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• Digital Humanities Summer Institute
• Literary Computing — Analysis / Topics in Scientific Computing
      ENGL 503 / CSC 489a-589a  This course 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
      ENGL 503 / CSC 489a-589a  This course 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
      ENGL 503  This course 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

Forthcoming

• A Digital Facsimile of the Exeter Manuscript of Lancelot Andrewes: Newly-discovered (2005). Introduction by Paul Stanwood and Peter McCullough. 276 pp. Forthcoming in EMLS.
• "Imagining the Manuscript and Printed Book in a Digital Age." A Foreword to 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. From the international colloquium of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences, the Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences , and the Peshitta Institute. Leiden: Brill.

In Press

• "It May Change My Understanding of the Field: New Reading Tools for Scholars," with John Willinsky, Cara Leitch, and Analisa Blake. Digital Humanities Quarterly.
• "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." EMLS.
• "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 Team. Digital Studies / Le Champ Numerique.
• "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 Team. Mémoires du livre.

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>. 63pp.
• "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, and Claire Warwick. 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, and Claire Warwick. 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>.
• 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.
• "Codex Redux: Books and New Knowledge Environments." 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>.
• "Introduction: Reinventing Shakespeare in the digital humanities," with Alan Galey. Reinventing Digital Shakespeare. <http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ ftinterface~content=a902019273~fulltext=713240928>.
• "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.

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/>.

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>.