Talks and Presentations
Formatted in MLA (9th ed.) style. Following standard CV convention, the author’s own name is omitted from each entry; collaborators are given after the title. Talk titles appear in quotation marks, conference and series names in italics, with titles of discrete works nested in italics inside quoted titles. Descriptive labels (Keynote address, Workshop, Panel, Roundtable) are supplied only where the format is not evident from the section heading. Entries are reverse-chronological.
Plenaries and Invited Talks
2024
“What We Teach When We Teach DH.” With Brian Croxall. Centre for Digital Humanities, Toronto Metropolitan University, 2024. Invited talk.
2023
“Balancing Need, Speed, and the Future of Collaboration in Digital Scholarly Production.” Digital Humanities Virtual Seminar, hosted by THINC Lab (U of Guelph), CRIHN (U de Montréal), the Humanities Data Lab (U of Ottawa), and the Centre for Digital Humanities (Toronto Metropolitan U), 2023. Invited talk.
2021
“REED London’s London.” Animating Text, Newcastle U, 2021. Invited talk.
2020
“Theory and Praxis: REED London, Data Literacy, and Research-Based Learning.” Digital Humanities — Theorie und Methodik / Digital Humanities — Theory and Methodology lecture series, U of Leipzig, 2020. Invited talk.
“Mapping the Z-Axis: Realigning Past and Present in Spatial Humanities.” China DH 2020 Conference, 2020. Keynote address.
“‘He Could Undumpish the Queen’: Richard Tarlton — the Promise and Peril of Undertaking a Digital Scholarly Edition.” Penn State Erie, 2020. Invited talk.
2019
“Why Teach DH: Teaching, Learning, Doing DH in a Liberal Arts Context.” Triangle Digital Humanities Institute on Digital Humanities Pedagogy, Duke U, 2019. Keynote address.
2017
“What’s in a Name? How Semantic Markup Transforms the Classroom.” TEI 2017, U of Victoria, 2017. Keynote address.
“Jack of All Trades: Master of One: The Promise of Intermethodological Collaboration.” Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, 2017. Keynote address.
2016
“Bespoke DH: How We Tailor Our Research to Fit the Classroom.” U of Guelph, 2016. Invited talk.
“How Do We Teach? Digital Humanities Pedagogy in an Imperfect World.” Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Société canadienne des humanités numériques Annual Meeting, 2016. Keynote address.
2015
“Stepping Away from the Podium.” Digital Pedagogy Institute, 2015. Plenary address.
Conference Presentations
2026
“But What Is an Event? Modeling Historical Data with TEI and CIDOC-CRM.” TEI Annual Conference and Members’ Meeting (TEI 2026), Vancouver, Canada, 2026, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21968267.
2025
“Who Are We Coding For? Foregrounding Text Analysis in Digital Scholarly Editing.” TEI 2025 Annual Meeting, 2025.
“Reimagining Early English Drama: Recentering Historical Narratives Using the LEAF Platform.” Digital Humanities 2025 Annual Meeting, 2025.
“Surfacing Encoding-Driven Analysis in Digital Editions with DToC.” GREN-CRIHN Workshop “New Perspectives on Critical Editions” (Part 2), Apr. 2025, Montreal, Canada, https://www.crihn.org/nouvelles/2025/03/13/workshop-new-perspectives-on-critical-editions-part-2/.
“Tag Team: AI and TEI in LEAF Commons.” With Susan Brown. Conférences Intelligence artificielle et nouvelle légitimation des processus, Jan. 2025, Montreal, Canada.
2024
“‘I Don’t Even See the Code’: The Dynamic Table of Contexts — Optimizing Our Encoded Texts for Web-Based Reading and Analysis Environments.” With Susan Brown. TEI 2024 Annual Meeting, 2024.
“Producing Semantic Digital Editions Using LEAF Commons Tools.” With James Cummings and Gabriel Calarco. TEI 2024 Annual Meeting, 2024. Workshop.
“Reclaiming Their Time: Developing the Heresies Project as an Intersectional Digital Feminist Resource.” Digital Humanities 2024 Annual Meeting, 2024.
