I am the first Postdoctoral Fellow for the Editing Modernism in Canada Project at the Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory at the University of Victoria.  In my PhD thesis, “Of Factory Girls and Serving Maids: The Literary Labours of Working-Class Women in Victorian Britain,” I examine how working-class women poets in Victorian Britain engage in discourses of industrialism, nationalism and gender.  I held a SSHRC Doctoral fellowship, and am the recipient of the 2008 Dalhousie President’s Graduate Teaching Assistant Award. My areas of research and scholarship include:  theories and practice of digital scholarly editing, interface design, human-computer interaction, knowledge mobilization and collaborative digital environments, Victorian literature and industrial culture, and working-class women’s poetry.

• Digital Humanities and New Media
• Scholarly Editing and Publishing
• Technology and Pedagogy
• Interface Design and Human-Computer Interaction
• Textual Studies
• Women’s Writing & Feminist Studies
• Professional Writing
• Working-Class Literature & Labour Studies
• Nineteenth-Century Literature (British and American)
• Victorian Poetry
• Academic Reading and Writing

PhD, Dalhousie University, English Literature, 2009.

PhD Thesis: ““Of Factory Girls and Serving Maids: The Literary Labours of Working-Class Women in Victorian Britain.”

MA, Dalhousie University, English Literature, 2005.

MA Thesis: “‘A Call to the People’: Partisan Poetics and the International Aesthetic in Chartist Verse, 1830-1860.” (Supervisor: Dr. Marjorie Stone)

BA Hons., University of Western Ontario, English Literature and Performing Arts, 2004. Honours

Thesis: “‘Bystander at the Banquet’: Female Consumption and Self-Abnegation in the Victorian Social Problem Novel.” (Supervisor: Dr. Christopher Keep)

HASTAC: Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory Fellowship (2010-2011).

Editing Modernism in Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship (2009-2011).

Dalhousie President’s Graduate Teaching Assistant Award (2007-2008).

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship (2007-2009).

Dalhousie English Research Scholarship (2004-2007).
Dalhousie Faculty of Graduate Studies Scholarship (2004-2007).

University of Western Ontario Gold Medal: English Literature and Performing Arts (Graduation 2004).

Kay McIver Memorial Award (2003-2004).

William Ware Tamblyn Scholarship (2002-2003).

Assistant Professor (limited-term), University of Victoria.  2009-2011.

Instructor, Dalhousie University. 2007-2009.

Teaching Assistant, “Editing and Publishing” (Supervisor: Dr. Dean Irvine), Dalhousie University, 2007-2008.

Teaching Assistant, “Editing and Publishing” (Supervisor: Dr. Dean Irvine), Dalhousie University, 2006-2007.

Research Assistant, (Supervisor: Dr. Julia Wright), Dalhousie University, 2006-2007.

Research Assistant, (Supervisor: Dr. Judith Thompson), Dalhousie University, 2005-2006.

Research Assistant, (Supervisor: Dr. Ronald Huebert), Dalhousie University, 2004-2005.

2010-2011: ENGL 503/CSC 489a-589a – History and Principles of Digital Literary Studies (Graduate Seminar, University of Victoria, Co-Instructor).

2010-2011: HUMA 150 – Tools, Techniques, and Culture of the Digital Humanities (University of Victoria).

2010-2011: ENGL 386 – Victorian Poetry (University of Victoria).

2009-2010: ENGL 503/CSC 589a – Literary Computing (Graduate Seminar, University of Victoria, Co-Instructor).

2009-2010: ENGL 200C – Victorian and Edwardian Literature (University of Victoria).

2009-2010: ENGL 135 – Academic Reading and Writing (University of Victoria).

2008-2009: ENGL 3031 – Nineteenth-Century Literature from Austen to Dickens (Dalhousie University).

2007-2008: ENGL 1000 Introduction to Literature (Dalhousie University).

Dalhousie Certificate in University Teaching and Learning.

CNLT 5000: “Learning and Teaching in Higher Education,” January-April 2008.

