- "Materiality and Textuality in the Devonshire MS (BL Add MS 17,492)." Presented at Spiritual and Material Renaissances: A Colloquium, Sheffield Hallam U, Sheffield (June, 2004).
- "The Humanities Scholar in the Twenty-first Century: How Research is Done and What Support is Needed." With , Geoffrey Rockwell, Stéfan Sinclair, and Lynne Siemens. Presented at the Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary & Linguistic Computing, Göteborg U, Göteborg (June, 2004).
- "A New Cooperative Model: Scholars, Librarians, Publishers, and the Production of Electronic Resources." Panel participant, with Shawn Martin, Mary Sauer-Games, and Michael Popham. Presented at the Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary & Linguistic Computing, Göteborg U, Göteborg (June, 2004).
- "Text Analysis Research: What is Being Done and What is Needed." With , Geoffrey Rockwell, and Stéfan Sinclair. Presented at the annual meeting of Consortium for Computers in the Humanities at the 2004 Congress of the Canadian Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences, U Manitoba, Winnipeg (May, 2004).
- "Playing 'Shame': One Technique for Introducing Text Analysis to the Literary Studies Classroom." Presented at a joint session with the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers at the annual meeting of Consortium for Computers in the Humanities at the 2004 Congress of the Canadian Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences, U Manitoba, Winnipeg (May, 2004).
- "Prototyping an Electronic Edition of the Devonshire MS." With Barbara Bond and Karin Armstrong. Presented at a joint session with the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies at the annual meeting of Consortium for Computers in the Humanities at the 2004 Congress of the Canadian Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences, U Manitoba, Winnipeg (May, 2004).
- "Epistolary Politics and the Poetic Miscellany: Topicality and the Devonshire Manuscript." Presented at the annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America, New York (March, 2004).
- "Algorithm and Interface in the Electronic Scholarly Edition." Invited for presentation at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, San Diego (December, 2003).
- "The Role of Text Analysis in the Creation of a Knowledge Base: Preliminary Thoughts on the Future of Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance" With William Bowen. Presented at CaSTA: The Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis Research, U Victoria, Victoria (November, 2003).
- "What do computing humanists need?" With Elaine Toms, Geoffrey Rockwell, and Stéfan Sinclair. Presented at CaSTA: The Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis Research, U Victoria, Victoria (November, 2003).
- "The Devonshire MS as Electronic Scholarly Edition." Presented on the Renaissance Society of America panel at the Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary & Linguistic Computing, U Georgia, Athens (May, 2003).
- "Peer Review for Humanities Computing Software Tools: What We Can Draw from Electronic Academic Publication." Presented at the Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary & Linguistic Computing, U Georgia, Athens (May, 2003).
- "The Foundations of an Algorithmic Approach to the Relation of Textual and Extra-textual Materials in a Dynamic Electronic Scholarly Edition, with Examples from the Devonshire MS." Presented at the annual meeting of Consortium for Computers in the Humanities at the 2003 Congress of the Canadian Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dalhousie U, Halifax (May, 2003).
- "Life and Text in the Devonshire MS." With Barbara Bond, Terra Dickson, and Karin Armstrong. Presented at the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference, Malaspina U-C, Nanaimo (May, 2003).
- "An Electronic Edition of the Devonshire MS." With Barbara Bond, Terra Dickson, and Karin Armstrong. Presented at the meeting of the Association of Archivists of British Columbia, Nanaimo (April, 2003).
- "Prototyping an Electronic Edition of the Devonshire MS." With Barbara Bond, Terra Dickson, and Karin Armstrong. Presented at the annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America, Toronto (March, 2003).
- "Text Analysis and the Dynamic Edition? Some Concerns with an Algorithmic Approach in the Electronic Scholarly Edition." Presented at CaSTA: The Inaugural Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis Research, McGill U, Montreal (November, 2002).
- "The Proposed Companion to Humanities Computing." With Susan Schreibman and John Unsworth. Poster at the Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary & Linguistic Computing, Tuebingen (July, 2002).
