NAME: Geoffrey Martin ROCKWELL

BUSINESS ADDRESS:

Department of Philosophy

3-67 Assiniboia Hall

University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta

Canada T6G 2E7

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

1987-1995 Ph.D. (Philosophy), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Thesis: A Unity of Voices, A Definition of Philosophical Dialogue

1985-1987 M.A. (Philosophy), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada

1982 Preparatory Certificate for the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language,

St. Giles College, London, U.K.

1979-1980 College Year In India Program (in Madurai, Tamil Nadu), through the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, U.S.A.

1977-1982 B.A. (Philosophy), Haverford College, Haverford, PA, U.S.A.

Languages: Natural: English, Italian, French; Computing: BASIC, PASCAL, Perl, Ruby, Director/Lingo, HTML, XML, XSLT, HyperCard, Toolbook and MySQL

CURRENT STATUS:

Professor, Department of Philosophy

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

centerNet

Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs

Association for Computers and the Humanities

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

2008 to present Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta

2006 to 2008 Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia, McMaster University

2005 to 2006 Acting Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia, McMaster University

2000 to 2005 Associate Professor, School of the Arts and Assistant to the Dean for Computing (until 2004) , McMaster University

1996 to 2000 Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Assistant to the Dean for Computing, McMaster University

1994 to 1996 Lecturer in Humanities Computing, McMaster University and Assistant to the Dean for Computing

1991 to 1994 Senior Instructional Technology Specialist, University of Toronto Instructional and Research Computing.

1988 to 1991 Text and Presentation Specialist, University of Toronto Computing Services.

1983 to 1985 High School and Middle School teacher at the American School of Kuwait.

SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Editorial Boards:

2006 - present: Co-editor for Text Technology

2005 - present: Associate Interactive Media Editor for Digital Humanities Quarterly

1999 - 2006: Associate Editor for Text Technology

Executive Positions:

2008 - present: Member of the External Advisory Board of the Royal Irish Academy Digital Humanities Observatory

2008 - present: Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

2008: Chaired the program committee and organized a SHARCNET sponsored “Workshop on Digital Humanities and High Performance Computing”

2007 - present: Member of the centerNet Steering Committee. Led the development of a Discussion Document on A centerNet Portal (http://www.philosophi.ca/pmwiki.php/Main/ACenterNetPortal)

2006: Member of the Organizing Committee for a Digital Tools Summit in Linguistics held in June 2006 (http://www.ipsr.ku.edu/DTSL/)

2006-7: Member of the Organizing Committee for SDH/SEMI 2007 at the Congress in Saskatchewan

2005 - present: Associate Interactive Media Editor for Digital Humanities Quarterly

2005-6: Member of the Program Committee for CaSTA (Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis) at the University of New Brunswick in 2006

2005 - 2008: Member of the Modern Languages Association’s Committee on Information Technology

2005: Member of the Organizing Committee and co-author of the Final Report of the Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities at the University of Virginia

2004 - present: Chair of the Awards Committee for the Society of Digital Humanities (previously COCH/COSH)

2004 - 2007: Chair of the Publications Committee of the Allied Digital Humanities Organizations

2003-4: Ethics, IP and Technology Transfer Sub-Committee to the Board of ORNEC

2003: Member of the Program Committee for CaSTA (Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis) at the University of Victoria in 2003.

2003-4: Vice Chair of the Text Encoding Initiative Board

2002-3: Member of the Text Encoding Initiative Board and Secretary

2002-4: Member of the External Board of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) and chair of the subcommittee of the Board on Institutional Integration

2001-2: Member of the Text Encoding Initiative Council and Chair of the Training Committee

2001: Member of the Conference Advisory Board for The Humanities Computing Curriculum/ The Computing Curriculum in the Arts and Humanities conference at Malaspina University College, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Nov. 9-10, 2001

2000-3: Member of the Executive Council for the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Also on the Subcommittee on Membership and Job Seeking, and the ACH representative to the Allied Digital Humanities Organizations Committee with the ALLC, TEI, and NINCH to explore common services.

2000-present: Vice President, Society for Digital Humanities, previously Consortium for Computing in the Humanities. Programme Chair for COCH/COSH for 2001

1998-2005: Director, Consortium for Computing in the Humanities

Journal Referee:

2000-2008: Peer Reviewer for Text Technology

2002-2003: Peer Reviewer and Mentor for Literary and Linguistic Computing

2000: Peer Reviewer for Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences

1999-2004: Peer Reviewer for Computers and the Humanities

1999: Technical Reviewer for the Internet Shakespeare Editions - Reviewed tagging for an electronic edition of Cymbeline.

External Grant Reviews:

2009: Member of the Resource Allocation Committee of SHARCNET for review of Digital Humanities Fellowships

2008: Review Panellist for the Humanities Collections and Resources Program of the National Endowment of the Humanities

2006 - 2008: Member of the SSHRC evaluation panel for the ITST (Image, Text, Sound and Technology) program. Chair in 2007 - 2008.

2006 - 2007: Member of the Advisory Evaluation Review Committee for the SSHRC Research/Creation Grants in the Fine Arts program

2004: Member of the SSHRC evaluation panel for the Research/Creation Grants in Fine Arts program

2004: Président, Comité d'évaluation visiteur, Évaluation à mi-parcours de regroupements stratégiques (centres de recherche), Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture. (Chair of the Visiting Evaluation Committee for the FQRSC.)

2003: Member of the CFI Expert Committee for projects related to Digital Libraries

2002: External Reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities, USA

2002: External Reviewer for Canada Foundation for Innovation New Opportunities Fund

2002: External referee for the 2003 research competition of the Alzheimer Society of Canada

2001: External Reviewer for Canada Foundation for Innovation New Opportunities Fund

2000: Independent referee for an application to the Resource Enhancement Scheme of the Arts and Humanities Research Board (of the United Kingdom)

Other:

2008-9: Peer Reviewer for DH 2009 Conference held at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA in June 2009

2008-9: Peer Reviewer for SDH/SEMI 2009 conference at the HSSFC Congress at Carleton University, Ottawa

2008 - present: Contributing to Bamboo project (http://projectbamboo.org/). Attended the January 2009 meeting in Tucson Arizona and contributed to the Tools and Content Partners section.

2008 - 9: Faculty representative on the Program Committee for Beyond Analogue: Current Graduate Research in Humanities Computing conference a the University of Alberta, February, 2009

2006: Manuscript reviewer for the University of Illinois’ series on Topics in the Digital Humanities

2006: Manuscript reviewer for MIT Press

2006 - present: Technical Observer for the Pleiades Project (http://icon.stoa.org/trac/pleiades)

2006: Member of the BAL/Vivarium Scholar’s Summit at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC. This was a roundtable convened to discuss the future of Latin libraries online with funding support from the Mellon Foundation. (August 2006)

2006: Member of a SSHRC committee to advise on a SSHRC Leader’s Network

2004-2006: Advisory Board of the Digital Humanities/ Humanities Computing Summer Institute at the University of Victoria

2004: Conference organizer for The Face of Text, a conference on text analysis and visualization supported by SSHRC

2003: Member of the External Review Committee for the Institute for Advanced Technology at the University of Virginia, May, 2003

2002-3: Member of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Science Task Force on the Renewal of Scholarly Infrastructure in Canada

2002-3: Peer Reviewer for ACH-ALLC 2003 Conference held in Athens, Georgia (USA)

2002: Participated in a virtual workgroup to design a new SSHRCC program entitled Image, Text, Sound and Technology

2002: Session chair and member of the Adjudication Committee that reviewed proposals for the TCPS On-line Tutorial requested by the Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics

