Teaching Text Encoding
Croxall, Brian and Diane Jakacki, eds. (forthcoming 2027). Teaching Text Encoding. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
CV
A PDF version of this CV is available here.
Education
- Ph.D. in English Language and Literature, University of Waterloo, 2010
- Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-2013
- M.A. in English, University of Toronto, 2005
- B.A. in English and History, Lafayette College, 1986
Dissertation: ‘Covetous to parley with so sweet a frontis-peece’: Illustration in Early Modern Play-Texts. Supervisor: Dr. Katherine Acheson. Committee: Dr. Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Dr. Sarah Tolmie. External Reader: Dr. Holger Schott-Syme.
Fellowships and Honours
- Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities, 2022-23. Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program: “Early Modern Performance Events and Linked Open Data.”
- Marquis Who’s Who in America
Research Areas
- Early Modern Studies: early modern drama and literature, performance, performance and cultural history.
- Digital Humanities: digital humanities theory and praxis, particularly the intersection of textual and spatial analysis, digital pedagogy, visual rhetoric, and multimedia theory and design.
Grants
Principal Investigator (awarded)
- NHPRC-Mellon Digital Edition Publishing Cooperatives Implementation Grant, 2020-23: Liberal Arts Based Digital Publishing Cooperative. ($1,000,000)
- NEH-AHRC New Directions for Digital Scholarship in Cultural Institutions Grant, 2022-24: Evolving Hands: Building Workflows and Scalable Practices for Handwriting. James Cummings, co-PI. ($100,000 combined)
- Candland HIP Award, 2023-2026: The Heresies Project. Roger Rothman and Erica Delsandro, co-PIs. ($30,000)
- NHPRC-Mellon Digital Edition Publishing Cooperatives Planning Grant, 2018: REED London. ($100,000)
Collaborator / Researcher
- Canadian Foundation for Innovation, 2019-2023: REED London, as part of the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship consortium. Susan Brown, PI.
- SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, 2020-2022: Linked Early Modern Drama Online. Janelle Jenstad, PI.
- CANARIE Research Software Program, 2017-2019: Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory. Susan Brown, PI.
- SSHRC Insight Grant, 2022-2026: “The Future of Research in Early Modern Marginalia.” Katherine Acheson, PI.
Principal Investigator (under review)
- NEH Collections Stewardship Grant: Confluence at Bucknell: Enduring Archival Innovation. Susan Falciani Maldonado, co-PI.
Publications
The Shoemaker’s Holiday
Jakacki, Diane, ed. (forthcoming). The Shoemaker's Holiday. Buffalo, NY: Broadview Press.
Henry VIII
Jakacki, Diane, ed. (forthcoming). Henry VIII. Digital and print editions. Digital Renaissance Editions.
When You See Me You Know Me
Jakacki, Diane, ed. (forthcoming). When You See Me You Know Me. Digital edition. Digital Renaissance Editions.
Feminist in a Software Lab: Difference + Design, by Tara McPherson
Jakacki, Diane. (2024). Review of Feminist in a Software Lab: Difference + Design, by Tara McPherson. Digital Humanities Quarterly 18(2).
World Historical Gazetteer, directed by Ruth Mostern and Karl Grossner
Jakacki, Diane. (2024). Review of World Historical Gazetteer, directed by Ruth Mostern and Karl Grossner. Reviews in Digital Humanities 5(5).
What We Teach When We Teach DH: Digital Humanities in the Classroom
Croxall, Brian and Diane Jakacki, eds. (2023). What We Teach When We Teach DH: Digital Humanities in the Classroom. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
The Invisible Labor of DH Pedagogy
Croxall, Brian and Diane Jakacki. (2022). "The Invisible Labor of DH Pedagogy." In The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities, James O'Sullivan, ed. London: Bloomsbury Press.
DH2017 Conference Proceedings: Digital Humanities Scholarship
Jakacki, Diane and Edward Vanhoutte, eds. (2019). DH2017 Conference Proceedings: Digital Humanities Scholarship.
