From: CBS%UK.AC.RUTHERFORD.MAIL::EARN.UTORONTO::HUMANIST 23-APR-1989 02:27:28.72 To: archive CC: Subj: more biographies (947) Via: UK.AC.RUTHERFORD.MAIL; Sun, 23 Apr 89 2:26 BST Received: from UKACRL by UK.AC.RL.IB (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 9457; Sun, 23 Apr 89 02:21:07 BS Received: by UKACRL (Mailer X1.25) id 6907; Sun, 23 Apr 89 02:20:48 BST Date: Thu, 13 Apr 89 23:19:48 EDT Reply-To: Willard McCarty Sender: HUMANIST Discussion From: Willard McCarty Subject: more biographies (947) To: Oxford Text Archive Humanist Mailing List, Vol. 2, No. 837. Thursday, 13 Apr 1989. Date: 13 April 1989 From: Willard McCarty Subject: 18th supplement to the biographies Dear Colleagues: Here follows the 19th biographical file, a fat one because I have been too busy to attend to the growing collection and because Humanist has been busy collecting new members. As always, I am glad to have finished the task of editing but enormously interested by the varied talents, enthusiasms, and preoccupations that I find in the individual biographies. Impressionistically speaking -- I have not Lou Burnard's facility for generating accurate statistics with database software -- I sense a marked increase in the number of new members from various European countries. Let me take this opportunity to encourage my European colleagues to extend Humanist's invitation to those whom they think might enjoy participating in the discussions, or simply listening in. For obvious reasons, Humanist requires a lingua franca, which happens (fortunately for me) to be English. I know from experience that holding forth in a language not one's own can be daunting, but I very much hope that no one will let a fear of making mistakes prevent intelligent remarks from reaching the rest of us. Nor should the desire simply to listen, and perhaps to learn, stop a person from joining or provoke guilt. In any case, here are the biographies, and may you enjoy reading them as much as I did! Yours, Willard McCarty ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Autobiographies of Humanists Eighteenth Supplement Following are 34 additional entries to the collection of autobiographical statements by members of the Humanist discussion group. Humanists on IBM VM/CMS systems will want a copy of Jim Coombs' exec for searching and retrieving biographical entries. It is kept on Humanist's file-server; for more information, see the Guide to Humanist. Further additions, corrections, and updates are welcome. Willard McCarty Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Univ. of Toronto mccarty@utorepas 13 April 1989 ================================================================= *Altman, Jonathan M. Database Administrator, Dartmouth Dante Project, 301 Bartlett Hall, Hanover, NH 03755; voice: 603-646-2633 In my various capacities working for the Dante Project I have gained first-hand experience in large-scale data entry both via typing and various scanning products (especially Kurzweil Model 2 and 4000), computer manipulation of text, and database design. As such my interests lie in issues of handling large scale data entry (so far the Dante Project has amassed over 200 megabytes-or 2 million characters-of text), and the merits of various ICR (intelligent character recognition) products. Among my activities as administrator, I had to evaluate optical scanning devices to find a replacement for our original Kurzweil machine. I am also interested in (and I hope familiar with) the uses of computer utilities (especially UNIX tools) to manipulate text, and in the general application of computing power to ease humanities work. My work with the Dante Project in creating a searchable database of commentaries to the _Divina Commedia_ has also brought me experience in easing the process of interacting with computers, both through working with and helping computer neophytes and in helping to design our database's user interface, and has given me some knowledge of the nuts-and-bolts of computer hardware and software. I should also clarify that my capapcity as a humanist is related primarily to my work. I am interested in helping bring computing to the humanities, an area in which as I learn more, I find many tools available to ease humanities work, but little general dissemination of information about these tools. Efforts such as this mailing list seem to be ideal vehicles for dissemination. I am not, however, strictly a humanist myself. I currently have only a Bachelor's Degree, and no immediate plans for further work. My expertise comes primarily from my role in bringing the Dante Project database into existence. ================================================================= *Bantz, David A. (preferred) Director of Computing in the Humanities, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755-1870 U.S.A.; 603-646-2712 Applelink: A0192; FAX: 603-646-3520 As Director of Humanties Computing, David Bantz provides computing support for humanities faculty, represents the humanities (including fine arts) on various campus computing bodies, and administers the Language Resource Center and the Kurzweil Data Entry Machine. David Bantz is also a Co-Director of the Dartmouth Dante Project, which is producing a electronic data base of Dante's Divine Comedy and some 60 commentaries. Among the development projects underway are foreign language aids such as a speaking dictionary and other reference tools, and the use of Apple's HyperCard for managing video images and sequences. A theme of much of the work underway is the construction of rich computer-based environments (i.e., hypertext and hypermedia) with maximal control in the hands of users. He has served on the National Review Panel of the EDUCOM/NCRIPTAL software awards program and is a member of Editorial Board of the EDUCOM Software Initiative. He is the Principal Investigator of a collaborative project of faculty at Brown, Dartmouth and Harvard Universities to define a Language Workstation for scholars, teachers and students of languages. He is the prospective Editor-In-Chief of a interdisciplinary refereed journal devoted to the use of hypermedia in scholarship and higher education. Potential funders are encouraged to correspond. David Bantz has a Ph.D. in the Conceptual Foundations of Science from the University of Chicago and has held Fellowships from the NEH and the ACLS for work in the philosophy of science; he teaches philosophy of science at Dartmouth. Professional interests include the philosophy of natural sciences and philosophy of technology, particularly the conceptual, ideological and metaphysical presuppositions of scientific practice and particular theories of science. ================================================================= *Boisvert, Mathieu PhD. Student, 163 Walmer road, Toronto, Ontario. CANADA M5R 2X3 Phone: (416) 921-3646 PhD. Student at the Centre for Religious Studies, University of Toronto. Major field of research is Theravada Buddhism, Sanskrit and Pali languages. The subject of my doctoral thesis is "The Role of the Five Aggregates (the Pancakkhandha) in Early Buddhist Psychology. I am presently working on a project (in association with the Vipassana Research Institute of India) aiming at entering the entire Pali Canon (the whole of the Theravada Buddhist Scriptures) onto computer; a lenghty task!! I would be willing to share Buddhist texts in Sanskrit or Pali. ================================================================= *Cahalan, James Michael Director of Graduate Studies in Literature and Associate Professor, English Department 110B Leonard Hall Indiana University of Pennsylvania Indiana, PA 15705 (412) 357-2262 Ever since I ran off to Dublin for four months of independent study as a 20-year-old undergraduate from New College in Sarasota, Florida, my chief field of interest has been Irish Studies--particularly modern Irish literature in both English and Irish, as well as the country's history, folklore, music, dancing, politics, and culture in general. I earned an M.A. in "Anglo-Irish Studies" in 1976 from University College, Dublin, on a Fulbright/ITT Fellowship, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Cincinnati with major fields in Irish Literature, Modern American Literature, Romanticism, and Medieval and Renaissance Drama. I have published two books on the Irish novel--GREAT HATRED, LITTLE ROOM: THE IRISH HISTORICAL NOVEL (Syracuse UP, 1983/Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1984) and THE IRISH NOVEL: A CRITICAL HISTORY (Boston: G.K. Hall/Twayne, 1988 / Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1989)--as well as a number of articles and reviews on Irish Literature as well as one on Hemingway and one on teaching writing. At IUP I direct our growing doctoral program in Literature and Criticism, which especially caters to established teachers of English who often avail themselves of our "summers-only" program that allows them to complete coursework without leaving academic- year jobs; and also a summer study-abroad program at Trinity College, Dublin, that is one of the most inexpensive available and in four years has attracted as many as 53 students in a single three-week session, from all over the USA and Canada. I am interested in hearing from people in Irish Studies and in Literature in general and in finding out more about other related newsgroups or special interest groups available through BITNET. I look forward to hearing from people! ================================================================= *Caskey, Elizabeth Reference Librarian, Library-Humanities/Social Sciences Division, 1956 Main Mall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Y3 (604)228-5923 I would like to apply for membeship in Humanist not on my own behalf but on behalf of my entire reference Division. I have seen many of the discusssions which take place in this forum through Laine Ruus, formerly Head of our Data Library here, and now at U. of T. as head of their Data Library. I have made use of many of the things I have learned through Humanist in our reference work here and my colleagues have expressed an interest in participating in this forum. My hope is that we can become full participants in HUMANIST and contribute to the discussions as well as learn from them. ================================================================= *Emison, Patricia (P_emison@unhh.bitnet) Assistant Professor of Art History and Humanities, Paul Creative Arts Center, Dept. of the Arts, University of New Hampshire, Durham, N.H. 03820 603-862-2190 A recent convert to the use of computers, trying to master bitnet has nearly made me an apostate. Still, one of the reasons I agreed to fight with computers was in order to have instant access to minds across the world via computer mail. Let's hope its worth it. Here in the backwoods desperation takes many forms. My primary focus of study is Italian Renaissance prints, particularly those whose interpretation I can argue does not hinge on the task of finding the magic key of a text. Last week, for example, I gave a paper at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society on Giulio Campagnola's Reclining Nude, explicating it as a tongue-in-cheek treatment of pastoral themes rather than as derivative from Giorgione. This week I am giving a paper at a conference here at UNH on Pollaiuolo's Battling Nudes, trying to debunk its standard interpretation as an early example of the heroic male nude. There will be a session at this conference on the use of computers for art historical purposes. It's true, I have been raking over dissertation material, working it up for publication. The thesis was on Italian printmaking from Mantegna to Parmigianino. I am also working on a series of articles which attempt to construct broad conceptual frameworks for reassessing Renaissance art---one of these is on grazia, one on rusticitas, and there will be others. The point is to reinterpret works, both major and minor ones, ones they are seen as pieces of issues only secondarily aesthetic ones. For example, how does pastoral in the visual arts refer to and from real peasants? The Humanities courses I teach, which were set up with seed money from NEH, are interdisciplinary and team-taught. Recently I led a discussion session on quantum mechanics---seeking, moreover, to make connections with Mrs. Dalloway and Kierkegaard. Oh yes, and Surrealism. It was perhaps not one of the tighter teaching units. The fine arts list seems pretty dormant. I hope for lots of action among the humanists. Vale. ================================================================= *Ess, Charles Associate Professor, Philosophy and Religion Department, Drury College 900 N. Benton Ave. Springfield, MO 65802 (417) 865-8731 Ph.D. from Penn State (1983) for dissertation on analogical predication in Kant as circumventing the infamous charge of contradiction in Kant's doctrine of the thing in itself. Teach in a small, church-related, liberal arts institution -- which supports my interest in an interdisciplinary emphasis on teaching, somewhat at the expense of scholarship. I teach the usual introductory courses in philosophy (intro, logic, ethics), history of philosophy (including Plato, Kant, and Nietzsche), and philosophy of science -- as well as courses in Religious Studies (intro, Eastern and Middle-eastern Religions, Women in Religion). Lived in West Germany, Switzerland (for dissertation research), and France. Fluent in German. Very rusty in French and ancient Greek. Some minor publications, including reviews of both texts (Fichte, Hellenistic philosophy, and a commentary on Nietzsche) and software (Nota Bene, Indexx, logic tutorials). Additional publications on technology and computers; presentations on interdisciplinary courses and appropriate computer use at conferences (National Association for Humanities Education; Small College Computing Symposium). Currently involved with hypermedia development project utilizing software from IRIS/Brown University and running on a Mac II-Apple UNIX network; my focus is on philosophy of science -- an interdisciplinary approach to the origins of modern science in the high and late middle ages, especially with regards to the influence of religious assumptions in the development of methodological principles (e.g., doctrine of two-fold truth, God as geometer, etc.) ================================================================= *Flannagan, Roy English, Ohio U., Athens OH 45701 Editor, *Milton Quarterly* and current president, Milton Society of America. Professor of English, Ohio University. Interested in Renaissance epic literature, humanist databases, editing and mark-up problems (TEI, etc.), "desk-top publishing" of scholarship, editing and preserving electronic texts of major literary works from *Faerie Queene* through Johnson's *Dictionary*. Enjoy discussing Shakespeare, Chaucer, Swift, Johnson, Yeats, Joyce, racquetball (or playing it, rather), tennis, dogs, fruit trees, good food, unstressful travel, music of many sorts. Married, with a total of five children. Editing a complete poetry and selected prose of Milton for the next x years. ================================================================= *Fortin, Christine A. 715 W. 4th St., Bloomington, Ind. 47401 [U.S.A.] PHONE: (812)334-2915 As for my life--I'm what's referred to here on campus as a "returning woman student" (i.e., someone who started school at a later age than the usual 17 years old, or started only to return at some later age). Reason I started later is (1) I am French and, in France, people are often "tracked" into vocational (versus scholarly) educational paths if they come from working class backgrounds (and, are female too). This was my case. Coming to the states, it was less stigmatic to reenter higher education so I find myself in school again. Well, I don't really have a (2). (I haven't quite figured how to edit email, so I'll leave it at that). I've worked as a secretary (corporate level), and spent 3 + years as an international volunteer in Israel. ================================================================= *Gilmartin, Andrew Brown University, Computing & Information Services, User Services Specialist, Box 1885, Providence, RI 02912, USA; (401) 863-7305 Interests: The design of online information systems (with an accompanying interest in offline information systems), general European history, and aiding those involved with online projects (especially collaborative efforts). ================================================================= *Glynn, Ruth (Dr); Oxford Electronic Publishing, Oxford University Press, Walton Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, U.K.; (0865) 56767 ext. 4651; Fax 0865- 56646; Telex OXPRES Further Education: B.A. Hons. in Latin (Southampton Univ.) Master of Philosophy (Oxon) Doctor of Philosophy (Oxon): Thesis title, 'A Study of the Style and Iconography of Etruscan Engraved Gems'. Various scholarships and awards. Started adult life as an academic and published several articles in scholarly journals whilst doing research; co-author of Beazley Addenda (OUP 1982). Employment: Part-time tutor of Classics undergraduates at Oxford University; Research Assistant at the Beazley Archive (things to do with Greek pots), Ashmolean Museum; part-time freelance typesetter; Adviser for Computing in the Humanities at Oxford University Computing Service; Customer Support Specialist at Miles33 (company selling computer