- "Canadian Humanities Computing and the Blackwell Companion to Digital Humanities." Presented at Mind Technologies, a joint meeting of Consortium for Computers in the Humanities and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada at the 2002 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, Ryerson Polytechnic U / U Toronto (May, 2002).
- "The Devil is in the Details: Encoding an Electronic Edition of the Devonshire MS (British Library Additional MS 17,492)." With Barbara Bond and Karin Armstrong. Presented at the annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America, Tempe (April, 2002).
- "Supporting a Humanities Computing Curriculum: The Proposed Companion to Humanities Computing and its Development." With Susan Schreibman and John Unsworth. Presented at The Humanities Computing Curriculum / The Computing Curriculum in the Arts and Humanities, Malaspina University College (November, 2001).
- "Electronic Publishing and Academic Credibility." With Michael Best, Elizabeth Grove-White, Alan Burk, James Kerr, Andy Pope, Jean-Claude Guédon, Geoffrey Rockwell, and Lynne Siemens. Presented at the Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary & Linguistic Computing, New York U (June, 2001).
- "Electronic Publication and its Academic Credibility, in Canada and Beyond." With Michael Best, Elizabeth Grove-White, Alan Burk, James Kerr, Andy Pope, Jean-Claude Guédon, Geoffrey Rockwell, and Lynne Siemens. Invited plenary session, Consortium for Computers in the Humanities meeting at the 2001 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, Laval U (May, 2001).
- Invited presenter at the HSSFC Aid to Scholarly Publication Programme's "Colloquium on Scholarly Publishing." With Michael Best, Elizabeth Grove-White, Alan Burk, James Kerr, Andy Pope, Jean-Claude Guédon, Geoffrey Rockwell, and Lynne Siemens. Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, Laval U (May, 2001).
- "Margaret Douglas, Mary Shelton, Mary Howard and Notions of Poetic Exchange in (Wyatt's) Devonshire MS." Presented at the annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America, Chicago (March, 2001).
- "Why publish electronically? Indeed, why publish at all." Invited for presentation at the meeting of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals at the Modern Language Association conference, Washington, D.C. (December, 2000).
- "An Introduction to 'A New Computer-Assisted Literary Criticism?'" Presented at the Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary & Linguistic Computing, U Glasgow (July, 2000).
- "The Difference between 'Straightforward' and 'Easy': A Case Study in the HTML to SGML Conversion of Early Modern Literary Studies." With Kathryn Harvey (Mount Saint Vincent U). Presented at the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities meeting at the 2000 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, U Alberta, Edmonton (May 25, 2000).
- "An Introduction to 'The New Computer-Assisted Literary Criticism: What Does It Look Like? What Will It Look Like?'" Presented at the Modern Language Association conference, sponsored by the Association for Computers and the Humanities, Chicago (December 28, 1999).
- "Lower Criticism, Higher Criticism, and the Electronic Scholarly Edition." Presented at The Book Unbound: Manuscript Studies and Editorial Theory for the 21st Century, U British Columbia, Vancouver (September 18, 1999).
- "The Pragmatics of Editing a Scholarly Electronic Journal." Presented at the Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary & Linguistic Computing, U Virginia, Charlottesville (June 11, 1999).
- "An Introduction to 'Humanities Computing and Literary Criticism: Considering the Implicit.'" Presentation at "Humanities Computing and Literary Criticism: Considering the Implicit," a joint panel of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English and the Consortium for Computers and the Humanities at the 1999 Congress of Learned Societies, U Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke (June 4, 1999).
- "'What two crownes shall they be?': 'Lower' Criticism, 'Higher' Criticism, and the Impact of Scholarly Publication in the Electronic Medium." Invited for presentation at the Josephine R. Roberts Forum, "Renaissance Texts and Electronic Editions," at the meetings of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco (December 27-30, 1998), and the Renaissance Society of America, U California, Los Angeles (in absentia; March 25-8, 1999).
- "Shakespearean Apparatus? Explicit Textual Structures and the Implicit Navigation of Accumulated Knowledge." Presented at the Committee for Scholarly Edition's "Creation and Use of Electronic Editions" panel at the meetings of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco (December 27-30, 1998).