Internet Shakespeare Editions and the Infinite (Editorial) Others
Jakacki, Diane. (2018). "Internet Shakespeare Editions and the Infinite (Editorial) Others." In Shakespeare's Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools, Janelle Jenstad, Jennifer Roberts-Smith, and Mark Kaethler, eds. Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives (review)
Jakacki, Diane. (2017). Review of Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives, Heidi Brayman Hackel and Ian Frederick Moulton, eds., and New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, V: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 2007-2010, Michael Roy Denbo, ed. Renaissance Quarterly 70(7).
Reifying the Maker as Humanist
Jakacki, Diane, Katherine Faull, and John Hunter. (2017). "Reifying the Maker as Humanist." In Making Things and Drawing Boundaries: Experiments in the Digital Humanities, Jentery Sayers, ed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Mapping Toponyms in Early Modern Plays with the Map of Early Modern London and Internet Shakespeare Editions Projects
Jakacki, Diane and Janelle Jenstad. (2016). "Mapping Toponyms in Early Modern Plays with the Map of Early Modern London and Internet Shakespeare Editions Projects." In Early Modern Studies After the Digital Turn, Laura Estill, Diane Jakacki, and Michael Ullyot, eds. Malden, MA: ITER: 237-258.
Doing DH in the Classroom: Transforming the Humanities Curriculum through Digital Engagement
Jakacki, Diane and Katherine Faull. (2016). "Doing DH in the Classroom: Transforming the Humanities Curriculum through Digital Engagement." In Doing Digital Humanities: Practice, Training and Research, Richard J. Lane, Raymond Siemens, and Constance Crompton, eds. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Teaching Shakespeare’s Histories in the Composition Classroom
Jakacki, Diane. (2016). "Teaching Shakespeare's Histories in the Composition Classroom." In Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's History Plays, Laurie Ellinghausen, ed. New York: Modern Language Association.
Early Modern Studies After the Digital Turn
Estill, Laura, Diane Jakacki, and Michael Ullyot, eds. (2016). Early Modern Studies After the Digital Turn. Malden, MA: ITER.
Programming in the Digital Humanities
O'Sullivan, James, Diane Jakacki, and Mary Galvin. (2015). "Programming in the Digital Humanities." Digital Scholarship in the Humanities: 142-147.
Digital Learning in an Undergraduate Context: Promoting Long Term Student-Faculty Collaboration
Jakacki, Diane and Katherine Faull. (2015). "Digital Learning in an Undergraduate Context: Promoting Long Term Student-Faculty Collaboration." Digital Scholarship in the Humanities: 76-82.
From the Ground Up: Shaping Community, Collaboration, and Multiliteracies at Georgia Tech
Blake, Brandy, Rebecca Burnett, Andy Frazee, Karen Head, Diane Jakacki, Chris Ritter, Nirmal Trivedi, and Christopher Weedman. (2014). "From the Ground Up: Shaping Community, Collaboration, and Multiliteracies at Georgia Tech." In Making Space: Writing Instruction, Infrastructure, and Multiliteracies, James Purdy and Danielle Nicole DeVoss, eds.
Georgia Tech WOVENText, Version 2.1
Burnett, Rebecca, Katy Crowther, Andy Frazee, Kathleen Hanggi, Diane Jakacki, Jennifer Orth-Veillon, Sarah Schiff, Malavika Shetty, and Robin Wharton. (2012). Georgia Tech WOVENText, Version 2.1. New York: Bedford St. Martin's.
The Play of Wit and Science
Jakacki, Diane, ed. (2012). The Play of Wit and Science. In the Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama. Buffalo, NY: Broadview Press.
Rose Tools: A Medieval Manuscript Text-Image Annotation Project
Jakacki, Diane and Christine McWebb. (2012). "Rose Tools: A Medieval Manuscript Text-Image Annotation Project." In Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture, Brent Nelson and Melissa Terras, eds. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Title Page Engravings and Re-ordering the Quartos of A Game at Chess
Jakacki, Diane. (2012). "Title Page Engravings and Re-ordering the Quartos of A Game at Chess." Research on Medieval and Renaissance Drama XLX: 45-70.
