Lorraine Janzen Kooistra
Director Emerita, Centre for Digital Humanities Fellow, Royal Society of Canada Professor Emerita Faculty of Arts Department of English Toronto, Ontario ljanzen@torontomu.ca
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Lorraine Janzen Kooistra is Professor of English and founding Director Emerita of Ryerson’s Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH); she served as Chair of English in 2005-2008 and as the department’s first Undergraduate Program Director in 2010-13. A member of the Yeates School of Graduate Studies, ...
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Lorraine Janzen Kooistra is Professor of English and founding Director Emerita of Ryerson’s Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH); she served as Chair of English in 2005-2008 and as the department’s first Undergraduate Program Director in 2010-13. A member of the Yeates School of Graduate Studies, she contributes to the English MA in Literatures of Modernity and the interdisciplinary joint graduate program in Communication and Culture. She received her MA and PhD in English at McMaster University in Hamilton, where she was honoured with the Governor General’s Gold medal for her dissertation on illustration and the book arts in fin-de-siècle Britain. Her research focuses on Victorian illustrated books and periodicals and on their critical re-mediation in digital editions. She characterizes her subject as “the production of visual knowledge”– the ways in which the interaction of picture and word shape how readers interpret texts, conceptualize identities, and form cultural values – in other words, how they know about themselves and the world.
Janzen Kooistra is Principal Investigator on Visualizing the Unmarked: The Social Politics of Fin-de-siècle Periodicals and Digital Humanities Mark-up Practices, funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant (2016-2022). A digital edition of The Dial (1889-1897) for Yellow Nineties 2.0, external link is generously supported by a Linda H. Peterson Fellowship awarded by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals and funded from the bequest of the Eileen Curran estate. In the editorial markup, scholarly commentary, and digital affordances for the study of eight “little magazines” that characterized avant-garde print production at the turn of the last century, she aims to demonstrate the transnational cultural reach of the “little,” the marginal, and the diverse.
An early adapter of digital pedagogy and editing, Janzen Kooistra participates on a number of international Victorian digital humanities projects, including Orlando 2.0, external link, the Rossetti Archive, external link, NINES, external link (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship), and COVE, external link (Central Online Victorian Educator). She has collaborated on a number of open-access digital editions on COVE, including Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market, external link, Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s “A Sonnet, external link,” and Clemence Housman’s The Were-Wolf, external link. Her essay on the COVE Teaching site, Teaching Transformation, external link, describes the process by which Housman’s novella was edited, peer-reviewed, and published by graduate students in her Digital Publishing course in 2018.
In her undergraduate and graduate teaching, Janzen Kooistra aims to add experiential components in courses that include topics in nineteenth-century literature and culture, book history, research methods, and digital publishing. Her innovative pedagogy has been recognized by the Provost’s Experiential Teaching Award (2012), the Ontario Confederation of Faculty Associations (OCUFA) Teaching Award (2013), and the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (2016).
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Janzen Kooistra is Principal Investigator on Visualizing the Unmarked: The Social Politics of Fin-de-siècle Periodicals and Digital Humanities Mark-up Practices, funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant (2016-2022). A digital edition of The Dial (1889-1897) for Yellow Nineties 2.0, external link is generously supported by a Linda H. Peterson Fellowship awarded by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals and funded from the bequest of the Eileen Curran estate. In the editorial markup, scholarly commentary, and digital affordances for the study of eight “little magazines” that characterized avant-garde print production at the turn of the last century, she aims to demonstrate the transnational cultural reach of the “little,” the marginal, and the diverse.
An early adapter of digital pedagogy and editing, Janzen Kooistra participates on a number of international Victorian digital humanities projects, including Orlando 2.0, external link, the Rossetti Archive, external link, NINES, external link (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship), and COVE, external link (Central Online Victorian Educator). She has collaborated on a number of open-access digital editions on COVE, including Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market, external link, Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s “A Sonnet, external link,” and Clemence Housman’s The Were-Wolf, external link. Her essay on the COVE Teaching site, Teaching Transformation, external link, describes the process by which Housman’s novella was edited, peer-reviewed, and published by graduate students in her Digital Publishing course in 2018.
In her undergraduate and graduate teaching, Janzen Kooistra aims to add experiential components in courses that include topics in nineteenth-century literature and culture, book history, research methods, and digital publishing. Her innovative pedagogy has been recognized by the Provost’s Experiential Teaching Award (2012), the Ontario Confederation of Faculty Associations (OCUFA) Teaching Award (2013), and the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (2016).
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