From: CBS%UK.AC.EARN-RELAY::EARN.UTORONTO::LISTSERV 14-SEP-1989 15:26:57.41 To: ARCHIVE CC: Subj: File: "BIOGRAFY 11" being sent to you Via: UK.AC.EARN-RELAY; Thu, 14 Sep 89 15:26 BST Received: from UKACRL by UK.AC.RL.IB (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 2259; Thu, 14 Sep 89 15:25:50 BS Received: from vm.utcs.utoronto.ca by UKACRL.BITNET (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 7628; Thu, 14 Sep 89 15:25:48 B Received: by UTORONTO (Mailer R2.03A) id 8163; Thu, 14 Sep 89 10:23:00 EDT Date: Thu, 14 Sep 89 10:22:53 EDT From: Revised List Processor (1.6a) Subject: File: "BIOGRAFY 11" being sent to you To: ARCHIVE@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX Autobiographies of HUMANISTs Tenth Supplement Following are 25 additional entries to the collection of autobiographical statements by members of the HUMANIST discussion group. HUMANISTs on IBM VM/CMS systems will want a copy of Jim Coombs' exec for searching and retrieving biographical entries. It is kept on HUMANIST's file-server; for more information, see the Guide to HUMANIST. Further additions, corrections, and updates are welcome. Willard McCarty Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Univ. of Toronto mccarty@utorepas.bitnet 1 May 1988 ================================================================= *Beeler, Stan Department of Comparative Literature University of Alberta Phone: Home: 403-433-3007 Work: 403-432-4776 I am a Ph.D. Student in Comparative Literature (A.B.D.) at the University of Alberta. My main area of literary research is in 17 century German mystic writings. (J.V. Andreae) but much of my time is devoted to computer related work for The Research Institute for Comparative Literature, my own Department and for University Computing Systems. I teach introductory courses in microcomputers for our Computing Services and work as a consultant for University Departments having difficulty using computers for non-English text. This includes desk-top publishing, word-processing and some database problems. I program in Turbo Pascal and have started to use Turbo C. ================================================================= *Bladon, Peter R. I work in Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic Computer Unit as a systems programmer. A small part of my job is to help Humanities Staff in the Polytechnic to use computers, but find this difficult 1) because I know so little about both the computing and the humanities sides of the subject, and 2) there is very little feedback from the relevant users when I send them information. One reason why I do this job is because my degree was in French with German, but I am too out of touch with the subject now. ================================================================= *Brasington, Ron Department of Linguistic Science, Faculty of Letters and Social Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AA, UK. Telephone (0734) 875123 Ext 226 Background: First degree in French. Teaching and researching in general linguistics since 1962. Computing since late 60's. Currently provide computing courses for undergraduate linguists (list processing in Logo) and, outside my home department, introductory 'computers and computing' courses for arts based students generally. Also manage a small Faculty Micro Resource Unit (Macintosh). Research interests mainly in the areas of phonology and morphology; computational activity principally directed towards computer modelling of field linguistic methods and computer implementation of linguistic descriptions (mostly Prolog); most commonly worked on languages from Romance group. ================================================================= *Brewer, Jeutonne P. Dept. of English, Unix. of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27412; telephone: (home) 919-334-5263; (home) 919- 454-1580 I am a linguist with a particular interest in sociolinguistics and dialectology. I began using computers in my research while in graduate school at Chapel Hill, NC in the 1970's. Microcomputers (or pc's) have been a particular interest since I bought the first pieces in 1979. I have tried to "infect" my colleagues with enthusiasm about how computers can be useful, not a popular thing to do in the early 1980's, but it was fun and challenging. At UNCG I designed and taught the first workshops in word processing for our faculty. ================================================================= *Capobianco, Joseph P. My chief interest is in communicating with people - whether in North America or Europe - who have information to share about Italian education. People in the United States, for example, have very little information about the dottorato di ricerca, a new Italian university degree. Similarly, little is known in the States about Italy's newest universities (the one at Potenza, e.g.), and the "master's" degrees being awarded at certain Italian universities. When people holding such degrees arrive here, we're not quite certain where to place them in our degree hierarchy. It's my hope to meet others through HUMANIST and similar networks who can answer specific questions I have about new degree programs, new universities, and recent developments in Italian secondary education. As for members of HUMANIST not being educators, that poses no problem. Italian industry and government (particularly at the regional level) have been very active in recent years in fostering new educational programs. Again, very little is known about these in the States. Part of the reason that I am eager to communicate with Italian educators is that I strongly suspect that they would be very surprised about some of the assumptions that we are making about their new programs, schools, and degrees. A few words about my background: I have a master's degree in English and work in the Office of the Registrar. I have written a book about Italian education and am often consulted by admissions officers around the United States when they have questions about Italian educational documents. I have also served as a volunteer evaluator of Italian educational credentials for the National Association of Foreign Student Advisors and am occasionally consulted by professional evaluation services. I very much want to update my own knowledge of recent developments in Italian education and hope to produce articles and a revision of my book. ================================================================= *Clark, S.R.L. Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool, P.O.Box 147, Liverpool L69 3BX, United Kingdom. I'm a philosopher, publishing mostly in moral & political philosophy and philosophy of religion. I have no programming experience or interests, and see computers simply as a tool for exchanging thoughts. I am interested in the development of interactive philosophy texts which go some way to meeting Plato's requirements (in the Phaedrus) for a book that would answer back, and allow more routes than one through the text. I've only recently learnt (and got the hardware) to log into discussion groups, so I'm seeking a profitable hotline. ================================================================= *Craig, Ken Now: Porter Institute; Tel Aviv University; Tel Aviv 69978; Israel; phone 972-3-545-9420; after June 1, 1988: Box 208; The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; Louisville, KY 40280 USA; phone (502) 897-4011. I am a Ph.D. student from the United States working in the area of biblical studies... I am attending language classes and seminars and also writing my dissertation which is on the Book of Jonah at the Porter Institute at Tel Aviv University. I plan to graduate in May of 1989. Is it possible that HUMANIST could help me as I look for a teaching position at a liberal arts university or seminary in the United States? My areas of study include: Old Testament Literature; theology; language (biblical and modern Hebrew, Greek). ================================================================= *Davis, Boyd Telephone numbers: (office) 704-547-4209/2296; (home) 704-536- 7629 I am a Professor of English at UNC-Charlotte, where I teach courses in linguistics (Language and Culture, Language Acquisition, History of the Eng. Language), and a variety of writing courses, including technical and professional writing. And I'm writing my sysop tonight to ask him why he hasn't sent the news about Humanist out to those of us in the Humanities who use computers in their teaching and research. I've been showing other faculty how to use BitNet all year. Our computer center is only now getting the budget to offer the kinds of out-reach that is needed, and is finding a receptive community. I need to get in touch with some of the lexicog groups, esp. in Canada and in Quebec. As a linguist I study language change and the historiography of models for language and linguistics study. Currently I am writing about Saussure, including his insights as they contribute to our understanding of changes in terminology and technical language, and I write on terminology. I am also investigating ways to graphically demonstrate the "mental mappings" of speaking places identified by adolescents. While I don't program, I work with my own micro (a PC clone, the DataVue) at home for word processing and database with current software such as PCFile or Reflex, usually, and on campus I use our new Mac lab for technical writing and freshman composition teaching. This makes me especially interested in the interface issues. My avocation is working with nonverbal handicapped and computers/synthesizers to expand their communicative and cognitive abilities. Here I pull together my study of Saussure's notions of referentiality and my work in language change. I need this network for my work and hope I have something to contribute to it. ================================================================= *Ephraim, Nissan Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, P.O. Box 