About
Melissa Klamer is a doctoral candidate in English at Michigan State University, working at the intersection of Victorian Life Writing and Digital Humanities. The centerpiece of her born-digital dissertation will be a digital edition of a 19th century manuscript motherhood diary. In addition to her doctoral work, Melissa is an active Editor on the Digital Mitford Project, transcribing and coding the letters of Mary Russell Mitford. She currently serves as a Consultant for
the EY Communication Center at the Eli Broad College of Business. Her research interests include Digital Humanities, Scholarly Editing, TEI-XML coding, Victorian Life Writing texts, Posthumography, Literary Letters, Women’s Diaries, and the legacy of Theodore Roethke. Her pedagogy foregrounds the side-by-side implementation of digital tools and archival texts in the classroom, and emphasizes revision as core writing practice, multimodal composition and notetaking strategies, and community-engagement with literary history.
Education
Ph.D. Candidate in English, Michigan State University, Expected 2020
M.A. English Language and Literature, Central Michigan University, 2012
B.A. English, Concordia University Nebraska, 2006
B.S. Education, 7-12 English / Instrumental Music Certifications, Concordia U. Nebraska, 2006 Publications
“Breaking Neuro Ground.” Co-authored with Dr. Natalie Phillips, Salvatore Antonucci, Cody Mejeur & Karah Smith. Oxford UP, Forthcoming 2018.
“‘A State of Partial Completeness’: The Afterlife of Theodore Roethke.” Midwestern Miscellany, Journal of the SSML, 2008. Projects
- [Digital Dissertation: A Digital Scholarly Edition of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Manuscript Journal]
In progress, expected completion May 2020.
- Editorial Team, Digital Mitford: The Mary Russell Mitford Archive: http://digitalmitford.org
Encoding letters in TEI-XML to produce a scholarly archive of the complete works and letters of Mary Russell Mitford.
- Researcher, Digital Humanities Literary Cognition Lab: DHLC (http://dhlc.cal.msu.edu/)
Data Management, Study Analysis and Data Visualization; Grant Writing; Presenter.
- “Poor Sinners’ Pamphlets.” Digital Collection, MSU College of Arts and Letters. (An Omeka Collection)
Collaborator: Dataset development, Geospatial mapping, Translation, Curation and Research.
