Digital Humanities
The digital humanities--and, more specifically, its incarnations in digital literary and textual studies--are well-represented at UVic across a curriculum that incorporates computing at both undergraduate and graduate levels, across research of international significance involving graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty, and across a range of activities that engage the local, national, and international community (including the annual Digital Humanities Summer Institute, plus a few recent conferences: INKE 2009, TEI 2006, and ACH/ALLC 2005).
Why DH? Read about it in Matt Kirschenbaum's "What is Digital Humanities and What's it Doing in English Departments?" as well as in the Companions to Digital Humanities and Digital Literary Studies -- plus the Day of DH, which documents typical days in the life of those who practice DH.
- Alison Chapman is the Principal Investigator and editor of the SSHRC-funded Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, and has published on nineteenth-century digital studies.
- Janelle Jenstad: General Editor of The Map of Early Modern London (MoEML); research interests in London Studies, digital mapping, textual studies, editing Shakespeare and early modern texts.
- Stephen Ross: The online Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, in progress, as well as the Modernist Versions Project (starting with Tarr, and aiming to become a large online resource for comparison of textual variants of works in literary modernism).
- Jentery Sayers: Work in progress includes How Text Lost Its Source, the Modernist Versions Project, and various essays on digital culture. Member of the editorial board for Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy and HASTAC's council of advisors.
- Lincoln Shlensky: Project in progress on an online archive of Caribbean film resources.
- Ray Siemens: Varied work in progress, including the Implementing New Knowledge Environments project, centred in the ETCL, which also runs the DHSI. Past publications include the Companion to Digital Humanities, Companion to Digital Literary Studies, and Mind Technologies.
Emeritus Faculty
- Michael Best: Internet Shakespeare Editions
Undergraduate
- ENGL 305 Visual Rhetoric for Professional Writers
- ENGL 401 Web Design
- ENGL 407 Computer-Mediated Communication
- ENGL 412 Computer-Assisted Research and Reporting
Past Graduate Courses
- Other (International)
For a full listing of courses, please see the Academic calendar.