2001-2: Peer Reviewer for ALLC-ACH 2002 Conference held in Tübingen, Germany

2001: Peer Reviewer for book proposal to Blackwell Publishers

2000 - present: Member of the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition at McMaster University

2000-2: Member of the National Data Archiving Consultation group organized by SSHRCC and the National Archives of Canada

2000-1: Peer Reviewer for ACH-ALLC 2001 Conference held in New York, USA

1999-2000: Peer Reviewer for ALLC-ACH 2000 Conference held in Glasgow, UK

1999: Reviewer for the McGill University Faculty of Arts Computer Services

1998-9: Peer Reviewer for ALLC-ACH '99 Conference held in Virginia, USA

1997-8: Peer Reviewer for ALLC-ACH '98 Conference held in Debrecen, Hungary

1996-7: Peer Reviewer for Digital Resources for the Humanities 97 conference

1996: One of three external reviewers of the Department of Computer Science at Oberlin College

HONOURS:

2005 Ontario Association of Art Galleries Merchant Capital Group Design Award for Web Project (This award was for the team that develop the Future Cities web site with the Art Gallery of Hamilton.)

2003 Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at the University of Alberta

2001-2 Visiting Scholar at the University of Virginia

1999 Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Oxford Humanities Computing Unit, Oxford University

1989 Martha Lile Love Teaching Award, University of Toronto

1988-9 Apple Research Partner (Apple Research Partnership Program - ARPP)

1988 Ontario Graduate Scholarship

1982 Award for best (Undergraduate Senior) Thesis in Philosophy (shared)

RESEARCH FUNDING:

Grants for, 1994 - present:

May 2009: Lead on “Bridging High Performance Computing and the Humanities” request for support for a workshop. The VP Research of the University of Alberta has provided $8,900 in support for this.

2009: Collaborator on SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiative “Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE).” The principal investigator is Ray Siemens (U of Victoria) and the project has $3,683,300 in funding over 7 years.

January 2009: Co-investigator on a SSHRC Presidential Fund for Research, Innovation and Collaboration award for $14,950. This was led by Michael Eberle-Sinatra (U de Montréal.)

August, 2007: Principal investigator on a SSHRC Research and Development Initiative grant to support Mashing Texts for $38,000 over two years.

August, 2007: Co-applicant on a SSHRC Research and Development Initiative grant to support Digital Texts 2.0: Towards Social Networking of Texts for $39,500 over one year. This was led by Stéfan Sinclair.

April, 2007: Togo Salmon Fund grant to support the McMaster Museum of Art Online Roman Coin Collection. This project was jointly led with Dr. Michele George and the grant was for $7,200.

2005: Collaborator on SSHRC Standard Research Grant, “Humanities Visualization” led by Stan Ruecker at the University of Alberta. The grant has $126,556 in funding for three years.

December, 2005: Co-principal applicant with Lynn Hughes (Concordia University) on a SSHRC Strategic Research Cluster Interim Grant, Interactive Matter (iMatter). The budget is $ 25,000.

October, 2004: Co-principal applicant with Lynn Hughes (Concordia University) on a SSHRC Strategic Research Cluster Design Grant, Interactive Matters. The budget is $ 24,000.

June, 2004: Recipient with Faulkner and Brace of $6,000 from the Salmon Roman Studies committee towards developing a web site on Roman Coins in the McMaster Museum collection.

January, 2004: Recipient of a SSHRC ITST (Image Text Sound Technology) grant for a conference The Face of Text. The budget is $ 25,000.

July, 2003: Recipient of the John Thomas Fund for Scholarly Publishing at McMaster University, $955.

January, 2002: Project Leader for a Multi-institutional CFI Research Infrastructure project entitled “Text Analysis Portal for Research” (TAPoR). The total budget for the project is $ 6,784,740 with a CFI contribution of $ 2,629,223. This four year project includes the University of Victoria, the University of Alberta, the University of Toronto, McMaster University, l’Université de Montréal, and the University of New Brunswick.

December, 2001: Co-investigator on a SSHRCC MCRI called Globalization and Autonomy that is led by Dr. William Coleman. The total budget was for $2,487,629 and the project is to last 5 years.

December, 2001: Co-investigator on a SSHRCC MCRI called InterPARES 2(International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems) that is led by Dr. Luciana Duranti (University of British Columbia). The budget is for $2.5 M and the project is to last 5 years.

April, 2001: Co-applicant on Ontario Research and Development Challenge Fund, Infrastructure and Operating Grant led and managed by Norm Archer. The project is titled, “McMaster eBusiness Research Centre” and it has been approved to run from 2001-2006 with a budget of $5.3M.

August, 2001: Co-investigator on a project led by Andrew Mactavish titled “Living Lectures and Streaming Video”. $50,000 of funding came from the Provost of McMaster University.

December, 2000: Co-investigator of a project led by Ruta Valaitis titled “Extending Problem-Based Learning On-line to Enhance Access for Health Sciences Students” was funded by the New Practices in Learning Technologies programme of the Office of Learning Technology. The project has a budget of $303,200 of which $149,375 is being provided by OLT.

August, 2000: Project leader for a CFI and OIT funded Research Infrastructure project entitled "Broadband Multimedia Server for the Humanities". The total budget for this project is $564,975 of which the maximum CFI contribution is $218,985 which in turn is matched by OIT.

March, 2000: Allocated $1,000 from the Salmon Roman Studies committee towards Phase 2 of the Trajan's Column Website project. This project was led by Dr. Umholtz. Dr. George and I are collaborators.

1999 - 2002: Co-investigator on SSHRCC grant awarded in April 1999 on "Une poétique de la list. Edition hypertextuelle et analyse lexicographique de poèmes énumératifs des XIIe-XVIe siècles" led by Dr. Madeleine Jeay for $ 56,360.

1999: Arts Research Grant for $555 to attend COSH/COCH at the 1999 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.

1998 - 2000: Office of Learning Technology. One of three key personnel at McMaster on a CAW Canada project to study "Integrated Distance/Classroom Education for Autoworkers" ($89,640 contribution from Office of Learning Technology), duration: 2 years.

1997: Co-investigator on a SSHRCC grant awarded in April 1998 on "Performance in Victorian Hamilton (1846-1896)." This was a 3 year grant for a total of $39,250. The Principal Investigator is Dr. Frederick A. Hall.

1997 - 1999: One of the Principal Investigators and Member of the Project Management Team for a project entitled "Evaluating the Effectiveness of Computer Assisted Learning in the area of Adult Basic Education Skills Upgrading and English as a Second Language." This project is a joint initiative between the Humanities Communications Centre and Labour Studies at McMaster University and the Worker Education Centre of Hamilton. The Office of Learning Technology, Human Resources Development Canada is providing $100,000 towards a budget of $213,000 for the two year project through their OLT Contribution Programme.

1997 - 1999: Member of the Reference Group for "Workplace Webucation" funded by the National Literacy Secretariat, Human Resources Development Canada. This project was led by the Worker Education Centre of Hamilton and received $24,000 to develop interactive courseware for workplace literacy training.

1997: McMaster UCTL Teaching and Learning grant with Dr. Harrison entitled "A Computerized Self-Test for Introductory Economics" for $2,800.

1995: McMaster University Arts Research Board/CIS grant for programming for 1 day a week for 6 months.

1995: McMaster UCTL Teaching and Learning Project grant for $2,365.47. This grant was for the creation of on-line materials for 2E03 Introduction to Humanities Computing.

1994: McMaster Arts Research Board grant for $4,480. This grant was for a programmer to develop textual visualization software.

LIFETIME PUBLICATIONS:

Peer Reviewed:

Books:

Defining Dialogue: From Socrates to the Internet, Amherst, New York: Humanity Books (an imprint of Prometheus Books), 2003. (230 Pages)

Contributions to Books:

“TAPoR: Building a Portal for Text Analysis”, in Mind Technologies; Humanities Computing and the Canadian Academic Community, edited by Raymond Siemens and David Moorman. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2006, p. 285-299.

Secondary author with Andrew Mactavish of a chapter on “Multimedia Education in the Arts and Humanities”, in Mind Technologies; Humanities Computing and the Canadian Academic Community, edited by Raymond Siemens and David Moorman. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2006, p. 225-243.

Co-author with Siemens, Burk, Butler, Gerrity, and Liddell of a section on “The Canadian Arts and Humanities Computing Centre: Past, Present, and Possible Futures”, in Mind Technologies; Humanities Computing and the Canadian Academic Community, edited by Raymond Siemens and David Moorman. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2006, p. 257-284. My sub-section, “Humanities Computing at McMaster” runs from p. 259-266.

Primary author with Andrew Mactavish of a chapter on "Multimedia" for A Companion to Humanities Computing. edited by Ray Siemens, Susan Schriebman, and John Unsworth. London: Blackwell Press, 2004, p. 108-120.

“Le projet Hyperlistes: les listes et leur vocabulaire dans la poésie médiévale énumérative sur le Web”, secondary author with Madeleine Jeay in Ancien et Moyen Français Sur Le Web, Ottawa: Les Éditions David, p. 181-201, 2003.

“Éloge de l’hypertext. Problèmes d’édition d’un corpus hétérogène”, written with Madeleine Jeay, in Le moyen français; Le traitement du texte, edited by Claude Buridant, Strasbourg: Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, p. 101-114, 2000.

"Empreintes dans le sable: Visualisation scientifique et analyse de texte", primary author, in Litterature, informatique, lecture, edited by Vuillemin and LeNoble, Paris: Pulim, p. 130-160, 1999.

"Watching Scepticism: Computer Assisted Visualization and Hume's Dialogues", (Primary Author) written with John Bradley, Research in Humanities Computing 5, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996, p. 32-47.

Journal Articles:

2005: “MIMes and MeRMAids: On the Possibility of Computer-aided Interpretation”, Text Technology, vol. 14, no. 1, p. 79-90. This is the English version of “Des MaMI et des MaMER”, published in 2003.

2004: “Serious Play at Hand: Is Gaming Serious Research in the Humanities?” for a collection on “The Ivanhoe Game” in Text Technology, Vol. 12. No 2, 2003. Pages 89 to 99. (Appeared in the year 2004)

2004: “Introduction; Reflections on the Ivanhoe Game” with Johanna Drucker for a collection on “The Ivanhoe Game” in Text Technology, Vol. 12. No 2, 2003. Pages vii to xviii. (Appeared in the year 2004)

2003: “Des MaMI et des MaMER: Sur la possibilité de l'interprétation assistée par ordinateur,” Trans. Stéphanie Posthumus, in L’Astrolabe, an online, peer reviewed journal edited by Michel Lemaire at http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/astrolabe/, 2003.

2003: “What is Text Analysis, Really?”, Literary and Linguistic Computing, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2003, p. 209-219.

2002: “Gore Galore: Literary Theory and Computer Games”, Computers and the Humanities, vol. 36, no. 3, 2002, p. 345-358.

2002: “Report on the Questionnaire”, primary author with Lynne Siemens. This is one section of “The Credibility of Electronic Publishing” which was led by Raymond Siemens. Text Technology, Vol. 11, No. 1, p. 210-228.

2001: Primary author of “The Visual Concordance: The Design of Eye-ConTact”, Text Technology, vol. 10, no. 1, 2001, p. 73-86.

1999: "Seeing the Text Through the Trees: Visualization and Interactivity in Textual Applications", (Primary Author) written with John Bradley and Patricia Monger, Literary and Linguistic Computing, vol. 14, no. 1, 1999, p. 115-130.

1998: "Eye-ConTact: Towards a New Design for Research Text Tools", (Primary Author) written with John Bradley, Computing in the Humanities Working Papers, A.4. February 1998. This online refereed journal is located at: URL: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/chwp/

1997: "TACTweb: The Intersection of Text-Analysis and Hypertext", (Primary Author) written with Graham Passmore and John Bradley, Educational Computing Research, vol. 17, no. 3, 1997, p. 217-230.

1992: "Designing for diversity: the user interface of a hypermedia information system on a university campus." (Co-author) written with Joan Cherry, and James Turner, Behaviour and Information Technology. vol. 11, no. 1 (Jan-Feb 1992), p. 1-12.

Other, including Proceedings of Meetings

“Tracking Culture on the Web; An Experiment”, (Primary Author) written with W.F.S. Poehlman and Michael Picheca in ACH/ALLC 2001 Conference Abstracts, Posters and Demonstrations, New York University Information Technology Services, New York, June 13-17, 2001, p. 95-97.

“Electronic Publishing and Academic Credibility”, (Secondary Author) written with Raymond Siemens (Primary Author) and others in ACH/ALLC 2001 Conference Abstracts, Posters and Demonstrations, New York University Information Technology Services, New York, June 13-17, 2001, p. 103-106.

“A Context for Competence: Developing a Multimedia Programme”, COCH/COSH Abstracts, WWW Site located at http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~grockwel/cochcosh/abstracts.html.

"Seeing the Text: Program Visualization for Text Analysis in the Humanities." (Secondary Author) written with Patricia Monger in Visual DataExploration and Analysis VI, edited by R. F. Erbacher, P. C. Chen, and C. M. Wittenbrink, Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 3643, 1999, p. 159-167.

"Gore Galore: Literary Theory and Computer Games." 1999 COCH/COSH Full Programme, WWW Site located at: http://www.interchange.ubc.ca/winder/abs_1999.htm

"Seeing the Text Through the Trees:Data and Program Visualization in the Humanities." (Primary Author) written with John Bradley and Patricia Monger, ALLC/ACH '98 Conference Abstracts, Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary, July 5-10, 1998, p. 145-148.

"MILE: A Markup Language for Interactive Drill Courseware." (Primary Author) written with Joanna Johnson and Rocco Piro, ACH-ALLC '97 Conference Abstracts, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, June 3-7, 1997, p. 135-137.

Review essay of "Il discorso labirintico del dialogo rinascimentale", in Quaderni d'italianistica vol. XVII, No. 1 (Primavera 1996), p. 142-146.

"Watching Scepticism: Computer Assisted Visualization and Hume's Dialogues." (Primary Author) written with John Bradley, ACH/ALLC '95 Conference Abstracts, University of California, Santa Barbara, July 11-15, 1995, p. 97-99.

"Teaching Critical Thinking with Interactive Courseware." (Secondary Author) written with Jill LeBlanc, ACH/ALLC '95 Conference Abstracts, University of California, Santa Barbara, July 11-15, 1995, p. 71-72.

"TACT and the WWW." (Secondary Author) written with John Bradley, ACH/ALLC '95 Conference Abstracts, University of California, Santa Barbara, July 11-15, 1995, p. 11-13.

"A Growing Fascination With Dialogue: Bibliographic Databases and the Recent History of Ideas." (Primary Author) written with John Bradley, Consensus Ex Machina? ALLC-ACH '94 Abstracts, Sorbonne, Paris, April 19-23, 1994, p. 203-204.

