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Recent Teaching ^Top

• Digital Humanities Summer Institute:  The 2012 DHSI, in its tenth year, brings together over 200 digitial humanists at all stages of career for a week of intensive coursework, seminars, and lectures, in which participants share ideas and methods and develop expertise in using advanced technologies. Every summer, the institute gathers faculty, staff, and students from the Arts, Humanities, Library, and Archives communities and beyond, including independent scholars and participants from industry, government, and cultural sectors. The 2012 curriculum features over ten week-long course and seminar streams.
• History and Principles of Digital Literary Studies: Investigates the intellectual traditions associated with a computational approach to literary studies and criticism, focusing on critical analysis and other practices, via computational processes, that model, apply, and advance them.
• Literary Computing - Analysis / Topics in Scientific Computing:  Considers the intellectual traditions associated with a computational approach to literary criticism. To guide our approach, we will study the electronic text, and the application of computational techniques to extant and emerging schools of literary criticism and literary practice. This course focuses on critical analysis and the literary critical practices, via computational processes, that model, apply, and advance them. Historically based in practices associated with close reading and New Criticism, computational literary studies have demonstrated recently their impact far beyond these critical methods, and have - through large corpus analysis, visualization techniques, and other methods - suggested innovative critical approaches. Further, applications of such practices alter traditional and emergent creative processes.
• Literary Computing - Content and Process Modeling in Digital Literary Studies / Topics in Scientific Computing: Focuses on the activity of modeling, specifically, the modeling of information and processes, which is essential to the digital humanities. It consists of two seminars operating together, one each in the fields of literary studies and computer science. Together, participants in the two seminars will investigate jointly issues related to representing both the materials and the professional processes that lie at the heart of the discipline of literary studies.
• Literary Computing - Representation:  Examines the computing humanist's approach to knowledge as modeled with computational techniques; it will focus on issues of archival representation, interpretive theory, critical analysis, knowledge transfer, and the dynamic qualities of the digital text. In particular, this course will explore representations of archival materials, digitization as a device for materiality, and the material organization of texts. From these explorations, we will challenge emergent epistemological demands, the dichotomy of the peripheral versus the central in written or printed works, and reassess the original maker's conception. This course is segmented as follows: 1) historical contextualization; 2) protocols of knowledge representation, non-digital and digital; 3) construction of a sample electronic text and interface prototype.

Selected Publications^Top

In Press / Forthcoming / Accepted

• A Social Edition of the Devonshire MS (BL Add 17,492), with Karin Armstrong, Barbara Bond, Constance Crompton, Terra Dickson, Johanne Paquette, Jonathan Podracky, Ingrid Weber, Cara Leitch, Melanie Chernyk, Bret D. Hirtsch, Daniel Powell, Chris Gaudet, Eric Haswell, Arianna Ciula, Daniel Starza-Smith, James Cummings, with Martin Holmes, Greg Newton, Jonathan Gibson, Paul Remley, Erik Kwakkel, and Aimie Shirkie. Forthcoming from Iter and Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies: Toronto and Tempe. Current social texts at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Devonshire_Manuscript. 495 pp + source texts.
• "HCI-Book? Perspectives on E-Book Research, 2006-2008 (Foundational to Implementing New Knowledge Environments)," with Teresa Dobson, Stan Ruecker, Richard Cunningham, Alan Galey, Claire Warwick, and Lynne Siemens, with Karin Armstrong, Michael Best, Melanie Chernyk, Lynn Copeland, Wendy Duff, Julia Flanders, David Gants, Bertrand Gervais, Karon MacLean, Steve Ramsay, Susan Schreibman, Colin Swindels, Geoffrey Rockwell, Christian Vandendorpe, John Willinsky, Vika Zafrin, the HCI-Book Consultative group and the INKE Research group. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada / Cahiers de la Société bibliographique du Canada 49.1 (2011): pp. 35-89. In press.
• "Toward Modeling the Social Edition: An Approach to Understanding the Electronic Scholarly Edition in the Context of New and Emerging Social Media," with Meagan Timney, Cara Leitch, Corina Koolen, and Alex Garnett, and with the ETCL, INKE, and PKP Research Groups. Accepted for publication in Literary and Linguistic Computing. 70 pp. [An earlier version of this paper circulated as "Opening the Gates: A New Model for Edition Production in a Time of Collaboration."]
• "Beyond Remediation: The Role of Textual Studies in Implementing New Knowledge Environments," with Alan Galey, Richard Cunningham, Brent Nelson, Paul Werstine, and the INKE Research Group. In Brent Nelson and Melissa Terras, eds. Digitising Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture.   Toronto / Tempe: ITER and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012. 21-48. In press.
• "Selected Information Management Resources for Implementing New Knowledge Environments: An Annotated Bibliography," with Alex Garnett, Cara Leitch, Julie Melone, and the INKE, ETCL, and PKP Research Groups. Forthcoming in Scholarly and Research Communication. 45 pp.
• "Electronic Environments for Reading: An Annotated Bibliography of Pertinent Hardware and Software (2011)," with Corina Koolen, Alex Garnett, and the INKE, ETCL, and PKP Research Groups. Forthcoming in Scholarly and Research Communication. 95 pp.
• (as co-editor of the series Topics in the Digital Humanities). Stephen Ramsay. Reading Machines: Toward an Algorithmic Criticism. Urbana-Champaign: U Illinois P, 2011. 128 pp. In press.
• (as co-editor of the series New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies).  Brent Nelson and Melissa Terras, eds. Digitising Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture.   Toronto / Tempe: ITER and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012. 350 pp. In press.