“LEAF Commons: Using Linked Tools for Digital Editorial.” With Susan Brown, James Cummings, Mihaela Ilovan, and Rachel Milio. Digital Humanities 2024 Annual Meeting, 2024. Workshop.
“Teaching Text Encoding In and Out of the Classroom.” Digital Humanities 2024 Annual Meeting, 2024. Panel.
“Heritage Unbound: Empowering Communities through Digital Humanities.” With James Cummings. Digital Humanities 2024 Annual Meeting, 2024.
“#alltheographies: Developing an Event Model through LEAF-LINCS Collaboration.” With Rachel Milio. Forward Linking 2024, 2024, https://doi.org/10.25547/8J05-EW09.
“The Linked Editing Academic Framework (LEAF) in the Multimodal Annotation Ecosystem.” Reimagining Annotation for Multimodal Cultural Heritage, Feb. 2024, Rennes, France.
2023
“Teaching Encoding In and Out of the Classroom.” TEI 2023 Annual Meeting, 2023. Panel.
“Building Workflows for HTR to TEI Up-Conversion and Enhancement.” With James Cummings. TEI 2023 Annual Meeting, 2023.
“Documenting Workflows for HTR to TEI Conversions for Cultural Institutions: The Evolving Hands Project.” With James Cummings and Alexandra Healey. Digital Humanities 2023 Annual Meeting, 2023.
“Digitizing Suzette: Creating a Framework for the Collaborative Analysis of an Historical French Textbook.” With John Westbrook and Rebecca Heintzelman. Digital Humanities 2023 Annual Meeting, 2023.
“Words Are Hard: Untangling Understandings of How Places Were Important in REED London’s London.” Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Société canadienne des humanités numériques Annual Meeting, 2023.
“Feminism, Art and Politics … and Data.” Making Links Conference, U of Guelph, 2023.
2022
“Complex Textual Editing through Text Encoding: LEAF-Writer.” Atelier “Éditions critiques numériques et multilinguisme,” U de Montréal, 2022.
“Engaging TEI Editors through LEAF-Writer.” With Susan Brown, James Cummings, Mihaela Ilovan, Luciano Frizzera, and Rachel Milio. TEI 2022 Annual Meeting, 2022. Workshop.
“Evolving Hands: HTR and TEI Workflows for Cultural Institutions.” With James Cummings, Ian Johnson, Carrie Pirmann, Alexandra Healey, and Valentina Flex. TEI 2022 Annual Meeting, 2022.
“The Linked Editing Academic Framework: Creating an Editorial Environment for Collaborative Scholarship and Publication.” With Susan Brown, James Cummings, and Mihaela Ilovan. Digital Humanities 2022 Annual Meeting, 2022.
2021
“Suzette’s Object Lessons; or, Pedagogy Cubed.” With John Westbrook, Sarah Haber, Juliya Harnood, and Rebecca Heintzelman. TEI 2021 Annual Meeting, 2021.
“Combining the Factoid Model with TEI: Examples and Conceptual Challenges.” With John Bradley. TEI 2021 Annual Meeting, 2021.
“The Invisible Labor of DH Pedagogy.” With Brian Croxall. Association for Computers and the Humanities Annual Meeting, 2021.
“Space, Scale, and Scope in the Linked Dataverse: LINCS and the Map of Early Modern London–REED London Online Alignment Project.” With Janelle Jenstad. Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Société canadienne des humanités numériques Annual Meeting, 2021.
“Accounting for Accounting: REED London and the Development of a Financial Transaction Encoding Schema.” With Charlotte Simon. Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Société canadienne des humanités numériques Annual Meeting, 2021.
2020
“Who Teaches When We Teach DH? Some Answers and More Questions.” With Brian Croxall. Digital Humanities 2020 Annual Meeting, 2020.
“Encoding Working Lives: Linking Labor, Office, and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Collections.” With Katherine Faull and Justin Schaumberger. Digital Humanities 2020 Annual Meeting, 2020.
“Demystifying ADHO, the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations.” With Elisabeth Burr, Brian Croxall, Isabel Galina Russell, Matt Gold, Leif Isaksen, Micki Kaufman, Ernesto Priani Saisó, Ashley Sanders Garcia, Sara Sikes, Juan Steyn, and Glen Worthey. Digital Humanities 2020 Annual Meeting, 2020.
