Timothy Linwood Stinson
Assistant Professor
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- Email: timothy_stinson@ncsu.edu
- Phone: 919-515-4138
- Office: Tompkins Hall 202A
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Funded Research
Council on Library and Information Resources, co-author (with Steve Morris, NCSU Libraries) of proposal that resulted in $154,800 award to North Carolina State University to fund Postdoctoral Fellowship in Data Curation for Medieval Studies. June 2013-May 2015.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, co-Principal Investigator, Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA) Implementation Grant, $150,000. July 2012-June 2015.
NCSU Research and Innovation Seed Funding, Principal Investigator, “Genetic Analysis of Medieval Parchment Manuscripts,” $22,650. January 2012-December 2012.
Council on Library and Information Resources, co-Principal Investigator, “The Ecosystem of the Archive (affiliated with CLIR’s “Observations on Scholarly Engagement with Hidden Special Collections and Archives”), $15,750, September 2011.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, co-Principal Investigator, Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA) Planning Grant, $29,499. January-December 2011.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Digital Humanities Fellowship, $75,400. July 2009- June 2010
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Principal Investigator, Use Case for “Digitized Collections of Medieval Manuscripts,” $10,000. December 2008
Council on Library and Information Resources, Emerging Disciplines Grant, $4650. 2008.
Publications
The Siege of Jerusalem Electronic Archive. An online archive comprising transcriptions and images of all extant manuscript copies of The Siege of Jerusalem accompanied by critical texts and extensive introductory materials. Under contract with The Society for Early English and Norse Electronic Texts. Expected publication date: summer 2012.
“Translating The Canterbury Tales into Contemporary Media” in Approaches to Teaching The Canterbury Tales, Revised Edition. Forthcoming. Modern Language Association.
“Illumination and Interpretation: The Depiction and Reception of Faus Semblant in Roman de la Rose Manuscripts.” Speculum 87.2 (April 2012): 469-98.
“Makeres of the Mind: Authorial Intention, Editorial Practice, and The Siege of Jerusalem.” The Yearbook of Langland Studies 24 (2010): 39-62.
“Counting Sheep: Potential Applications of DNA Analysis to the Study of Medieval Parchmen Production.” Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age II. Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik: Norstedt, 2011. 191-207.
"Knowledge of the Flesh: Using DNA Analysis to Unlock Bibliographical Secrets of Medieval Parchment." The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. Vol. 103:4 (2009): 435-53.
“Codicological Descriptions in the Digital Age” in Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age. Norstedt: Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik: 2009. 35-51.
“The Rise of Printing and Decline of Alliterative Verse.” The Yearbook of Langland Studies 22 (2008):165-97.
“The Romance of the Rose.” The Walters Magazine. Winter 2008: 8.
With G. Sayeed Choudhury. “The Virtual Observatory and the Roman de la Rose: Unexpected Relationships and the Collaborative Imperative.” Cyberinfrastructure & the Liberal Arts, a special issue of Academic Commons. December 2007. (1772 words)
Codicological Descriptions
I have published more than a dozen specially commissioned codicological descriptions of medieval manuscripts online via the Roman de la Rose Digital Library and e-codices: Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland. Each description is based on in-person consultation of the book and research on its origins and provenance. Included in this list are books from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Bodleian Library, the Fondation Martin Bodmer, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Lausanne Bibliothèque Cantonale et Universitaire, the Morgan Library, the University of Pennsylvania, the Walters Art Museum, and several private collections.
Presentations
Presenter. Digital Projects Showcase. Society for the History of Authorship, Reception, and Publishing Annual Conference, University of Pennsylvania, July 2013.
Panelist. Assessing the Medieval Digital Ecosystem. International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 2013.
Panelist. Back to the Future: Exploring New Digital Initiatives in Medieval Studies. Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, April 2013.
“New Media and Old Jerusalem.” Northeast Modern Language Association, Tufts University, Boston, March 2013.
