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Senior Lecturer (Late Medieval English Literature and Digital Humanities, Newcastle University). Member: ATNU, TEI Board. Founded: DHOxSS and DH Awards
Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval English Literature and Digital Humanities at Newcastle University, a member of ATNU, and TEI Board. He directed Digital Medievalist (2009-12) and founded DHOxSS and DH Awards.
James has a BA (Medieval Studies -- Toronto), an MA (Medieval Studies -- Leeds), and a PhD (Medieval Drama -- Leeds).
James Cummings is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Digital Humanities for the School of English Literature, Language, and Linguistics at Newcastle University. He studies digital editing and medieval drama, is part of the ATNU project, and (from 2005-2019) the TEI Council, and since on the Board.
James has a BA in Medieval Studies (University of Toronto), an MA in Medieval Studies (University of Leeds), and a PhD in medieval drama (University of Leeds).
He works with the REED project. He directed Digital Medievalist (2009-12), founder of DHOxSS and DH Awards.
James attempts to bridge Medieval Studies and Digital Humanities.
James Cummings is the Senior Lecturer in English Literature (1350-1510) and Digital Humanities for the School of English Literature, Language, and Linguistics at Newcastle University. He studies digital technology for editing and the surviving records of late-medieval drama. He is part of the Animating Text Newcastle University (ATNU) project.
From 2005-2019 he was an elected member (and one-time chair) of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium's Council and since then is on their Board.
James completed a BA (Medieval Studies -- University of Toronto), an MA (Medieval Studies -- University of Leeds), and a PhD (Medieval Drama -- University of Leeds).
One of his main research interests in late-medieval drama is the Record of Early English Drama project and its shift to digital technologies. He was elected director of the Digital Medievalist (2009-12). He was founder of DHOxSS and DH Awards.
James attempts to bridge both Medieval Studies and Digital Humanities in his research.
James Cummings is the Senior Lecturer in English Literature (1350-1510) and Digital Humanities for the School of English Literature, Language, and Linguistics at Newcastle University. He studies the use of digital technology for editing and also the surviving records of late-medieval drama. He is part of the Animating Text Newcastle University (ATNU) project which is exploring the intersections between traditional scholarly textual editing, digital editing, digital humanities, and computer science.
From 2005-2019 he was an elected member of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium's Council, and was previously its Chair. This develops new features and fixes bugs in the TEI Guidelines for encoding digital text. He has since been elected to their Board of Directors. He is the Newcastle University Digital Humanities Theme Lead for N8 Computational Intensive Research project and a member of The Alan Turing Institute's Humanities and Data Science Research Group.
James completed a BA in Medieval Studies from the University of Toronto, an MA in Medieval Studies from the University of Leeds, and a PhD in medieval drama from the University of Leeds. His PhD (2001) investigates the archival survival of information concerning the performance of drama in medieval culture. It involved a significant amount of archival transcription.
One of his main research interests in late-medieval drama is the Record of Early English Drama project and its shift to digital technologies. In addition to the archival survival of information concerning late-medieval performance, James is also interested in the relationship of medieval manuscripts to their digital surrogates. From 2009-2012 he was elected director of the executive board of the Digital Medievalist project. He was the founder of Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School and DH Awards.
James occasionally attempts to bridge both Medieval Studies and Digital Humanities in his research. Please see his staff page for more information.
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