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel; telephone: (home) 00972-57-664207; telex: IL 5253 UNASI (Ben Gurion Univ.); Fax: 00972-57-31340 I work on expert systems and nested relations, as applied to morphology and word-formation, the lexicon and machine- dictionaries. Besides, I am developing a project investigating argumentation. I am the editor of the annual "Advances in Computing and the Humanities", and the associate editor for Europe of the "International Journal of Expert Systems: Research & Applications". ================================================================= *Gillespie, John My computing interests are: the use of computers for language teaching, including distance learning and the use of databases and also for text analysis. I am also interested in computer applications in general to my main research field, French literature in the twentieth century, particularly in its relations with theology and philosophy (Existentialism, Sartre, Camus, Michel Tournier, Andre Gide). ================================================================= *Little, Greta Anthropology Department, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208; telephone: (803) 777-7261 [office]; (803) 782-8933 [home] I am a linguist (PhD UNC-Chapel Hill), also with an interest in children's literature. My research interests are diverse -in addition to children's literature, I work with the teaching of English as a foreign language. However, my primary research interest is in written language, especially punctuation. I use computers in a variety of ways with my work--much of what I do involves fairly large hunks of data which must be sorted and counted. Text analysis is a tool I use for my own research and in my classes. In the fall I will be teaching a course in contrastive texts, which will examine and compare rhetorical/stylistic patterns and reader expectations for different literate cultures with special reference to English. Furthermore, computers and programming languages have employed punctuation in interesting ways and are having an impact on punctuation usage. Consequently, I often find myself studying these conventions. I am about as interdisciplinary as most universities will allow -- I teach three courses each semester with three different designators: English, Linguistics, and Anthropology. ================================================================= *Lyman, Mary Ann University of Massachusetts; telephone: 412-256-0675 or 545-2314 / 3453. I am Director of the Five College Foreign Language Resource Center and Professor of French at UMASS. I am currently teaching faculty seminars on the uses of technology in foreign language and literature teaching at Amherst, Smith, Mount Holyoke, and Hampshire Colleges, as well as the University of Massachusetts. ================================================================= *Peters, Frank c/o Computer Center, Mississippi State, MS. 39762; telephone: (601) 325-2942 I serve as one of the Bitnet node administrators for our local bitnet node (I was part of the programming team which developed the local code needed to connect our Unisys 1100 to bitnet). I serve as system administrator for the UNIX system available on our mainframe. I answer any and all questions about the above systems (and any other general questions that come my way). ================================================================= *Pierce, Richard Holton University of Bergen, Department of Classics (Egyptology), Sydnesplass 9, N-5007 Bergen, NORWAY; telephone: 21 22 86. Position: Professor of Egyptology. Research Interests: Egyptology (esp. Demotic and Coptic), Classics (Greek), Multivariate Data Analysis, Linguistics, Social Anthropology and Archaeology. Computing Activities: Messianic Macintosh user, active in the local Mac Users' Group, on the board of the Computing Section of the Faculty of History and Philosophy (Humanities), experience with Sperry and IBM mainframes, programming in PL/I, Pascal (pref. Turbo), and BASIC (for what it is worth). Rudimentary knowledge of LISP and eager user of HyperTalk (WildTalk). ================================================================= *Ponterio, Robert Assist. Prof. of French, Middlebury College. B.A., M.A. SUNY at Binghamton Ph.D. French, Univ. of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. (1987) At Urbana I coordinated Computer Assisted Instruction for the French department on the PLATO system for 2 years. During this time I was writing a dissertation on irony in French literature, using a microcomputer as a tool in classifying data on ironic enunciations. While at St. Lawrence University I developed and taught a course on Computers and the Humanities, participated in the development of a new language center with a view to integrating new technologies in language teaching, and worked closely with our Academic Computing office to insure the adequacy of the school's word processing equipment for the foreign languages we taught. At Middlebury I have taught a course