‘Canst Paint a Doleful Cry?’: Promotion and Performance in the Spanish Tragedy Title Page Illustration
Jakacki, Diane. (2010). "'Canst Paint a Doleful Cry?': Promotion and Performance in the Spanish Tragedy Title Page Illustration." Early Theatre 13(1): 13-36.
Talks and Presentations
But What Is An Event? Modeling Historical Data with TEI and CIDOC-CRM
Conference presentation at TEI Annual Conference and Members' Meeting (TEI 2026), Vancouver, Canada
Surfacing Encoding-Driven Analysis in Digital Editions with DToC
Workshop at GREN-CRIHN Workshop, New Perspectives on Critical Editions (Part 2), Montreal, Canada
Reimagining Early English Drama: Recentering Historical Narratives using the LEAF Platform
Conference presentation at Digital Humanities 2025 Annual Meeting,
Tag Team: AI and TEI in LEAF Commons
Conference presentation at Conferences Intelligence artificielle et nouvelle legitimation des processus, Montreal, Canada
Who Are We Coding For? Foregrounding Text Analysis in Digital Scholarly Editing
Conference presentation at TEI 2025 Annual Meeting,
#alltheographies: Developing an Event Model Through LEAF-LINCS Collaboration
Conference presentation at Forward Linking 2024,
Heritage Unbound: Empowering Communities through Digital Humanities
Conference presentation at Digital Humanities 2024 Annual Meeting,
Teaching Text Encoding In and Out of the Classroom
Panel at Digital Humanities 2024 Annual Meeting,
LEAF Commons: Using Linked Tools for Digital Editorial Work
Workshop at Digital Humanities 2024 Annual Meeting,
Reclaiming Their Time: Developing The Heresies Project as an Intersectional Digital Feminist Resource
Conference presentation at Digital Humanities 2024 Annual Meeting,
Producing Semantic Digital Editions Using LEAF Commons Tools
Workshop at TEI 2024 Annual Meeting,
The Linked Editing Academic Framework (LEAF) in the Multimodal Annotation Ecosystem
Conference presentation at Reimagining Annotation for Multimodal Cultural Heritage, Rennes, France
“I don’t even see the code”: The Dynamic Table of Contexts
Conference presentation at TEI 2024 Annual Meeting,
What We Teach When We Teach DH
Invited talk at Centre for Digital Humanities, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada
Feminism, Art and Politics … and Data
Conference presentation at Making Links Conference, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
Words Are Hard: Untangling Understandings of How Places were Important in REED London’s London
Conference presentation at Canadian Society for Digital Humanities 2023 Annual Meeting, Canada
Digitizing Suzette: Creating a Framework for the Collaborative Analysis of an Historical French Textbook
Conference presentation at Digital Humanities 2023 Annual Meeting,
Documenting Workflows for HTR to TEI Conversions for Cultural Institutions: The Evolving Hands Project
Conference presentation at Digital Humanities 2023 Annual Meeting,
Building Workflows for HTR to TEI Up-Conversion and Enhancement
Conference presentation at TEI 2023 Annual Meeting,
Teaching Encoding In and Out of the Classroom
Panel at TEI 2023 Annual Meeting,
Balancing Need, Speed, and the Future of Collaboration in Digital Scholarly Production
Invited talk at Digital Humanities Virtual Seminar (THINC Lab, CRIHN, Humanities Data Lab, Centre for DH), Online
The Linked Editing Academic Framework: Creating an Editorial Environment for Collaborative Scholarship and Publication
Conference presentation at Digital Humanities 2022 Annual Meeting,
Evolving Hands: HTR and TEI Workflows for Cultural Institutions
Conference presentation at TEI 2022 Annual Meeting,
Engaging TEI Editors Through LEAF-Writer
Workshop at TEI 2022 Annual Meeting,
Complex Textual Editing through Text Encoding: LEAF-Writer
Invited talk at Atelier Editions critiques numeriques et multilinguisme, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Accounting for Accounting: REED London and the Development of a Financial Transaction Encoding Schema
Conference presentation at Canadian Society for Digital Humanities 2021 Annual Meeting, Canada
Space, Scale, and Scope in the Linked Dataverse
Conference presentation at Canadian Society for Digital Humanities 2021 Annual Meeting, Canada
The Invisible Labor of DH Pedagogy
