Papers by Kirsten Uszkalo
A Book is not a Display: A Theoretical Evolution of the E-Book Reader
ADHO 2008 - Oulu, 2008
The Building Blocks of the New Electronic Book
ADHO 2008 - Oulu, 2008
Capturing Magics: The Witches in Early Modern England Project as Micro-Historical and Visualization Research
Preternature Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural, 2014
This article considers how the recent digitization of witchcraft texts, which has provided unprec... more This article considers how the recent digitization of witchcraft texts, which has provided unprecedented accessibility to archives and collections, offers scholars a unique perspective—unavailable though conventional interpretive approaches—to open new inroads into the spaces of early modern witchcraft, and enable new ways of reading and interpreting old witchcraft texts. It demonstrates how the Witches in Early Modern England project (WEME), led by Kirsten C. Uszkalo, designs and deploys strategically intersecting, innovative, and experimental digital tools to allow for robust searching and pattern finding within references from 290 texts, providing entries on approximately 150 years of English witchcraft published between 1550 and 1700. The article identifies some of the recurring patterns in the micro-histories of witchcraft in England as expressed in and discovered through WEME, and outlines the technologies that allow users to search a time line, map, search box, or filter in order to explore almost three thousand individual multidimensional nano-histories and align them, to create composites of the true and terrible stories of the early English witches. Moreover, the project's open-ended platform encourages further expansion by users, offering the opportunity to develop search tools that can enhance and inspire the academic interrogation of existing corpora.
Bewitched and Bedeviled
Bewitched and Bedeviled, 2015
Cunning, cozening and queens in The Merry Wives of Windsor
Shakespeare, 2010
... DOI: 10.1080/17450911003643084 Kirsten C. Uszkalo a * pages 20-33. ... UK : Routledge , 1987 ... more ... DOI: 10.1080/17450911003643084 Kirsten C. Uszkalo a * pages 20-33. ... UK : Routledge , 1987 . 116 141 . View all references argues that this scene doubles male exposure and humiliation since Ford and Falstaff's delusions about women are simultaneously punished (122). ...
The Memoirs of Dolly Morton: Possible Source for James Joyce's Ulysses?
Notes and Queries, 2008
... L. Bishop, 'The Garbled History of the First-edition Ulysses', Jo... more ... L. Bishop, 'The Garbled History of the First-edition Ulysses', Joyce Studies Annual (Summer 1998), 336, at pp. 245. ↵ 3 Ibid., 26. ↵ 4 James Joyce, Selected Letters, ed. Richard Ellmann (New York, 1975), 1889. ↵ 5 Paul J. Gillette, editor of the 1965 Holloway House edition ...
Sharpening Her Pen: Strategies of Rhetorical Violence by Early Modern English Women Writers
The Modern Language Review, 2004
... I am also grateful to colleagues Thomas L. Berger, AR Braunmuller, Sheila T. Cavanagh, Elizab... more ... I am also grateful to colleagues Thomas L. Berger, AR Braunmuller, Sheila T. Cavanagh, Elizabeth Hageman, and Margaret Hannay for kindly reading and responding to portions of the manu-script. Page 14. Page 15. Sharpening Her Pen Page 16. Page 17. ...
The author has granted a non exclusive license allowing Library and Archives Canada to reproduce,... more The author has granted a non exclusive license allowing Library and Archives Canada to reproduce, publish, archive, preserve, conserve, communicate to the public by telecommunication or on the Internet, loan, distribute and sell theses worldwide, for commercial or non commercial purposes, in microform, paper, electronic and/or any other formats. AVIS: L'auteur a accorde une licence non exclusive permettant a la Bibliotheque et Archives Canada de reproduire, publier, archiver, sauvegarder, conserver, transmettre au public par telecommunication ou par I'lnternet, preter, distribuer et vendre des theses partout dans le monde, a des fins commerciales ou autres, sur support microforme, papier, electronique et/ou autres formats. i * i Canada R eproduced with perm ission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. If this dissertation is about the creation of identity for the witches and prophets, its production is about the creation of identity for its author as well. When, at times, my tongue has spoken heresies, there have been those who have both kept it in check and those who loosed it even more. When my body has betrayed me, I have had hands help to pull me back out of the water and hands that have let me go so I could swim. When I have asked who I am, my own community has helped me answer, in multiple voices, that I am one of their own. And, in an experience which seems to double like my own text, this second self, this extension of my own identity, has helped define me as I have defined it. There are numerous debts collected in such an enterprise and space herein for only a few to be acknowledged. I would like to thank the members of my committee: Dr. Garrett Epp for challenging me to look at the words I use; Dr. Francis Landy for making me consider the sisters who came before those I've studied; Dr. David Gay for encouraging me to look at the men who also spoke as prophets; and Dr. Sylvia Brown for asking if the work should even be done. There are two women to whom I owe a larger debt. I would like to thank Dr. Marion Gibson for demanding that I make this work better. Moreover, I owe gratitude to my supervisor, Dr. Patricia Demers, for facilitating this text from its inarguably unformed beginning, to fully realized end. She has taken me to a new beginning and for that I am grateful. My gratitude also belongs to Dr. Cecily Devereux