Invited Participant. Schloss Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop: Computation and Palaeography – Potentials and Limits. Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Wadern, Germany, September 2012.
“The Ecosystem of the Archive: Scholarly and Public Interaction with Natural History Collections.” Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, Yale University, June 2012.
“Medieval Textuality and Translatio in the Digital Age.” Society for Textual Scholarship, University of Texas at Austin, May 2012.
Panelist. “MESA: Growing a Federation for Medieval Studies.” 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2012.
Invited Speaker. “DNA Analysis and the Study of Medieval Parchment Books.” European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop on Digital Palaeography, Universität Würzburg, Germany. July 2011.
Panelist. “What Every (Digital) Medievalist Should Know.” 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2011.
“DNA Analysis and the Study of Medieval Parchment Books.” Material Cultures 2010, Centre for the History of the Book, University of Edinburgh, July 2010.
“Cooperative Digital Projects.” e-codices Workshop, University of Fribourg, June 2010.
“Using Digital Facsimiles in Traditional and Born-Digital Publishing.” Digital Manuscripts Interoperability Workshop (hosted by Stanford University and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), Paris, January 2010.
Panel moderator. “Legal Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age.” Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. University of Pennsylvania, October 2009.
Invited speaker. “Codicological Descriptions in the Digital Age.” Internationale Tagung: Kodikologie und Paläographie im digitalen Zeitalter, University of Munich, July 2009.
“The Next Generation Journal Article: A Use Case of Interactive Publication Using Digital Manuscript Materials.” 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2009
Invited speaker. "Knowledge of the Flesh: Using DNA Analysis to Unlock Bibliographical Secrets of Medieval Parchment." Annual Meeting of the Bibliographical Society of America (New Scholars Program), New York, January 2009
Invited speaker. "Manuscript Forensics: DNA and the Study of Medieval Parchment." Council on Library and Information Resources Symposium, Washington, D.C., December 2008
“Across the Gulf of Centuries: Representations of Medieval Translatio in the Age of Print.” Modern Language Association, Chicago, December 2007
Invited speaker. “Counting Sheep: What DNA Can Reveal About Medieval Manuscripts and Texts.” Invited lecture. Rare Book School Lecture Series. University of Virginia, October 2007
“Translatio and Textual Transformation in The Siege of Jerusalem: An Editorial Case Study.” 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2007
“Voices From the Edge: Marginalia and Marginalization in Roman de la Rose Manuscripts.” Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Knoxville, TN, February 2007
Panelist. Web 2.0 Seminar. Professional Scholarly Publishing/Association of American Publishers Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., February 2007
“Roman de la Rose Digital Surrogates.” Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Medieval Studies All-Projects Meeting, New York, January 2007
“Everything Old is New Again: The Re-emergence of Medieval Polyvocality in Digital Manuscript Archives.” Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, Digital Dialogues and Speakers, October 2006
“Translating Medieval Textual Transmission in Scholarly Electronic Editions.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Roanoke, VA, 2004
Responsibilities
Co-Founder and Co-Director, Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA)
Co-Director (with Hoyt Duggran and Thorlac Turville-Petre), Piers Plowman Electronic Archive
Editorial Board, Anvil Academic Publishing, 2012-present
Editor, Digital Humanities/Technology section, Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Culture
Review panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities, Digital Humanities Implementation Grant program, 2012
Medieval Academy of America Digital Initiatives Advisory Board, 2010-2013
Chair, Medieval Academy of America Committee on Electronic Resources, 2010-2013
Site Visit Team Member, Council on Library and Information Resources Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives Project, 2010-2011
Roman de la Rose Digital Library, Advisory Council, 2008-present
Europeana Regia, Advisory Board, 2010-present
Strategic Advisory Committee, Department of English, North Carolina State University, 2010-present
Co-Convenor, Triangle Medieval Studies Seminar, 2010-present
Medieval Academy of America Committee on Electronic Resources, 2007-10
Education
- PhD in English Language and Literature from University of Virginia, 2006