"What Scientific Visualization Can Teach Us About Text Analysis." (Secondary Author) written with John Bradley, Consensus Ex Machina? ALLC-ACH '94 Abstracts, Sorbonne, Paris, April 19-23, 1994, p. 35-36.

“The Desire for Dialogue” The Toronto Semiotic Circle Bulletin, vol. 1, no. 3 (November 1993), pp. 2-6.

Not Peer Reviewed:

Contributions to Books

2002: "Multimedia, Is it a Discipline? The Liberal and Servile Arts in Humanities Computing", Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie - online, vol. 4, 2002, See http://computerphilologie.uni-muenchen.de/jg02/rockwell.html. A print version of the collection is also available.

Journal Articles

"Instructions for Online Public Access." (Secondary Author) written with Marshall Clinton, James Turner, Joan Cherry, and Sophia Kaszuba, Minds in Motion. Spring 1990, p. 59-66.

"Building a HyperCard program at the University of Toronto Library." (Co-author) written with Sophia Kaszuba, Database Canada. vol. 3, no. 4 (June 1991), p. 10-11.

Other, including Proceedings of Meetings

2008: Co-author with John Bonnet and Kyle Kuchmey of “High Performance Computing in the Arts and Humanities” which was published as one of the outcomes of a workshop on the SHARCNET web site. See http://www.sharcnet.ca/Documents/HHPC/hpcdh.html

2004: Editor of the The Face of Text: Computer Assisted Text Analysis in the Humanities, Proceedings of the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis, November 19-21, 2004, McMaster University. PDF is available at http://tapor1.mcmaster.ca/~faceoftext/media.htm

2002: “Dialogue as a Model for Interactivity in Multimedia” was published online by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities as part of their Distinguished Speakers Series Publications. It is no longer online.

“Close Reading a Job Listing” is part of Jobs in Humanities Computing a collection of short papers edited by Kirschenbaum and Piez for the ACH as a result of an ACH/ALLC panel at the 2000 Glasgow conference. See: http://www.ach.org/jobs/jobsworkshop2000.html.

“Review of James F. Jones, Jr. Rousseau’s Dialogues: An Interpretive Essay”, Electronic Reviews of French & Italian Literary Essays (EROFILE), January 29, 1992.

“Review of Learning Tool 1.0", Computers and the Humanities, vol. 25, pp. 458-461, 1991.

1988-1994: Reviews and articles for the University of Toronto Computer News and Connections on Instructional Technology, Multimedia, Computer Assisted Presentations, Personal Bibliographic Software, Word-processing Software, and Desktop Publishing Software.

Submitted for Publication:

Contributions to Books:

“Between Language and Literature: Digital Text Exploration” with Stéfan Sinclair for a collection edited by Ian Lancashire for the Modern Languages Association on Online Teaching.

Unpublished Documents:

Other:

2008: Chaired a centerNet workgroup that prepared a discussion document on “A CenterNet Portal.” (See http://www.philosophi.ca/pmwiki.php/Main/ACenterNetPortal)

2006 - present: Directed the development of the Dictionary of Words in the Wild, an image and text project. In 2007 the project went from development to production. (See http://dictionary.mcmaster.ca)

2006 - present: Directed the development of the of the TAPoR Portal. In 2007 this went from Public Release 2 to Version 1.0. This was a significant upgrade to a production version. This is a major software project in the digital humanities with over 100 users and over 150,000 lines of code. (See http://portal.tapor.ca)

2005 - present: Project Manager and Lead Designer for the Globalization and Autonomy Compendium. This is one of research outcomes of the SSHRC MCRI on Globalization and Autonomy led by Dr. William Coleman. The Compendium is a peer reviewed online publication that includes articles, position papers, research summaries, glossary entries, and a bibliographic database. The Compendium was released in the Fall of 2005 and is being continually developed. See http://www.globalautonomy.ca

2005: Directed the development of a multimedia CD-ROM with video presentations of selected talks from The Face of Text conference. This offered synchronized video and text of invited speakers from the conference.

2005-2007: Co-directed the development of a research site on the McMaster Museum of Art Roman Coin Collection. This was developed with support from the E. Togo Salmon Fund for Roman Scholarship. The site was part of the The Togo Salmon Centenary Exhibition: The Classical World and Its Influence, October 2005, curated by Dr. Howard Jones. In 2007 the site was redesigned and materials added with further support from the E. Togo Salmon Fund. See http://arendt.mcmaster.ca/~coins/

2004: Directed the development of a web site for The Face of Text conference with abstracts, streaming video of selected talks, and podcasts of selected talks. See tapor1.mcmaster.ca/~faceoftext/

2004: Directed the development and maintenance of the online presence for the Art Gallery of Hamilton Future Cities exhibit. The Virtual Cities web site extended the public show. (See www.virtualcities.ca.)

2004: Directed the development and release of TAPoRware. The principal programmer is Lian Yan, This is an open source collection of text analysis tools developed at McMaster University. (See http://taporware.mcmaster.ca).

2004: Directed the development and release of Alpha version of the TAPoR Portal. (See http://www.tapor.ca).

2004: In the wake they are gone, a web photo essay at http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~grockwel/images/wake/ , 2004.

2004: Swedish Patterns, a web photo essay at http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~grockwel/images/patterns/ , 2004.

2004: The Sky Out East, a web photo essay at http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~grockwel/images/Sky/ , 2004.

2004: Twenty Four Types of Ice, a web photo poem at http://www.geoffreyrockwell.com/ice/ , 2004.

2003: The Circus, a web photo essay at http://www.geoffreyrockwell.com/circus/circus.html, 2003.

2003: Santa Fe, a web photo essay at http://www.geoffreyrockwell.com/santafe/santafe01.html, 2003.

2003: Algonquin; Falling Walk, a web photo essay at http://pc-student-web.mcmaster.ca/~grockwel/algonquin/01.html, 2003.

2002: Primary author of the “TEI Training: Request for Proposals” at http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/tsp01.html.

2000-1: Co-author with Lynne Siemens of the section "Report on the Questionnaire" in a larger report led by Raymond Siemens on "The Credibility of Electronic Publishing: A Report to the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada". (See: http://web.mala.bc.ca/hssfc/Final/Credibility.htm) This report was commissioned by the HSSFC.

1998-9: Technical supervisor of the Trajan's Column project with Dr. Umholtz located at http://cheiron.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~trajan/. This has been accepted and mirrored after a review process by the Stoa Project.

1998- present: Supervised creation of a site on the history of humanities computing. See http://cheiron.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~history

1997-8: Co-investigator of an Industry Canada supported World Wide Web site about Labour History in Hamilton entitled The Cradle of Collective Bargaining. See http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~cradle/

1997-8: Supervised the development of The Bertrand Russell Gallery, a WWW site of photographs from the Bertrand Russell Archive. See http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~bertrand/

1996: Co-custodian of the Pauline Johnson Archive. See http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~pjohnson/home.html

1996 - present: Co-designer and joint manager of TACTweb and the TACTweb demonstration WWW site. See http://tactweb.humanities.mcmaster.ca

1996: Managed the production of software to accompany Prentice Hall writing workbooks: Communication at Work and Workbook for Writers.

1995 - present: Designed and managed the development of MILE project. See http://cheiron.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~MILE

1995 - present: Developed an Instructional WWW site for Humanities 2E03, Introduction to Computers in the Humanities. See http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~hccrs/ihchome.htm

1995: Developed Macintosh version of the software component of the Listen series published by WXY and produced at McMaster University.

