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Biography
Hugh Craig's research interests are in Renaissance literature and humanities computing. He teaches courses in Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Restoration literature, and Text and Technology. He has been Head of the Department of English, Head of the School of Language and Media and Head of the School of Humanities and Social Science.
He is Director of the University's Centre for Literacy and Linguistic Computing, and is involved in a number of collaborations beyond Newcastle in computational stylistics. Earlier books are on Sir John Harington and Ben Jonson. His recent publications are on questions of authorship in the Renaissance. He is interested broadly in the application of computer science to the humanities, especially via the analysis of large language samples.
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Oxford - UK
- Bachelor of Arts, University of Sydney
Research
Research keywords
- Authorship
- Computational Stylistics
- Drama
- Early Modern
- English Literature
- Shakespeare
- Stylistics
- Text Mining
Research expertise
Professor Craig works in computational stylistics, applied to Shakespeare and to Early Modern English drama generally. He has published books on Sir John Harrington and on Ben Jonson's critical heritage. Through the Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing he is involved in the development of specialist software for humanities computing, including the online open-access Shakespeare Computational Stylistics Facility.
Fields of Research
| Code | Description | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| 200599 | Literary Studies Not Elsewhere Classified | 80 |
| 020399 | Classical Physics Not Elsewhere Classified | 10 |
| 200499 | Linguistics Not Elsewhere Classified | 10 |
Invitations
| Digital Humanities Summer Institute University of Victoria, BC, Canada (Conference Presentation - non published.) | 2007 |
| ARC D and Linkage ARC, Australia (OzReader) | 2007 |
| External member of chair committee University of Sydney, Australia (Member of chair committee) | 2004 |
| External chair referee University of Western Sydney, Australia (External chair referee) | 2005 |
| Papers from Computing Arts 2004@Newcastle, Literary and Linguistic Computing 20.4 University of Newcastle, Australia (Guest editorship, ) | 2005 |
| Hudson Strode Lecture University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, United States (Conference Presentation - non published.) | 2004 |
| External examiner School of English, University of New South Wales, Australia (External Examiner.) | 1999 |
Collaboration
Professor Craig works in computational stylistics, applied to Shakespeare and to Early Modern English drama generally. He has published books on Sir John Harrington and on Ben Jonson's critical heritage. Through the Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing he is involved in the development of specialist software for humanities computing, including the online open-access Shakespeare Computational Stylistics Facility.
Administrative
Administrative expertise
In 2002 I was the inaugural Head, School of Language and Media, formed after a university-wide restructure, and remained in that role until a second restructure, in 2005, when I became Dean of Arts and the first Head, School of Humanities and Social Science. This School had around 70 full-time academic staff, operated across two campuses and had 19 disciplines including Social Work and Speech Pathology. I resigned this position at the end of 2007. Currently my workload is around 50% research and 50% research administration as Director of the Humanities Research Institute at Newcastle.