2019
“Mobile Lives — Digital Approaches to a World in Motion.” Digital Hermeneutics: From Research to Dissemination, Digital Humanities and Digital History at the German Historical Institute Annual Conference, Oct. 2019. Roundtable.
“Encoding Working Lives: Modeling an Undergraduate DH Research Project on Archival Moravian Ego-Documents.” With Katherine Faull, Carly Masonheimer, Jess Hom, and Marleina Cohen. Association for Computers and the Humanities Annual Meeting, 2019.
“Who Teaches When We Teach DH?” With Brian Croxall. Digital Humanities 2019 Annual Meeting, 2019.
“Encoding the ‘Floating Gap’: Linking Cultural Memory, Identity, and Complex Place.” With Katherine Faull. Digital Humanities 2019 Annual Meeting, 2019.
“Connecting the Coterie: Linking Women in Early Modern London.” With Kim Martin. Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, 2019.
“Presented and Not Published: REED London Reconsidering the Digital Edition.” Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, 2019.
2018
“Purpose and Purpose-Built: Considering Multi-Purposality in Developing a Linked Historical Gazetteer of London.” With Kim Martin. Linked Pasts IV: Views from Inside the LOD-Cloud, Dec. 2018.
“Minding the ‘Floating Gap’: Cultural Memory, Identity, and Metonymous Place in Colonial Pennsylvania.” With Katherine Faull. Linked Pasts IV: Views from Inside the LOD-Cloud, Dec. 2018.
“REED London and the Promise of Critical Infrastructure.” With Kim Martin. Digital Humanities 2018 Annual Meeting, 2018.
“Resolving the Polynymy of Place; or, How to Create a Gazetteer of Colonized Landscapes.” With Katherine Faull. Digital Humanities 2018 Annual Meeting, 2018.
2017
“REED: Touring Players 1580–1590.” Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, 2017.
“REED London: Humanistic Roots, Humanistic Futures.” Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, 2017.
2016
“Can I Be a Feminist and Still Play Assassin’s Creed? … An Anxious Interrogation.” Electronic Literature Organization Conference, 2016. Keynote response.
“REED and the Prospect of Networked Data.” Society for Renaissance Studies / Société canadienne d’études de la Renaissance Annual Meeting, 2016.
“Digital Networks and Communities: Current Issues and Responses.” Society for Renaissance Studies / Société canadienne d’études de la Renaissance Annual Meeting, 2016. Roundtable.
“Data Envy.” Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, 2016.
2015
“Pedagogical Hermeneutics and Teaching DH in a Liberal Arts Context.” With Katherine Faull. Digital Humanities 2015 Annual Meeting, 2015.
“Building Bridges to — Where? The Phenomenology of Undergraduate DH.” With Katherine Faull. Innovations in Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Local, National, and International Training, 2015.
“Teaching DH in a Liberal Arts Context.” Joint ACH and Canadian DH Conference, 2015.
“Bringing Digital Tools into the Classroom: A Case Study Using the Map of Early Modern London.” Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, 2015. Respondent.
2014
“Digital Learning in an Undergraduate Context: Promoting Long-Term Student-Faculty (and Community) Collaboration in the Susquehanna Valley.” With Katherine Faull. Digital Humanities 2014 Annual Meeting, 2014.
“What We Make of Code: The Role of Programming in the Digital Humanities.” With James O’Sullivan. Digital Humanities 2014 Annual Meeting, 2014.
“Mapping Toponyms in Early Modern Plays with MoEML and ISE.” With Janelle Jenstad. Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, 2014.
“Building Bridges between Early Modern Digital Research and Pedagogy.” Pacific Coast Conference in British Studies Annual Meeting, 2014.
2013
“Visualization of Geospatial/Textual Relationships in King Henry VIII.” Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, 2013.
2012
“Tracing the Steps of Touring Actors: Using REED Records and GIS to Illuminate Sixteenth-Century Performance Practices.” Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, 2012.
“Teaching Early Modern Popular Culture with Digital Editions.” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, 2012.