1994-2004: Managed the development and maintenance of WWW sites for the Faculty of Humanities (See http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca), Humanities Computing Centre (See http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~hcc/hcc.htm), and the Periscope on the Humanities (See http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~humscope/lead.html).

1994-6: Co-manager of a WWW site on hypertext entitled Hypertext Places. See http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/hypertext.places.htm

PRESENTATIONS AT MEETINGS:

Invited:

June, 2009: Keynote and co-presenter with Kevin Kee on “The Leisure of Serious Games” at the Immersive Worlds conference at Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario.

May, 2009: Presented on “Thing Theory: Model Infrastructure in the Humanities” at the World Social Science Forum in Bergen, Norway.

February, 2009: Presented on “The TAPoR Project” at the Digital Humanities Observatory, Dublin, Ireland.

November, 2008: Presented on “Cyberinfrastructure in the Humanities: Back to Supercomputing” at a session titled “Guess Who’s Coming to Cyberinfrastructure” at the ORION and CANARIE, Powering Innovation: A National Summit conference in Toronto, Ontario.

October, 2008: Presented on “Just In Time Research (JiTR): Supporting Experimental Text Analysis” at CaSTA 2008, New Directions in Text Analysis conference at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan.

September, 2008: Presented on “Cyberinfrastructure: Reflections from TAPoR to Tools” at the Canadian Research Knowledge Network Annual Meeting.

May, 2008: Guest lecturer on “Tools Across the Lifecycle of Research: Reflections on an Experiment” at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria. See http://www.dhsi.org/blog/archives/37

May, 2008: Participated in a panel discussion on “Scholarship in the age of mass digitization” at the New Horizons in Teaching and Research conference at the University of Virginia.

March, 2008: Presented on “"High Performance Computing and the Digital Humanities: The TAPoR Experience" at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Alberta.

November, 2007: Presented keynote on “The Social Text: Mashing Electronic Texts and Tools” at the Digital Scholarship/Digital Libraries Symposium at Emory University, Atlanta.

October, 2007: Presented on “The Problem with Serious Play” at the Playing the Gallery: The Art of Games symposium at the University of Western Ontario.

June, 2007: Presented on “Evaluating Digital Work” at the ADE/ADFL 2007 meeting in Montreal.

June, 2007: Presented a poster on “TAPoR: Text Analysis Portal for Research” at the ADE/ADFL 2007 meeting in Montreal.

Dec. 2006: Presented on “What Is High-Performance Computing, and Why Does It Matter?” at a session I organized on High-Performance Computing and Textual Studies at the Modern Languages Association Convention in Philadelphia, PA.

Oct. 2006: Presented on “What I Want From My Library” at a session organized by the McMaster University Libraries Transformation Team for librarians and library staff at McMaster.

June, 2006: Presented on “Information Empires” for a session on New Directions within and beyond Language and Literature Departments at the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL) Summer Seminar East for Chairs at Hunter College, New York City.

May, 2006: Presented on “Réanimer l’interactivité : la théorie du dialogue et les jeux interactifs” at a conference on Interactivité et formes narratives at 74^e Congrès de l’Acfas at McGill University, Montréal, Québec.

March, 2006: Presented a public lecture on “Too much to read: using computers to cope with information overload” as part of the Science and the City series at the Hamilton Spectator Auditorium, Hamilton, Ontario.

Jan. 2006: Presented on “Dialogues of the Dead: Reanimated Interaction in Computer Games”, Toronto Semiotic Circle, Gesture, Conversation and Dialogue: The Semiotics and Pragmatics of Multimodal Interactions Among Humans and Between Humans and Machines. University of Toronto, Toronto, January 27-28, 2006.

December, 2005: Presented on “TAPoR (Text Analysis Portal for Research)” at a session “New Technologies of Literary Investigation: Digital Demonstrations” at the Modern Languages Association 2005 Convention in Washington DC.

Nov. 2005: Participated on a panel titled, “Wake Up and Smell the Blogs” organized by the Canadian Public Relations Society (Toronto) in Toronto, Ontario.

Oct. 2005: Presented on “Through the Portal; From Roberto Busa to TAPoR” at the Humanities Research Group at the University of Windsor.

Sept. 2005: Presented on the “Globalization and Autonomy Online Compendium” at the Fourth Globalization and Autonomy Team Meeting in Toronto, Ontario.

June, 2005: Presented on “Research and Blogs” at the Faculty of Health Sciences to researchers in medical ethics.

May, 2005: Presented the TAPoR Portal and helped facilitate at the Text Analysis Summit held at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.

Nov. 2004: Presented on "TAPoR: Building a Portal for Text Analysis" at the CANARIE Advanced Networks Workshop, 2004 in Halifax.

Nov. 2004: Co-presented “Introduction to TAPoR” for The Face of Text conference with Stéfan Sinclair.

June, 2004: Presented on "Open Texts, Open Tools and Open Research" at the Digital Humanities/ Humanities Computing Summer Institute at the University of Victoria.

May, 2004: Presented a paper on "TAPoRware: Exposing Texts to Text Analysis" at a seminar at Brown University on Online Resources for the Humanities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.

March, 2004: Presented a paper on “Interrupting Digitization; And Thinking About the Machine” at the University of Georgia, Athens Georgia.

Feb. 2004: “Expose your texts: Text Analysis On the Internet”, Brown Bag Talk at Mills Library, McMaster University.

December, 2003: Presented on “Computing Gadgets for Academic Work” at the Learning Technology Symposium organized by the Centre for Leadership in Learning, McMaster University.

December, 2003: Presented on “TAPoR: Text Analysis Portal for Research” at the Orion-CA*net 4; Advanced Networking Day at McMaster University.

September, 2003: Presented on a panel on “Education and Outreach” for the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities 10th Anniversary Symposium at the University of Virginia.

September, 2003: Presented on a panel on “Update on the Globalization and Autonomy Compendium” at the Second Globalization and Autonomy Team Meeting, Munk Center for International Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.

March, 2003: Presented a lecture on “Between Games: Dialogue as Interactivity in Multimedia” at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. This was one of three lectures presented as a U of A Distinguished Visiting Lecturer on New Media and Digital Criticism.

March, 2003: Presented a lecture on “Game Criticism: Where do we start with Computer Games” at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. This was one of three lectures presented as a U of A Distinguished Visiting Lecturer on New Media and Digital Criticism.

March, 2003: Presented a lecture on “Analytical Multimedia: Doing and Studying New Media” at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. This was one of three lectures presented as a U of A Distinguished Visiting Lecturer on New Media and Digital Criticism.

November, 2002: Presented a keynote address on "MIMes and MeRMAids: On the possibility of computer-aided interpretation" at the Inaugural Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis held at the Université de Montréal.

March, 2002: Presented a paper titled, "Turing's Response; Dialogue as a Model for Interactivity in Multimedia," as part of the Distinguished Speakers Series at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities.

December, 2001: Co-chair with Andrew Mactavish of a session at the Modern Languages Association meeting in New Orleans entitled Computer Games, Narrative, and Special Effects.

February 2, 2001: Presented with Paul Barrette on “Building WWW Databases” at the Ontario Libraries Information Technology Association conference in Toronto.

November, 2000: Presented with Fredrick Hall on "The Hamilton Performance Archive" at the Theatre and New Media: The Meeting of Two Communication Worlds Symposium at McMaster University.

July, 2000: Participated in a panel on "The Humanities Computing Job Market" at the ALLC-ACH 2000 in Glasgow, UK.

June, 2000: Presented on "Electronic Texts and XML" at the University of Waterloo.

May, 2000: Presented on "Surviving the Web" for the McMaster University Library.

