Dr Patrick Hart is a curator in the Published Collections team at the National Library of Scotland, and sits on the Library Board of the Open Journals Collective. He previously worked with COPIM as a research fellow at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry University, and as a lecturer in English Literature at İstanbul Kültür University and at Bilkent University in Ankara.
Dr Lucy R. Hinnie is currently a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan. She is a graduate of both the University of Glasgow (MPhil, 2012) and the University of Edinburgh (MA, 2010; PhD, 2018). Her postdoctoral project is entitled ‘Digitizing the Bannatyne MS (c. 1568)’ and stems from her doctoral thesis, ‘Figuring the Feminine in the Bannatyne MS (c. 1568)’, completed under the supervision of Dr Sarah Dunnigan. Her postdoctoral project, supervised by Professor David Parkinson, will offer a framework for a new digital edition of the Bannatyne Manuscript. Lucy’s research focusses on material in Older Scots, and the application of medieval feminist theory. Her monograph is currently under preparation for review at Brill. She can also be found on twitter @yclepit, and on the Humanities Commons.
Dr Lynsey McCulloch is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Creative Learning and Engagement at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. Her research focuses on inclusive pedagogies, movement practice, and the relationship between Shakespeare and Dance. She co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance (Oxford University Press) in 2019 with Brandon Shaw. Her next book, Exploring Style in Children’s Shakespeare-Inspired Writing, is co-authored with Matthew Collins and forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
Dr Tristan Taylor is currently a sessional lecturer in the department of English at the University of Saskatchewan and sessional lecturer at St. Thomas More College. His SSHRC-funded research focuses on the material manifestations of genre and the development and reception of a thirteenth-century collection of saints’ legends, the South English Legendary. His primary areas of interest are hagiography, codicology, genre studies, reading reception, and every-day piety. He can be found on twitter @postscriptus and on the Humanities Commons.
Dr Kyle Dase is currently completing a post-doc at the University of Victoria. His primary research interests include literature of Late Medieval and Early Renaissance England, Digital Humanities and Network Visualization, Textual Editing, and Medieval and Renaissance tropes in New Media. He is a Research Fellow on The Canterbury Tales Project as well as a research assistant for The Social Network of Early Modern Collectors of Curiosities and The Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons (GEMMS). His dissertation explores concepts of sociability in Early Modern England, with a focus on the social context of John Donne’s verse epistles.
Kendall Bitner is currently a PhD candidate in the MSCA doctoral network, MECANO: The Mechanics of Canon Formation, at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen. His research investigates the processes of canonization within the fluid corpus of anonymous and pseudonymous late antique and medieval sermons. His SSHRC-funded Master’s thesis culminated in a single-witness edition of Ælfric of Eynsham’s bilingual Grammar. He is an Editorial Assistant for Medieval Sermon Studies and a Research Fellow on The Canterbury Tales Project. His primary research interests include the medieval reception of antiquity, textual criticism, pseudepigraphy, medieval translation, and patristic preaching.
Alice Gibson is currently a doctoral researcher supervised between the University of St Andrews and the University of Glasgow, funded by the AHRC-Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities. Her research is focussed on the literature of late medieval and early modern Scotland, and her project examines the ways in which texts that draw their inspiration from traditions outwith Scotland are adapted and prepared for uniquely Scottish audiences. Her research interests include adaptation and reception theory, and fanfiction studies. She is the Research Assistant for the Read Older Scots project.