Timney, Meagan. “Mary Hutton and the Development of a Working-Class Women’s Political Poetics.”  Victorian Poetry [Forthcoming: Spring 2011]. 

Timney, Meagan. “Working-Class Women’s Writing in the Nineteenth-Century Radical Periodical Press: Chartist Threads.” Philological Quarterly (Special issue in 2011 on Nineteenth-Century Working Class Writing) [Forthcoming: 2011].

Timney, Meagan and Dean Irvine.  “A New Build: Digital Tools for Archives, Commons, and Collaboration.” Archival Narratives for Canada: [Re] Telling Stories in a Changing Landscape.  Ed. Kathleen Garay and Christl Verduyn. Fernwood Publishing. [Forthcoming: 2011].

Associate Researcher, Implementing New Knowledge Environments. (PI: Ray Siemens, University of Victoria).

Timney, Meagan, ed. Victorian Working-Class Women Poets Project.  <http://wcwp.corpora.ca>.

Cross-platform re-development of the Image Mark-Up Tool.  (with Martin Holmes @ Electronic Textual Cultures Lab and Humanities Computing Media Centre, University of Victoria)

Victorian Poetry Network (with Dr. Alison Chapman).

Social Edition Platforms (Co-researcher with Ray Siemens, Cara Leitch, and Brett Hirsch @ Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, University of Victoria)

Web Developer: Editing Modernism in Canada (EMiC). (http://editingmodernism.ca).

Associate Editor: Compendium 2: Teaching and Learning in the University (http://www.compendium2.ca). 2008-2009.

Timney, Meagan (transcribed and coded).  Norton, Caroline.  “Opening.”  The Child of the Islands. A Poem.  Electronic Edition.  Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century Irish Literature.  Ed. Julia Wright. (http://irish-literature.english.dal.ca/).

Timney, Meagan, ed.  The Works of Marie Joussaye Fotheringham. [Scholarly Edition; Editing Modernism in Canada Series; Digital Edition; 2011].

Timney, Meagan.  “Trade Unions and the Press.”  Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism.  London: British Library, 2008.

Timney, Meagan. “Mary Hutton.” The Labouring-Class Writers Project. 2 April 2009. <http://human.ntu.ac.uk/research/labouringclasswriters/ExpandedEntries/Hutton.htm>

Review of: Forsyth, Margaret.  “Looking for Grandmothers: Working-Class Women Poets and ‘herstory.’”  Women’s Writing 12.2 (2005): 259-69. Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. 2008.

Review of: Haywood, Ian.  The Revolution in Popular Literature: Print, Politics and the People, 1790-1860. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. 2008.

Review of: Lang, Amy Schrager.  The Syntax of Class.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2003.

Review of: Louttit, Chris. “The Novelistic Afterlife of Henry Mayhew.” Philological Quarterly 85.3-4 (Summer and Fall): 315-42. Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. 2010.

Review of: Hiltner, Ken.  “Shirley and the Luddites.” Bronte Studies 33.2 (July 2008): 148-158. Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. 2010.

Review of: Garvey, Ellen Gruber.  “Less Work for ‘Mother’: Rural Readers, Farm Papers, and the Makeover of ‘The Revolt of “Mother”’.” Legacy 26.1 (2009): 119-149. Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. 2010.

Invited Guest Author.  Chronicle of Higher Education: Profhacker. “Using Mailplane to Manage Multiple Gmail Accounts.” September 28, 2010.  http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Using-Mailplane-to/27122/

Invited Guest Author.  Chronicle of Higher Education: Profhacker. “Nurturing the Mind-Body Connection.” July 28, 2010. http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Nurturing-the-Mind-Body/25807/

Timney, Meagan, Cara Leitch, and Ray Siemens.  “Opening the Gates: A New Model for Edition Production in a Time of Collaboration.” [Article].

Timney, Meagan.  Virtual Victorians: Networks, Connections, Technologies. [Essay Collection].

