Murray McGillivray c.v.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Murray McGillivray
602-15 Street N.W.
Calgary, Alberta T2N 2A9
(403)-270-0959
Internet:
www.ucalgary.ca/~mmcgilli
EDUCATION: 1987: Ph.D., English, University of Toronto
1981: M.A., English, McGill University
1979: B.A., First Class Honours, English and Philosophy, McGill University
1975: B.F.A., Fine Art, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
1997: Canadian Securities Course (Honours), Canadian Securities Institute
1999: University Management Course, CHERD
2002: Rethinking Leadership for Today's University, CHERD
Programme court de perfectionnement en français écrit (TÉLUQ, in progress)
EMPLOYMENT: Professor of English, University of Calgary, 1999 to present
Associate Professor of English, University of Calgary, 1993 to 1999
Assistant Professor of English, University of Calgary, 1988 to 1993
Assistant Professor of English, Brock University, 1987-88
Lecturer, University of Toronto, 1986-87
PUBLICATIONS:
Books: Murray McGillivray. Memorization in the Transmission of the Middle English Romances. Albert Bates Lord Studies in Oral Tradition, 5. New York: Garland, 1990.
Elizabeth Abbott Gibbs and Murray McGillivray, eds. Debates of the Legislative Assembly of United Canada. Vol 12, Part 1. 1854 - 55. General editor, Elizabeth Abbott Gibbs. Montréal: Centre de recherche en histoire économique du Canada français, 1982. Pp. 1 - 349.
Murray McGillivray, ed. Debates of the Legislative Assembly of United Canada. Vol 11, Part 4. 1852-53. General editor, Elizabeth Gibbs. Montréal: Centre de recherche en histoire économique du Canada français, 1982. Pp. 2577 - 3754.
Elizabeth Gibbs, Beth McAuley, and Murray McGillivray, eds. Debates of the Legislative Assembly of United Canada. Vol. 11, Part 3. 1852-53. General editor, Elizabeth Gibbs. Montréal: Centre de recherche en histoire économique du Canada français, 1981. Pp. 1599 - 2576.
Elizabeth Gibbs, Margaret MacKinnon, Lynne Marler, Beth McAuley, and Murray McGillivray, eds. Debates of the Legislative Assembly of United Canada. Vol. 11 Part 2. 1852-53. General editor, Elizabeth Gibbs. Montréal: Centre de recherche en histoire économique du Canada français, 1980. Pp. 677 - 1598.
CD-ROM: Murray McGillivray, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer's Book of the Duchess: A Hypertext Edition. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1997. 2nd ed. revised and corrected, 1999.
Web Sites: Murray McGillivray, ed. The Electric Scriptorium: A Physical and Virtual Conference. [On-line proceedings of Electric Scriptorium Conference, November 1995.] www.ucalgary.ca/~scriptor
Murray McGillivray, ed. Chaucer's Book of the Duchess: A Hypertext Edition. [Companion Web site to CD-ROM.] www.ucalgary.ca/ucpress/online/pubs/duchess/
Murray McGillivray. English 401: Old English Language and Prose Literature. [Web-based university course.]
www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl401
Murray McGillivray. English 403: Old English Poetry.
[Web-based university course.] www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl403
Murray McGillivray, genl. ed. Way to Write: An Interactive Writing Guide. [Web-based composition resource.] www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/writing/
Murray McGillivray, genl. ed. The Basic Elements of English: An Interactive Guide to Grammar. [Web-based grammar guide with Java exercises.] www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/grammar/
Electronic texts: Murray McGillivray, ed. Guillaume de Machaut's Dit de la fonteinne amoreuse: An Electronic Edition. Using TACT with Electronic Texts: A Guide to Text-Analysis Computing Tools. Ed. Ian Lancashire. New York: Modern Language Association, 1996. [TEI-Lite SGML markup text on CD-ROM accompanying book.]
Murray McGillivray, ed. Thynne's Edition of Chaucer's Book of the Duchess: An Electronic Edition. Using TACT with Electronic Texts: A Guide to Text-Analysis Computing Tools. Ed. Ian Lancashire. New York: Modern Language Association, 1996. [TEI-Lite SGML markup text on CD-ROM accompanying book.]
Articles: Murray McGillivray. "Representing Physical Texts in Electronic Form: The Experience of the Cotton Nero A.x. Project." DRH 2001: Selected Proceedings of the Digital Resources in the Humanities Conference. London: Office for Humanities Computing, Kings College, London, 2002 [forthcoming].
Murray McGillivray, Carl Gutwin, and Todd Reed. "Managing Medieval Gigabytes." [Online Proceedings of] The Electric Scriptorium [Conference]. www.ucalgary.ca/~scriptor 1995.
Murray McGillivray. "Problems and Pleasures of Manuscript Transcription Using TEI SGML Encoding." Text Technology (1995).
Murray McGillivray. "Creative Anachronism: Marx's Problem with Homer, Gadamer's Discussion of 'the Classical,' and Our Understanding of Older Literatures." New Literary History 25 (1994).
Murray McGillivray. "Towards a Post-Critical Edition: Hypertext, Theory, and the Presentation of Middle English Works." TEXT 7 (1995).
Murray McGillivray. "Electronic Representation of Manuscript Text: Possibilities and Limitations." Of Remembraunce the Keye: Computer-Based Chaucer Studies. CCH Working Papers, 3. Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, 1993.
Murray McGillivray. "Four Medieval Manuscript Leaves and a Caxton Leaf." The Evelyn De Mille Collection on the Book and Book Arts. University of Calgary Library Occasional Papers, 7. Calgary: University of Calgary Library, 1991.
Murray McGillivray. "The Exeter Book Maxims I B: An Anglo-Saxon Woman's View of Marriage." English Studies in Canada 15 (1989), 383-397.
