Please visit my current homepage, at

http://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/

 

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Ray Siemens

• Fall 2003:
  • Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College, University of London, Strand, London. WC2R 2LS. United Kingdom.
  • Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2684     Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980
• Spring 2004:
  • Department of English, Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, BC, Canada. V9R 5S5.
  • Office: 335 / 120.     Phone: (250) 753-3245, x2046.     Fax: (250) 740-6459.
• Summer 2004:
  • Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing
  • Department of English, University of Victoria, PO Box 3070 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, Canada.  V8W 3W1.
  • Digital Humanities / Humanities Computing Summer Institute
• E-mail: siemensr@mala.bc.ca; siemens@uvic.ca 
• Homepage: http://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/ 

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Greetings from beautiful Nanaimo, on Canada's Vancouver Island!  After graduating from the U of British Columbia (1997), taking up a Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship in English Literature at the U of Alberta (1997-9), and spending time at Oxford (fall 1998) and the U of British Columbia (1999) as a visiting postdoctoral fellow, my family and I have relocated so that I might teach at Malaspina University-College in Nanaimo.

My research, writing, and teaching interests are in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English Literature, specifically the early Renaissance (with an historical and editorial bent), and in related matters of textuality / print culture and humanities computing.

This year I am splitting my time between the fall term at King's College, London and the spring term at Malaspina. While in London, I will be carrying out work on the lyrics of Henry VIII and the coterie of Thomas Wyatt's Devonshire MS; at King's, I will be participating in the BA Minor and MA in Applied Computing in the Humanities offered by their Centre for Humanities Computing.  I am also working towards integrating a humanities computing curriculum into our liberal arts program, a part of which involved organising a conference, The Humanities Computing Curriculum.   At Malaspina, I will be teaching teaching a section of Introduction to Literature and one of Computer-Mediated Communication; in the past, I've taught other sections of the same, as well as a survey of Milton's works, an introduction to Shakespeare, Studies in Renaissance Literature, Texts and Contexts of the Early Tudor Lyric, Metaphysical Poetry, English Literature to the Restoration, Poetry and Drama, Fiction, Communications / Public Speaking and other courses.

Since its inception in 1994, I edited the journal Early Modern Literary Studies, though in 1999 the editorship passed to Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam U), allowing me time to devote to other projects.  Some of these projects include work that has appeared as "Milton's Works and Life: Select Studies and Resources" (in The Cambridge Companion to Milton. 2nd ed.), "Disparate Structures, Electronic and Otherwise,"  A New Computer-Assisted Literary Criticism? (a special issue of Computers and the Humanities), Wrestling with God: Literature and Theology in the English Renaissance. Essays to Honour Paul Grant Stanwood, "Shakespearean Apparatus?  Explicit Textual Structures and the Implicit Navigation of Accumulated Knowledge" (preprint available here), and others.  In addition to the above, I have worked with several people to assemble an HSSFC-sponsored report on the credibility of electronic publication in academic circles.

Further work is in progress on the Blackwell Companion to Digital Humanities (with co-editors Susan Schreibman and John Unsworth), on my edition and study of the lyrics of Henry VIII and his coterie, on the coterie of an early Renaissance manuscript miscellany (the Devonshire MS, BL Add Ms 17,402), and electronic scholarly editions.  Details of other work is available via my academic CV.

Drop me a line, if you like, at siemensr@mala.bc.ca, or check out some hiking photos on my hobby site.

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