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Professor Hugh Craig

Director of Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing since 2001

Faculty: Education and Arts

School: Humanities and Social Science

Phone:                        + 61 2 4921 5212
Fax:                            + 61 2 4921 6933
Email:                  Hugh.Craig@newcastle.edu.au
Location:                McMullin Building, Room MCG28a
Campus:                 Callaghan Campus, Newcastle

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 Literary 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:

DPhil (Oxf)
BA(Hons)(Sydney)

Academic Appointments:

The University of Newcastle
- Professor, School of Humanities and Social Science

Publications/Productions/Exhibitions:

Books and Monographs

Craig, H. (1999) "Authorial Attribution and Computational Stylistics: If You Can Tell Authors Apart, Have You Learned Anything About Them?" Literary and Linguistic Computing Volume 14, pp. 103-13.
Craig, H. (1990) Ben Jonson: The Critical Heritage London.
Craig, H. (1985) Sir John Harington Boston.

Book Chapters

Criag, H. (2004) 'A Stylistic Analysis and Authorship Studies', in Susan Schreibman et al. (eds) A Companion to the Digital Humanities Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 273-288. Article can be viewed at: http://etcl.uvic.ca/blackwell/craig.html
Craig, H. (2001) 'Harington, John (1560-1612)', in Arthur F Kinney and David W. Swain (eds) Tudor England: An Encyclopaedia New York: Garland, pp.324-326.

Guest Editorship

Craig, Hugh (2005) (guest editor) Paper from Computing Arts 2004 @ Newcastle. Literary and Linguistic Computing 20.4.

Refereed Journal Articles

Jordan, E., Craig, H. and Antonia, A. (2006) 'The Bronte Sisters and the 'Christian Remembrancer: a Pilot Study in the Use of the 'Burrows Method' to Identify the Authorship of unsigned Articles in the Nineteenth Century Periodical Press' Victorian Periodicals Review Volume 39, Number 1, Spring, pp. 21-45.
Craig, H. (2002) 'Shakespeare and Print' HEAT Ivor Indyk (ed) Volume 4, pp. 49-63
Craig, H. (2002) 'Common-Words Frequencies, Shakespeare's Style, and the Elegy by W.S.' Early Modern Literary Studies Volume 8, Number 1, Available here
Craig, H. & Burrows, J. (2001) 'Lucy Hutchinson and the authorship of two seventeenth century poems: a computational approach' The Seventeenth Century Volume 16, pp. 259-282.
Craig, H. (2001) '"An image of the times": Ben Jonson's revision of Every Man in his Humour' English Studies Volume 82, pp.14-33.
Craig, H. (2000) 'Is the author really dead? An empirical study of authorship in English Renaissance drama' Empirical Studies in the Arts Volume 18, pp.119-134.
Craig, H. (2000) 'Grammatical modality in English plays from the1580s to the 1640s' English Literary Renaissance Volume 30, pp.32-54.

Non-Refereed Journal Articles

Craig, H. (2001) 'She learned romance as she grew older: Persuasion as the 'natural sequel' to Sense and Sensibility. Sensibilities.

Professional Activities:

Conference Presentations

2007 Masterclass in Advanced Textual Analysis and Guest Lecture, summer Institute for the Digital Humanities, Victoria, BC.
2006 World Shakespeare Conference, Brisbane
2004 Hudson Strode Lecture, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
2001 International Shakespeare Association, Valencia, Spain
2001 Digital Research Resources in the Humanities, Sydney

Research:

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.

Grants

2008-2010 ARC Discovery Grant, "Linguistic Individuation in the Plays of Shakespeare and his Peers, 1576-1599" $176,000
2003-2005 ARC Discovery Grant and National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Grant (with Arthur F Kinney), "Shakespeare, The Early Modern Theatre, and Computational Stylistics", $120,000
2002 ARC (Special Projects), with the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the University of Sydney, "E_Humanities Project," $60,000

Scholarly Activities:

2004 Organiser, "Computing Arts 2004" conference, Newcastle.
2001 Organiser, International symposium on "A Practicable Future for Humanities Computing", Newcastle.

Governance

2006-ongoing Head, School of Humanities and Social Science
2002-2005 Head, School of Language and Media
2001-ongoing Director, Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing