not without mustard :: curriculum vitae

Current projects

• An invited chapter, titled, "Learning to Spit," for Staged Transgression: Performing Disorder in Early Modern England, a forthcoming volume in the Palgrave Shakespeare Studies series, co-edited by Rory Loughnane and Edel Semple.
• An invited article on "Electronic Editions and Early Tudor Drama," for a special "Issues in Review" section of the December 2013 issue of Early Theatre.
• Beyond the Bestiary, a monograph study of six animals in the early modern English imagination, building upon my earlier work on owls and wolves/werewolves.
• A series of computational stylistic studies, co-authored with Hugh Craig (University of Newcastle), on a significant corpus of early modern English playtexts, published as journal articles and a book.
• A long-term research project and monograph study, Shakespeare, Magic, and the Occult, examining the representation of and engagement with magic and the occult in Shakespeare's works, from the seventeenth century to the present day.
• A note on dance music in The Late Lancashire Witches for Early Theatre.
• A critical edition of Fair Em with Kevin Quarmby (Shakespeare's Globe London) for Digital Renaissance Editions.
• A searchable database of scholarly editions of early drama in England, from late medieval moralities and interludes through to the Restoration.

Refereed articles and chapters

• Brett D. Hirsch, "Jews and Judaism." Cambridge World Shakespeare Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. Shakespeare's World. Ed. Bruce R. Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. (Forthcoming)
• Brett D. Hirsch, "‹/Parentheses›: Digital Humanities and the Place of Pedagogy." Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles, Politics, ed. Brett D. Hirsch. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012. U-M Digital Humanities Series (digitalculturebooks). (Under review)
• Brett D. Hirsch, "Lycanthropy in Early Modern England: The Case of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi." Diseases of the Imagination and Imaginary Disease in the Early Modern Period. Ed. Yasmin Haskell. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. 297-337. (In press)
• Ray Siemens, Mike Elkink, Alastair McColl, Karin Armstrong, James Dixon, Angelsea Saby, Brett D. Hirsch, and Cara Leitch, "Prototyping the Renaissance English Knowledgebase (REKn) and Professional Reading Environment (PReE), Past, Present, and Future Concerns: A Digital Humanities Project Narrative." Digital Studies/Le Champ Numérique 2.2 (2011): n. p. Web. Full text.
• Brett D. Hirsch, "The Kingdom Has Been Digitized: Electronic Editions of Renaissance Drama and the Long Shadows of Shakespeare and Print." Literature Compass 8.9 (2011): 568-91. Full text.
• Brett D. Hirsch, "From Jew to Puritan: The Emblematic Owl in Early English Culture." 'This Earthly Stage': World and Stage in Late Medieval and Early Modern England. Ed. Brett D. Hirsch and Christopher Wortham. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. 131-72. Cursor Mundi 13. PDF.
• Brett D. Hirsch, "Bringing Richard Brome Online." Early Theatre 13.1 (2010): 137-53. PDF.
• Ray Siemens, Mike Elkink, Alastair McColl, Karin Armstrong, James Dixon, Angelsea Saby, Brett D. Hirsch and Cara Leitch. "Underpinnings of the Social Edition? A Narrative, 2004-9, for the Renaissance English Knowledgebase (REKn) and Professional Reading Environment (PReE) Projects." Online Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to Come, ed. Jerome McGann. Houston: Rice University Press, 2010. 401-60. PDF. (JPEG cover image)
• David McInnis and Brett D. Hirsch, "Embodying Shakespeare: Introduction." Early Modern Literary Studies, Spec. Issue 19 (2009): 1.1-13. Full text.
• Brett D. Hirsch, "Counterfeit Professions: Jewish Daughters and the Drama of Failed Conversion in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice." Early Modern Literary Studies, Spec. Issue 19 (2009): 4.1-37. Full text.
• Brett D. Hirsch, Stewart Arneil, and Greg Newton, " 'Mark the Play': Electronic Editions of Shakespeare and Video Content." New Knowledge Environments 1.1. (2009): n.p. Web. Full text.
• James MacGregor, Michael Joyce, Brett D. Hirsch, Cara Leitch, Ray Siemens, Chia-Ning Chiang, and Rick Kopak, "Revolutionary Reading, Evolutionary Toolmaking: (Re)Development of Scholarly Reading and Annotation Tools in Response to an Ever-Changing Scholarly Climate." New Knowledge Environments 1.1 (2009): n.p. Web. Full text.
• Ray Siemens, Johanne Paquett, Karin Armstrong, Cara Leitch, and Brett D. Hirsch. "Drawing Networks in the Devonshire Manuscript (BL Add MS 17492): Visualizing a Writing Community's Shared Apprenticeship, Social Valuation, and Self-Validation." New Paths for Computing Humanists. Ed. Ray Siemens and Gary Shawver. Spec. Issue of Digital Studies/Le Champ Numérique 1.1 (2009): n. pag. Full text.
• Brett D. Hirsch, " 'What are these faces?' Interpreting Bearded Women in Macbeth." Renaissance Drama and Poetry in Context: Essays for Christopher Wortham. Ed. Andrew Lynch and Anne M. Scott. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008. 91-114. PDF.
• Brett D. Hirsch, " 'A Gentle and No Jew': The Difference Marriage Makes in The Merchant of Venice." Parergon, 23.1 (2006): 119-129. PDF.
• Brett D. Hirsch, "An Italian Werewolf in London: Lycanthropy and The Duchess of Malfi." Early Modern Literary Studies, 11.2 (2005): 2.1-34. Full text.
• Brett D. Hirsch, " 'In the likeness of a Jew': Kabbalah and The Merchant of Venice." The Ben Jonson Journal, 12 (2005): 119-40. PDF.

