Susan Brown
Canada Research Chair, Collaborative Digital Scholarship
Professor
College of Arts
School of English and Theatre Studies
Guelph, Ontario
sbrown@uoguelph.ca
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(519) 824-4120 ext. 53266
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Dr. Brown's research centres on an ongoing interdisciplinary collaborative research endeavour — the Orlando Project (www.ualberta.ca/orlando), which published its flagship literary-historical textbase online with Cambridge University Press in 2006 (orlando.cambridge.org) and continues to innovate...
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Bio/Research
Dr. Brown's research centres on an ongoing interdisciplinary collaborative research endeavour — the Orlando Project (www.ualberta.ca/orlando), which published its flagship literary-historical textbase online with Cambridge University Press in 2006 (orlando.cambridge.org) and continues to innovate in the production of advanced tools for feminist literary research. Scholarly reviews have heralded the textbase as setting a new standard both in its scholarly area and in its digital delivery. This research has received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s Major Collaborative Research Initiatives, Standard Research Grants, and Image, Text, Sound Technology programs, and from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation.
Recent publications (often collaboratively authored) include: “Published Yet Never Done: the tension between projection and completion in digital humanities research,” Digital Humanities Quarterly (2009); “Pompilia: The Woman (in) Question.” Reprinted in Robert Browning’s Poetry (Norton, 2007); “Designing Rich-Prospect Access to a Feminist Literary History,” WWR: The Official Magazine of Women Writing and Reading (2007); two essays on the Orlando Project in the Silver Jubilee Issues of Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature (2007); Between Markup and Delivery; or Tomorrow's Electronic Text Today," Mind Technologies: Humanities Computing and the Canadian Academic Community (University of Calgary P, 2006); "Alternatives to the Missionary Position: Anna Leonowens and Victorian Travel Writing,” reprint in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Gale 2007); “Facing the Deep: The Orlando Project Delivery System 1.0.” Text Technology (2005); “Sorting Things In: feminist knowledge representation and changing modes of scholarly production,” Women’s Studies International Forum 29 (2006).
With the co-editors of Orlando, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, Brown received the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs Outstanding Achievement Award in 2006 for the leadership of a project of “international significance” that is “an impressive example of a project experimenting with computing in the context of meaningful humanities inquiry and the site for training for graduate students in digital scholarship.” The Orlando team was awarded the 2008 T-REX (Text Analysis Developer’s Alliance Research Evaluation Exchange) Best New Tool Prize for the development of its Degrees of Separation Tool which provides a means of exploring social networks in literary history.
Brown has taught courses ranging from the second semester to graduate level, on topics ranging from Victorian poetry, industrial fiction, women’s writing, feminist literary history, gender and genre, generic change, the serial novel, and the female bildungsroman to the representation of sexual assault in feminist theory and fiction. She has supervised MA and PhD students on topics including hypertext, the gothic, the Victorian novel, the New Woman, detective fiction, Victorian fiction and imperialist discourse, and domestic assault in Victorian fiction. She received a University of Guelph Faculty Association Special Merit teaching award in 1999 for the use of digital methods in her teaching. In summer 2009 she co-taught a course in Digital Methods for Literary History at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria.
Since joining the University of Guelph in 1991, she has contributed to various aspects of university administration, including membership on the Senate Awards Committee and Board of Graduate Studies Committee, and chairing on the College of Arts Awards Committee and the Senate Awards Editorial Subcommittee. She has served on numerous hiring and selection committees, participated actively in graduate and undergraduate curriculum development, and chaired the committee that proposed the joint doctoral program in English and Drama with Wilfrid Laurier University. She served on the Board of Governors from 2002-to 2005. She sat on the Portal Management Team and chaired its Evaluation subcommittee. She chaired the Visiting Speakers Committee in 2008. She has adjudicated for Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Ontario Graduate Scholarship, and internal scholarships and awards, as well as for the HASTAC MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition. She has served on the editorial boards of the Victorian Review, NINES (Networked Interface for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship), and the Poetess Archive.
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Recent publications (often collaboratively authored) include: “Published Yet Never Done: the tension between projection and completion in digital humanities research,” Digital Humanities Quarterly (2009); “Pompilia: The Woman (in) Question.” Reprinted in Robert Browning’s Poetry (Norton, 2007); “Designing Rich-Prospect Access to a Feminist Literary History,” WWR: The Official Magazine of Women Writing and Reading (2007); two essays on the Orlando Project in the Silver Jubilee Issues of Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature (2007); Between Markup and Delivery; or Tomorrow's Electronic Text Today," Mind Technologies: Humanities Computing and the Canadian Academic Community (University of Calgary P, 2006); "Alternatives to the Missionary Position: Anna Leonowens and Victorian Travel Writing,” reprint in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Gale 2007); “Facing the Deep: The Orlando Project Delivery System 1.0.” Text Technology (2005); “Sorting Things In: feminist knowledge representation and changing modes of scholarly production,” Women’s Studies International Forum 29 (2006).
With the co-editors of Orlando, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, Brown received the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs Outstanding Achievement Award in 2006 for the leadership of a project of “international significance” that is “an impressive example of a project experimenting with computing in the context of meaningful humanities inquiry and the site for training for graduate students in digital scholarship.” The Orlando team was awarded the 2008 T-REX (Text Analysis Developer’s Alliance Research Evaluation Exchange) Best New Tool Prize for the development of its Degrees of Separation Tool which provides a means of exploring social networks in literary history.
Brown has taught courses ranging from the second semester to graduate level, on topics ranging from Victorian poetry, industrial fiction, women’s writing, feminist literary history, gender and genre, generic change, the serial novel, and the female bildungsroman to the representation of sexual assault in feminist theory and fiction. She has supervised MA and PhD students on topics including hypertext, the gothic, the Victorian novel, the New Woman, detective fiction, Victorian fiction and imperialist discourse, and domestic assault in Victorian fiction. She received a University of Guelph Faculty Association Special Merit teaching award in 1999 for the use of digital methods in her teaching. In summer 2009 she co-taught a course in Digital Methods for Literary History at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria.
Since joining the University of Guelph in 1991, she has contributed to various aspects of university administration, including membership on the Senate Awards Committee and Board of Graduate Studies Committee, and chairing on the College of Arts Awards Committee and the Senate Awards Editorial Subcommittee. She has served on numerous hiring and selection committees, participated actively in graduate and undergraduate curriculum development, and chaired the committee that proposed the joint doctoral program in English and Drama with Wilfrid Laurier University. She served on the Board of Governors from 2002-to 2005. She sat on the Portal Management Team and chaired its Evaluation subcommittee. She chaired the Visiting Speakers Committee in 2008. She has adjudicated for Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Ontario Graduate Scholarship, and internal scholarships and awards, as well as for the HASTAC MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition. She has served on the editorial boards of the Victorian Review, NINES (Networked Interface for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship), and the Poetess Archive.
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