Teaching
Teaching keywords
- Jane Austen
- Literary Studies
- Renaissance Drama
- Shakespeare
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- Indicates that the researcher may be seeking students for this project.Language and Ageing: Mapping language change with age$7,470
Project EVA: an environmentally responsible facility for interdisciplinary supercomputing applications$263,000
Patterns in Early Modern English Drama Texts: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Dramatic Genre, Repertory and Style, 1576-1642$160,000
DVCR Special Grant 2010$40,000
ASE - Faculty of Education and Arts$2,000
Linguistic individuation in the plays of Shakespeare and his peers, 1576-1599$172,986
Utilising linguistic analysis to explore text patterning in PhD examination reports$5,000
Utilising linguistic analysis to explore text patterning in PhD examination reports$5,000
Shakespeare WordNet$12,000
2005 RIBG allocation$7,000
The Burrows Method and the Authorship of Unsigned Articles in Nineteenth Century Periodicals:George Eliot and The Saturday Review, A Pilot Study$4,300
Authorial attribution using pairs of lexical words.$10,000
The Burrows' method and the authorship of unsigned articles in ninteenth century periodicals: The Christian Remembrancer, A Case Study.$9,000
Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, 1-3 April 2004, USA$1,853
Shakespeare, the Early Modern Theatre and Computational Stylistics.$109,008
Anne Mozley and the Christian Remembrancer: A Pilot Project in Identifying the Authorship of Unsigned Articles in Nineteenth Century Periodicals.$8,000
(SHARED) Establishment of the Australian E-Humanities Network.$12,263
Electronic archive and critical edition for the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson$5,500
Visitor: Professor Arthur Kinney, 19 June to 31 July 2001.$4,528
Humanities Computing Initiative Symposium from 2 July 2001 to 5 July 2001$3,000
World Shakespeare Congress, Spain 18-23 April 2001$2,500
Changes in the language o personal letters compared to those in English tragedy, 1580-1650.$6,000
Ben Jonson: Text, History, Performance Conference, Leeds, England, 5-7 July 1995$1,743
94,95,96 GRANT. A statistical study of trans-authorial aspects of language use in English Renaissance Drama$86,855
Annual Convention of the Modern Language Associaiton of the USA - San Diego - 27-30 December 1994$1,616
The Generic Classification of Literary Texts by Frequencies of Very Common Words$11,000
Research Seminar 'The Court Masque'$3,400
Grants and Funding
Summary
| Number of grants | 27 |
|---|---|
| Total funding | $955,022 |
For project grants received where the lead institution is other than the University of Newcastle, details are shown in italics.
Click on a grant title below to expand the full details for that specific grant.
2013 (1 grants)
Language and Ageing: Mapping language change with age$7,470
Funding Body: University of Newcastle
| Project Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Doctor Elizabeth Spencer, Professor Alison Ferguson, Professor Hugh Craig | ||
| Scheme | Role | |
| Equity Research Fellowship | Investigator | |
| Total Amount | Funding Start | Funding Finish |
| $7,470 | 2013 | 2013 |
| GNo:G1200959 | ||
2012 (2 grants)
Project EVA: an environmentally responsible facility for interdisciplinary supercomputing applications$263,000
Funding Body: University of Newcastle
| Project Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Professor Pablo Moscato, Laureate Professor Jon Borwein, Conjoint Professor Keith Jones, Conjoint Professor Chris Levi, Professor Mark Parsons, Professor Michael Ostwald, Professor Hugh Craig, Conjoint Professor Peter Greer, Associate Professor Stephan Chalup, Associate Professor Regina Berretta | ||
| Scheme | Role | |
| Equipment Grant | Investigator | |
| Total Amount | Funding Start | Funding Finish |
| $263,000 | 2012 | 2012 |
| GNo:G1100627 | ||
Patterns in Early Modern English Drama Texts: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Dramatic Genre, Repertory and Style, 1576-1642$160,000
Funding Body: ARC (Australian Research Council)
| Project Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Professor Hugh Craig, Dr Brett Hirsch | ||
| Scheme | Role | |
| Discovery Projects | Chief Investigator | |
| Total Amount | Funding Start | Funding Finish |
| $160,000 | 2012 | 2014 |
| GNo:G1100190 | ||
2010 (2 grants)
DVCR Special Grant 2010$40,000
Funding Body: University of Newcastle
| Project Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Professor Hugh Craig, Professor Jim Albright, Professor Stephen Webb, Doctor Elyssa Joy | ||
| Scheme | Role | |
| Special Project Grant | Chief Investigator | |
| Total Amount | Funding Start | Funding Finish |
| $40,000 | 2010 | 2010 |