- "Interpretative Provinces and Sites of Authorisation: The Critic, the Author, and the Process of Attribution in the Henry VIII MS." Presented, in absentia, at the conference of the International Courtly Literature Society, U British Columbia, Vancouver (July 25-9, 1998).
- "Annotating Shakespeare: Intertextuality, Semantic Patterns in Textual Structures, and the Hypertextual Navigation of Accumulated Knowledge." Presented at the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities meeting at the 1998 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, U Ottawa, Ottawa (May 27-8, 1998).
- "The Janus-Face of Early Modern Literary Studies: Negotiating Boundaries." With Paul Dyck (Alberta) and Jennifer Lewin (Yale). Presented by Paul Dyck in the "Computing Technology and Renaissance Studies" joint sessions of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies and the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities at the 1998 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, U Ottawa, Ottawa (May 27-8, 1998).
- "Henry VIII and the Poetry of Politics." With Peter Herman (San Diego State). Presented at the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference, Western Washington U, Bellingham, Washington (April 24-25, 1998).
- "'Formes such as never were in nature': Interactivity and Challenges for the Future of Early Modern Literary Studies." With Jennifer B. Lewin (Yale), Paul Dyck (Alberta), and Joanne Woolway (Oriel, Oxford). Presented by Jennifer Lewin on the panel "Changing Shape: The Electronic Journal" at Digital Resources for the Humanities, St. Anne's College, Oxford (September 16, 1997).
- "'A worlde of wordes': Conceptions of Textual Organisation in the Electronic Medium, or, The Dynamic Text as Hypertext." Presented on the panel "Theories of Meaning and the Electronic Text" at the Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary & Linguistic Computing, Queen's U, Kingston (June 6, 1997).
- "Disparate Structures, Electronic and Otherwise: 'Nebulous' Approaches to Textual Content in Electronic Editions of Shakespeare." Presented on the panel "The Internet Shakespeare: Opportunities in a New Medium" of "Technologising the Humanities / Humanitising the Technologies," a joint session of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English and the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities at the 1997 Learned Societies Conferences, Memorial U, St. John's, Nfld. (June 1, 1997).
- "Of Innocence and Experience: Some Difficulties Inherent in the Production of an Electronic Journal." With Joanne Woolway (Oriel, Oxford). Presented on the panel "Moving Canadian Scholarly Journals On-line" of the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities meeting at the 1997 Learned Societies Conferences, Memorial U, St. John's, Nfld. (June 1, 1997).
- "Re-Placing Henry VIII in Literary History: Poetics, Politics, and Acts of Critical Engagement." Presented at the conference of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, Banff, Alberta (May 17, 1997).
- "Something for Nothing? From Virtuality to Harsh Reality in the Development of Early Modern Literary Studies." With Joanne Woolway (Oriel, Oxford). Presented by Joanne Woolway at Electronic Publishing, U London, Centre for English Studies (January 31, 1997).
- "A New Humanism? Idealism, Pragmatism, and Scholarly Publication in the Electronic Medium." Presented at "Scholarly Publication in the New Medium: Online Journals and Series," a panel at the joint session of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English and the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities at the 1996 Learned Societies Conferences, Brock U (May 24, 1996).
- "Theory and Practice, Perception and Validation: A Rationale for Literary Journals in the New Medium." Presented at the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English "Electronic Word" panel for the 1995 Learned Societies Conferences, U Quebec at Montreal (May 30, 1995).
- "'The art of mightie words': The Discursive Network of Justice in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book V." Presented at the annual Consortium for Computers in the Humanities conference at the 1994 Learned Societies Conferences, U Calgary (June 5, 1994).
- "Publius Cornelius: The Shadow of Edmund de la Pole in Henry Medwall's Fulgens and Lucres." Presented at the UBC Renaissance Seminar, U British Columbia (February 26, 1994).
- "Youth, the King, in the Court of Love: Re-Positioning the Boundaries of Poetic Representation in Henry VIII's Lyrics." Presented at Language and Literary Studies in a Post-Literate Culture, U British Columbia (January 19, 1994).
