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Janelle Jenstad, PhD FRSC, teaches English, Media Studies, and Professional Communication at the University of Victoria. She directs Linked Early Modern Drama Online (LEMDO) and The Map of Early Modern London (MoEML) and co-directs a number of digital editorial projects. See janellejenstad.com for more information.

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Janelle Jenstad, PhD FRSC, is Professor of English at the University of Victoria.  She directs The Map of Early Modern London (MoEML) and Linked Early Modern Drama Online (LEMDO). With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and MB Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media (Routledge). Her essays and book chapters have appeared in Shakespeare Bulletin, Elizabethan Theatre, EMLS, JMEMS, DHQ, Digital Studies, Scholarly Editing, and other venues. For a full list, see janellejenstad.com.

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Janelle Jenstad, PhD FRSC, is Professor of English at University of Victoria. She directs The Map of Early Modern London (MoEML) and Linked Early Modern Drama Online (LEMDO) and co-coordinates the forthcoming New Internet Shakespeare Editions (NISE) and Digital Renaissance Editions (DRE). With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and MB Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media (Routledge). With MB Kaethler, she is co-general editing the MoEML Mayoral Shows Anthology (MoMS). She is the General Textual Editor of the Queen’s Men Editions. She edited John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598) for MoEML and is completing the 1633 text. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Shakespeare Bulletin, Renaissance and Reformation, Scholarly Editing, and Digital Studies/Champs Numeriques. Chapters appear in Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives (MLA); New Directions in the Geohumanities (Routledge); Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter); Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana); Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter);  Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota); Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study (Routledge); and Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (Routledge). For a full list, see janellejenstad.com.

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Janelle Jenstad is Professor of English at the University of Victoria. She directs The Map of Early Modern London (MoEML) and Linked Early Modern Drama Online (LEMDO); co-coordinates The New Internet Shakespeare Editions (NISE) and Digital Renaissance Editions (DRE); serves as General Text Editor for the Queen’s Men Editions; and is Co-General Editor of the MoEML Mayoral Shows Anthology (MoMS), the world’s first anthology of all the Elizabethan and early 17thC mayoral pageant books.  With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and MB Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media (Routledge). She has edited the 1598 and 1633 texts of John Stow’s Survey of London for MoEML and is editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) for the NISE and Thomas Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Elizabethan Theatre, Early Modern Literary Studies, Shakespeare Bulletin, Renaissance and Reformation, The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Scholarly Editing, and Digital Studies/Champs Numeriques. She contributed chapters to Approaches to Teaching Othello (MLA); Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives (MLA); Institutional Culture in Early Modern England (Brill); Shakespeare, Language, and the Stage (Arden); Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate); New Directions in the Geohumanities (Routledge); Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter); Making Humanities Matter (Minnesota); Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana); Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter); Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota); Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study (Routledge); and Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (Routledge). She is the winner of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities Outstanding Achievement Award for Computing in the Arts and Humanities, the UVic Faculty of Humanities Research Excellence Award, and the UVic REACH Award for Knowledge Mobilization. For more details, see janellejenstad.com.