Digital Humanities Summer Institute May 26-30, 2008

Invited Instructors

Invited Members of the Instructional Team for 2010 include the following leading and emerging research theorists and practitioners in the digital arts and humanities:

• Loretta Auvil (NCSA, UIUC; returning) works in the Automated Learning Group at the NCSA and is co-PI on the SEASR project. She holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science. She has worked with a diverse set of application drivers to integrate machine learning (data mining) and information visualization techniques to solve the needs of these research communities. She has been leading software development and research projects for the Automated Learning Group for several years.
• Syd Bauman (Brown U; returning) has worked at the Brown University Women Writers Project dealing with electronic texts since 1990. From 2001 to 2007 he was co-editor of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), and now spends most his time teaching TEI or helping people with their TEI projects.
• Boris Capitanu (NCSA, UIUC; returning) is a research programmer working with the Automated Learning Group at the NCSA. Boris holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include data mining and educational technologies. Boris is currently working on the SEASR project (www.seasr.org) creating software platforms for the advancement of scholarly research.
• Robin Davies (Vancouver Island U; returning) teaches in the Media Studies Department at Vancouver Island University. He studied Double Bass (BMus) and Music Technology (MA) at McGill's Schulich School of Music. His interests include the utilization of the human voice in auditory storytelling, sound design for visual art, the construction and use of software-based musical instruments for live electronic music performance, and helping others embrace technology for use in their creative endeavours. Robin's sound design and remix work can be heard on releases from six records, maple music, ad noiseam, and Sunchaser Pictures.
• Matthew Driscoll (Arnamagnaean Institute, Copenhagen; returning) is a lecturer in Old Norse Philology and curator of the Arnamagnaean manuscript collection. He has taken part in a number of projects to do with the digitisation and text-encoding of medieval manuscripts and has a long-standing involvement in the work of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI).
• Ian Gregory (Lancaster U) is Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities at Lancaster University. His research interests include the use of Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to study long-term change in the societies of Britain and Ireland, developing an understanding of what GIS has to offer historical research, and using computing technology across the humanities and social sciences.
• Julia Flanders (Brown U; returning) is past chair of the TEI Consortium, and director of the Women Writers Project at Brown University. She has spoken and published on the gender politics of editing as well as on theoretical and practical problems in text encoding.
• David Hoover (New York U; returning) is Professor of English at NYU. His research interests include corpus stylistics, humanities computing, authorship attribution, statistical stylistics, linguistic stylistics, animal language and cognition, English language, and Old English meter.
• Aimée Morrison (U Waterloo; returning) is Assistant Professor of English. Her research focuses on the materialities of digital culture, from videogaming, to linguistic nationalism, to preservation.Her current work focuses on the rhetorical strategies and social impact of digital life writing.
• Michael Nixon (Vancouver Island U; returning) teaches courses in Internet Production for the Media Studies department at VIU. He is also a M.Sc. candidate at the School of Interactive Art and Technology (Simon Fraser University) working in the general areas of interactive narrative, believable agents, and characterization in video games. He has spent several years in the web development industry in the Mid-Island region.
• Lynne Siemens (U Victoria; returning) is Assistant Professor with appointment to the Faculty of Business and the School of Public Administration, with interests in entrepreneurship, organisational behaviour, research methodology, and management skill development in academic disciplines.
• Ray Siemens, Director (U Victoria) is Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Professor of English. Siemens' current literary studies work centres on two early Tudor manuscript miscellanies (BL Add Ms 31922 and BL Add Ms 17492; the Henry VIII Manuscript, and the Devonshire Manuscript). Larger research projects focus on the Human-Computer Interaction, Interface, and the Electronic Book (HCI-Book) project, the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, the Professional Reading Environments (PReE) project, and initiatives associated with the TAPoR and Synergies projects.

Invited Speakers

• Susan Brown (U Alberta/U Guelph) is a specialist in Victorian literature. She is a founding researcher and, since 2008, the director of the Orlando Project, an ongoing experiment in digital literary history published by Cambridge University Press in 2006.
• Stéfan Sinclair (McMaster) is Associate Professor of Multimedia at McMaster University. His areas of interest include computer-assisted literary text analysis, experimental visualization interfaces, and 20th Century French literature (especially Oulipo).
• John Unsworth (UIUC) is Professor and Dean at UIUC's Graduate School of Library and Information Science and Director of the Illinois Informatics Institute. He has published widely on the topic of electronic scholarship.
• Katherine Walter (CDRH, U Nebraska-Lincoln) is co-director of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and professor and chair of Digital Initiatives & Special Collections in the UNL Libraries. She co-chairs centerNet North America with Neil Fraistat of MITH, and serves on the Association of Computers and the Humanities executive council.

Graduate Colloquium

Organizers

• Diane Jakacki (U Waterloo) is a fifth year doctoral candidate in English at the University of Waterloo; her areas of specialization include medieval and early-modern English drama, visual rhetoric, and humanities computing. This is Diane's third year attending the DHSI and her second year as co-organizer of the Grad Colloquium.
• Cara Leitch (U Victoria) is a PhD candidate in English and a research assistant at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab. Her research interests include nineteenth-century rhetoric, bibliography and textual studies, and the future of scholarly editing. This will be Cara's fifth year at the DHSI. In the past, she has been a student, an instructor, and co-organizer of the Grad Student Colloquium.

Presenters

• Emily Ballantyne (Trent U)
• Cameron Blevins (Stanford U)
• Jeremy Boggs (George Mason U)
• David Buchanan (U Alberta)
• Michael Choi (Western)
• Lauren Collier-Crawford (U Victoria)
• Mike Frangos (UC Santa Barbara)
• Andrew Hankinson (Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology, McGill)
• Jessica Jacobson-Konefall (U Winnipeg)
• Hannah McGregor (U Guelph)
• Matteo Romanello (King's College London)
• Jentery Sayers (U Washington)
• Bridget Sweeney (U Victoria)
• Jeremy Throne (UC Santa Cruz)

DHSI Team

• Ray Siemens, Director (U Victoria) is Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Professor of English. Siemens' current literary studies work centres on two early Tudor manuscript miscellanies (BL Add Ms 31922 and BL Add Ms 17492; the Henry VIII Manuscript, and the Devonshire Manuscript). Larger research projects focus on the Human-Computer Interaction, Interface, and the Electronic Book (HCI-Book) project, the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, the Professional Reading Environments (PReE) project, and initiatives associated with the TAPoR and Synergies projects.
• Cara Leitch, Assistant Director (U Victoria) is a PhD candidate in English and a research assistant at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab. Her research interests include nineteenth-century rhetoric, bibliography and textual studies, and the future of scholarly editing. This will be Cara's fifth year at the DHSI. In the past, she has been a student, an instructor, and co-organizer of the Grad Student Colloquium.
• Melanie Chernyk, ETCL Coordinator (U Victoria) has an MA in English from U Victoria. She is currently the ETCL Administrative lead, and was DHSI Coordinator in 2008.