- "The Acorn of the Oak: A Stylistic Approach to the Development of Lexicographical Technique in Robert Cawdrey's A Table Alphabeticall." Presented at the Conference on Early Dictionary Databases, U Toronto (October 8, 1993).
- "Practical Content Analysis Techniques for Text-Retrieval in Large, Un-tagged Text-bases." Presented at the Association for Computing Machinery's SIGDOC' 93 Conference, U Waterloo (October 4, 1993).
- "Lemmatization and Parsing with TACTDct: Context, Description, Exemplum." Presented at the annual Consortium for Computers in the Humanities conference at the 1993 Learned Societies Conferences, Carleton U (June 3, 1993).
- "MENU: Instructional Tools for an Educational Environment." With Paul Beam (Waterloo). Co-presented at the Sixth Symposium on Instructional Technology, Halifax (May 2, 1989); poster session.
- "On-line Assignment Development and Marking for Language Environments." With Paul Beam (Waterloo). Co-presented at the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, McMaster U (June 12, 1988).
- "'What on earth are you up to?' Ruminations on Community and the New Nature of the Digital Humanities." (Presented at U Calgary, "New Ways and New Technologies in Social Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts," October 2004).
- "Pragmatic Notes Toward a Dynamic Scholarly Edition (The Devonshire MS Project)." (Presented at U Kentucky, Centre for Computational Studies, Seminar Series, September 2004).
- "Text Analysis and the Dynamic Scholarly Edition: The Case of the Devonshire MS Project." (U Calgary, "Using Electronic Technologies to Edit Older Documents," May 2004).
- "Access to Knowledge." (U British Columbia, "Technology, Culture, Aesthetics: Hypermedia and the Changing Nature of Knowledge," May 2004).
- "Imagining the Printed Book in an Electronic Age." (U Victoria, Lansdowne Lecture in Humanities Computing, November 2003).
- "Electronic Publishing and its Academic Credibility." (School of Library, Archive, and Information Studies, University College London, November 2003).
- "Toward a Computing Environment for the Literary Studies Reader." (Sheffield Hallam U, October 2003).
- "Humanities Computing and the Scholarship of Integration: Modelling Disciplinary Interaction in Literary Studies through Humanities Computing." (Malaspina U-C, Research Showcase, April 2003).
- "The Dynamic Textual Edition: Underpinnings and Above." (U Maryland, Maryland Institute for the Humanities' Distinguished Speaker Series, February 2003).
- "Electronic Publishing and its Academic Credibility." (Seminar in Humanities Computing, King's College London, December 2001; School of Library, Archive, and Information Studies, University College London, December 2001).
- "Issues Concerning Electronic Journals in the Humanities: A General and Specific Approach." (Sheffield Hallam U, October 1998).
- "Several Uses for Electronic Data in Literary Critical Studies." (U Alberta, Humanities and Social Sciences Library Seminar Series, May 1998).
- "What do you do with a drunken scholar?: A Hands-on Exploration of Several Types of Electronic Editions of Shakespeare" (Prepared for the U Alberta, Canadian Institute for Research Computing in the Arts, "Computing in the Humanities: Theoretical and Practical Issues" Seminar Series, February 1998).
- "Shakespeare, Electronic Editions, and the Internet" (U Alberta, Medieval and Early Modern Institute, "Crossing Boundaries" Seminar Series, October 1997).
- "Technologies for the Humanities" (Malaspina U-College, Arts and Humanities Faculty Symposium, May 1997).
- "Henry VIII in Literary History" (U British Columbia, Renaissance Discussion Group, February 1997).
- "An Introduction to Early Modern Literary Studies" (U British Columbia, November 1996).
- "Why would I want an electronic text? and what would I do with it?" (U British Columbia, October 1996).
- "Electronic Publication and its Implications: The Electronic Journal" (U British Columbia, September 1996).
- "'What word is that, that changeth not though it be turned . . . ?': Textual, Hyper-Textual, and Sub-Textual Structures in Electronic Scholarly Editions." Presented at Apparatus Criticus: Textual Theory, Editorial Practice, Electronic Media, a workshop sponsored by the U British Columbia (March 15, 1996).
