Editing Modernism in Canada

Meagan Timney was the first Postdoctoral Fellow for the Editing Modernism in Canada project. She worked at the Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory at the University of Victoria, under the direction of Dr. Ray Siemens (Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing) and Dr. Dean Irvine (Dalhousie University; Director of the Editing Modernism in Canada Project). She is also an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of English at UVIC.

Meagan held a SSHRC Doctoral fellowship, and was the recipient of the 2008 Dalhousie President’s Graduate Teaching Assistant Award. Her areas of research and scholarship include: theories and practice of digital scholarly editing, interface design, human-computer interaction, knowledge mobilization and collaborative digital environments, as well as Victorian literature and industrial culture, and working-class women’s poetry.

Meagan is the editor of the Victorian Working-Class Women Poets Archive. Her article, “Mary Hutton and the Development of a Working-Class Women’s Political Poetics,” will appear in the Spring 2011 edition of Victorian Poetry. She was also an associate editor for Compendium 2: Writing, Teaching, and Learning in the University (2007-2008), and was the Graduate student co-instructor for Dean Irvine’s class, “Editing and Publishing,” which provided students with professional and theoretical training in print and digital text editing—she taught classes on topics such as text encoding (HTML/CSS/XML), coding for online journals, proofing code, digital language troubleshooting, and PKP’s Open Journal Systems. Meagan is also a triathlete, and has competed at both the national and international level.