Conference presentation at Association for Computers and the Humanities 2021 Annual Meeting,
Combining the Factoid Model with TEI: Examples and Conceptual Challenges
Conference presentation at TEI 2021 Annual Meeting,
Suzette’s Object Lessons, or Pedagogy Cubed
Conference presentation at TEI 2021 Annual Meeting,
REED London’s London
Invited talk at Animating Text, Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom
Demystifying ADHO, the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
Panel at Digital Humanities 2020 Annual Meeting,
Encoding Working Lives: Linking Labor, Office, and Religion in 18th-century Manuscript Collections
Conference presentation at Digital Humanities 2020 Annual Meeting,
Who Teaches When We Teach DH? Some Answers and More Questions
Conference presentation at Digital Humanities 2020 Annual Meeting,
“He could undumpish the Queen”: Richard Tarlton and the Promise and Peril of Undertaking a Digital Scholarly Edition
Invited talk at Penn State Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania
Mapping the Z-Axis: Realigning Past and Present in Spatial Humanities
Keynote at China DH 2020 Conference, China
Theory and Praxis: REED London, Data Literacy, and Research-Based Learning
Invited talk at Digital Humanities - Theory and Methodology lecture series, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Mobile Lives: Digital Approaches to a World in Motion
Panel at Digital Hermeneutics: From Research to Dissemination, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC
Presented and Not Published: REED London Reconsidering the Digital Edition
Conference presentation at Modern Language Association 2019 Annual Meeting,
Connecting the Coterie: Linking Women in Early Modern London
Conference presentation at Renaissance Society of America 2019 Annual Meeting,
Encoding the ‘Floating Gap’: Linking Cultural Memory, Identity, and Complex Place
Conference presentation at Digital Humanities 2019 Annual Meeting,
Who Teaches When We Teach DH?
Conference presentation at Digital Humanities 2019 Annual Meeting,
Encoding Working Lives: Modeling an Undergraduate DH Research Project on Archival Moravian Ego-Documents
Conference presentation at Association for Computers and the Humanities 2019 Annual Meeting,
Why Teach DH: Teaching, Learning, Doing DH in a Liberal Arts Context
Keynote at Triangle Digital Humanities Institute on Digital Humanities Pedagogy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Minding the ‘Floating Gap’: Cultural Memory, Identity, and Metonymous Place in Colonial Pennsylvania
Conference presentation at Linked Pasts IV: Views From Inside The LOD-cloud,
Purpose and Purpose-built: Considering Multi-purposality in Developing a Linked Historical Gazetteer of London
Conference presentation at Linked Pasts IV: Views From Inside The LOD-cloud,
Resolving the Polynymy of Place, or How to Create a Gazetteer of Colonized Landscapes
Conference presentation at Digital Humanities 2018 Annual Meeting,
REED London and the Promise of Critical Infrastructure
Conference presentation at Digital Humanities 2018 Annual Meeting,
REED London: Humanistic Roots, Humanistic Futures
Conference presentation at Modern Language Association 2017 Annual Meeting,
REED: Touring Players 1580-1590
Conference presentation at Shakespeare Association of America 2017 Annual Meeting,
Jack of all Trades, Master of One: The Promise of Intermethodological Collaboration
Keynote at Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, Oxford, United Kingdom
What’s in a Name? How Semantic Markup Transforms the Classroom
Keynote at TEI 2017, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
Data Envy
Conference presentation at Modern Language Association 2016 Annual Meeting,
Digital Networks and Communities: Current Issues and Responses
Panel at Society for Renaissance Studies 2016 Annual Meeting,
REED and the Prospect of Networked Data
Conference presentation at Society for Renaissance Studies 2016 Annual Meeting,
Can I be a Feminist and Still Play Assassin’s Creed? An Anxious Interrogation
Keynote at Electronic Literature Organization 2016 Conference,
How do we Teach? Digital Humanities Pedagogy in an Imperfect World
Keynote at Canadian Society for Digital Humanities Annual Meeting, Canada
