STEMMA
Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse, 1475-1700
College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies School of English and Creative Arts
Presentations and Publications
2025
March
Caitlin Burge. “Man or Myth? Folklore as Allegory in John Heywood’s Play of the Wether.” ‘Magic, Science, Knowledge, and Popular Belief’, Shakespeare Association of America. Boston, MA, March 2025.
Erin A. McCarthy. ‘Anne Southwell and Early Modern Networks of Verse Transmission’. ‘Anne Southwell and Early Modernisms’, Shakespeare Association of America. Boston, MA, March 2025.
Erin A. McCarthy. ‘Digital Humanities “Office Hours”’. Renaissance Society of America. Digital and Multimedia Committee-sponsored session. Boston, MA, USA, March 2025.
Erin A. McCarthy. ‘Machine Learning and Early Modern Manuscript Poetry in the STEMMA Project’. Renaissance Society of America. Iter-sponsored session. Boston, MA, USA, March 2025.
Erin A. McCarthy. ‘AI and Early Modern Poetry: Data Cleaning for the STEMMA Project’. Digital Humanities Research Group, University of Leeds. Leeds, United Kingdom, March 2025.
January
Kyle Dase. ‘Love’s Short Day: Romance and Illumination in the Light Sequence of John Donne’s Poems’. Huntington Library Quarterly. 87.1 (2024): 105–127. https://doi.org/10.1353/hlq.2024.a949376
Erin A. McCarthy. ‘RAG-conciliation: Using AI to Clean Literary Historical Data for the STEMMA Project’. Hong Kong Association for Digital Humanities. Hong Kong, January 2025.
2024
December
Caitlin Burge. ‘Network Analysis.’ In Compendium of Computational Theology vol. 1: Introducing Digital Humanities to Theology, ed. Christopher Nunn and Frederike van Oorschot. Heidelberg: heiBOOKS, 2024. pp. 203-214. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/heibooks.1521.c21949.
Caitlin Burge. ‘Netzwerkanalyse.’ In Kompendium of Computational Theology 1: Forschungspraktiken in den Digital Humanities, ed. Christopher Nunn and Frederike van Oorschot. Heidelberg: heiBOOKS, 2024. pp. 221-233. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/heibooks.1459.c21913.
Kyle Dase. ‘Let’s Talk Postdocs’. Department of English Professional Development Seminar, University of Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan, Canada.
Erin A. McCarthy. ‘Collaboration, Compilation, and Confession in Folger MS E.a.1’. Reformation 29.2 (2024): 113–132. https://doi.org/10.1080/13574175.2024.2404202
November
Caitlin Burge. ‘‘Right trusty and welbiloued’: Shared Letters and Epistolary Networks in the Pilgrimage of Grace’. Sixteenth Century Society Conference. Toronto, Canada.
October
Caitlin Burge. ‘To Be or Not To Be? The Ontological Gap between Sources and Digit(al)isation’. Digital Humanities Research Group Seminars, University of Galway. Galway, Ireland.
September
Erin A. McCarthy. ‘Mapping and Modelling the Transnational Circulation of English Poetry: An Introduction to the STEMMA Project’. Keynote address, Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies. Basel, Switzerland.
August
Erin A. McCarthy. ‘Manuscript and Miscellanies’. InThe Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing, edited by Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01537-4_87-1
July
Erin A. McCarthy. ‘Digital Humanities’. InThe Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing, edited by Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01537-4_430-1
June
Erin A. McCarthy. Invited review of The Virtual John Donne Project. Reviews in the Digital Humanities 5.6 (2024). https://doi.org/10.21428/3e88f64f.d462d1c4.
May
Erin A. McCarthy. ‘Poetry, Authorship, and Attribution’. In The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing, edited by Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01537-4_422-1
Erin A. McCarthy. ‘Introducing STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse, 1475–1700’. Keynote, Irish Renaissance Seminar, Maynooth University. Maynooth, Ireland.
Erin A. McCarthy. ‘STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse, 1475–1700’. ‘Medieval and Early Modern English Studies’ (doctoral seminar), University of Geneva.
April
Erin A. McCarthy. ‘Cutting and Pasting in Renaissance England: Gender, Authorship, and the Use of Others’ Words’, Shakespeare Association of America seminar. Portland, OR.
March
Erin A. McCarthy. ‘Manuscripts at the Margins: How Social Network Analysis Can Help Find Non-Elite Readers’. History Seminar, University of Galway. Galway, Ireland.
February
Erin A. McCarthy. ‘”More diligence, to seek them, than…to make them”: Mapping and Modelling Verse Circulation in the STEMMA Project’. Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Seminar Series, University of York. York, UK.
Erin A. McCarthy. ‘”no coppy shalbee taken”: Computationally Modelling the Proliferation of Donne’s Verse in Manuscript’. Keynote, John Donne Society, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
2023
December
Erin A. McCarthy. ‘John Donne and Big Data: An Introduction to the STEMMA project’. Keynote, Centre for Early Modern Studies Winter School, University of Limerick. Limerick, Ireland.
March
Erin A. McCarthy. ‘STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse, 1558–1660’. Renaissance Society of America. Iter-sponsored session, ‘New Technologies and Renaissance Studies II: Networks and Culture’. San Juan, PR, USA.
February
Erin A. McCarthy. ‘Circles, Coteries and Communities: STEMMA and the Modelling of Early Modern Manuscript Verse Circulation’. Digital Humanities Lab Seminar Series (co-sponsored by Centre for Early Modern Studies), University of Exeter. Exeter, UK.
2022
November
Erin A. McCarthy. ‘What Can Math Tell Us about Manuscript Verse Miscellanies? Introducing the STEMMA Project’. Making Short Verse Collections, Strasbourg, France.