Julia Hammond Flanders

Women Writers Project
Box 1841, Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Julia_Flanders at brown dot edu
401-863-2135

Publications

Digital Humanities and the Politics of Scholarly Work, doctoral dissertation. Brown University, 2005.

"Electronic Editions: Anthologies," in Electronic Textual Editing, co-edited by John Unsworth, Lou Burnard and Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe. Co-sponsored by the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions and the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 2005.

"Data and Wisdom: Electronic Editing and the Quantification of Knowledge", in Computing the Edition: Proceedings of the Conference on Editorial Problems, ed. Fred Unwalla, forthcoming from University of Toronto Press, 2003.

"Learning, Reading, and the Problem of Scale," in Pedagogy 2:1 (2001).

"Gender and the Politics of the Electronic Text," in Electronic Text: Investigations in Method and Theory, ed. Kathryn Sutherland, Oxford University Press, 1997.

"Trusting the Electronic Edition," Computers and the Humanities 31(4): 301-310, 1997.

"Names Proper and Improper: Applying the TEI to the Classification of Proper Nouns," with Syd Bauman, Paul Caton, and Mavis Cournane, Computers and the Humanities 31(4): 285-300, 1997.

"Some Problems of TEI Markup and Early Printed Books," co-authored with Carole Mah, in Revue Informatique et Statistique dans les Sciences Humaines 32 (1996). Rpt. in Computers and the Humanities 31(1): 31-46, 1997.

Invited lectures

"Text Analysis and the Problem of Pedantry", keynote presentation at the Face of Text conference, McMaster University, November 2004.

"The Women Writers Project and Scholarly Digital Publication", Symposium on Scholarly Communication in the Humanities. Brandeis University, November 2004.

"The Practical Politics of Text Encoding", New Directions in Humanities Research. Stanford University Humanities Center, November 2004.

"The TEI in the World, the World of the TEI", Digital Humanities/Humanities Computing Summer Institute, University of Victoria, Canada, June 2004.

"...Therefore I am?: Problems of Agency in the Digital Text", Text Studies series at University of Nebraska at Lincoln, March 2003.

"What's Past is Prologue: Publishing Historical Texts Online," Siena College, February 2003.

"Between Source and Screen: Considering Textual Integrity in an Electronic Edition," Biblioteche elettriche: VIII incontro di studi di Informatica Umanistica, Verona, November 1999.

"Data and Wisdom: Electronic Editing and the Quantification of Knowledge", Computing the Edition (the 1997 Conference on Editing Problems), University of Toronto, November 1997.

Presentations

"Book into Data: the Electronic New Variorum Shakespeare," delivered as part of a session organized by the MLA Committee on the New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare. MLA, Philadelphia, December 2004.

"ODD Customizations" (with Syd Bauman), Extreme Markup Languages, Montreal, August 2004.

"More Light, Less Lite: A text encoding guide for literary scholars", ALLC/ACH, University of Göteborg, Sweden, June 2004.

"Markup, Idealism, and the Physical Text", ALLC/ACH, University of Gšteborg, Sweden, June 2004.

"Documenting Text Encoding Practices for Academics: The Women Writers Project's TEI Encoding Guide", Project Briefing at CNI Fall Task Force Meeting, Portland, Oregon, December 2003.

"Ambiguity and Text Encoding", ACH/ALLC, Athens, Georgia, June 2003.

"Tilting at Windmills: The Text Encoding Initiative and the ELO-PAD initiative", ELO/Digital Cultures e(X)literature Conference, Santa Barbara, April 2003.

"New Technologies and Renaissance Studies: Renaissance Women Online", Renaissance Society of America, Toronto, March 2003.

"Electronic Editions: Anthologies," Modern Language Association, New York City, December 2002.

"SGML and XML: Managing Scale, Reading in Detail," Modern Language Association, New York City, December 2002.

"Physical Books, Virtual Texts," Modern Language Association, New Orleans, December 2001.

"Words, Texts, and Data," Third Triennial conference of the John Bunyan Society, Kent State University, October 2001.

