Paul N. Caton
Women Writers Project / Scholarly Technology Group
Box 1841
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island 02912
401-863-3619 (office) / Paul_Caton@Brown.edu / www.stg.brown.edu
Research Interests
The interrelations between the disciplinary assumptions and
practices of English on the one hand and those of humanities
computing--especially text encoding--on the other.
Education
- Ph.D., 2004, English Literature, Brown University.
Advisor: Karen Newman.
- M.A., 1990, American Literature, University of Leeds
- B.A., 1980, English and American Literature, University of East Anglia
Academic Positions
Electronic Publications Editor/Project Analyst Women Writers Project, Scholarly Technology Group, Computing and Information Services, Brown University; 2000 to present.
As Electronic Publications Editor I turn SGML-encoded files into electronic books and put them online, using stylesheets to control their display. I also commission, edit, and put online the contextual material written by scholars for the Renaissance Women Online subset of the textbase. As a Project Analyst for STG, I consult on projects involving the use of advanced information technology in academic research and scholarly communication.
- Electronic Publications Editor, WWP, 1996-2000
Other
- Civil servant, Blackpool, England.
- Teacher of English as a Second Language: Indonesia, Portugal, London, Kuwait.
- Customs Officer, London, England.
Publications
- "Markup's Current Imbalance." Markup Languages: theory and practice 3(1). Winter 2001.
- "Nouns Proper and Improper: Using the TEI for primary sources." With Sydney Bauman and Julia Flanders. Computers and the Humanities. 32. 1998.
- "Putting Renaissance Women Online." Proceedings of the ICCC/IFIP Working Conference on Electronic Publishing '97.
Presentations
- "Form, Content, and the Philosopher's Stone," ALLC/ACH 2004, Göteborg University, June 2004.
- "Theory in Text Encoding," ALLC/ACH 2003, University of Georgia, May 2003.
- "Making Elements from Arbitrary Sections: A Practical Application of XML Topic Maps," with Morris Hirsch, Extreme Markup Languages 2001, Montreal, August 2001.
- "Towards a Politics of Text Encoding," ALLC/ACH 2001, New York University, June 2001.
- "Text Encoding and the New English Department," Digital Resources for the Humanities 2000, University of Sheffield, September 2000.
- "Markup's Current Imbalance," Extreme Markup Languages 2000, Montreal, August 2000.
- "Using <TEXT> in TEI Markup," ALLC/ACH '99, University of Virginia, June 1999.
- "Encoding Renditional Information in Primary Source Texts," with Julia Flanders, ALLC/ACH '99, University of Virginia, June 1999.
- "Traditional Standards, Innovative Methods: Using and Understanding Electronic Editions," with Julia Flanders, discussion session at the sixth annual conference of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Newport, November 1998.
- "Early Women Writers and Postmodern Culture: Creating and Teaching with the Brown Women Writers Project Textbase," workshop at Attending to Early Modern Women: Crossing Boundaries, University of Maryland, College Park, November 1997.
- "Applying the TEI: Problems in the classification of proper nouns," with Sydney Bauman and Julia Flanders, ALLC/ACH '97, Kingston, Ontario, June 1997.
- "Putting Renaissance Women Online," New Models and Opportunities: ICCC/IFIP Working Conference on Electronic Publishing '97, University of Kent, England, April 1997.
- "A Map of Captain Smith," Europe and America: The Legacy of 'Discovery' - the West Chester University Foreign Languages Conference, West Chester University, Pennsylvania, September 1992.
Professional Activities
- Member of DTD Working Group for the EEBO Text Creation Partnership, March 2000
References
Upon Request
More Biographical Information
STG Staff Page:
http://www.stg.brown.edu/staff/paul.html
This CV:
http://www.wwp.brown.edu/~paul/catoncv.html