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
September
Erin A. McCarthy. ‘AI for Reconciling and Cleaning Bibliographical Metadata on the STEMMA Project’. Continental European Books in Early Modern England, 1500-1640: A New Approach Using Bibliographic Data Science conference, University of Manchester. Manchester, United Kingdom.
July
Caitlin Burge, Kyle Dase, Erin A. McCarthy, and Millie Randall. Roundtable, ‘John Donne and the STEMMA Project’. Thirty-Eighth Annual John Donne Society Conference, University of Galway.
June
Kyle Dase. ‘Cleaning Data and Copycats: Challenges and Early Modern Oddities in the STEMMA Project’. Canadian Society for Digital Humanities. Toronto, Canada.
Kyle Dase. ‘“The Images of Absent Friends”: Revisiting the “Donnean” Qualities of Katherine Philips’s “To My Dearest Antenor”’. Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies Annual Conference, George Brown College. Toronto, Canada.
May
Kyle Dase. ‘“Conveying One’s Own Disgrace”: Pithy Poems, Thomas Hobson, and Edgerly’s Wife, the Carrier in BL Additional MS 30982’. Scribes and Inky Fingerprints: Collaborative and Mediated Authorship in Early Modern English Manuscripts – FEATHERS Project Conference, Universiteit Leiden. Leiden, Netherlands.
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.
Erin A. McCarthy. ‘Anne Southwell and Early Modern Networks of Verse Transmission’. ‘Anne Southwell and Early Modernisms’, Shakespeare Association of America. Boston, MA.
Erin A. McCarthy. ‘Digital Humanities “Office Hours”’. Renaissance Society of America. Digital and Multimedia Committee-sponsored session. Boston, MA, USA.
Erin A. McCarthy. ‘Machine Learning and Early Modern Manuscript Poetry in the STEMMA Project’. Renaissance Society of America. Iter-sponsored session. Boston, MA, USA.
Erin A. McCarthy. ‘AI and Early Modern Poetry: Data Cleaning for the STEMMA Project’. Digital Humanities Research Group, University of Leeds. Leeds, United Kingdom.
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.
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.
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, LA.
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.