Timney, Meagan. “Editing and Publishing in a Digital Age: An Experiential-Learning Approach” [Article].

Timney, Meagan.  “If you build it will they come? ‘Socializing Editions’ in Academic Communities.” [Article].

Timney, Meagan. “From Reticence to Repast: Transatlantic Metaphors of Hunger and Nourishment from Frederick Douglass to the Chartists.” [Article].

Panel Co-Chair (with Shannon Rose Smith): “Victorian Sport and Recreation Culture.”  North American Victorian Studies Association: The Arts and Culture in Victorian Britain.  Yale University (New Haven, CT). November 14-16, 2008.

“Function, Application, and Process.” INKE 2009: Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age. University of Victoria (Victoria, BC). 23-24 October 2009.

Timney, Meagan. “Editing Modernism in Canada: The Image Markup Tool and Scholarly Edition Production.” Conference on Editorial Problems.  University of Toronto (Toronto, ON).  October 23-24, 2010.

Timney, Meagan, Dean Irvine, Paul Hjartarson, Martin Holmes, Matt Huculak, Zailig Pollock, Doug Reside. “Editorial Networks, Modernist Remediations.” Modernist Studies Association.  University of Victoria (Victoria, BC).  November 11-14, 2010.

Siemens, Ray, Cara Leitch, Meagan Timney, and Julie Meloni. “Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) and the Scholarly Edition.” 2010 Modern Language Association Convention (Los Angeles, CA). January 6-9, 2011.

Siemens, Ray, Cara Leitch and Meagan Timney.  “Envisioning the Devonshire MS (BL Add 17492) as Social Edition.” Renaissance Society of America. Special Panel, “New Technologies and Renaissance Studies 2: Editions and Social Networks.” (Montréal, QC). March 24-26, 2011.

Siemens, Ray, Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Lynne Siemens, Stéfan Sinclair, Susan Brown, Meagan Timney, Geoffrey Rockwell. “Understanding the ‘Capacity’ of the Digital Humanities: The Canadian Experience, Generalised.” SDH/SEMI Special Panel.  DH 2010.  King’s College London (London, UK). July 5-10, 2010.

Timney, Meagan, Cara Leitch, and Ray Siemens. “Notes Towards the Social Edition.” CFHSS Congress 2010. SDH/SEMI. Concordia University.  May 31-June 2, 1010. (Montréal, QC).

Timney, Meagan.  “Digital Collections, Archival Research, and Canonicity: The Working-Class Women Poets Collection.” CFHSS Congress 2010. ACCUTE. May 28-June 4, 2010.

Siemens, Ray, Cara Leitch, Meagan Timney, Johanne Paquette, Karin Armstrong, Eric Haswell, Brett D. Hirsch, and Greg Newton. “Coterie and Miscellaneous Contribution: Producing the Devonshire Manuscript (BL Add MS 17,492), Historically and in <Socially-mediated> Scholarly Edition.”  The Archives and the Profession: Early Modern and Modern British and Irish Literature. University of Texas at Austin. February 2010.

Timney, Meagan. “Editing and Publishing in a Digital Age: An Experiential Learning Approach.”  Transcanada 3: Literature, Institutions, Citizenship.  Special Panel: Radical Variants: Pedagogy and Editing Modernism in Canada.  Mount Allison University (Sackville, NB).  July 16-19, 2009. 

Timney, Meagan.  “Digitizing Class: The Victorian Working-Class Women Poets Project.”  Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria.  Graduate Student Colloquium.  June 8-12, 2009.

Timney, Meagan.  “Working-Class Women’s Communities in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press.”  17^th Annual British Women Writers Conference, “Fresh Threads of Connection.”  University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA). April 2-5, 2009. 

Timney, Meagan.  “Poetry and Political Protest in the Radical Periodical Press, 1838-1852.”  Dalhousie University, Department of English Speaker Series.  January 9, 2009.