March, 2000: Presented on "The Multimedia Academy: From Plato to the Web" as part of the McMaster Over the Ivy Wall series.

February, 2000: Presented a paper on "Trajan's Column: Image-based WWW Sites in the Humanities" at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky.

February, 2000: Presented on "Surviving the Web" at the Ontario Libraries Information Technology Association conference in Toronto.

December, 1999: Presented at the New Tools for Teaching and Learning symposium organized by the Centre for Leadership and Learning on "Web Assignments: Integrating WWW assignments".

December, 1999: Presented on "Using Full-Text Databases Through the WWW" as part of a panel in the New Tools for Teaching and Learning symposium organized by the Centre for Leadership and Learning.

November, 1999: Presented a paper on "Is humanities computing an academic discipline?" for a seminar on that subject at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. The seminar was organized by the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. (See: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/hcs/rockwell.html)

July, 1999: Presented a paper on "MILE: Efficiently Building Linear Instructional Material" at the Oxford University Humanities Computing Unit.

July, 1999: Presented a paper on "Teaching Multimedia: A Strategic and Structured Approach" at the Oxford University Humanities Computing Unit.

June 1999: Presented at the University of Toronto with Andrew Mactavish on "Multimedia in the Humanities: Skills and Academic Integration" at a one day conference on Pedagogical Issues and Computer-based Instruction. I also participated in a round-table discussion that was part of this symposium.

June, 1999: Presented a paper on "Eye-ConTact; Reflections on the Visualization of Text" for a COCH/COSH open session at the 1999 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.

January, 1999: Presented a paper on "Hypertext and Diderot" for the McMaster Association for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

May, 1998: Chair of Joint Session by ACCUTE and COCH/COSH entitled Moving Teaching On-line II: English at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

May, 1998: Co-chair and presenter at a COCH/COSH special session entitled Beyond TACT: Planning for the Next Generation of Text Tools, at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

May, 1998: Presented on MILE: Efficiently Building Linear Instructional Materials with Alan Rosenthal for the McMaster IDC Symposium entitled New Tools for Teaching and Learning.

February, 1998: Invited speaker at the Wired Campus Seminar for faculty at Reedemer College, Ancaster, Ontario.

January, 1998: Paper on Visualizing Texts, Department of Computer Science and Systems Seminar Series, McMaster University.

November, 1997: Invited speaker to an event planned by the McMaster Alumni Advancement entitled "An Evening on the Internet".

November, 1997: Chair of the 2^nd Session at the conference Computing the Edition; The Thirty-Third Conference on Editorial Problems, Toronto.

June, 1997: Panelist on a panel on Institutional Support in the Advancement of Technology in the Humanities at the ACH-ALLC '97 conference in Kingston, Ontario.

June, 1997: Panelist on a panel on Humanities computing in the graduate studies curriculum at the ACH-ALLC '97 conference in Kingston, Ontario.

June, 1997: Keynote address on Humanities Computing for Teaching and Research for the New Tools for Teaching and Research in the Humanities program at Princeton University.

June, 1997: Plenary presentation on Characteristics of Electronic Texts for the New Tools for Teaching and Research in the Humanities program at Princeton University.

February, 1997: Presented a paper on Thematic Analysis for the department of Classics.

December, 1996: Presentation on Teaching with the World Wide Web at the University College of Cape Breton.

December, 1996: Presentation on Electronic Texts in the Humanities at the University College of Cape Breton.

December, 1996: Presentation on MILE: The Design of a Markup Language for Reusable Interactive Drill, Department of Computer Science and Systems Seminar Series, McMaster University.

May, 1996: Presentation on Eye-ConTact: Textual Visualization at the Text Analysis Software Planning Meeting, Princeton organized by the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities, Princeton and Rutgers.

April, 1996: Presentation on MILE for the Symposium on New Technology in Education organized by the Instructional Development Centre at McMaster University.

May, 1996: Presentation on TACTweb: Online, Interactive Workbooks for Students at the workshop devoted to The Role of the World Wide Web in a University Setting that was organized at McMaster University.

December, 1995: Co-presided over a session on Teaching Early Drama with Modern Technology: The Message and the Medium at the Modern Languages Association conference.

December, 1995: Presented paper on Making Courseware Last: MILE and the development of robust markup schemes for language instruction for the Faculty of Arts and Science Language Teaching Atelier series at the University of Toronto.

July, 1995: Invited to participate in a seminar on Dialogue in the Classical Greek Tradition at the Adirondack Work/Study Institute in Jay, New York.

June, 1995: Demonstrated Language Software Developments at McMaster at a session on Computer Assisted Language Teaching of Italian as a Second Language at the Canadian Society for Italian Studies Conference at the 1995 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Quebec in Montreal, Quebec.

May, 1995: Gave a presentation to chairs and administrators on Making Tasks Easier Through Technology with John Drake for the McMaster University Workshop for Academic Departments and Programmes.

March, 1995: Presented a paper on Humanities Computing: Administrative Artifact of Coherent Discipline? for the Department of Computer Science and Systems at McMaster University.

May, 1993: Presented a session on Evaluating Computers at the Ontario Association of Archivists conference.

November, 1991: Panelist for the plenary session of Canada Online 5 entitled, Future Pricing of Electronic Information.

April, 1991: Presented paper on Annota: Accessible Hypertext for Lovers of Literature for a session on "The Pedagogical Applications for Computer Technology (in Italian Studies)" for the 11th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Italian Studies.

June, 1990: Presented paper on HyperMedia in Education at the American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference.

April, 1990: Presented paper with Marshall Clinton, Sophia Kaszuba, Joan Cherry, and James Turner on The Memo Project - Searching Online Catalogues at the Apple Research Partnership Program, Macintosh Research Symposium.

February, 1990: Presented paper with Marshall Clinton, Sophia Kaszuba, and Joan Cherry on HyperCard Applications for Concept-based User Instruction at the 5th Ontario College and University Library Association Conference (Winterbreak).

Contributed:

Peer Reviewed:

June, 2009: Presented with Shawn Day on “Burying Dead Projects: Depositing the Globalization Compendium” at DH 2009 conference at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.

June, 2009: Presented with Piotr Organisciak, Stan Ruecker, Susan Brown, and Stéfan Sinclair on “Mashing Texts: Supporting collections level text analysis” at DH 2009 conference at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.

June, 2009: Presented with J. Stephen Downie, Patrick Juola and Stéfan Sinclair on “T-Rex: A Text Analysis Research Evaluation Exchange” at DH 2009 conference at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.

June, 2009: Presented with Stan Ruecker, Peter Organisciak, and Stéfan Sinclair on “Ubiquitous Text Analysis” at DH 2009 conference at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.

June, 2009: Presented with Stéfan Sinclair on “Animating the Knowledge Radio” at DH 2009 conference at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.

May, 2009: Member of a panel on “Graduate Education in the Digital Humanites” organized by Stan Ruecker at the SDH/SEMI 2009 conference at the HSSFC Congress at Carleton University, Ottawa.

May, 2009: Paper with Stan Ruecker, Peter Organisciak, Susan Brown, and Stéfan Sinclair on “Mashing Texts: Exploring New Possibilities in Rapid Research Document Management” at the SDH/SEMI 2009 conference at the HSSFC Congress at Carleton University, Ottawa.

May, 2009: Paper with Stéfan Sinclair on “Hermeneuti.ca: The Dialogue between Tools and Interpretation” at the SDH/SEMI 2009 conference at the HSSFC Congress at Carleton University, Ottawa.