Scholarly notes

• Brett D. Hirsch, "Rousing the Night Owl: Malvolio, Twelfth Night, and anti-Puritan Satire." Notes & Queries, 56.1 (2009): 53-55. PDF.
• Brett D. Hirsch, "Thomas Heywood and the Werewolves: A Source for The Witches of Lancashire." Notes & Queries, 53.4 (2006): 531-33. PDF.
• Brett D. Hirsch, "Werewolves and Severed Hands: Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and Heywood and Brome's The Witches of Lancashire." Notes & Queries, 53.1 (2006): 91-3. PDF.

Refereed collections

• Brett D. Hirsch, ed. Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles, Politics. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012. U-M Digital Humanities Series (digitalculturebooks). (Under review)
• Brett D. Hirsch and Christopher Wortham, ed. 'This Earthly Stage': World and Stage in Late Medieval and Early Modern England. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. Cursor Mundi 13.
• David McInnis and Brett D. Hirsch, ed. Embodying Shakespeare. Special issue 19 of Early Modern Literary Studies (2009).

Digital projects

• Coordinating editor (2006-present). Digital Renaissance Editions. A project to publish critical editions of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama, using the publishing platform developed by the Internet Shakespeare Editions. CI: Brett D. Hirsch (U Western Australia).
• Contributor (2010-present). Lost Plays Database. A project to develop a scholarly wiki-style forum to share information about lost plays in England, 1580–1642, including theatrical provenance, sources, genre, and authorship information. CIs: Roslyn L. Knutson (U Arkansas, Little Rock), David McInnis (U Melbourne).
• Editorial board (2011-present). The Map of Early Modern London. A project to publish an interactive map of Shakespeare's London, linked to scholarly articles about the history and culture of the city, its streets and landmarks. CI: Janelle Jenstad (U Victoria).
• At the University of Victoria (2009-2010), I worked as a researcher and contributor on three digital projects in the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab. These included an electronic and print critical edition of the Devonshire Manuscript (BL MS Add. 17492), as well as prototypes of the Renaissance English Knowledgebase (REKn) and the Professional Reading Environment (PReE). At the same time, I worked with Stewart Arniel and Greg Newton of the Humanities Computing and Media Centre on Platypus, a prototype digital environment for studying Shakespearean film.

Recent conference papers

• Brett D. Hirsch, " 'To see the Playes of Theatre newe wrought': Electronic Editions and Early Tudor Drama." Invited paper. New Directions in Earlier Tudor Drama, Modern Languages Association Annual Convention, Seattle, January 2012.
• Brett D. Hirsch, "The Authorship of Fair Em." Paper. Textual Manipulation, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Conference, U Adelaide, Adelaide, November 2011.
• Brett D. Hirsch, "Expanded and Electrified: The Digital Renaissance Editions and the Canon." Invited paper. Shakespearean Reverie, Shakespeare in the Park Festival Symposium, U Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, October 2011.
• Brett D. Hirsch, "Rousing the Night Owl, or From Jew to Puritan in 500 Years or Less." Paper. Shakespearean Reverie, Shakespeare in the Park Festival Symposium, U Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, October 2011.
• Brett D. Hirsch, " 'And lay new Plat-formes to endammage them': The Edited Page in Print and Online." Paper. New Media Adaptations: Electronic Editions of Shakespearean Drama, Shakespeare: Sources and Adaptation, Cambridge Shakespeare Conference, Cambridge U, Cambridge, September 2011.
• Brett D. Hirsch, "Book, Bard, and Canon; or, Why We Need Electronic Editions of Renaissance Drama." Paper. Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Biennial International Conference, U Otago, Dunedin, February 2011.
• Brett D. Hirsch and Meagan Timney, "The Importance of Pedagogy: Towards a Companion to Teaching Digital Humanities." Poster presentation. Digital Humanities 2010, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO), King's College London, London, July 2010. PDF.
• Brett D. Hirsch, "Infinite Riches in a Little Rheum: Spit and Scenes of Instruction on the Shakespearean Stage." Paper. Drawing Out Shakespeare, Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association Biennial International Conference, U Sydney, Sydney, June 2010.
• Brett D. Hirsch, "Reviewed and Re-Wired: Video and the Shakespeare Edition." Seminar Paper. New Variations in Texts and Editing, Shakespeare Association of America Meeting, Chicago, April 2010. PDF.
• Brett D. Hirsch, "The Long Shadow(s) of Shakespeare and Print: Challenges for Electronic Editions of Renaissance Drama." Invited paper. Electronic Editions of Early Modern Drama, Renaissance Society of American Annual Meeting, Venice, April 2010.