2011

• A Digital Facsimile of the Newly-discovered Exeter Manuscript of Lancelot Andrewes, with Karin Armstrong, Gerry Watson, Mike Elkink, and Greg Newton (276 pp.). In Lancelot Andrewes's 'Orphan Lectures': The Exeter Manuscript, with P.G. Stanwood and Peter McCullough. Early Modern Literary Studies Texts Series 2 <http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/andrewes/andrewe4.htm>. 331 pp.
• "'The Apex of Hipster XML GeekDOM': TEI-Encoded Dylan and Understanding the Scope of an Evolving Community of Practice," with Lynne Siemens, and Hefeng (Eddie) Wen, with Dot Porter, Liam Sherriff, Cara Leitch, Karin Armstrong and Melanie Chernyk.  Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative 1.1 (2011). <http://jtei.revues.org/210>. 20 pp + video.
• "Prototyping the Renaissance English Knowledgebase (REKn) and Professional Reading Environment (PReE), Past, Present, and Future Concerns: A Digital Humanities Project Narrative," with Mike Elkink, Alastair McColl, Karin Armstrong, James Dixon, Angelsea Saby, Brett D. Hirsch and Cara Leitch, with Martin Holmes, Eric Haswell, Chris Gaudet, Paul Girn, Michael Joyce, Rachel Gold, and Gerry Watson, and members of the PKP, Iter, TAPoR, and INKE teams. Digital Studies / Le champ numérique 2.2 (2011). <http://www.digitalstudies.org/ojs/index.php/digital_studies/article/view/182/255> 50 + 461 pp (plus files). [A pre-printing of "Underpinnings of the Social Edition?" below, in Jerome McGann, ed., with Andrew Stauffer, Dana Wheeles, and Michael Pickard. Online Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to Come.
• Rev. reprs. of "Henry VIII and the Poetry of Politics" and "Reading Monarchs Writing: Introduction" in Peter C Herman, Royal Poetrie: Monarchic Verse and the Political Imaginary of Early Modern England. Ithaca: Cornell UP.

