This post is part of the Meet the ETCL Team series, which introduces the wonderful people who work in the lab and who have worked with us in the past.
Graham joined the lab in September 2019 as a Digital Scholarship Fellow. He is based in the English Department at UVic, where he holds a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Graham’s main focus is the Canadian Modernist Magazines Project (CMMP), a digital repository of Canadian modernist little magazines published roughly between 1900 and 1960. In addition to images and transcriptions of the magazines, the repository will include critical introductions and instructional materials.
Because the magazines collected in the CMMP are held in library collections across the country, the project’s focus is on bringing materials together and making them available online. Graham’s work is very collaborative. He is working with Luis Meneses (ETCL) on developing metadata, with Matt Huculak in UVic’s Digital Scholarship Commons and Heather Dean in UVic’s Special Collections, as well as librarians in other Canadian institutions.
The CMMP has roots in Graham’s work with Editing Modernism in Canada (EMiC), and he became involved with the lab by meeting Matt through that project and attending the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) as a member of the EMiC team.
Graham holds a PhD in English from Dalhousie University, and his research and teaching interests include modernism and Canadian literature. He is teaching a course on Modern Canadian Poetry, which includes a digital annotation assignment using Hypothesis. Aside from teaching, much of Graham’s work is quite solitary, so he enjoys the community aspect of working in the lab, and the opportunity to work alongside people in different disciplines.
When Graham is not working, he enjoys cooking, watching cooking shows, and playing ice hockey.