- "A Casual, Virtual Introduction to Electronic Textual Scholarship" (U British Columbia, November 1995); presented from Oxford as an electronic document via the World Wide Web.
- "Publishing and Editing on the Internet" (Canadian Association of Editors, B.C. Chapter, June 1995).
- "Bibliographic Resources on the Internet for Literary Scholars" (U British Columbia, September 1994).
- "Electronic Information Retrieval for Large, Literary Text-Bases" (U Waterloo, November 1991, November 1992, October 1993; U Winnipeg, March 1993).
Service, Administration, and Other Activities
- Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing, U Victoria (2004-). Associated Canadian Foundation for Innovation and BC Knowledge Development Fund grants.
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Image, Text, Sound and Technology Programme, for the Humanities Computing Summer Institute (2004).
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Standard Research Grant, for Epistolary Politics and the Poetic Miscellany: An Exploration of the Devonshire Manuscript (Phase II: 2003-2006).
- Malaspina Faculty Association Assisted Research Leave (2003).
- Grants Associated with the Inter/Disciplinary Models, Disciplinary Boundaries: Humanities Computing and Emerging Mind Technologies conference (May, 2002), from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada's President's Fund, the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, and others.
- Malaspina Research Fund, Humanities Computing (2002).
- Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing, U New Brunswick (2001). Institutional nomination declined.
- Canadian Foundation for Innovation, New Opportunities Grant, for Developing Humanities Computing Infrastructure (2001).
- Grants associated with The Humanities Computing Curriculum / The Computing Curriculum in the Arts and Humanities conference (November, 2001), from the Malaspina Research Fund, the Canadian Institute for Research Computing in the Arts and the MA Program in Humanities Computing at U Alberta, the School of the Arts, Humanities at McMaster U, and others; see http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/HCCurriculum/.
- Associate of the U Victoria, Department of English (2000-5).
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Standard Research Grant, for Epistolary Politics and the Poetic Miscellany: An Exploration of the Devonshire Manuscript (Phase I: 2000-2003).
- Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, Research Stipend for the production of The Credibility of Electronic Publishing, co-ordinated at Malaspina U-C (2000).
- Shakespeare Association of America, Online (2000-2).
- Malaspina U-C, Joint Scholarly Research Committee, Research Release-time Grant (2000-2001).
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Special Initiatives Grant, Aid to Research and Transfer Journals Program for Early Modern Literary Studies (1999-2000).
- Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship, U Alberta (1997-9).
- Awarded the Institute for the Humanities Visiting Postdoctoral Fellowship, U Calgary (1997-8); declined for the above.
- Awarded the U Calgary Postdoctoral Fellowship, U Calgary (1997-8); declined for above.
- Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, U British Columbia (1999).
- Associate (SCR) of Oriel College, Oxford (1998-9).
- Grants associated with Early Modern Literary Studies, setup and operation, U Alberta (1997-8).
- University Graduate Fellowship, U British Columbia (1996-7).
- Associate (MCR) of Oriel College, Oxford (1995-6).
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship (1995-6).
- Awarded the University Graduate Fellowship, U British Columbia (1995-6); declined for the above.
- My paper, "Practical Content Analysis Techniques for Text-Retrieval in Large, Un-tagged Text-bases," was recognized as "the most promising [work] by a student" (Conference Proceedings: SIGDOC '93. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 1993. vii).
- Graduate Student Travel Bursary, U British Columbia (1993).
- Simcoe Special Fellowship / U Toronto Open Fellowship, U Toronto (1991-1992; fall 1992).
- Graduate Student Bursary, U Alberta (1989-1990).
- Senior Student Bursary, Conrad Grebel College, U Waterloo (1987-1988).
Editorial and Advisory Positions
Conference Organisation
- Editor and founder, Early Modern Literary Studies; publ. U Toronto and Sheffield Hallam U; founded (1994, at the U British Columbia) and edited 1994-9 by R.G. Siemens.
- Senior Editor, Advisory (1999-present).
- Managing Editor of the EMLS Special Issues Series (1996-9).