2010

• "Underpinnings of the Social Edition? A Narrative, 2004-9, for the Renaissance English Knowledgebase (REKn) and Professional Reading Environment (PReE) Projects," with Mike Elkink, Alastair McColl, Karin Armstrong, James Dixon, Angelsea Saby, Brett D. Hirsch and Cara Leitch, with Martin Holmes, Eric Haswell, Chris Gaudet, Paul Girn, Michael Joyce, Rachel Gold, and Gerry Watson, and members of the PKP, Iter, TAPoR, and INKE teams. In Jerome McGann, ed., with Andrew Stauffer, Dana Wheeles, and Michael Pickard. Online Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to Come. Houston: Rice UP, 2010. <http://cnx.org/content/m34335/>. 50 + 461 pp (plus files).
• "Imagining the Manuscript and Printed Book in a Digital Age." Text Comparison and Digital Creativity: The Co-Production of Presence and Meaning in Digital Textual Scholarship. In Ernst Thoutenhoofd, Wido van Peursen, and Adriaan van der Weel, eds. Leiden: Brill, 2010. ix-xvii+299-303.
• "Poetic Statesmanship and the Politics of Patronage in the Early Tudor Court: Material Concerns of John Skelton's Early Career as a Critical Context for the Interpretation of The Bowge of Courte". Early Modern Literary Studies 15.1 (2009-10). <http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/15-1/siemskel.html>. 20 pp.
• "Codex Ultor: Vers une base conceptuelle et theorique pour la nouvelle recherche sur les livres et les environnements documentaires," with Claire Warwick, Richard Cunningham, Teresa Dobson, Alan Galey, Stan Ruecker, Susan Schreibman, and the INKE Research Group. Memoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture 1.1 ([2010 for] 2009). <http://www.erudit.org/revue/memoires/2009/v1/n1/038636ar.html>. 37 pp.
• "Codex Ultor: Toward a Conceptual and Theoretical Foundation for New Research on Books and Knowledge Environments," with Claire Warwick, Richard Cunningham, Teresa Dobson, Alan Galey, Stan Ruecker, Susan Schreibman, and the INKE Research Group. Digital Studies / Le Champ Numerique 1.2 ([2010 for] 2009). <http://www.digitalstudies.org/ojs/index.php/digital_studies/article/view/177/220>. 34 pp.
• "Enacting Change: A Study of the Implementation of e-Readers and an Online Library in two Canadian High School Classrooms," with Serina Patterson, Devon Stokes-Bennett, and James Nahachewsky.  Liber Quarterly 20.1 (2010): 66-79. <http://liber.library.uu.nl/publish/articles/000491/article.pdf>.
• "It May Change My Understanding of the Field: New Reading Tools for Scholars," with John Willinsky, Cara Leitch, Karin Armstrong, and Analisa Blake. Digital Humanities Quarterly 3.4 ([2010 for] 2009). <http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/4/000075.html>. 20 + 864 pp (plus files).
• (as co-editor of the series New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies).  Gabriel Egan, ed. Electronic Publishing: Politics and Pragmatics.  Toronto / Tempe: ITER and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2010. 218+vi pp.
• (as co-editor of the series Scholarly Communication: Past, Present, and Future of Knowledge Inscription).  Wido van Peursen, Ernst D Thoutenhoofd, and Adriaan van der Weel, eds. Text Comparison and Digital Creativity: The Co-Production of Presence and Meaning in Digital Textual Scholarship. Leiden: Brill, 2010. <http://books.google.com/books?id=XYiicQAACAAJ&dq=isbn:9004188657&ei=uChDTYrbC4n-M73ssYkM>. Xvii+328 pp.

2009

• "Henry VIII as Writer and Lyricist." Musical Quarterly 92 (2009): 136-166.
• "Revisiting the Text of the Henry VIII Manuscript (BL Add Ms 31,922): An Extended Note". Early Modern Literary Studies 14.3 (January, 2009) 3.1-36.<http://purl.oclc.org/emls/14-3/Siemhenr.html>. 63 pp.
• "Drawing Networks in the Devonshire Manuscript (BL Add Ms 17492): Toward Visualizing a Writing Community's Shared Apprenticeship, Social Valuation, and Self-Validation," with Johanne Paquette, Karin Armstrong, Cara Leitch, Brett D. Hirsch, Eric Haswell, and Greg Newton. Digital Studies / Le Champ Numerique 1.1 (2009). <http://www.digitalstudies.org/ojs/index.php/digital_studies/article/view/146/201>. 58 pp.
• "Editing the Early Modern Miscellany: Modelling and Knowledge [Re]Presentation as a Context for the Contemporary Editor," with Cara Leitch. New Ways of Looking at Old Texts IV. Michael Denbo, ed. Tempe: Renaissance English Text Society, 2009. 115-130.
• "Implementing New Knowledge Environments: Laying Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age," with Richard
  Cunningham, Alan Galey, Stan Ruecker, Lynne Siemens, Claire Warwick, and the INKE Research Group. Proceedings of BooksOnline 2009 at the 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries, Corfu, October 2009. <http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/events/booksonline09/papers/p6.pdf>.
• "Implementing New Knowledge Environments: Year 1 Research Foundations," with Richard Cunningham, Alan Galey, Stan Ruecker, Lynne Siemens, Claire Warwick, and the INKE Research Group. Proceedings of INKE2009, Victoria BC, October 2009. <http://conferences.uvic.ca/index.php?conference=INKE&schedConf=inke2009_october&page=paper&op=view&path[]=72&path[]=13>.
• "Playing ‘Shame’ One Technique for Introducing Text Analysis to the Literary Studies Classroom." The Spaces and Places of Technology (Special Issue). Computing in the Humanities Working Papers A.51 (2009 [for 2004]). <URL: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/chwp/CHC2004/siemens/>.
• (as co-editor of the series Topics in the Digital Humanities). Christian Vandendorpe. From Papyrus to Hypertext: Toward a Universal Digital Library. Trns. Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott. Urbana-Champaign: U Illinois P, 2009. 208pp.