May, 2009: Paper with Michael Eberle-Sinatra and Lynee Siemens on “The Academic Capacity of Humanities Computing in Canada” at the SDH/SEMI 2009 conference at the HSSFC Congress at Carleton University, Ottawa.

May, 2009: Paper with Stan Ruecker, and Peter Organisciak on “A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities” at the SDH/SEMI 2009 conference at the HSSFC Congress at Carleton University, Ottawa.

June, 2008: Paper with Willard McCarty and Eleni Pantou-Kikkou on “A Carnival of Words: The Dictionary of Words in the Wild and Public Textuality” for Digital Humanities 2008 at the University of Oulu, Finland.

June, 2008: Presented on “Evaluation of Digital Media Work in the Humanities” at a session titled “Into Something Rich and Strange: The Digital Humanities in the Humanities” at the SDH/SEMI 2008 conference at the HSSFC Congress at the University of British Columbia.

June, 2008: Presented with Hugh Couchman on “A Big Bridge: High Performance Computing and the Humanities” at a session on “New Directions” at the SDH/SEMI 2008 conference at the HSSFC Congress at the University of British Columbia.

June, 2008: Presented on “TAPoR: Beyond publishing infrastructure to analytical infrastructure” at a session on “Building Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities” at the SDH/SEMI 2008 conference at the HSSFC Congress at the University of British Columbia.

June, 2007: Presented on “Text Analysis” as part of a panel on “Digital Resources in Humanities Research: Evidence of Value” at Digital Humanities 2007 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Panel was chaired by Harold Short.

June, 2007: Presented with Stéfan Sinclair on “Reading Tools, or Text Analysis Tools as Objects of Interpretation” as a session on “Representation and Analysis” at Digital Humanities 2007 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

June, 2007: Part of a panel organized by Dorothy Carr Porter on “Digital Humanities and the Solitary Scholar” at Digital Humanities 2007 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

June, 2007: Presented poster with Stéfan Sinclair on “Text Analysis Portal for Research, Using the Public Release” at Digital Humanities 2007 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

May, 2007: Presented with Nancy Johnson and Shawn Day on “The Globalization Compendium: Reflecting on Contemporary Research and Online Publication” at the SDH/SEMI 2007 conference at the HSSFC Congress at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon.

May, 2007: Presented with Stéfan Sinclair on “Reading Tools, or Text Analysis Tools as Objects of Interpretation” as a session on “Representation and Analysis” at the SDH/SEMI 2007 conference at the HSSFC Congress at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon.

Oct. 2006: Presented on “Text Empires: Text Analysis in Excess” at the Canadian Symposium for Text Analysis 06, Breadth of Text, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB. October, 2006.

July, 2006: Presented a paper on “Interactive Matter in the Arts and Humanities” for a session on Why the Digital Humanities Need the Digital Arts at the Digital Humanities 2006, Sorbonne, Paris, France.

July, 2006: Presented on “Tools, TAPoR and Analysis” for a session on [Text, Analysis, Tools].define() with Stéfan Sinclair at the Digital Humanities 2006, Sorbonne, Paris, France.

May, 2006: Presented on “Is there a Tool in this Method? The Practice of Collaborative Questioning in Humanities Computing” at the SDH / SEMI 2006 Conference at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at York University, Toronto, Ontario.

May, 2006: Presented on “Information Empires: The Challenge of Excess Text” at the SDH / SEMI 2006 Conference at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at York University, Toronto, Ontario.

May, 2006: Co-presented with Stéfan Sinclair and James Chartrand on “[TEXT, ANALYSIS, TOOLS].define()” at the SDH / SEMI 2006 Conference at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at York University, Toronto, Ontario.

June, 2005: Presented a paper on “Interrupting the Machine to Think About It” for a session on Theory and Practice in Literary Textual Analysis Tools at the ACH/ALLC 2005, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada.

June, 2005: Presented on the TAPoR project at a session “TAPoR: Five views through a text analysis portal” at the ACH/ALLC 2005, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada. This was the COCH/COSH Allied Association Session.

June, 2005: Presented on a panel on “National Support for Humanities Computing: Different Achievements, Needs and Prospects” at the ACH/ALLC 2005, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada.

June, 2005: Presented on “The Blackwell Companion to Digital Humanities: a Roundtable Discussion” at the ACH/ALLC 2005, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada.

June, 2005: Presented on “The TAPoR Portal and D2K” for a session on A Revolutionary Approach to Humanities Computing?: Tools Development and the D2K Data-Mining Framework at the ACH/ALLC 2005, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada.

May, 2005: Presented on the TAPoR project at a session “TAPoR: Five views through a text analysis portal” at COCH/COSH 2005, at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. This was then presented at the ACH/ALLC as the COCH/COSH Allied Association Session.

June, 2004: Co-presented "Programming Interpretation; Playing with Texts with the Ivanhoe and Rebecca Games" with Stephen Ramsay at the ALLC/ACH 2004, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden.

June, 2004: Primary presenter of "Opening Texts to Tools; TAPoRware" with Yan, Shawver and Kennedy at the ALLC/ACH 2004, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden.

June, 2004: Presented "Playing with Interactivity: Dialogue as Interactivity" at the ALLC/ACH 2004, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden.

May-June, 2004: Presented a paper on "Interactivity" in a session on Reading Game Studies at COCH/COSH 2004 at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

May-June, 2004: Panelist on and panel organizer for "TAPoR's Research Potential" at COCH/COSH 2004 at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

May-June, 2004: Secondary author of presentation on "Text Analysis Research: What is Being Done and What is Needed" at COCH/COSH 2004 at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Primary author was Elaine Toms, other authors were Raymond Siemens and Stéfan Sinclair.

Aug. 2003: Presented on "Reflections on Playing McGann and Drucker's IVANHOE Game" as part of a session on Romanticism and Critical Gaming at the 2003 NASSR (North American Society for the Study of Romanticism) conference at Fordham University, New York City.

May-June, 2003: Primary presenter of a poster titled, “TAPoR Tools: Portal Text Analysis Tools and Other Primitives" with Lian Yan and Stéfan Sinclair at the ACH/ALLC 2003, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.

May-June, 2003: Co-presented a paper titled, “Programming as Writing as Programming" with Stephen Ramsay at the ACH/ALLC 2003, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.

May-June, 2003: Presented at a panel on “Peer Review of Humanities Computing Software”, chaired by Stéfan Sinclair at the ACH/ALLC 2003, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.

May-June, 2003: Presented at a panel on “Great Expectations, Expectant Implementations -- or, What We Expect of Our Electronic Resources and How We Meet Those Expectations”, chaired by Raymond Siemens at the ACH/ALLC 2003, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.

May, 2003: Presented at a panel on “Great Expectations, Expectant Implementations -- or, What We Expect of Our Electronic Resources and How We Meet Those Expectations”, chaired by Raymond Siemens at COCH/COSH at the 2003 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Dalhousie University, Halifax, 2003.

November, 2002: Secondary author on paper titled, "The Hyperliste project: lists and their vocabulary in enumerative medieval poetry on the web" with Madeleine Jeay (primary author) for a conference on French Medieval Literature.

July, 2002: Presented a paper titled, “Serious Play At Hand: Is Gaming Serious Research in the Humanities?” as part of a panel on Ivanhoe: A Game of Critical Interpretation at the ALLC/ACH 2002, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.

July, 2002: Presented a paper titled, “What is text analysis, really?” as part of a panel on Reconceiving Text Analysis at the ALLC/ACH 2002, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.