- Member of the Editorial Board, Literary and Linguistic Computing (2004-).
- Contributing Editor, Computers and the Humanities (2000-present).
- Associate Editor (Academic Associations), Computing in the Humanities Working Papers. W. McCarty, T.R. Wooldridge, and W. Winder, eds.; publ. U Toronto and King's College, London (1998-present).
- Member of the Editorial Board (1997-present).
- Associate Editor, Text Technology. J. Buckley, ed.; publ. McMaster U (1999-present).
- Member of the General Editorial Board, the Internet Shakespeare Editions. Michael Best, coordinating ed.; publ. U Victoria, U Toronto P (1995-present).
- Member of the Editorial Board, the Montpellier Early Modern English Documents series. Luc Borot, gen. ed.; publ. Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur la Renaissance Anglaise, Universite Paul-Valery, Montpellier (1998-present).
- Member of the Advisory Board, SHAKSPER Electronic Conference. Hardy Cook, ed.; publ. Bowie State (1996-present).
- Member of the Board of Advisors, Renascence Editions. Richard Bear, ed.; publ. U Oregon (2001-present).
- Member of the Association for Computers and the Humanities Publications Committee (2001-present).
- Editor of Publications, the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines (1996-2001).
- Participating Editor, Mixed Reviews section of Chorus. Todd Blayone, ed.; publ. U California, Berkeley (1997-9).
- Referee, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, SSHRC Aid to Scholarly Publications Program, Computers and the Humanities, Literary and Linguistic Computing, Early Modern Literary Studies, Text Technology, Working Papers Online, and the Journal for Computer Documentation.
- In progress:
- Organiser, with William Bowen, of the 'New Technology' panels at the meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Cambridge (April, 2005; 3 days).
- Conference co-organiser, with Alan Galey, Patrick Finn, and Michael Groden, of the 2005 meeting of the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities, U Western Ontario (May, 2005).
- Member of the Program Committee for the the Association for Computing and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, U Victoria (June, 2005).
- Organiser, with William Bowen, of two joint sessions with the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies at the annual meeting of Consortium for Computers in the Humanities at the 2004 Congress of the Canadian Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences, U Manitoba, Winnipeg (May, 2004).
- Conference co-Chair, with Paul Fortier and Stefan Sinclair, of the 2004 meeting of the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities, U Manitoba (May, 2004).
- Organiser of "Strategies of Production, and Interpretation, in the Early Modern English Miscellany." A session presented at the Renaissance Society of America, New York (March, 2004).
- Organiser, with William Bowen, of the 'New Technology' panels at the meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, New York (March, 2004; 2 days).
- Member of the Programme Committee for CaSTA II: The Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis Research, U Victoria (November, 2003).
- Member of the Program Committee for the the Association for Computing and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, U Georgia (May, 2003).
- Conference co-chair and organizer for the annual meeting of the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society (May, 2003).
- Organiser of "Great Expectations, Expectant Implementations -- or, What We Expect of Our Electronic Resources and How We Meet Those Expectations." A session presented both at the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities at the 2003 Congress of Learned Societies, Dalhousie U (May, 2003) and the Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary & Linguistic Computing, U Georgia (May, 2003).
- Organiser, with William Bowen, of the 'New Technology' panels at the meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, U Toronto (March, 2003; 2 days).
- Member of the Programme Committee for CaSTA I: The Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis Research, U Montreal (November 2002).
- Inter/Disciplinary Models, Disciplinary Boundaries: Humanities Computing and Emerging Mind Technologies. Conference chair and organiser for the annual meeting of the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities, with one day joint meetings with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, at the 2002 Congress of Learned Societies, Ryerson Polytechnic and U Toronto (May, 2002).
- The Humanities Computing Curriculum / The Computing Curriculum in the Arts and Humanities (November, 2001). Conference initiator and organizer; sponsored by Malaspina U-C, U Victoria, U Alberta, McMaster U, and the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities.
- "The Humanities Computing Curriculum." A session sponsored by the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities at the 2001 Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences Federations of Canada, U Laval (May, 2001).