2008

• Reinventing Digital Shakespeare, with co-editor Alan Galey. Shakespeare, 4:3 (2008). <http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g902019645~db=all>.
• Selected Papers from Digital Humanities 2007 (NCSA, U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), with co-editor John Unsworth. Literary and Linguistic Computing 23.3 (2008): 249-396.
• New Technologies and Renaissance Studies, with co-editor William R. Bowen. Tempe and Toronto: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies / Iter, 2008 for 2005. viii+330pp.
• "Introduction: Reinventing Shakespeare in the digital humanities," with Alan Galey. Reinventing Digital Shakespeare. <http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ ftinterface~content=a902019273~fulltext=713240928>.
• “Introduction to Selected Papers from Digital Humanities 2007 (NCSA, U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign),” with John Unsworth. Literary and Linguistic Computing 23.3 (2008): 249-251.
• "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 and Karin Armstrong. New Technologies and Renaissance Studies. 261-299.
• "EMLS: A Case Study in the Development of an Academic E-Journal," with Lisa Hopkins and Matthew Steggle. New Technologies and Renaissance Studies. 144-160.
• "A pragmatics of re-conception? (A Response to Willard McCarty, ‘Being reborn: the humanities, computing and styles of scientific reasoning’)." New Technologies and Renaissance Studies. 23-26.
• "Codex Redux: Books and New Knowledge Environments," with Claire Warwick, Stan Ruecker, and the INKE Research Group. Proceedings of the BooksOnline 2008 workshop at ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008), Napa Valley CA, October 2008. New York: ACM. <http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1458412.1458422>.

2007

• A Companion to Digital Literary Studies, with co-editor Susan Schreibman. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. xvii+620 pp. <http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companionDLS/>.
• Editors’ Introduction, with Susan Schreibman. A Companion to Digital Literary Studies. xviii-xx.

2006

• Mind Technologies: Humanities Computing and the Canadian Academic Community, with co-editor David Moorman. Calgary: U Calgary Press, 2006. 299 pp.
• A Study of Professional Reading Tools for Humanists, Principal Researcher; with John Willinsky, PKP Principal Investigater, Study Co-Investigator & Collaborator; Analisa Blake, Researcher/Writer; Greg Newton, Karin Armstrong, Lindsay Colahan, Research/Technical Assistance. <http://etcl-dev.uvic.ca/public/pkp_report/>. 855 pp.
• "The Canadian Arts and Humanities Computing Centre: Past, Present, and Possible Futures," with Alan Burk, Terry Butler, Peter Liddell, Scott Gerrity, and Geoffrey Rockwell. Mind Technologies. 257-84.
• "Canadian Humanities Computing and Emerging Mind Technologies," with Christian Vandendorpe. Mind Technologies. xi-xix.

2005

• "Text Analysis and the Dynamic Edition? Some Concerns with an Algorithmic Approach in the Electronic Scholarly Edition," Working Papers from the First and Second Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis Research (CaSTA). Computing in the Humanities Working Papers (A. 37) and Text Technology 14.1 (2005): 91-98. <http://www2.arts.ubc.ca/chwp/Casta02/Siemens_casta02.htm>.
• "‘What two crownes shall they be?’: ‘Lower’ Criticism, ‘Higher’ Criticism, and the Impact of Scholarly Publication in the Electronic Medium." New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III. Tempe: Renaissance English Text Society, 2005. 37-46.

2004

• A Companion to Digital Humanities, with co-editors Susan Schreibman and John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. xxvii+611 pp. <http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/>.
• "The Digital Humanities and Humanities Computing: An Introduction," with Susan Schreibman and John Unsworth. A Companion to Digital Humanities. xxiii-xxvii.