Timney, Meagan. “‘Strangers in the City’: Reading Nature and Nostalgia in Fanny Forrester’s Poetry.”  North American Victorian Studies Association: The Arts and Culture in Victorian Britain.  Special Panel on Art and the Working Classes.  Yale University (New Haven, CT). November 14-16, 2008.  

Timney, Meagan.  “From Reticence to Repast: Transatlantic Metaphors of Nourishment in Frederick Douglass and Chartist Poetry.” CFHSS Congress 2008.  Association of Canadian College & University Teachers of English.  Special Panel on Transatlantic Exchanges in the Nineteenth Century.  University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC).  May 31-June 8, 2008.

Timney, Meagan. “‘The altar ran with human gore’: Investigating the Poetical Politics of Mary Hutton.” Nineteenth Century Studies Association: Politics and Propaganda. Special Panel on Poetry and Politics.  Florida International University.  Miami, Florida.  April 3-5, 2008.

Timney, Meagan. “Of Factory Girls and Serving Maids: The Literary Labours of Working-Class Women in Victorian Britain.” Dalhousie University, Department of English Speaker Series.  January 31, 2007.   

Timney, Meagan. “‘It’s the stone itself that’s split’: Staging Ireland in Arrah-na-Pogue; Or, the Wicklow Wedding.”  Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada: The Global Victorians: Interdisciplinary and Transnational Approaches to the Victorian Era.  University of Calgary (Calgary, AB).  November 3-4, 2006.

Timney, Meagan. “‘Bystander at the Banquet’: Female Consumption and Political Protest in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley.”  The Victorians Institute.  “From Mrs. Jellyby to Edwin Chadwick”: Gender and Reform in Victorian Culture.  Converse College (Spartanburg, SC.)  October 20-21, 2006. 

Timney, Meagan. “‘But the skin of the earth is seamless’: Liminality as Limbo Gateway in Octavia Butler's Kindred”.  Traverse: Writing Travel.  University of Western Ontario.  (London, ON.)  April 29-May 1, 2004.

TEI @ Oxford Summer School.  Oxford University. Oxford, UK.  July 12-14, 2010.

THATCamp London. Kings College London.  London, UK. July 5-7, 2010.

“Scaling Digital Humanities, in Discipline and Interdiscipline.” DHSI: Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria. June 7-11, 2010.

Advanced TEI Encoding Seminar: Contextual Encoding.  Brown University. Providence, RI. April 8-10, 2010.

“Issues in Large Project Planning and Management.” Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory, University of Victoria. Victoria, BC. September 2009.

“Digital Tools for Literary History.” DHSI: Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria. June 8-12, 2009.

FIDLH: Fall Institute in Digital Libraries & Humanities, University of New Brunswick. September 25-27, 2008.

Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship (NINES) Summer Fellowship: Miami University (Ohio). July 22-29, 2008.

Web Development: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP/MySQL

Markup: XML (TEI P5), XSLT

Programming Languages: C++ (training in progress; focus on application development)

Graphic design and Photo editing: Adobe Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, InDesign CS3, Flash, GIMP

Software: MS Office Suite, Adobe Acrobat 9 (Professional), oXygen XML editor

Operating Systems: Mac OSX, Linux (Ubuntu Distro), Windows XP/2000/Vista/7

OS Programming: Linux (bash) shell programming

Content Management Systems: Wordpress, Omeka, Drupal, Joomla, Open Journal Systems

Member of CenterNet group on graduate training and curricular development in the digital humanities

Dalhousie President’s Graduate Teaching Assistant Award Committee (2009).

ACCUTE Graduate Student Representative, Dalhousie University (2008-2009).

Academic and Financial Planning Committee, Department of English, Dalhousie University (2005-2006).

Vice-Chair, Student Caucus on Governance, University of Western Ontario (2003-2004).

Student Senator, Arts Representative, University of Western Ontario (2002-2004).

Committee for Undergraduate Studies in English: Student Representative, University of Western Ontario (2002-2004).

Association for Computers and Humanities.

Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE).

Modern Language Association (MLA).

North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA).

Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada (VSAWC).