| GNo:G1000721 | ||
ASE - Faculty of Education and Arts$2,000
Funding Body: University of Newcastle
| Project Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Professor Hugh Craig | ||
| Scheme | Role | |
| Award for Supervision Excellence | Chief Investigator | |
| Total Amount | Funding Start | Funding Finish |
| $2,000 | 2010 | 2010 |
| GNo:G1001029 | ||
2008 (3 grants)
Linguistic individuation in the plays of Shakespeare and his peers, 1576-1599$172,986
Funding Body: ARC (Australian Research Council)
| Project Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Professor Hugh Craig | ||
| Scheme | Role | |
| Discovery Projects | Chief Investigator | |
| Total Amount | Funding Start | Funding Finish |
| $172,986 | 2008 | 2010 |
| GNo:G0187452 | ||
Utilising linguistic analysis to explore text patterning in PhD examination reports$5,000
Funding Body: University of Newcastle
| Project Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Professor Allyson Holbrook, Professor Hugh Craig, Professor Sid Bourke, Emeritus Professor Terry Lovat, Doctor Kathryn Holmes, Doctor Elena Prieto-Rodriguez | ||
| Scheme | Role | |
| Pilot Grant | Investigator | |
| Total Amount | Funding Start | Funding Finish |
| $5,000 | 2008 | 2008 |
| GNo:G0189098 | ||
Utilising linguistic analysis to explore text patterning in PhD examination reports$5,000
Funding Body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
| Project Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Professor Allyson Holbrook, Professor Hugh Craig, Professor Sid Bourke, Emeritus Professor Terry Lovat, Doctor Kathryn Holmes, Doctor Elena Prieto-Rodriguez | ||
| Scheme | Role | |
| Pilot Grant | Investigator | |
| Total Amount | Funding Start | Funding Finish |
| $5,000 | 2008 | 2008 |
| GNo:G0189382 | ||
2006 (1 grants)
Shakespeare WordNet$12,000
Funding Body: University of Newcastle
| Project Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Professor Hugh Craig | ||
| Scheme | Role | |
| Pilot Grant | Chief Investigator | |
| Total Amount | Funding Start | Funding Finish |
| $12,000 | 2006 | 2006 |
| GNo:G0186679 | ||
2005 (2 grants)
2005 RIBG allocation$7,000
Funding Body: University of Newcastle
| Project Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Professor Hugh Craig | ||
| Scheme | Role | |
| Research Infrastructure Block Grant (RIBG) | Chief Investigator | |
| Total Amount | Funding Start | Funding Finish |
| $7,000 | 2005 | 2005 |
| GNo:G0185818 | ||
The Burrows Method and the Authorship of Unsigned Articles in Nineteenth Century Periodicals:George Eliot and The Saturday Review, A Pilot Study$4,300
Funding Body: University of Newcastle
| Project Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Professor Hugh Craig, Doctor Ellen Jordan | ||
| Scheme | Role | |
| Project Grant | Chief Investigator | |
| Total Amount | Funding Start | Funding Finish |
| $4,300 | 2005 | 2005 |
| GNo:G0184765 | ||
2004 (3 grants)
Authorial attribution using pairs of lexical words.$10,000
Funding Body: University of Newcastle
| Project Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Professor Hugh Craig | ||
| Scheme | Role | |
| Project Grant | Chief Investigator | |
| Total Amount | Funding Start | Funding Finish |
| $10,000 | 2004 | 2004 |
| GNo:G0183422 | ||
The Burrows' method and the authorship of unsigned articles in ninteenth century periodicals: The Christian Remembrancer, A Case Study.$9,000
Funding Body: University of Newcastle
| Project Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Professor Hugh Craig, Doctor Ellen Jordan | ||
| Scheme | Role | |
| Project Grant | Chief Investigator | |
| Total Amount | Funding Start | Funding Finish |
| $9,000 | 2004 | 2004 |
| GNo:G0183427 | ||
Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, 1-3 April 2004, USA$1,853
Funding Body: University of Newcastle
| Project Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Professor Hugh Craig | ||
| Scheme | Role | |
| Travel Grant | Chief Investigator | |
| Total Amount | Funding Start | Funding Finish |
| $1,853 | 2004 | 2004 |
| GNo:G0183888 | ||
2003 (2 grants)
Shakespeare, the Early Modern Theatre and Computational Stylistics.$109,008
Funding Body: ARC (Australian Research Council)
| Project Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Professor Hugh Craig, Professor A Kinney | ||
| Scheme | Role | |
| Discovery Projects | Chief Investigator | |
| Total Amount | Funding Start | Funding Finish |
| $109,008 | 2003 | 2004 |
| GNo:G0182094 | ||
Anne Mozley and the Christian Remembrancer: A Pilot Project in Identifying the Authorship of Unsigned Articles in Nineteenth Century Periodicals.$8,000
Funding Body: University of Newcastle
| Project Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Professor Hugh Craig, Doctor Ellen Jordan | ||