Bespoke DH: How we Tailor our Research to Fit the Classroom
Invited talk at University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
Bringing Digital Tools into the Classroom: A Case Study Using the Map of Early Modern London
Panel at Modern Language Association 2015 Annual Meeting,
Teaching DH in a Liberal Arts Context
Conference presentation at Joint ACH and Canadian Society for Digital Humanities Conference,
Building Bridges to – Where? The Phenomenology of Undergraduate DH
Conference presentation at Innovations in Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Local, National, and International Training,
Pedagogical Hermeneutics and Teaching DH in a Liberal Arts Context
Conference presentation at Digital Humanities 2015 Annual Meeting,
Stepping Away from the Podium
Plenary at Digital Pedagogy Institute,
Building Bridges between Early Modern Digital Research and Pedagogy
Conference presentation at Pacific Coast Conference in British Studies 2014 Annual Meeting,
Mapping Toponyms in Early Modern Plays with MoEML and ISE
Conference presentation at Renaissance Society of America 2014 Annual Meeting,
What we make of Code: The Role of Programming in the Digital Humanities
Conference presentation at Digital Humanities 2014 Annual Meeting,
Conference Proceeding talk 3 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
Conference proceedings talk at Testing Institute of America 2014 Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Talk 2 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
Talk at London School of Testing, London, UK
Digital Learning in an Undergraduate Context: Promoting Long Term Student-Faculty (and Community) Collaboration in the Susquehanna Valley
Conference presentation at Digital Humanities 2014 Annual Meeting,
Tutorial 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
Tutorial at UC-Berkeley Institute for Testing Science, Berkeley, CA, USA
Visualization of Geospatial/Textual Relationships in King Henry VIII
Conference presentation at Shakespeare Association of America 2013 Annual Meeting,
Teaching Early Modern Popular Culture with Digital Editions
Conference presentation at Renaissance Society of America 2012 Annual Meeting,
Tracing the Steps of Touring Actors: Using REED Records and GIS to Illuminate Sixteenth-Century Performance Practices
Conference presentation at Sixteenth Century Society and Conference,
Talk 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
Talk at UC San Francisco, Department of Testing, San Francisco, CA, USA
Teaching
Peer Review
- Digital Humanities Quarterly
- Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
- Renaissance Quarterly
- Journal of Digital Culture and Electronic Scholarship
Service: Directorships and Advisory Boards
- Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship
- Executive Board (2022-present)
- Site lead, LEAF platform (2022-present)
- Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
- Executive Board Chair-Elect (2021-present)
- Conference Coordinating Committee Chair (2018-present)
- Conference Coordinating Committee Vice-Chair (2017-2018)
- Program Committee Chair (2017)
- Text Encoding Initiative
- Board of Directors Chair (2022-present)
- Board of Directors (2020-present)
- Canadian Society for Digital Humanities
- Executive Board (2014-2020)
- Internet Shakespeare Editions
- Technical Editor (2015-2019)
- Editorial Board (2014-2019)
- Orlando Project
- Editorial Board (2016-present)
- Records of Early English Drama
- Executive Board (2015-present)
- Digital Advisory Board (2010-present)
- NEH-NHPRC Convening on Next-Generation Historical and Scholarly Editions
Mentorship and Advising
- External Examiner, Corina Koolen doctoral defense, University of Amsterdam, 2018
- Co-Director, Rebecca Heintzelman honors thesis, Bucknell University, 2024
- Director, Evan Klimas college thesis, Bucknell University, 2024
- Co-Director, Rachel Milio honors thesis, Bucknell University, 2022
- Reader, Sarah Haber departmental thesis, Bucknell University, 2022
- Reader, Gwendolyn Hofstetter departmental thesis, Bucknell University, 2020
Professional Memberships
- Canadian Society for Digital Humanities
- Modern Language Association
- Renaissance Society of America
- Text Encoding Initiative