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 , plus a few recent conferences: , , and ).
Why DH? Read about it in Matt Kirschenbaum's "" as well as in the Companions to and -- plus the , which documents typical days in the life of those who practice DH.
- Kim Blank is the creator, writer, and editor of ,, (with Magdalena Kay), and the website.
- Alison Chapman is the Principal Investigator and editor of the SSHRC-funded , 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
- : Work in progress includes , the Modernist Versions Project, and various essays on digital culture. Member of the editorial board for and 's council of advisors.
- Lincoln Shlensky: Project in progress on an online archive of Caribbean film resources.
- : Varied work in progress, including the Implementing New Knowledge Environments project, centred in the , which also runs the . Past publications include the , , and .
Emeritus Faculty
- Michael Best:
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 .