typesetting h/w and s/w); Editor, Oxford Electronic Publishing. Present post: management of computer s/w publications (s/w tools, databases, CD-ROMs, etc.) with special reference to the user interface and documentation. Continue to dabble in typesetting and dtp. ================================================================= *Hall, Douglas Lee Asst. Professor of Computer Science Advisor, Graduate CIS Program, St. Mary's University, One Camino Santa Maria, San Antonio, Texas 78284-0400 (512)436-3317 work (512)344-0822 home PhD Computer Science (AI), North Texas State; MEd Bilingual Education, Pan American University; BA Spanish, University of Texas at Austin. Currently working on an MA in theology at St. Mary's University I taught elementary school (usually inner city) for 12 years, CS in college for 3. Have been connected with education in some way most of my life. Have studied Spanish, French, German, Russian, Italian, Latin...shall start Chinese or Japanese. Born and raised in San Antonio, from a long line of Texans on my father's side, Southerners on my mother's. My interests have ranged from astronomy to paleontology. Was raised a CHristian Scientist, but went through many religious variations growing up. Extra- curricularly I am involved with the Bexar County Mediation Center, working with an autistic child on computers, director of a German dance group (der deutsche Volkstanzverein von San Antonio). I am particularly interested in breaking down the barriers I see between the humanities and the technologies. ================================================================= *Harwood, John Dept. of English, 117 Burrowes, Penn State University Park, PA. 16802 USA I hold a joint appointment in the Department of English and the Center for Academic Computing, meaning that I have specialized interests not just in instructional computing (esp. writing) but in research applications of interest to scholars in the humanities. I work daily with IBM, Mac, and mainframe applications; I have a growing interest in CD-ROM technologies and desktop publishing; and I am directing a conference this summer that has a strong "computer" flavor (Cyndi Selfe, Bill Wresch, Hugh Burns). ================================================================= *Hasenfratz, Robert Joseph Instructor of English; home: 1140 S. Atherton St., State College, PA 16801 (USA), (814) 234-4950; office: 103 Burrowes Bldg., English Department, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 (USA), (814) 863-2931. My princple research interest is medieval literature and culture, with a focus on Old English (hell materials and Beowulf). My dissertation deals with the use of the repulsive (grotesque) in both Old and Middle English literature but also includes sections on Ovid, Dante, and Boccaccio. I've written (or am writing) articles on textual issues in AElfric's "Grammar" and "Christ and Satan," Grendel as a type of the "penitent damned" from the OE homiletic tradition, writing and speaking in Chaucer's "House of Fame," etc. I'm now starting a book project, "The Lore [Lure?!] of Hell in Anglo-Saxon England," which will cover homiletic, literary, and art historical sources. I recently completed my PhD in English at PSU and will be starting as an assistant professor in the English Department at the University of Connecticut this fall. ================================================================= *Hinton, Norman Professor of English, Sangamon State University, Springfield, Illinois U.S.A. 62794-9243; (217) 786-6778 Main scholarly field: Old and Middle English languge and literature. I have been involved with computer applications in the Humanities since 1972: I have written a number of computer assisted lessons in my field and other areas in the Humanities, and I use computer data bases (which I program) in my literary and historical linguistic research. At the moment, I am working on the vocabulary of Middle English and the development of Middle English poetic diction, using what I call the Middle English Database, programmed and developed on the PLATO computer system. I am giving a paper on the language of the Alliterative Revival at this year's Medieval Congress. My most recent article, on Cynewulf, will be appearing in Neophilologus. I am interested all areas of the Humanities, and have taught courses in modern British lit as well as my medieval classes, and in the past I have taught Aesthetics also. I am extremely interested in Humanist, and I am delighted that my University has finally made Bitnet available to its faculty. ================================================================= *Istituto di Studi Rinascimentali, G2MFEV42@ICINECA via Scienze, 17 44100 Ferrara, Italy Telephone: (...) 39.532.760002; Director: Amedeo Quondam The ISR has been active in Ferrara since the winter of 1983. Its principal objectives are the organization of research in various disciplines; the construction of coherent bodies of documantation using the resources of computer technology; the organization of study sessions and conferences; the publication of the fruits of its research and documentation. The ISR is supported by the city and provincial administrations of Ferrara, the regional administration of Emilia-Romagna, the Ministry of Culture (Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali) and the Italian National Research Council (CNR). Prime target of the ISR's research is the culture of the Renaissance in Ferrara and Northern Italy in general, examined in a national and European context. The ISR's principal means of operation is through "archives": groups of scholars who work on the collection and examination of materials concerning projects which are defined as needs arise. The following archives are currently active: Archivio della tradizione cavalleresca, [coordinators: Guido Baldassari (Univ. of Cagliari); Riccardo Bruscagli (Univ. of Florence)]; Archivio della tradizione lirica [coordinators: Bruno Bentivogli (Univ. of Bologna); Guglielmo Gorni (Univ. of Geneva)]; Archivio del madrigale [coordinator: Thomas Walker (Univ. of Ferrara); Archivio della linguistica del Rinascimento [coordinator: Mirko Tavoni (Univ. of Pisa)]; Archivio del sacro [coordinators: Albano Biondi (Univ. of Bologna); Giorgio Chittolini (Univ. of Milan)]; Archivio del teatro e della scena nel Rinascimento [coordinators: Franco Ruffini (Univ. of Bologna) Daniele Seragnoli (Univ. of Ferrara)]; Archivio della cartografia estense [coordinator: Claudio Greppi (Univ. of Ferrara)]; Archivio della miniatura [coordinators: Giordana Mariani Canova (Univ. of Padua) Ranieri Varese (Univ. of Urbino)]. Among the principal active projects of the ISR may be mentioned: Books of letters of the Cinquecento [coordinator: Guido Baldassari (Univ. of Cagliari)]; Schifanoia Atlas [coordinator: Ranieri Varese (Univ. of Urbino); Typology of Renaissance "studioli" [coordinators: Claudia Cieri Via (Univ. of Rome); Alessandra Mottola Molfino, Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan; Reordering of the ecclesiastical archives of Ferrara [coordinator: Luciano Chiappini, Deputazione ferrarese di storia patria]. The ISR publishes the periodical Schifanoia (Edizioni Panini Modena), which includes both scholarly essays and accounts of the Institute's activities. Hope this is adequate for purposes of introducing ourselves. We very much look forward to inclusion in the HUMANIST circle! All best wishes, Thomas Walker. ================================================================= *Janson, Carol Visiting Lecturer Dept. of Fine Arts Brandeis University Waltham Mass. 02254 Dept phone 617-736-2655 office -2666 Professional activities- 1989 Low Countries Conference University of London Paper on Animal Fables and Popular Culture in Dutch 16thc. prints; Tyrannicide in the Emblems of Alciati and Paradin Emblem Conference University of Minnesota in April 1989; The Church as Theatre of War During the Dutch Revolt C.I.H.A. Conference Strassbourg France September 1989; Professional Memberships- Historians of Netherlandish Art, A.A.N.S., Sixteenth Century Society, Renaissance Society of America. Interests- art & iconoclasm (working on stained glass from post Reformation conversion in Gouda, Nl); patronage and audience in relation to political prints about the Dutch revolt; mannerist art, relationships with theatre, contemporary art esp. in relation to women's art, issues concerning popular culture in the 16th and 17thc, developing course material enabling individual study of images, glossaries and terms via computers ================================================================= *Johnson, David E. Professor of Philosophy, Sampson Hall, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD 21402-5044; Office (301) 267-3102 (-3803); Home (301) 269-0075 Areas of interest: philosophy of mind (the nature of the human mind and how it compares to artificial intelligence); military ethics; peace research (peace as an ethical concept and practical steps to increasing and insuring peace); computer aided instruction in logic (especially tutorial programs); Gandhi and King; the philosophy of Bertrand Russell. I teach courses in logic, ethics, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of science. I am chair of the Philosopher's Committee of the Bertrand Russell Society and am interested in receiving papers (by April 1 of each year) on some aspect of Russell's philosophy for inclusion in a program in December of that year. Details available upon request. ================================================================= *Keizer, Donna Dept. of Philosophy, University of Guelph, Guelph Ontario. I am presently a graduate student in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Guelph. My interest in computers is limited to their use in discussing philosophy and as a teaching mechanism. The topics of the computer field are of interest to my husband. I am also new to networking and am interested in what is available, thus my subscription. ================================================================= *Kutish, Gerald Associate Director, UNL Computing, 326 Administration, U. Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588; 402-472-5220 Direct academic computing, including a 'humanities research facility' containing pc's, mac's, text scanners, laser printers. Interest in linquistic analysis. ================================================================= *Lasocki, David (LASOCKI@IUBACS) Music Library, School of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 (812) 855-5972 (work) I came to the United States from England in 1969 and have been here ever since, except for five years back in England in the late 1970s. I have a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of London and graduate degrees in musicology and library science from The University of Iowa. I make my living as a music cataloger in one of the largest music libraries in the country (world?). Beyond the daily round of cataloging, I am interested in the larger implications of bibliographic control of music materials and how it will be changed by computers. I am also a musicologist and have been doing research into the history of woodwind instruments for over twenty years. I am less concerned with the instruments themselves (which field I leave to instrument makers and the like) than with their repertory, performance practices, and social history, particularly in the 16th-18th centuries. My 1983 Ph.D. dissertation, Professional Recorder Players in England, 1540-1740 (The University of Iowa), was concerned with how these three areas come together. That is, I began with performers (rather the composers or compositions, the usual starting points for musicologists) and studied how they interacted with composers, audiences, patrons, publishers, and instrument makers. At the moment I am (still) making two books from this (updated) material, one on the Bassano family (performers, instrument makers, and composers from Venice who worked at the English court from 1540-1665), and one on the professional recorder players in England from 1660-1740. I wrote my dissertation on a mainframe computer using WYLBUR and (sign of the times) am reworking it on a PC in my office using WordPerfect. In addition to the writing, I have edited about 100 pieces of 18th-century woodwind music, although I gave up that activity several years ago as a result of my bad experiences with dishonest publishers. Besides, I believe that there are dozens of good music editors around but far fewer good researchers and writers. For several years I have been interested in writing as a craft. Last year I encapsulated my experience in an article entitled "How To Write Well When You Have No Time: Advice For Music Librarians and Other Busy Persons." I could send this as a text file to anyone interested. I have dozens of research projects going at the moment. The most pressing is a research and information guide to the recorder -- a kind of research and reference tool that is relatively new in the humanities. It will consist of an annotated bibliography of writings about the instrument accompanied by introductory and linking essays on various aspects of the subject. I'm writing it with another music librarian, Richard Griscom of the University of Louisville. We have several data files set up on WordPerfect and share letters and files through BITNET. ================================================================= *Masereeuw, Pieter University of Amsterdam, Vakgroep Alfa-informatica, Spuistraat 134, 1012 VB Amsterdam, The Netherlands; +31 20 525-2072 I studied Latin and Greek but became a professional computer programmer. I work at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Amsterdam. It is my job to assist scolars in their use of computers. This ranges from assistance to word processing to the development of parser-generators and formal grammars. My special interest is parsing: one of my more ambitious projects resulted in a formal grammar that is able to link any Latin word to its dictionary lemma(ta) and morphological code(s). The lemmata and codes are (nearly) the same as those used in the Liege corpus (Belgium). Disambiguation of the generated lemmata and codes is performed by an interactive computer program that also adds syntactic tags to the morphological information. ================================================================= *Morgan, Leslie Z. My primary interest is Franco-Italian language and literature, a fourteenth and fifteenth century Northern Italian phenomenon. I use concording and statistical analyses to examine the linguistic formations. I have worked particularly with Ms. Marc. XIII, the first "chansons de geste" written in Italy. The vocabulary introduced with the "chansons de geste" is an integral part of the Italian literary language, which I am tracing from Ms. XIII through Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso". I plan to eventually have an archive of machine- readable Italian and Franco-Italian epic poems for linguistic and stylistic analysis. My knowledge of computer use in linguistic analysis led to using it also my teaching activities. I have written some exercises using authoring programs, and am examining programs on the market for further use. There is very little available in Italian, so possibilities for inventive computer use in teaching Italian exist. CAI is a growing field and certainly appealing to students who have grown up using computers for games. I will soon be switching from an IBM environment to a VAX environment, and would like to know more about what is available for concording and textual analysis on the VAX. ================================================================= *Niska, Helge Institute for Interpretation and Translation Studies, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm Sweden; +46 8 16 20 00 or CompuServe: 72410,132 or (less frequently) BIX: hniska. I am the Assistant Director of the Sweden Institute for Interpretation and Translation Studies at Stockholm University. The main objective of our institute is to educate interpreters and translators. But since we are the only institute of its kind in Sweden, we have a special responsibility to initiate research and development and keep abreast with what is happening world- wide in the fields of translating and interpreting. Needless to say, computers are becoming indispensable to translators. Several companies have launched software packages aimed at helping the translator at work. Some are good, some are not. Machine translation at large is of course of great interest to translators, and many people feel that it could be a threat to their very existence as professionals. Our institute has to be well informed about these issues to be able to give an objective and realistic picture of what is happening. We are only at the beginning of building up computer networks for humanists, and translators and interpreters are groups which would benefit immensely by such networks. They are after all a rather lonely lot, often working all by themselves with little contact with colleagues. In my own work, I use international computer networks to keep in touch with translators, linguists, communication scholars etc around the world. I even started an international mailing-list on interpreting and translation, LANTRA-L. I also use online databases a great deal to locate literature and to get facts and information otherwise not