British Literary Manuscripts Online

British Literary Manuscripts Online Advisory Board

Charlotte Cubbage, Humanities Coordinator and Subject Specialist for English, Comparative Literatures, and the Performing Arts, Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Illinois

  • Charlotte Cubbage currently oversees library collections in the Humanities at Northwestern, manages the English literatures and performing arts collections, provides in-depth research assistance to faculty and students, and instructs classes in research techniques. She also serves as a Fellow for Northwestern's Fine and Performing Arts Residential College and is an adjunct professor in the Department of English. Ms. Cubbage holds master's degrees in English Literature, Soviet and Eastern European Area Studies, and Library Science.

James L. Harner, Samuel Rhea Gammon Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A & M University

  • Recipient of 6 Choice Outstanding Academic Book/Title awards, James L. Harner is the editor of the World Shakespeare Bibliography, recognized with the Besterman/McColvin medal for outstanding electronic reference work (2001) and a Besterman medal for outstanding bibliography (1997). He is also author of the Modern Language Association's Literary Research Guide, the 5th edition of which was published in 2008.

Susan Schreibman, Director of the Digital Humanities Observatory, Dublin, Ireland

  • A former Assistant Dean of Digital Collections and Research and Assistant Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (University of Maryland), Susan Schreibman is currently Chair of the Modern Language Association's Committee on Information Technology and Vice Chair of the Board of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium. She also serves on the Executive Board of the Association of Computers in the Humanities. Co-editor of A Companion to Digital Humanities (Blackwell, 2004) and A Companion to Digital Literary Studies (2008), she also edits The Thomas MacGreevy Archive and Irish Resources in the Humanities (Web).

Ray Siemens, Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Professor of English at the University of Victoria, British Columbia; Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London, and Visiting Research Professor at Sheffield Hallam University

Henry Woudhuysen, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University College London, England

  • General overseer and principal advisor to the Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700, Henry Woudhuysen is the editor of Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare (1989); The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse (1992), with David Norbrook; Love's Labour's Lost (1998) for the Arden Shakespeare third series; and, with Katherine Duncan-Jones, Shakespeare's Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece and the Shorter Poems (2007). His book Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts, 1558-1640 was published in 1996. One of the General Editors of the third series of the Arden Shakespeare, he has been involved for nearly twenty years with editing volumes relating to English Renaissance drama published by the Malone Society (see http://www2.sas.ac.uk/ies/malone/index.htm). With Michael Suarez, SJ, he is co-general editor of The Oxford Companion to the Book (forthcoming, 2010).