"Slow Media Crossing," Archaeology of Multimedia, Brown University, October 2000.

"Writing about it: Documentation and Humanities Computing," ALLC/ACH, Edinburgh, July 2000.

"Inside the Black Box: Designing and Understanding Online Research Tools", presented at the conference of the Modern Language Association, Chicago, December 1999.

"Encoding Renditional Information in Primary Source Texts", presented at the joint conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Charlottesville, Virginia, June 1999.

"Real Editions for Real People: Editing and Encoding Women's Theatre Texts and Materials", presented at the conference of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, December 1998.

"Traditional Standards, Innovative Methods: Using and Understanding Electronic Editions", with Paul Caton; workshop presentation at the conference of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Newport, Rhode Island, November 1998.

"Scholarly Habits and Digital Resources", presented at Digital Resources in the Humanities, Glasgow, September 1998.

"Introduction to Using the TEI," presented at the Ecole thématique "Codage et Manipulation de ressources linguistiques" at CRIN, Nancy, France, September 1997.

"Trusting the Electronic Text," presented at the joint conference of the Association for Computing in the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Kingston, Ontario, June 1997.

"Nouns Proper and Improper: Using the TEI for primary sources," presented at the joint conference of the Association for Computing in the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Kingston, Ontario, June 1997.

"Editorial Methodology and the Electronic Text," presented at the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism conference, Boston, MA, November 1996.

"The Electronic Library: Problems and Possibilities," presented at the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies conference, Pittsburgh, PA, September 1996.

"Gender, Anxiety, and the Electronic Text," presented at Digital Resources in the Humanities, Oxford, July 1996.

"Book, Body and Text: The Women Writers Project and Problems of Text Encoding," presented at the joint conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computing in the Humanities, Bergen, Norway, June 1996.

"Transcription Challenges Arising from the Use of SGML: The Problem of Multiple Hierarchies," presented at the ACM Digital Libraries conference, Bethesda, MD, March 1996.

"Inside the Electronic Archive: The Brown University Women Writers Project," presented at the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism conference, Baltimore, July 1995.

"Tale-Bearing and the Bared Tail: Nationalism and the Body in Smollett and Sterne," presented at the conference of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Providence, Rhode Island, 1993.

Workshops and Training

"Text Encoding Fundamentals" with Syd Bauman. Four-day workshop on TEI encoding. Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, June 2005.

"Advanced Topics in TEI" with Syd Bauman. Two-day workshop, University of California, Berkeley, November 2004.

"Introduction to TEI" with Syd Bauman. Two-day workshop, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, February 2005.

"Text Encoding Fundamentals". Five-day workshop on TEI encoding. Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, June 2004.

"Advanced TEI Case Studies" with Syd Bauman. Half-day training session presented in conjunction with the Text Encoding IntiativeÕs third annual membersÕ meeting, Nancy, France, November 2003.

"Introduction to TEI" with Syd Bauman Two-day training session presented at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Urbana, IL, October 2003.

"Text Encoding Using the TEI" with Syd Bauman and Terry Catapano. Full-day training session presented in conjunction with the Text Encoding InitiativeÕs second annual membersÕ meeting, Chicago, October 2002.

"The Principles of Encoding and of Designing Using TEI." Full-day workshop and seminar sponsored by OLITA (Ontario Library and Information Technology Association), McMaster University, December 2001.

"Introduction to Using the TEI," One-day workshop presented at the Ecole thŽmatique "Codage et Manipulation de ressources linguistiques" at CRIN, Nancy, France, September 1997.

Employment

Brown University Women Writers Project:
October 2000-present: Director
June 1998-September 2000: Textbase Editor and Project Manager
August 1994-June 1998: Textbase Editor
August 1993-August 1994: Managing Editor

Scholarly Technology Group, Brown University:
October 2000-present: Associate Director for Textbase Development
August 1994-October 2000: Consultant

SGML consulting for Martin Hensel Corporation, Needham, MA. December 1995-August 1997

Education

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