2002

• The Credibility of Electronic Publishing: A Report to the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada. Project Co-ordinator, with Michael Best and Elizabeth Grove-White, Alan Burk, James Kerr, Andy Pope, Jean-Claude Guédon, Geoffrey Rockwell, and Lynne Siemens. Text Technology 11.1 (2002): 1-128. <http://web.viu.ca/hssfc/Final/Credibility.htm>.
• A New Computer-Assisted Literary Criticism? Editor. Computers and the Humanities 36.3 (2002): 259-378.
• "Canadian Literary Awards and Prizes." Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Ed. Bill New. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2002. An electronic pre-print of this work is available. <http://records.viu.ca/~soules/english/awards.htm>.
• "The Credibility of Electronic Publishing: Introduction and Overview," The Credibility of Electronic Publishing. 2-17. <http://web.viu.ca/hssfc/Final/Overview.htm>.
• "Henry VIII's Lyrics, from the Henry VIII MS (London, British Library Additional Manuscript 31,922)." Editor. Reading Monarchs Writing: The Poetry of Henry VIII, Mary Stuart, Elizabeth I, and James VI/I. Ed. Peter Herman. Tempe: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 2002. 217-28.
• "Henry VIII and the Poetry of Politics," with Peter Herman. Reading Monarchs Writing. 11-34.
• "A New Computer-Assisted Literary Criticism?" Introduction. A New Computer-Assisted Literary Criticism? 259-67.
• "Peer Review and Imprint," with Jean-Claude Guédon, The Credibility of Electronic Publishing. 17-34. <http://web.viu.ca/hssfc/Final/PeerReview.htm>.
• "Reading Monarchs Writing: Introduction," with Peter Herman. Reading Monarchs Writing. 1-10.
• "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. 209-40. Electronic pre-print published in Surfaces 8.106 (1999): 1-34. <http://www.pum.umontreal.ca/revues/surfaces/vol8/siemens.pdf>.

2001

• Wrestling with God: Literature and Theology in the English Renaissance. Essays to Honour Paul Grant Stanwood. With co-editors W. Speed Hill and Mary Henley. EMLS Special Issue 7 (2001). Reprinted, Vancouver: EMLS Press, 2001. 336 pp. <http://purl.oclc.org/emls/si-07/si-07toc.htm>.
• "‘I haue often such a sickly inclination’: Biography and the Critical Interpretation of Donne's Suicide Tract, Biathanatos." Wrestling with God. EMLS 10.1-26. Reprinted, 139-53. <http://purl.oclc.org/emls/si-07/siemens.htm>.
• "Unediting and Non-Editions." The Theory (and Politics) of Editing. Anglia 119.3 (2001): 423-55. Reprint of "Shakespearean Apparatus," with additional introduction.

1999

• "Milton's Works and Life: Select Studies and Resources," The Cambridge Companion to Milton. 2nd edition. Ed. Dennis Danielson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999. 268-90. Reprinted in EMLS, 1999. <http://purl.oclc.org/emls/iemls/postprint/CCM2Biblio.html>.

1998

• "Disparate Structures, Electronic and Otherwise: Conceptions of Textual Organisation in the Electronic Medium, with Reference to Editions of Shakespeare and the Internet." The Internet Shakespeare: Opportunities in a New Medium. Ed. Michael Best. EMLS 3.3 / Special Issue 2 (1998). <http://purl.oclc.org/emls/03-3/siemshak.html>.

1996

• "An Electronic Scholarly Transcription of Tottel's Miscellany (1557a)," editor. Using TACT with Electronic Texts: A Guide to Text-Analysis Computing Tools. Eds. Ian Lancashire, et al. New York: MLA, 1996. 232-5. <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/tact/>.
• "'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). 16 pp.

1994

• Early Modern Literary Studies: A Journal of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century English Literature (ISSN 1201-2459; pub. U of Toronto and Sheffield Hallam U); founded (1994, at U of British Columbia) and edited 1994-9 by R.G. Siemens. Currently Senior Editor, Advisory. <http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html>.
• "An Electronic Scholarly Transcription, with Introduction of Robert Cawdrey's A Table Alphabeticall (1604)." Editor. Renaissance Electronic Texts. Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, 1994. Revised 1997. Reprinted in Using TACT with Electronic Texts: A Guide to Text-Analysis Computing Tools. Reprinted in Early Modern English Dictionaries Database, ed. Ian Lancashire. Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1997. <http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/ret/cawdrey/cawdrey0.html>.