| Scheme | Role | |
| Project Grant | Chief Investigator | |
| Total Amount | Funding Start | Funding Finish |
| $8,000 | 2003 | 2003 |
| GNo:G0182373 | ||
2002 (2 grants)
(SHARED) Establishment of the Australian E-Humanities Network.$12,263
Funding Body: ARC (Australian Research Council)
| Project Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Professor Hugh Craig | ||
| Scheme | Role | |
| Learned Academies Special Project Grant | Chief Investigator | |
| Total Amount | Funding Start | Funding Finish |
| $12,263 | 2002 | 2002 |
| GNo:G0182070 | ||
Electronic archive and critical edition for the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson$5,500
Funding Body: University of Newcastle
| Project Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Professor Hugh Craig | ||
| Scheme | Role | |
| Project Grant | Chief Investigator | |
| Total Amount | Funding Start | Funding Finish |
| $5,500 | 2002 | 2002 |
| GNo:G0181352 | ||
2001 (3 grants)
Visitor: Professor Arthur Kinney, 19 June to 31 July 2001.$4,528
Funding Body: University of Newcastle
| Project Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Professor Hugh Craig | ||
| Scheme | Role | |
| Visitor Grant | Chief Investigator | |
| Total Amount | Funding Start | Funding Finish |
| $4,528 | 2001 | 2001 |
| GNo:G0180648 | ||
Humanities Computing Initiative Symposium from 2 July 2001 to 5 July 2001$3,000
Funding Body: University of Newcastle
| Project Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Professor Hugh Craig | ||
| Scheme | Role | |
| Conference Establishment Grant | Chief Investigator | |
| Total Amount | Funding Start | Funding Finish |
| $3,000 | 2001 | 2001 |
| GNo:G0180955 | ||
World Shakespeare Congress, Spain 18-23 April 2001$2,500
Funding Body: University of Newcastle
| Project Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Professor Hugh Craig | ||
| Scheme | Role | |
| Travel Grant | Chief Investigator | |
| Total Amount | Funding Start | Funding Finish |
| $2,500 | 2001 | 2001 |
| GNo:G0180687 | ||
1997 (1 grants)
Changes in the language o personal letters compared to those in English tragedy, 1580-1650.$6,000
Funding Body: ARC (Australian Research Council)
| Project Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Professor Hugh Craig | ||
| Scheme | Role | |
| Small Grant | Chief Investigator | |
| Total Amount | Funding Start | Funding Finish |
| $6,000 | 1997 | 1997 |
| GNo:G0176685 | ||
1995 (1 grants)
Ben Jonson: Text, History, Performance Conference, Leeds, England, 5-7 July 1995$1,743
Funding Body: University of Newcastle
| Project Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Professor Hugh Craig | ||
| Scheme | Role | |
| Travel Grant | Chief Investigator | |
| Total Amount | Funding Start | Funding Finish |
| $1,743 | 1995 | 1995 |
| GNo:G0176811 | ||
1994 (2 grants)
94,95,96 GRANT. A statistical study of trans-authorial aspects of language use in English Renaissance Drama$86,855
Funding Body: ARC (Australian Research Council)
| Project Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Professor Hugh Craig | ||
| Scheme | Role | |
| Large Grant | Chief Investigator | |
| Total Amount | Funding Start | Funding Finish |
| $86,855 | 1994 | 1996 |
| GNo:G0172908 | ||
Annual Convention of the Modern Language Associaiton of the USA - San Diego - 27-30 December 1994$1,616
Funding Body: University of Newcastle
| Project Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Professor Hugh Craig | ||
| Scheme | Role | |
| Travel Grant | Chief Investigator | |
| Total Amount | Funding Start | Funding Finish |
| $1,616 | 1994 | 1994 |
| GNo:G0175048 | ||
1993 (2 grants)
The Generic Classification of Literary Texts by Frequencies of Very Common Words$11,000
Funding Body: ARC (Australian Research Council)
| Project Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Professor Hugh Craig | ||
| Scheme | Role | |
| Small Grant | Chief Investigator | |
| Total Amount | Funding Start | Funding Finish |
| $11,000 | 1993 | 1993 |
| GNo:G0172744 | ||
Research Seminar 'The Court Masque'$3,400
Funding Body: University of Newcastle
| Project Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Professor Hugh Craig | ||
| Scheme | Role | |
| Special Project Grant | Chief Investigator | |
| Total Amount | Funding Start | Funding Finish |
| $3,400 | 1993 | 1993 |
| GNo:G0173212 | ||
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Research Supervision
| Number of current supervisions | 7 |
|---|---|
| Total current UoN Masters EFTSL | 0.5 |
| Total current UoN PhD EFTSL | 2.75 |
For supervisions undertaken at an institution other that the University of Newcastle, details are shown in italics, and the institution name is listed below the program name.
