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Faculty & Staff

  • THE ROBERTA BOWMAN DENNING PROFESSOR
  • PROFESSOR, BY COURTESY, OF GERMAN STUDIES
Research Areas:
  • Early manuscript technologies
  • Medieval religious poetry and prose
  • The history of the handmade book
  • Digital Collection, Preservation and Display of Textual Objects
  • PROFESSOR OF EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
Research Areas:
  • Chinese Poetry
  • Song dynasty Poetry and literati Culture
  • The social and historical context of Song dynasty aesthetics
  • DIGITAL MANUSCRIPTS PROGRAM MANAGER, STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Current Fellows

Research Areas:
  • Anglo-Saxon Charters
  • Urban History
  • Roman and Anglo-Saxon Archaeology
  • Digital humanities
  • History of the book

Past Fellows

Research Areas:
  • Old English
  • Medieval Irish and Welsh
  • Old Norse
  • Anglo-Latin languages and literatures
Research Areas:
  • Late Republican prose and Augustan poetry
  • Augustan culture
  • Word-image studies
  • Pompeii and Herculaneum
  • Graffiti
  • Digital humanities
Research Areas:
  • Old English and Middle English poetry
  • Prosody and poetics
  • Digital humanities
  • History of the book
  • History of the English language
  • DOCTORAL STUDENT IN ENGLISH, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF TEXT TECHNOLOGIES
Research Areas:
  • Renaissance literature
  • British literature
  • Book history
  • Globalization
  • New media studies
  • DOCTORAL STUDENT IN ENGLISH, GRADUATE COORDINATOR OF TEXT TECHNOLOGIES
Research Areas:
  • Digital humanities
  • Victorian literature
  • The Gothic novel
  • 18th and 19th century journalism
  • Serialized novels

Affiliates

  • LECTURER OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Research Areas:
  • Medieval literature and texts
  • Circulation and transmission of texts
  • Codicology and palaeography of manuscripts
Research Areas:
  • Anglo-Latin literature
  • Arthurian literature
  • John Gower
  • Manuscript studies and book history
  • PROFESSOR OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES, UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW
Research Areas:
  • Curator of manuscripts at the British Library
  • A chief curatorial contact and an editor of the volume recording the work for the British Library’s Initiatives for Access program
  • The lead British Library contact for the award-winning Electronic Beowulf project
  • A member of the team which helped create the British Library’s first web site
  • PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
  • REGIUS PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ENGLISH LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
Research Areas:
  • Late medieval drama and poetry
  • The literary culture of the reign of Henry VIII
  • The history of the stage
  • The cultural consequences of the Henrician Reformation