Diane K. Jakacki

My research sits at the meeting point of early modern performance history and digital scholarly practice. On one side, that means the drama itself: title-page illustration, touring players, city comedy, and the ways printed playbooks advertised and interpreted performance. On the other, it means the infrastructure that makes historical evidence tractable – text encoding, linked open data, spatial analysis, and the tools editors actually use.

Much of my current work is related to the Linked Editing Academic Framework (LEAF), where I serve as co-site lead within the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship consortium, and through REED London Online, which models performance events and how it impacts our understanding of early modern London. I held a Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities in 2022-23 for work on early modern performance events and linked open data.

I currently serve on the Board of Directors for the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium TEI-C; I previously held a series of service positions with the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations ADHO.

I have co-edited three volumes: What We Teach When We Teach DH (U Minnesota Press Debates in DH series, 2023) and <teaching>: Text Encoding as Humanities Pedagogy (U Minnesota Press, Forthcoming in 2027) , both with Brian Croxall; and Early Modern Studies After the Digital Turn with Laura Estill and Michael Ullyot (ITER Press 2016).