swinburne

My former dissertation takes took* the form of a scholarly edition of Algernon Charles Swinburne's 1866 Poems and Ballads. The print version of this edition, which includes a textual history, descriptive bibliographies, collation notes, and related material, is nearly complete. The next step is to generate an electronic, image-based version. Part of my task will be to study fully the implications of this design and to articulate a theory of image-based editorial work.

• Interfacing the Edition: text of a talk on image-based editing and digital facsimiles.
• Interfacing the Rossetti Archive: text of a presentation on my work as Design Editor at the Rossetti Archive
• Prospectus and Notes: (available on request)
• Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, First Series; and
• Experiments in Image-Based Editing (both presently offline)

*  Holy moly, she ditched Swinburne! This page will be updated soon, as -- in a stunning last-minute reversal -- I've switched my dissertation topic. I'm still just as engaged with textual matters, humanities computing, and issues of design, but am instead dissertating on the design of digital (sometimes ludic) instruments and environments for interpretive scholarship. "How can this be?" the crowd gasps. Simple. It's much more fun.   And strangely related, as I hope to reveal.

Update 2004: Swinburne-less dissertation complete; Ph.D. in hand.

Update 2008: In the meantime, we've built Juxta and my next Swinburnian goal is to put all the editions Poems and Ballads I collated as a grad student into it in XML format and deliver the whole on the Web.