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Surrounding St. Paul’s Cathedral, St. Paul’s Churchyard has had a multi-faceted history in use and function, being the location of burial, crime, public gathering, and celebration. Before its destruction during the civil war, St. Paul’s Cross was located in the middle of the churchyard, providing a place for preaching and the delivery of Papal edicts (Thornbury).
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Programmer, 2018-present. Junior Programmer, 2015-2017. Research Assistant, 2014-2017. Joey Takeda was a graduate student at the University of British Columbia in the Department of English (Science and Technology research stream). He completed his BA honours in English (with a minor in Women’s Studies) at the University of Victoria in 2016. His primary research interests included diasporic and indigenous Canadian and American literature, critical theory, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.
Project Manager, 2015-2019. Katie Tanigawa was a doctoral candidate at the University of Victoria. Her dissertation focused on representations of poverty in Irish modernist literature. Her additional research interests included geospatial analyses of modernist texts and digital humanities approaches to teaching and analyzing literature.
Data Manager, 2015-2016. Research Assistant, 2013-2015. Tye completed his undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2015.
Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–present. Associate Project Director, 2015–present. Assistant Project Director, 2013-2014. MoEML Research Fellow, 2013. Kim McLean-Fiander comes to
Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of
Blaine Greteman is an associate professor of English at the University of Iowa, specializing in early modern literature, digital humanities, and nonfiction. In 2013 he published
Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC). Martin ported the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database implementation in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been lead programmer on the project and has also been responsible for maintaining the project schemas. He was a co-applicant on MoEML’s 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant.
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The following blog post identifies a disjunction in how the geohumanities
In the introduction to
rapidly growing zone of creative interaction between geography and the humanities(Richardson, Luria, Ketchum, and Dear 3), which they call the
geography of the bookas an emerging, interdisciplinary field of inquiry concerned with the spatiality of print production, dissemination, and reception (Howsam 57; MacDonald and Black 505; Keighren 745; Ogborn and Withers 1). The term
the recognition of the materiality of the book means that it is an object that must have geography. Its making can be located and its movement can be mapped. Its history as an object is shaped by where it is made and where it can subsequently be found. This makes for many possible geographies. The material conditions of production and circulation of books take place on every scale from that of the printed page itself to global networks of trade and empire.
Despite the increasingly theoretical understanding of the
Though historians of early modern English print culture have undoubtedly embraced information technology and the digital humanities, they have yet fully to include complex spatial considerations in their information architecture. Popular databases and digital archives such as the London
) for place of printing or bookselling. The
260|a London : |b Printed by Thomas Creede, for Tho. Millington, and Iohn Busby. And are to be sold at his house in Carter Lane, next the Powle head, |c 1600.
It is high time that programmers, encoders, print historians, and geographers collaborate to develop a database (or series of databases) that geocode(s) the information that already exists in online resources such as the
[t]here are dramas pertaining to the spatial contexts of print culture waiting to be explored [through the application of information technologies](Black 109). In the field of early modern print culture studies, many of these