This chapter assesses the evolution of the digitized manuscript from fragmented data to increasingly accessible and interoperable forms. The long view of media history and the tenets of the emerging field of media archaeology frame this exploration, considering how digital representations of manuscripts function as a kind of incunable – an e…[Read more]

What forgotten forms can philology assume anew? Reassessing how early medieval writers loved words differently than we do reveals significant gaps between past and presence senses of the physical phenomena words can index. In the early medieval language of Old English texts there remains a largely uncharted capacity for less linguistically driven…[Read more]

A contribution to Beowulf by All.
Ed. Elaine Treharne; a collaborative translation of the poem, for The Electronic Beowulf (2018)

A tutorial on using open source photogrammetry tools with archival video footage

Written for a special issue of English Studies, on “Women’s Bodies in Anglo-Saxon England,” eds. Robin Norris, Rebecca Stephenson & Renée Trilling

This essay dives deep into the events of S. 1377, a late tenth-century Anglo-Saxon charter that recounts the execution of a widow, probably for witchcraft, on the southeast border of the collap…[Read more]

This course is an exploratory studio for guerilla digital public history. It involves a whole lot of experimentation and making. Things will break, and will go in directions that you didn’t expect. Part of the learning will involve documenting your practice. I will get you started with three expressive digital media that you can use to explore…[Read more]

Syllabus for HIST3812, Winter 2018 at Carleton University, Department of History, on ‘Critical Digital Making’. “What happens to history as it gets digitized? That is, what does history look like, what happens to our materials, and the stories we tell or the questions we ask, as we abstract further and further away from ‘In Real Life’? What doe…[Read more]