available. I also use the computer for regular office work: word processing, budgets, registers and databases. I use desktop publishing quite a lot, since our reports series, magazine and newsletters are produced more or less on our own equipment. ================================================================= *Nyberg, Rainer Project Researcher, Faculty of Education, ]bo Akademi University P.O. Box 311, SF-65101 VASA, Finland; +358 61 247251 My interest is limited to learning strategies, approaches to learning and anxiety & self-experienced efficacy when you learn a computer application. The application could be a word processor or Hypercard on Macintosh or something like that. Just now I am doing research only this year. Finished a doctoral dissertation last year on teacher work motivation. Have now turned more to research on students and their learning processes and motivation. I want to get in touch with researchers who have an interest in -approaches to learning, -learning- strategies, motivation/self-efficacy/anxiety in connection with learning to use microcomputing skills. ================================================================= *Ott, Wilhelm Prof. Dr., Universitaet Tuebingen, Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung, Brunnenstrasse 27, D-7400 Tuebingen, Germany Born 1938, studied philosophy, theology, classical philology in Roma, Wuerzburg, Tuebingen, Muenchen. Since 1966 at the Computing Center of the University of Tuebingen, since 1970 head of the department "Literarische und Dokumentarische Datenverarbeitung", founded in order "to develop and support methods and programs for the processing of textual data of all kinds". Since then, TUSTEP, the "TUebingen Systen of TExt processing Programs" has been developped, numerous projects have been supported and have published their results in several hundred printed volumes. Since 1974 the Tuebingen Colloquia (cf the reports in "Literary and Linguistic Computing") are a forum for humanities scholars working with computers. ================================================================= *Papakhian, A. Ralph (papakhi@iubvm.bitnet, papakhi@iubvm.bacs.indiana.edu) Music Technical Services Librarian, Indiana University, Bloomington Executive Secretary, Music Library Association (U.S.) Music Library Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 812-855- 2970 Professional activities and interests: My work has focused on computer applications in the cataloging of music materials particularly in a cooperative environment. This includes bibliographic description as well as authority control for names and titles. I am currently Coordinator of the NACO-Music Project sponsored by the Music OCLC Users Group (the project is a cooperative undertaking to create and contribute music related name and title authority information to the Library of Congress Name Authority File). Further interests include computer applications in library automation, music and bibliography. My responsibilities as Executive Secretary of the Music Library Association include establishing and maintaining communication with related organizations in the humanities and library fields. I am also interested the use of computer networking in professional organizations such as the MLA. Other interests include radical politics, twentieth-century art music, and Armenian studies. ================================================================= *Riley, David L. (RILEYD@IUBACS or RILEYD@GOLD.BACS.INDIANA.EDU) Music Reference Librarian (Visiting Assistant Librarian), Indiana University Bus: 0005 Sycamore Hall, Music Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 47401 (812)855-2970 Home: 324 S. Highland Ave. #3, Bloomington, IN 47401 (812)332- 1496 Born in Louisville, Kentucky, received B.A. in Music History from the University of Louisville in 1979; began work toward a M.M. in Music History from the same institution in 1981. Received M.L.S. with a specialization in Music Librarianship from Indiana University in 1986. Music Public Services Librarian, New York University, from 1986-1988. Currently serves on Information Sharing Subcommittee and Bibliographic Instruction Subcommittee of the Reference and Public Services Committee of the Music Library Association. Member, Music Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries and International Association of Music Libraries, American Musicological Society. Interests include contemporary music, particularly that of the composer Hans Werner Henze; comparative literature (XIXth century and interdisciplinary research between literature and the performing arts); Habsburg Vienna (especially fin-de-siecle); Weimar German history, and application of new technology (CD - ROM, scanner, telefax, etc.) to music. ================================================================= *Stump, Eleonore. Professor of philosophy, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va. Ph.D. 1975 Cornell University. Areas of specialization: medieval philosophy, philosophy of religion . Representative publications: Boethius's De differentiis topicis, Cornell University Press, 1978. Boethius's In Ciceronis Topica, Cornell University Press, 1988. Dialectic and Its Place in the Medieval Development of Logic, Cornell University Press, 1989. "Petitionary Prayer", American Philosophical Quarterly 16 (1979) 81-91. "Eternity" (with Norman Kretzmann), Journal of Philosophy 8 (1981) 429-458. "The Problem of Evil", Faith and Philosophy 2 (1985) 392-423. "Dante's Hell, Aquinas's Theory of Morality, and the Love of God", Canadian Journal of Philosophy 16 (1986) 181-198. "Sanctification, Hardening of the Heart, and Frankfurt's Concept of Free Will", Journal of PHilosophy 85 (1988) 395-420. Current Research Interests: the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas; the role of free