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Grant

Leyton

Simpson

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Academic CV

Academic Curriculum Vitae

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Unless otherwise noted, each section is organized by date, in descending order.

Contact Information

Electronic

E-mail: ********@*******.***

Other electronic contact information.

Mailing

Grant Simpson

Department of English

Ballantine Hall 442

1020 E. Kirkwood Ave.

Bloomington, IN 47405

or

Grant Simpson

Office of the RegistrarFranklin Hall

113

601 E. Kirkwood Avenue

Bloomington, IN 47405

Education

In Progress

Doctor of Philosophy in English. Indiana University.

Tentative dissertation title: Computing the Middle Ages: The Hermeneutics of Electronic

Objects and Processes in Old and Middle English Research, 1960 to the Present.

Master of Information Science. Indiana University.

Graduate Area Certificate in English and Germanic Philology. Indiana University.[1]

Completed

Master of Arts in English. Indiana University. 2005.

Bachelor of Arts in English and Creative Writing. University of Arizona. 2003.

Academic Positions

Associate Instructor. Department of English. Indiana University.2004- 2006.

Courses taught:

English W131: Elementary Composition.

Adjunct Faculty Member. Business Department. Phoenix College.[2] 2003, 2006.

Courses taught:

Business CIS (Computer Information Systems) 105: Survey of Computer Information Systems

Business CIS (Computer Information Systems) 133DA: Internet/Web Development Level 1

Professional Positions (Non-Academic) and Other Work Experience

Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer. Office of the Registrar. Indiana UniversityBloomington. 2007-present

.

Web Developer. Office of the Registrar. Indiana UniversityBloomington. 2003-2007.

Conferences and Presentations

session at the 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan

University. 2011.

"Paths to Digital Medieval Multidisciplinarity: A Panegyric on Wandering." Contribution

to Grant Leyton Simpson and Dot Porter, "Journeys into Digital Medieval Studies." Knights,

Pilgrims, Scholars and Dreamers: Wandering in the Middle Ages. Medieval Studies Institute

Symposium. Indiana University. 2011.

"Crises in the Pronoun Paradigm and the Transgendered Body: Crossdressing in the Old

English Saints' Lives of Euphrosyne and Eugenia." 7th Annual Anglo-Saxon Studies

Colloquium. University of Toronto. 2011.

"The Bessinger-Smith A Concordance to Beowulf: Investigating a Moment in the History of

Old English Humanities Computing." 9th Annual Conference on Medieval Studies. Comitatus.

Purdue University. 2011.

Simpson, Grant Leyton and Dot Porter. "Transforming Backwards: HTML+RDFa to TEI." Text

Encoding Initiative (TEI) Conference. University of Zadar. 2010.

"Document Engineering and Electronic Editions of Medieval Texts." The Future of

Electronic Editions of Medieval Materials session at the 43rd International Congress on

Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University. 2008.

"Part of Speech Frequencies in Old English: Methodology and Preliminary Results." 14th

Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference. University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2008.

"The Reciprocal Aristocratic Bond in 'The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell'." 40th

International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University. 2005.

Panels Moderated

"Multimedia Translation." Collections and Collaborations. Indiana University. 2011.

"Proximate Otherness: Exploring the Foreignness of the Familiar." Medieval Studies

symposium. Indiana University. 2010.

"Reading the Virtual Wasteland." The End? conference. Indiana University. 2010.

"Women, Intimacy, and the Premodern World." Intimacy/Proximity conference. Indiana

University. 2005.

Conferences Planned

Organizing committee. Knights, Pilgrims, Scholars and Dreamers: Wandering in the Middle

Ages. Medieval Studies Institute Symposium. Indiana University. 2010-2011.

Organizing committee. Collections and Collaborations. Indiana University. 2010-2011.

Organizing committee. The End?. Indiana University. 2009-2010.

Performances

Reading of The Wanderer (in Old English). Reader's Circle. Knights, Pilgrims, Scholars

and Dreamers: Wandering in the Middle Ages. Medieval Studies Institute Symposium. Indiana

University. 2011.

Grants, Awards, and Honors

Distinction. PhD qualifying oral examination. 2010.

HASTAC Scholar. HASTAC Scholars Program. [Sponsored by the Institute for Digital Arts and

Humanities (IDAH) and the Digital Library Program (DLP). Related blog posts.] 2010-2011.

C. Clifford Flanigan Grant-in-aid. Medieval Studies Institute. Indiana University. 2005,

2008, 2011.

Academic Service

Career and

Funding Resource Coordinator. [Elected position.] Department of English.Indiana University. 2011-2012

.

News Editor, Digital Medievalist community of practice. 2011-present.

Co-Founder and Organizer, Decoding Digital Humanities Bloomington Chapter. 2010-present.

News Editor, Text Encoding Initiative Consortium (TEI-C). 2010-present.

Medieval Studies Institute Graduate Student Advisory Committee. Indiana University.

Interim Chair. 2010.

Department of English representative.2010-present.

Invited Expert, World Wide Web Consortium HTML Working Group. 2010-present.

Administrator, Department of English Graduate Conference website. Indiana University.

2010-present.

Volunteer, Digital Medievalist community of practice. Recovered and converted old wiki

articles. 2009-2010.

Administrator, Department of English Graduate Listserv. Indiana University. 2009-2011.

Mentor, Department of English Graduate Student Advisory Committee mentor program. 2008-

present.

Contributor, Victorian Studies Bibliography. Victorian Studies. 2008.

Professional Service

IU Bloomington Professional Council.

Vice President. [Elected position.] 2010-present

.

Executive Committee. 2010-present

.

Council Representative, [Elected position.] 2010-present

.

Professional Staff Grievance Representative. Indiana UniversityBloomington. 2010-

present.

Guide, IU Guides Program. Indiana University. 2010.

Office of the Registrar Green Team. Indiana UniversityBloomington. 2008-present.

Other Service

PHP Team. Dev Derby. A timed contest to develop a volunteer matching application for non-

profit organizations. 2010.

Academic Affiliations

Organized alphabetically.

Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH). 2010-present

.

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2010-present.

Association for Computing Machinery Women in Computing (ACM-W). 2010-present.

Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC). 2010-present

.

Early English Text Society (EETS). 2009-present

.

Medieval Academy of America (MAA). 2008-present.

Modern Language Association (MLA). 2011-present.

Society for Digital Humanities/Societe pour l'etude des medias interactifs (SDH-SEMI).

2010-present.

Society for Germanic Linguistics (SGL). 2008-present.

Society for Textual Scholarship (STS). 2011-present.

Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction (SIGCHI). Association for Computing

Machinery. 2010-present.

Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT). Association for Computing

Machinery. 2010-present.

Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia and the Web (SIGWEB). Association for

Computing Machinery. 2010-present.

Other Affiliations

Old Norse-Icelandic Reading Group. Indiana University.

2006-present.

Godi (moderator) 2007-2008.

Notes

Last class was completed in Spring 2011. However, the certificate will be awarded along

with the PhD.

Phoenix College is a community college in the Maricopa Community Colleges district. It is

not affiliated with the for-profit University of Phoenix.

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