and Dr. Heather Zwicker who have always believed in my skill as a teacher and an academic and to my students at the University of Alberta who have always ensured I am both. I have also had the tremendous luck of finding my own dark sisters while writing this work. These two women, Aida Patient and Susan Leipert, the brave souls who have helped edit this work, are beyond extraordinary scholars, teachers, and friends. Their imprints on this work and its author are invaluable. My family, who has wept with me in success and failure, are all already woven into this work as surely as the women studied here. I'd like to thank my grandparents Helen and Daniel Jakimchuk and Walter and Josephine Uszkalo for instilling in me the necessity of education and family. I'd like to thank my sister, Natalie, for her utter willingness to answer random questions at any hour of the day and my brother Nathan for keeping me grounded in the 21st century. I am indebted to my dad, John, for financial support early in my academic career, for finally having stopped introducing me as a professional student, and more importantly, for incoherently and joyously sobbing out 'Doctor' when I passed my defense. I owe to my mom, Carol, more thanks than I can express here, or in words at all. Every story of dirty soup, bedtime tale about princesses, and dramatic rendering of fairy tales, made me love stories, love learning, and love her. I am proud to be like her. Finally, I need to acknowledge and thank my partner Darren James Harkness. From the first form he filled out, to the nights he made dinner, to the continual format-battle-royale, this work is a tribute to the strength of the man who happily negotiated the dark to find the Early m odern Englishwomen's prophecies can be categorized in three basic ways: ecstatic, inspired, and oracular. The first category of prophecy represents the utterance of an ecstatic speaker; from their beds, or m uted by the power of their message, Sarah Wight, Anna Trapnel, and Eleanor Channel prophesy ecstatically. The second category is the inspired, didactic message of an erudite educator. Using erudite prophecy, a form usually associated w ith male prophets such as John Milton, Edmund Spenser, and William Blake, women like M argaret Fell and Eleanor Davies produced educated, inspired messages and displayed their scholarly understanding of the scriptures. The final category is the divine utterance, which promises perhaps to foretell, and definitely to influence, the future. Oracular or simply inspired, this is the discursive form used by Old Testament prophets. In this tradition, Esther Biddle, Priscilla Cotton, Mary Cole, Mary Howgill, and M ary Cary emerged from the metaphorical desert, full of divine ire and zeal, to alert the sinful and lethargic world that God was not pleased. These women judged, condemned, and promised to lead the world into a new era. As helpful as these categories may be for understanding how the prophet constructed her identity, they were not set in stone, nor did they protect the prophet from more dam aging constructions. The prophet was only a prophet when she was recognized as one; however, the streets of London and the pages of the tabloid mill could be very hostile places for the would-be prophetic sectarian woman. The successful ecstatic, erudite, or oracular prophet m ight be acclaimed as a leader, but the unsuccessful one, or the one who fell from favor, could, like her dark sister, be identified as a witch. Im printed at London: By J. Kingston for Edward White at the little north-doore of Paules, at the signe of the Gun, and are there to be sold, 1579. Anon. A True and Exact Relation of the severall Informations, Examinations, and Confessions of the late Witches, arraigned and executed in the County o f Essex. W ho were arraigned and condemned at the late Sessions, holden at Chelmesford before the Right Honorable Roberts, Earle ofW arwicke, and severall o f his M ajesties Justices of Peace, the 29 of July, 1645. Wherein the severall murthers, and devillish Witchcrafts, committed on the bodies of men, women, and children, and divers cattell, are fu lly discovered. Published by Authoritie. London: Printed by M.S. for H enry Overton, and Benj. Allen, and are to be sold at their shops in Popes-bead Alley, 1645. Anon. A True and Impartial Relation of the Informations A gainst Three Witches, Viz. Temperance Lloyd, M a ry Trembles, and Susanna Edwards. W ho were Indicted, Arraigned, and Convicted at the A ssizes holden for the C ounty of Devon at the Castle of Exon, Aug. 14. 1682. With Their several Confessions, taken before Thomas G ist M ayor, and John D avie Alderm an ofBiddiford in the said County, where they were Inhabitants. A s A lso Their Speeches, confessions, and behaviour, at the time and place of Execution on the Twenty fifth of the said M onth" Printed by Freeman Collins, and are to be Sold by T. Benskin, in St. Brides Churchyard , and C. Yeo Bookseller in Exon. 1682. Anon. A true relation o f a monstrous female-child, with tw o heads, fow er eyes, fo w er ears, two noises, tw o] mouthes, and fow er arms, fow er legs, and all things proportionably, fixed to one body. Born about the sixth o f M a y last, at a village called 111-Brewers near Taunton Dean in Som ersetshire. Likewise a true and perfect account of its form so prodigiously strange, with several remarkable passages observed from it since its birth, so great and amazing, that the like has not been known in m any ages: with m any other circumstances. As it was faithfully communicated in a letter, by a person o f worth, living in Taunton-Dean, to a gentleman here in London, and attested by many hundreds of no mean rank; and well known to several gentlemen in and about London. London: printed by D. Mallet, 1680.