will in traditional Christian doctrine; providence and the problem of evil. I look forward to joining Humanist. If there is anything further required, please let me know. ================================================================= *Svennerstam, Bjorn I am a psychologist and a psychotherapist. I am connected to the Institution of Applied Psychology, University of Umea Sweden as a supervisor for the becoming psychotherapist students. My interest in this area and computing is just some ideas on trying to make psychodynamic diagnosis with the help from computer-based expertsystems ? Is this interesting for HUMANIST? ================================================================= *Swanson, Michael Teaching Fellow, Dept Of Phil, Vanderbilt U, Nashville, TN 37235, (615) 3222637; PHD Candidate, Philosophy Vanderbilt; MA Philosophy, Vanderbilt; BS Engineering Duke. Interests: Philosophy Mind, Animal Rights, Logic ================================================================= *Thorman, Christopher Futurist, Apple Computer, MS: 60Y, 20525 Mariani Ave., Cupertino CA 95014 Phone: (408) 974-0593 I am a recent graduate of MIT. I majored in Visual Arts there for two years before switching to Computer Science and graduating with the CS degree. I worked for Professor Patrick Purcell first in the Architecture Machine Group, then at the Architecture Department Computer Resource Laboratory, the Rotch Visual Collections, and the Media Laboratory. Have worked in Interactive video (ArcMac Gaudi Project, and Rotch Visual Collections Boston Project), taught a course in computer graphics for designers, done extensive LISP programming and user-interface design, and written a thesis at the Media Lab Film/Video section on using textural information from video to create realistic rendernings of real 3D scenes. Currently I work at the HyperMedia Research Group at Apple Computer, prototyping new approaches to spatial Hypermedia navigation. We're combining new user interface metaphors with three-dimensional graphical environments and HyperMedia capabilities. ================================================================= *Woods, Marjorie (Jorie) Curry Associate Professor, Department of English, Morey Hall, University of Rochester Rochester, New York 14627; (716) 275-2694 (office); (716) 275-4091 (dept. office) (716) 659-2533 (home) B.A., Stanford, English, 1969 M.A. and Ph.D., Toronto, Medieval Studies, 1977 Taught at Oberlin (1974-76) and Rochester (1976- ) My major research interests are medieval literary theory and teaching methods. My research is carried out at both an archival and a theoretical level. I work on unpublished manuscripts that contain commentaries, or teaching notes, usually in the margins of an influential medieval treatise on the composition of poetry (the POETRIA NOVA of Geoffrey of Vinsauf, which was written in about 1215). I use somewhat specific details in these manuscripts to develop hypotheses about the ways that medieval teachers, students, and poets worked. My book was published from camera-ready copy that was printed on our XEROX 9700 laser printer and formatted in SCRIPT on the CMS mainframe here at Rochester. (AN EARLY COMMENTARY ON THE 'POETRIA NOVA' OF GEOFFREY OF VINSAUF [New York: Garland Publishing, 1985.) My own use of computers has, so far, been limited to text editing (SCRIPT and WordPerfect) and electronic mail; although I have a large collection of manuscript descriptions in ASCII (or EBCDIC) files, I have used our VM machine primarily as a place to store information about them. I'm interested in finding an effective textbase for these manuscript files on my PC, a Zenith 286 laptop with 20MB fixed disk. I'm going to be evaluating the ASKSam textbase this Spring. I am in correspondence with Marianne Alenius of the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Copenhagen (Njalsgade 94, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark; not on BITNET yet), where an ASKSam textbase is being used for the Database of Nordic Neo- Latin Literature. Yvan Bosrup of the Royal Library in Copenhagen has also sent me prototype of a Microtutor program for teaching students Latin in Latin; the program contains the text and exercizes which are also available in book form. Where I may be of some use to others is in my knowledge of theories of authorship and text production and how these have been evaluated in the western academic tradition. Many of the collaborative computer efforts being developed now and in terms of which untenured academics are being judged are similar to methods of continuously revised scribal production in the pre- print medium of manuscripts. This tradition has always been dismissed by the academic establishment because of its confustion and hesitation in front of texts for which single authorship cannot be postulated. The University of Rochester has negotiated a very competitive price on HP LaserJet Series II printers---with a "free" 3 year service warranty. My printer is due to arrive next week, which should complete my home office. My husband (Robert Taylor) is a computer consultant who is helping to establish the Faculty Computing Resource Center at the University of Rochester. ================================================================= *Zeitlyn, David I'm a social anthropologist here at Oxford (research fellow at Wolfson college). I work in Cameroon with a group called the Mambila, I'm very interested in any waork that's been done on free text searches and indexing/concordance work - especially if versions are available for the MAC! The other(developing) interest is trying to use computers (MAC for preference) to analyse/facilitate analysis of genealogical data. Hence I'd be very keen to hear of what work is beeing done on these subjects, if you have any background information. *****END*****