STEMMA
Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse, 1475-1700
College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies School of English and Creative Arts
Meet the Team
Proffessor Erin A. McCarthy
Professor Erin A. McCarthy is Established Professor of English Literature and Computational Humanities and the Principal Investigator of the Irish Research Council- and European Research Council-funded project “STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse, 1475–1700” at the University of Galway. She is the author of Doubtful Readers: Print, Poetry, and the Reading Public (Oxford University Press, 2020), and she is currently completing a second monograph, “The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing in Manuscript Miscellanies, 1550–1700,” with Marie-Louise Coolahan and Sajed Chowdhury. Her scholarship has also appeared in the John Donne Journal, SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900, the Review of English Studies, and Criticism.
Dr CAITLIN BURGE
Dr Caitlin Burge (she/her) is a Postdoctoral Researcher with the ERC-project ‘STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse, 1475-1700’, at the University of Galway, using quantitative and computational approaches to identify instances of ‘rolling archetypes’ and their evolution. Having completed her AHRC-funded PhD at Queen Mary, University of London in 2022, she is currently working on her first monograph using network analysis to consider the career of Thomas Cromwell and epistolary networks at the Tudor court, as well as a digital edition of Privy Council registers from the reign of Henry VIII. Online. Recent articles can be found in Huntington Library Quarterly, Journal of Historical Network Research, and International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing.
Dr Kyle Dase
Before Dr Kyle Dase began working as a Postdoctoral Researcher on the STEMMA Project at the University of Galway, he was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria. He completed his PhD in Literature at the University of Saskatchewan with support from a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Doctoral Scholarship and has a master’s degree in digital humanities from KU Leuven. His current book project frames the classical, material, and religious contexts of sociability and friendship that are integral to understanding the verse letters of John Donne. Kyle’s scholarship can be found in Huntington Library Quarterly, Digital Studies, Digital Medievalist, and New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, among other places.
MISS Millie Randall
Millie Randall is a PhD student in English at the University of Galway. Her research interests are the transmission of texts in manuscript and printed miscellanies, changing collection and compilation practices in the early modern period and early readers’ responses to poetry and comedy. She is particularly interested in how compilation practices shaped readers’ aesthetic preferences and the reception of literary texts in the period. She has a BA in English from King’s College London and has just completed an MA in Early Modern English Literature: Text and Transmission, taught in collaboration between King’s College London and the British Library.