The Campus Mysteries project developed an augmented reality game platform called fAR-Play and a l... more The Campus Mysteries project developed an augmented reality game platform called fAR-Play and a learning game called Campus Mysteries with the platform. This paper reports on the development of the platform, the development of the game, and a assessment of the playability of the game. We conclude that augmented reality games are a viable model for learning and that the process of development is itself the site of learning.
Final white paper, Aug 31, 2011
Executive Summary The Data Mining with Criminal Intent (DMCI) project brought together teams from... more Executive Summary The Data Mining with Criminal Intent (DMCI) project brought together teams from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada to create a seamlessly linked digital research environment for working with the Proceedings of the Old Bailey. This environment allows users to
Final white paper, Aug 31, 2011
Executive Summary The Data Mining with Criminal Intent (DMCI) project brought together teams from... more Executive Summary The Data Mining with Criminal Intent (DMCI) project brought together teams from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada to create a seamlessly linked digital research environment for working with the Proceedings of the Old Bailey. This environment allows users to
Journal of Religion in Europe, 2012
Following a diagnostic trajectory that begins with early English cases of bewitchment and becomes... more Following a diagnostic trajectory that begins with early English cases of bewitchment and becomes hysteria, this article suggests that the new diagnostic category of anti-NMDAR encephalitis provides the best promise of finding a medical reason for the resiliency of some of the severe suffering allegedly caused by malefic possession in early modern England.
Reconciliation | Dispossession | Exorcism
Possessions are sensational, scintillating, schadenfreude. They are stories told wordlessly in ar... more Possessions are sensational, scintillating, schadenfreude. They are stories told wordlessly in articulate shrieks and moans, twisted backs, stony grimaces. Stories told to make sense of what was happening. And stories told to end. Dispossession was a form of conclusion and an act of coherence.
Binding the Electronic Book: Design Features for Bibliophiles
Visible Language, 2007
This paper proposes a design for the electronic book based on discussions with frequent book read... more This paper proposes a design for the electronic book based on discussions with frequent book readers. We adopted a conceptual framework for this project consisting of a spectrum of possible designs, with the conventional bound book at one difference pole, and the laptop computer at the other; the design activity then consisted of appropriately locating the new electronic book somewhere on this spectrum. Our data collection consisted of a web-based survey and two focus groups, all of which used a set of questions based on five human factors, to collect information on the opinions and practices common to graduate students in English and other frequent readers. Our purpose was to identify features considered crucial by frequent book readers. We addressed the goal of incorporating these features by developing an electronic book design called the Bi Sheng, which attempts to accommodate the significant features of conventional books while adding functionality derived from the electronic f...
Framework for Testing Text Analysis and Mining Tools
From the Founding Editors: Thinking Preternaturally After Ten Years
Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural, 2021
preternature, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2021 Copyright © 2021 The Pennsylvania State University, University... more preternature, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2021 Copyright © 2021 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. In his 1605 Advancement of Learning, Francis Bacon advocated for a program that investigated “nature erring, or varying” as part of his general history of nature, its properties and limits. This “history of marvels,” as he went on to explain, would be distinct from that of the “history of creatures,” and the “history of arts,” in that it would center upon nature’s digressions. That is to say, it would be concerned with those instances in which nature diverged in its operation from its usual course to produce strange effects. While he could find “a number of books of fabulous Experiments, & Secrets, and frivolous Impostures for pleasure and strangenesse,” he lamented, he could not find “a substantiall and severe Collection of HETEROCLITES, or IRREGULARS of NATURE, well examined & described” (Bacon 1605: sig. Bb4r). Yet such instances were important, he thought, for they might b...
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