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With Matteo Callieri (left) and James Graham (centre) on the site of the Ruthwell cross in Ruthwell Kirk, Scotland.I am a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Lethbridge.
Teaching
In the department, I am responsible for teaching most of our courses on the Digital Humanities, Old and Middle English (medieval) language and literature, the History of the Book, Grammar and the History of the English language. I also share responsibility for our first year introductory course, English 1900. You can find out more about my teaching by following this link.
Research
My main research interests include Old English language and literature, the history of the book, editorial and textual scholarship, humanities computing, and reception-oriented criticism. My current research projects include
Screenshot from our 3D model of the Ruthwell Cross.The Visionary Cross Project (http://www.visionarycross.org/). This is an international project studying the “Visionary Cross” cultural matrix in Anglo-Saxon England, particularly as it is represented in the Ruthwell Cross, Bewcastle Cross, Brussels Cross, and the Vercelli Book poems The Dream of the Rood and Elene. We are currently in the process of digitizing the Ruthwell Cross, funded by SSHRC and the AHRC.
Business model of the Lethbridge Journal Incubator.The Lethbridge Journal Incubator (http://www.uleth.ca/lib/incubator/ and http://www.journalincubator.org/). This project addresses the problem of sustainability in the publication of scholarly journals, by aligning its costs with university educational missions. Work on this project involves developing robust and generalisable XML-based workflows for journal production and training material for student assistants. The result will be an open source production process and business model that will able to encourage academics to experiment with new forms of scholarly publication.
Global Outlook::Digital Humanities(go::dh). This is a Special Interest Group dedicated to bridging the divide that separates high income economies from mid- and low-income economies in the practice of Digital Humanities.
A copy of my CV is available here. You can find out more about my research by following this link.
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