on Computers and Language, examining topics in computational linguistics and computer assisted instruction using the IBM- PC and the Macintosh. I have experience with a number of microcomputers: IBM, Apple, Commodore, TRS; mainframes, including PLATO; and languages: Pascal, Basic, Tutor, PLI, 6502 assembly, and several others. I am a member of ACH. ================================================================= *Riley, Mark Timothy California State University, Sacramento, CA 95819; phone: 916- 278-6333 Two ways of using computers in academia (other than practical word-processing and data base functions) interest me. About one I know little, but I am very curious; about the other I have very definite ideas, but I am not really enthusiastic to try them out. To mention first what I do not know: I am a classicist, specializing in ancient science, with several articles of Ptolemy, Plutarch, and the ancient astrologers (most recent: TAPA 1988; Trans. Am. Philos. Assoc. 1988). In Classics, serious work being done on the computer analysis of texts by the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae and by others at UCLA, Brown, and Harvard. I have read of this work but have not myself taken any part. This non- participation is to some extent because of the lack of specialized equipment at my institution, but more because I do not see what I could do with computer analysis or how I could put it to use. I have John Abercrombie's text on computer analysis with sample programs, and I believe I see how such analysis can be done, but so far for me, it is a tool looking for a use. I would like to see some sample applications of the methods. How, for example, can computer analysis be used for the compilation of glossaries? There is a real need for specialized glossaries for Greek scientific texts. Even as important a text as Ptolemy's Almagest does not have a glossary, or even an index verborum. Can anyone steer me to a study using these methods? My second (somewhat reluctant) interest: at times, when the flow of Greek and Latin students has become a trickle, I am forced to teach English composition. I must admit that, while there are compensations to teaching English comp. (there can be real intellectual content to the class), I have found it difficult to teach the process of writing. Many students, when faced with an essay assignment, stare at the paper and break out in a sweat: "What do I do next!" My vision of a comp. class is one in which the instructor has a keyboard at his desk, with the CTR projected on the wall. He asks the class for a topic, then he goes through the whole process of writing an essay, from brainstorming the idea to the final revision, all during the class period. The students can see each stage of the process right there in front of them. (A rapid printer would also be good; then they would have hard copies.) I would hope (hope springs eternal-it has to if you teach composition!) that watching, then actually doing this process might make their writing flow. Has anyone done this; are there labs set up with such equipment? (I know projection screens are available.) I have to confess ignorance here: I do not keep up with the professional literature on teaching composition, so I may be making a suggestion here which is common practice. It is not, however, common in Sacramento. I'd be glad to have a periodical reference. ================================================================= *Rockwell, Geoff I am a US citizen residing in Canada. Though born in Philadelphia, I grew up in Rome, Italy. I can speak Italian fluently and French reasonably well. I received a B.A. in philosophy from Haverford College, + Haverfrd Pennsylvania. (Haverford is a small Quaker college outside + Philadelphia that is associated to Bryn Mawr College.) In 1983 I received the Royal Society of Arts Preparatory Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Armed with this I taught English and Art at an American high school in Kuwait for two years. I came to Toronto where I am now enrolled in the doctoral program in philosophy at the University of Toronto. I am interested in the philosophy of education and especially the teaching of philosophy. I am also interested in Greek philosophy (Plato and Aristotle.) I am interested in the use of computers in philosophy. I am especially interested in the use of Macintoshes in philosophy and the humanities. I am presently an Apple Research Program Partner. This means that I am supposed to encourage research at U of T using Macs. ================================================================= *Scullion, Jim <23SCULLION@CUA> I am a Ph.D. candidate in biblical studies (New Testament) at Catholic University. I am currently writing a dissertation on the Day of Atonement. I would be very interested in joining your electronic discussion group. My interests are in Semitic languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac) as well as Coptic, Greek, and Latin. I also knew some computer