May, 2002: Presented a paper with Andrew Mactavish (primary author) on “Multimedia Education in the Arts and Humanities” at the COCH/COSH and SSHRCC Joint Session on Mind Technologies which was part of the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Toronto.

May, 2002: Presented a paper on “TAPoR: Building a Portal for Text Analysis” at the COCH/COSH and SSHRCC Joint Session on Mind Technologies which was part of the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Toronto.

November, 2001: Presented a paper on “Multimedia: Is It a Discipline?” at The Humanities Computing Curriculum/ The Computing Curriculum in the Arts and Humanities conference, Malaspina University College, Nanaimo, British Columbia.

June, 2001: Presented a paper on “Tracking Culture on the Web; An Experiment”, (Primary Author) presented with W.F.S. Poehlman and Michael Picheca at the ACH/ALLC 2001, New York University, New York.

June, 2001: Secondary author of a presentation on “Electronic Publishing and Academic Credibility”, the paper was presented by Raymond Siemens (Primary Author) and others at the ACH/ALLC 2001, New York University, New York.

May, 2001: Presented a paper on “A Context for Competence: Developing a Multimedia Programme” in a session entitled The Humanities Computing Curriculum / The Computing Curriculum in the Humanities that was chaired by Raymond Siemens. This was for COCH/COSH at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Canada, Université Laval, Québec.

May, 2001: Secondary author on a presentation on “Electronic Publishing and Academic Credibility”. The paper was presented by Raymond Siemens (Primary Author) and others at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Canada, Université Laval, Québec.

November, 2000: Presented a paper with Frederick Hall on "Performances in Victorian Hamilton, 1846-1896: The Creation of a Multidisciplinary Database" for a panel on Digitization in the New Millennium at the Canadian Association of Music Librarians conference in Toronto, Ontario.

July, 2000: Presented a paper on "Trajan's Column; Building a WWW Image-Database", (Primary Author) with Gretchen Umholtz, Michele George, Martin Beckmann, and Paul Barrette at the ALLC/ACH 2000 in Glasgow, UK.

May, 2000: Presented a paper on "Supporting Multimedia in the Humanities" as part of a session entitled The Future of the Arts and Humanities Computing Centre Part II. This was organized by COCH/COSH at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Canada, University of Alberta, Edmonton.

June, 1999: Secondary author of a paper on "Building a Place for Multimedia Studies in the Humanities" with Andrew Mactavish and Joanne Buckley at the ACH-ALLC '99 conference in Virginia, USA.

June, 1999: Chaired a session on "Teaching Humanities Computing: Programmes, Resources, and Course Designs" for COCH/COSH at the 1999 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.

June, 1999: Presented a paper on "Gore Galore: Literary Theory and Computer Games" for a joint ACCUTE-COCH/COSH panel entitled "Considering the Implicit" at the 1999 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.

June, 1999: Presented a paper on "Eye-ConTact; Reflections on the Visualization of Text" for a COCH/COSH open session at the 1999 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.

January 1999: Secondary author of a paper on "Seeing the Text: Program Visualization for Text Analysis in the Humanities", written with and presented by Patricia Monger for a conference on Visual Data Exploration and Analysis VI in San Jose, California.

June, 1998: Primary author of a paper entitled, "Seeing the Text Through the Trees: Data and Program Visualization in the Humanities", with John Bradley and Patricia Monger presented at the ALLC-ACH '98 conference in Debrecen, Hungary.

June, 1997: Primary author of a paper on "MILE: A Markup Language for Interactive Drill Courseware" with Joanna Johnson, Rocco Piro, and Vanessa Robson at the ACH/ALLC '97 conference in Kingston, Ontario.

June, 1997: Secondary author on a paper on Creating Software to Accompany Composition Textbooks, written with Joanne Buckely and Sam Cioran for the Thirteenth Computers and Writing Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii.

May, 1997: Presented a paper on Multimedia in the Humanities with Joanna Johnson for the 1997 Ontario Universities Computing Conference (OUCC 27) at Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, Ontario.

July, 1995: Presented a paper on Watching Scepticism: Computer Assisted Visualization and Hume's "Dialogues" at the ACH/ALLC '95 conference. This paper was jointly presented with John Bradley.

July, 1995: Presented a paper on Teaching Critical Thinking with Interactive Courseware at the ACH/ALLC '95 conference. This paper was jointly presented with Jill LeBlanc.

July, 1995: Presented a paper on TACT and WWW at the ACH/ALLC '95 conference. This paper was jointly presented with John Bradley.

April, 1994: Presented a paper on A Growing Fascination With Dialogue: Bibliographic Databases and the Recent History of Ideas at the ALLC-ACH '94 conference. This paper was jointly presented with John Bradley.

April, 1994: Presented a paper on What Scientific Visualization Can Teach Us About Text Analysis at the ALLC-ACH '94 conference. This paper was jointly presented with John Bradley.

June, 1993: Presented a paper with John Bradley on TAS and the study of Hume: Text-analysis in Philosophy and the Need for New Research Tools at the 1993 Learned Societies Conference.

August, 1990: Presented paper on Supporting Hypermedia Projects, Experiences at the University of Toronto at the Apple Pacific Universities and Colleges Consortium Conference.

June, 1990: Presented paper with Willard McCarty entitled Annota: An experiment and prototype at ALLC-ACH '90 (Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing - Association for Computers and the Humanities).

January, 1989: Presented paper on BIB, A HyperMedia Note-taking Environment for the HyperMedia conference at the University of Toronto.

Not Peer Reviewed:

December, 2007: Organized a session on “Open Digital Communities” for the Modern Languages Association Convention, 2007 in Chicago.

December, 2007: Presented a poster on “Tools for Visualization: TAPoR” at a poster session on Textual Visualization at the Modern Languages Association Convention, 2007 in Chicago.

November, 2003: Presented on “Where is TAPoR?” at the CaSTA - Canadian Symposium for Text Analysis, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC.

December, 2002: Presented on "Analytical Multimedia; Prelude to a Theory of Discipline" at a School of the Arts faculty talk at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.

October, 2002: Presented on the "Globalization Compendium" with Andrew Mactavish at the Globalization and Autonomy First Meeting. This was a three day conference organized for the SSHRCC MCRI grant for researchers in Hamilton, Ontario.

May, 2002: Presented a paper titled, “Serious Play At Hand: Is Gaming Serious Research in the Humanities?” as part of a panel on at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.

March, 2000: Co-presenter on "Lists and Links: The Medieval Hypertext" with Madeleine Jeay for the Faculty (of Humanities) Colloquium, McMaster University.

March, 1999: Presented a paper on "Small World: Globalization, the Internet and the Potential for Dialogue" at a Discussion Session of the Theme School on Globalization and the Human Condition at McMaster University.

November, 1999: Presented on "The Sight of Electronic Texts" for a SADM colloqium at McMaster University.

October, 1993: (With John Bradley) a poster session entitled “IT Projects at the University of Toronto” at EDUCOM ‘93.

February, 1993: “The Trajectory of Skepticism in Hume’s Dialogues” to the Graduate Forum at the University of Toronto.

February, 1993: (With Michael C. Deck). “Teaching Business Ethics: Multimedia Technology and Case Studies”. SSHRCC Area Research Institute.

June, 1989: Demonstrated “BIB, a bibliographic and note taking environment” at the software fair of ALLC-ACH ‘89.

OTHER ACTIVITIES:

1997 - 1998: Co-investigator of an Industry Canada contract for $18,720 to develop a World Wide Web site about Labour History in Hamilton.

1996: Co-supervisor of an Industry Canada contract for $28,000 to develop a World Wide Web site about E. Pauline Johnson.

August, 2009