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Awards and Honors | Language Training
Employment
2005–present
Digital Publications Manager
Mark Twain Project, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Lead responsibility for http://www.marktwainproject.org, including TEI local practice, encoding, conversion; project planning; usability review; textual editing; XSLT, CSS, JavaScript; documentation; testing/QA; supervision of graduate student assistants.
2000–2, 2003–5
Graduate Student Instructor
Dept. of English, University of California, Berkeley
Designed and taught research/composition courses, including “Gods and Monsters,” the Arthurian tradition from the ninth century to T. H. White, “Think about the Future,” “Accidental Tourists in Speculative Fiction.”
1999–2005
Graduate Researcher
Digital Scriptorium (Columbia University and UC Berkeley)
Helped to construct best-practice markup guidelines for precursor to P5′s TEI-MS module, and applied TEI-XML P4 to Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library and Census of Petrarch Manuscripts in the U.S.
1996–98
Technical Writer
Oracle Corp.
Project lead for Order Entry/Shipping documentation.
Education
Ph.D. in English, University of California, Berkeley, December 2006
Dissertation: “Textual Portability and Its Uses in England, ca. 1250–1330″
Examination fields: Middle English, Old English, medieval English historiography
B.A. in English, University of California, Berkeley, December 1996
Thesis: “The Middle English Prose Brut: An Interpolation and Some Textual Problems in Bancroft MS UCB 152”
Publications
Associate editor and Web publisher, Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1, ed. Harriet Elinor Smith et al. University of California Press, 2010. http://bit.ly/automt1
Co-editor, Newly Recovered Letters, Part 1. UC Press, 2010. http://bit.ly/mtpo-letters
Author of six entries, Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle. Graeme Dunphy, gen. ed. Brill, 2010.
Contrib. editor, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, ed. Victor Fischer. Rev. ed. UC Press, 2010.
Editor, Terminus: Collected Papers on Harry Potter, 7–11 August 2008. Narrate Conferences: 2010.
Editor, Phoenix Rising: Collected Papers on Harry Potter, 17–21 May 2007. Narrate Conferences: 2008.
Contrib. editor, Letters 1876–1880, ed. Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, and Harriet Elinor Smith. UC Press, 2007. http://bit.ly/mtpo-letters
Review of William Marx and Raluca Radulescu, eds., Trivium 36 (2006) special issue, “Readers and Writers of the Prose Brut,” in Journal of the Early Book Society (June 2007), 269–72.
Review of Anna Livia, Pronoun Envy: Literary Uses of Linguistic Gender, in Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis (Jan. 2002), 297–303.
Professional Activities and Presentations
Speaker, “How to Make a Digital Scholarly Edition—and Why,” C19 Americanists conference, Berkeley, Ca., Apr. 2012.
Representative, Library Prize for Undergraduate Research committee (UC Berkeley Library), 2009–11.
Member of planning committee, Sirens conference, Vail, Colo., Oct. 2010 and Oct. 2009.
Roundtable participant, “Early Middle English Society I: Editing Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Laud Misc. 108,” 44th Int’l Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 2009.
Representative, Educational Initiatives Council (UC Berkeley Library), 2008–9.
Member of Webmasters committee, Organization for Transformative Works, 2008–9.
Academic programming coordinator, Terminus conference, Chicago, Ill., Aug. 2008.
Academic programming coordinator, Phoenix Rising conference, New Orleans, La., May 2007.
Speaker, “Textual Assemblies: The Historiographical Veneer of Harvard Law MS 1,” Medieval Association of the Pacific, UCLA, Mar. 2007.
Speaker, “Diagramming the Past: Li Rei de Engletere and The Description of England,” 41st Annual Int’l Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 2006.
Speaker, “Breaking The Description of England,” Medieval Studies Lunch Talk, UC Berkeley, Apr. 2006.
Representative, Academic Senate Advisory Committee on the Library (UC Berkeley), 2004–6.
Member of planning committee, The Witching Hour conference, Salem, Mass., Oct. 2005.
Invited participant, “Roundtable Discussion: Teaching the Middle Ages,” Outsiders, Monsters, and Twisted Visions conference, UC Berkeley, Apr. 2005.
Speaker, “Narrative Rendered as Illustration: ‘Li Rei de Engletere’ in Two Genealogical Texts,” Medieval Association of the Pacific, San Francisco, Ca., Mar. 2005
Invited workshop facilitator, “Markup of Medieval Manuscripts,” Digital Scriptorium / Columbia University, Jan. 2005.
Participant, Digital Collections Research Project Focus Group, Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley, Oct. 2003.
Workshop facilitator, “Transcription and Markup of Medieval Manuscripts,” Digital Scriptorium / The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, Apr. 2002 and Aug. 2002.
Chair of planning committee, Medieval Performativity conference, UC Berkeley, May 2002.
Speaker, “Brenhinedd y Saesson and the Inheritance of Galfridian Time,” 37th Annual Int’l Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 2002.
Speaker, “Pre-Conquest English Kings in a Welsh Chronicle,” Medieval Studies Lunch Talk, UC Berkeley, Mar. 2002.
Speaker, “Editing History: Two Peterborough Chronicles,” Medieval Intellectual History: Heretical Versions conference, UC Berkeley, Nov. 1999.
Awards and Honors
2011 Gold Medal, California Book Awards, and 2011 PROSE Award (Humanities) for Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1
Medieval Studies Research Grant, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
Humanities and Social Sciences Summer Research Grant, 1999
Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship, 1998–2000
Language Training
Old and Middle English, Old French, Modern French, Old and Middle High German, Modern German, Latin, Old Icelandic, and Middle Welsh