language (Turbo Pascal, BASIC, and Assembly). ================================================================= *Spangehl, Stephen D. ? Director, Interdisciplinary Program in Linguistics, University of Louisville, 332 Strickler Hall, Louisville, Kentucky 40292; telephone: (502) 588-7289 My interests include: text analysis of modern and Middle English, particularly stylistic analysis which identifies superficial features indicating underlying stylistic parameters; writing generative grammars of English (esp. ones based on C. Fillmore's "case grammar" approach); in Prolog, LISP, etc.; teaching technical types (e.g., our computer center people) how to write manuals and documentation in readable, interesting English; ================================================================= *Sudduth, Thomas D 2215 Land Street #149, Laramie, WY 82070, USA; telephone: 307/766-2124 I am an Assistant Coordinator, Conferences and Institutes, School of Extended Studies and Public Service at the University of Wyoming. I am also a Ph.D. candidate in the College of Education with Adult Education as my emphasis of study. I currently serve on the editorial board of an electronic journal, NEW HORIZONS, a Kellogg-funded project in Syracuse University. One of my particular interests is the treatment of adult education in works of fiction such as short stories, novels, films, etc. ================================================================= *Van Sickle, John From 1981 to 1985 I worked with MVS WYLBUR and then WATERLOO SCRIPT on the CUNY mainframe systems, mostly word processing, but some programming in SCRIPT of a bibliography of my rare books. From mid 1985, I began learning NOTA BENE and working on personal computers, in order to survive during a sabbatical year in Italy, which I spent happily enough hacking in various computer centers, wherever I could find a spare machine. I have managed to generate a certain amount of interest in NB in Italy.... In the meantime, my own employment of NB continues in bibliographical and word processing pursuits. Recently I have begun to collect information about LATIN TEACHING applications in MSDOS systems and would like to pursue this with the network. ================================================================= *Webb, Don Dept. of Foreign Languages, California State University, Sacramento, CA 95819; telephone: (916) 278-5791 or 6652 Specialization: French language and literature, spec. Jean- Jacques Rousseau; also, translation theory and practice. Computers in the Humanities: Desktop publishing, esp. textbook, "French-English Translating." Two other textbooks planned: "English-French Translating," "Advanced French Grammar." I am interested in on-line communications as a means of carrying on long-distance conversations with colleagues about matters of mutual professional interest. ================================================================= *Woolley, James Associate Professor of English, Lafayette College, Easton, PA 18042, USA I teach computer applications in writing courses, offer a good deal of informal computing advice to humanists at Lafayette, and am a member of Lafayette's Academic Computing Committee. My primary research interest is scholarly editing; I am a co-editor of the Delaware Edition of Swift's Poems, which is as fully computerized a project as we can make it. ================================================================= *Yevics, Philip E. Adjunct Lecturer, Theology, the University of Scranton (PA) and Allentown College of St. Francis deSales. This summer, I will be taking part in a NEH Seminar on Medieval Hagiography, and my own research project will concern Byzantine Hagiography and the liturgical hymns concerning the saints of the Byzantine tradition, which are contained in a series of volumes known as the Menaia or Menologia. I hope to have access to an English translation of these volumes on PC disks (which if necessary I can upload to our VAX). I am interested in suggestions on how computers might assist in the analysis of this literary corpus. If this is something which your members would be interested in tackling, I would look forward to future correspondence. ================================================================= *Yoke, Chuck Documentation Specialist, West Virginia University Computing Services, 17 Grant Avenue, Morgantown, WV 26506; (304) 293-3011 As a writer of computer manuals, user's guides, and training manuals I am interested in talking with others who are involved in a "non-programming" computing role. Along with my writing duties, I am also responsible for training novices (secretaries, clerks, etc.) on the use of personal computers and personal computing products. This area involves expertise in "humanistic" applications as these students are for the most non-technical users. I am especially interested in the techniques (both written and verbal) of explaining computing technology to the non-technical user with a "fear" of technology. *****END*****