Current Supervision
| Commenced | Proposed Completion | Program | Supervisor Type | Research Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 2017 | PhD (English) | Principal Supervisor | The Language of Other-Worlds: A Study of Style in Speculative Fiction |
| 2012 | 2015 | M Philosophy (English) | Principal Supervisor | Julia's Midsummer Night's Dream |
| 2011 | 2015 | PhD (English) | Principal Supervisor | Application of Stylometric Techniques to Writing |
| 2010 | 2014 | PhD (English) | Co-Supervisor | Female Victimhood and Suicide in the Naturalistic Novel |
| 2010 | 2014 | PhD (English) | Principal Supervisor | Creative Empathy: How Writers Turn Experience Not Their Own Into Literary Non-Fiction |
| 2010 | 2014 | PhD (Classics) | Co-Supervisor | Proleptic Construction in Prometheus Bound: Oral Tradition Influence in Early Tragedy |
| 2000 | 2003 | PhD (English) | Principal Supervisor | Computational Stylistics, Cognitive Grammar, and the "Tragedy of Mariam": Combining Formal and Contextual Approaches in a Computational Study of Early Modern Tragedy |
Past Supervision
| Year | Program | Supervisor Type | Research Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | PhD (English) | Principal Supervisor | Protean Pepys: Writing and Subjectivity in The Diary of Samuel Pepys |
| 2010 | M Philosophy (English) | Principal Supervisor | The Carpet Child |
| 2010 | PhD (Comm & Media Arts) | Principal Supervisor | Wolfgang Iser and Literary Anthropology |
| 2010 | PhD (English) | Principal Supervisor | Anonymity, Individuality and Commonality in Writing in British Periodicals - 1830 to 1890: A Computational Stylistics Approach |
| 2007 | PhD (Sociology & Anthropology) | Co-Supervisor | 'Bananas, Bastards and Victims'? Hybrid Reflections on Cultural Belonging in Intercountry Adoptee Narratives |
| 2006 | PhD (Modern Languages) | Principal Supervisor | Kobayashi Hideo: The Long Journey Towards Homeland, 1902 - 1945 |
| 2005 | M Arts (English) [R] | Principal Supervisor | Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time: Searching for Secret Harmonies |
| 2003 | M Arts (English) [R] | Principal Supervisor | Villains and Villainy in Six Shakespearean Plays |
| PhD (Linguistics) | Principal Supervisor | Language, Theory of Mind, And Social Behaviour in Acquired Traumatic Aphasia |
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Professor (Hugh) Craig
| Work Phone | (02) 4921 5212 |
|---|---|
| Fax | (02) 4921 7818 |
| Hugh.Craig@newcastle.edu.au | |
| Position | Professor School of Humanities and Social Science Faculty of Education and Arts |
| Focus Area | English |
| Office | GP1-39, General Purpose, Callaghan University Drive Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia |
| URL: | www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/hugh-craig |
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