- "A 'New' Computer-Assisted Literary Criticism?" A panel presented at the Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary & Linguistic Computing, U Glasgow (July, 2000).
- "The Future of the Arts and Humanities Computing Centre." A session sponsored by the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities at the 2000 Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences Federations of Canada, U Alberta (May 24-5, 2000).
- "The 'New' Computer-Assisted Literary Criticism: What Does it Look Like? What Will it Look Like?" A session sponsored by the Association for Computing and the Humanities at the 1999 meeting of the Modern Language Association (December 28, 1999).
- "Humanities Computing and Literary Criticism: Considering the Implicit." A joint session, organised with Andrew Mactavish (McMaster U) of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English and the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities at the 1999 Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences Federations of Canada, U Sherbrooke (June 3, 1999).
- "Computing Technology and Renaissance Studies." Joint sessions of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies and the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities at the 1998 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, U Ottawa, Ottawa (May 27-8, 1998).
- "Technologising the Humanities / Humanitising the Technologies." Joint sessions of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English and the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities at the 1997 Learned Societies Conferences (May 31-June 1, 1997).
- "Literary Criticism and Computing Technology." Joint sessions of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English and the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities at the 1996 Learned Societies Conferences (May 25, 1996).
- Member of the Program Committee for the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group for Technical Documentation (SIGDOC) annual conference (1992 [adjunct], 1994, 1995).
- Member of the Program Committee for UBC Language and Literary Studies IV (1995).
- Referee for submissions to the annual conferences of the Association for Computing and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (2000-present), and the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (1998-present) and the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities (1996-present) at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada.
Service and Other Activities
- President [English], Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines (2003-present).
- Director, Digital Humanities / Humanities Computing Summer Institute (formerly, Humanities Computing Summer Workshops [2003]), U Victoria (2003-present).
- Executive Committee Member, Association for Computers and the Humanities (2004-present)
- Executive Member, Modern Language Association of America Discussion Group for Computer Studies in Language and Literature (2003-present).
- Executive Secretary, Association for Computers and the Humanities (2001-2004).
- Director (2002-3) and founder (2002), Centre for Digital Humanities Innovation, Malaspina U-C.
- Director, Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines (2000-present).
- Secretary, Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines (2001-3).
- Member of the Malaspina U-College, Department of English Library Committee (2000-present; chair, 2001-2), Curriculum Committee (2000-present), Hiring Committee (2002-present) and Liaison Committee (1999-2000); also, member of the Malaspina U-C Educational Council Curriculum Committee (2002-3), the Public Interest Research Group Committee (2000-1), and co-organiser of the speaker series Tools and Techniques for the Classroom (2000-1).
- Member of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Strategic Research Programs, Working Group for Image-Text-Sound Technology (2002).
- Consultant to the Modern Language Association Committee on the Electronic New Variorum Shakespeare (2000).
- Occasional referee for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, the Arts and Humanities Research Board, the Killam Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation, the Stanford University Humanities Centre, and the University of Virginia Press.
- Member of the U Alberta, Faculty of Arts, Dean's advisory council toward the establishment of a Masters program in Humanities Computing (1997-9).
- Member of the U British Columbia, Department of English, Computer Advisory Committee (1993-1997).
- Organizer of the Renaissance Discussion Group, U British Columbia (1996).
- Member of the U British Columbia Arts Library Advisory Council (1993-5).
- Member of the U Toronto Library Automation Committee (1992).
- At the Universities of Alberta and Toronto, member of the Graduate Students' Associations (1990-2) and the Graduate Students of English Associations (1989-92), and held a Department of English Council seat (1990-2); at Toronto, the Alienation Committee (1992).
- Membership in the Modern Language Association, the Renaissance Society of America, the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English, the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society, the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies, the International Courtly Literature Society, the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities, and others.
- Extra-curricular activities include parenting and, when possible, hiking and backpacking, skiing and snowboarding, squash, golf, and as much time outdoors as possible. See my brief photo-essay On the West Coast Trail: A Personal Perspective, at <URL: http://purl.oclc.org/NET/FullStride.html>.
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[Last updated: 08 December 2004 ]