Murray McGillivray. "Troilus's Determinism." McGill Literary Journal 2 (1980): 16 - 45.
Murray McGillivray "Two Notes on The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Gide's Mariage du ciel et de l'enfer [and] The Prolific and the Devourer." McGill Literary Journal 1 (1979): 65 - 76.
Conference Papers given to the Modern Language Association; New Chaucer Society; International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, Michigan); Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto; Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English; Canadian Society of Medievalists; Canadian Bibliographic Society; Canadian Association of Chairs of English; Digital Resources in the Humanities conference; Consortium for Computers in the Humanities
HONOURS AND AWARDS:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Standard Research Grant for "The Cotton Nero A.x. Project" ($94,000), 2001-04
SSHRC Development Grant for "The Cotton Nero A.x. Project" ($5,000), 2000
University Research Grants Committee (URGC) Grant (University of Calgary) for "The Cotton Nero A.x. Project" ($6,000), 2000
Humanities and Social Science Federation of Canada Grant (with Keith Archer, Rob Huebert, Martin Beaudoin, and others) for "Electronic Scholarly Publication in Canada" ($25,000), 1999
LEE (Learning Enhancement Envelope--Alberta Government) Grant for "Internet-based Instructional Materials for English" ($53,000), 1997
Spring/Summer Innovation Fund Grant (University of Calgary) for "Internet-based International Literature Course (English 392/492)," ($5,000) 1997
LEE Grant for "Internet-based Instructional Materials for English" ($48,000), 1996-97
Spring/Summer Innovation Fund Grant for "English 401: Internet-based Course" ($3,700), 1996
SSHRC Conference Grant for Electric Scriptorium Conference ($7,695), 1995
University of Calgary Multimedia Resources Allocation Committee Grant for "Chaucer's Book of the Duchess: A Hypertext Edition," ($5,900), 1995
URGC Research Grant for "An X-Windows Utility to Index, Compress, and Retrieve SGML-encoded Literary Texts," ($4,954), 1995
Royal Bank Teaching Development Grant ($ 1,535), 1994
Faculty of Humanities Teaching Development Award ($ 1,500), 1994
SSHRCC Standard Research Grant for "The Hypertext Book of the Duchess" ($35,480), 1992-95
URGC Starter Grant ($3,100), 1990
Ontario Graduate Scholarships, 1984-85, 1985-86
University of Toronto Fellowship, 1983-84
Quebec Bourse d'études supérieures, 1980-81
Dow-Hickson Scholarship in English and Philosophy, 1978
University Scholar, McGill, 1977-79
Emily Sereth Lieberman Memorial Prize in Classics, University of Alberta, 1977.
ADMINISTRATIVE
EXPERIENCE: Head, Department of English, University of Calgary, 1998 to present
Associate Head (Undergraduate), Department of English, University of Calgary, 1992 to 1995
COURSES Undergraduate:
TAUGHT: Cybertext/Humanities Computing 1996, 1997, 2001
Old English (Internet-based) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
Old English (classroom) 1988-9, 1991-92, 1993-94, 1996-7
Old English poetry (Internet-based) 2000, 2001, 2002
Middle English 1989, 1990, 1998-99
Old Norse 1990, 2000-01
History of English 1989-90, 1991-92, 1993-94, 1999, 2002
Pearl Poet, 2000
Medieval Drama 1990, 1998
Writings of Medieval Women 1993
Modern British Literature 1989
Poetry (2nd year) 1991
Poetry (1st year) 1988, 1991, 1993
Drama (1st year) 1990
Prose Fiction (1st year) 1996
Survey of British Literature 1986-87, 1987-88
Survey of Literature in English 1994-95
Literature and Composition 1988-90
Graduate:
"Beowulf and its Contexts" 1989-90, 1990-91
"Chaucer and the Anti-Feminist Tradition"
1992-93, 1994-95
"Cybertext" 1996, 1997
SUPERVISION: Honours Theses:
Sheila McManus, "The Hero in the Work and Death of Patrick Pearce" (1990-91)
Dale Schierbeck, "The Authority of Fiction: Reality and its Representation in Mary Stewart's Crystal Cave Trilogy" (1990-91)
Heidi Kurtz, "Speculations about Margery Kempe: An Analysis of 'This Creature'" (1991-92). [Winner national honours-student essay prize.]
Alan Born, "Julian of Norwich's Challenge to Traditional Notions of the Body." 1994-95.
Siobhan Thomas, "Reclaiming Femininity: Symbols of the Goddess in Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon." 1994-95
Lorelee Kippen, "Towards an Architectonics of Sex: Christine de Pizan's Rewriting of Virtue and the Verboten." 1994-95. [Presented at Leeds International Medieval Conference, 1995.]
Marta Juzwiak, “The Middle English Pearl: an Electronic Edition.” 1998-99
Adam Pendlebury, “Mearc-stapa, Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell: Liminality in Theme and Composition in Beowulf.” 1998-99
Mary Rambaran, "The Dream of the Rood: an Electronic Edition." 2001-02
Irena Aligizakis, "A Gift of Bones" [poem; co-supervised with Nicole Markotic], 2001-02
Marilyn Dann, "The Language of Praise in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," 2001-02
MA Theses:
Lynette Chong, "Chaucer's Book of the Duchess: A Transcription and Edition Based on Fairfax 16 with Paleographic, Textual and Explanatory Notes." 1992.
Catherine Radimer, "Disrupting 'Male' Narratives: Subversive Female Characters in the Works of Chaucer." 1994.
James Bazant, "Richard Coeur de Lion: An Edition Based on MS. Gonville & Caius 175/96." 1995.
Christine Hoffos, "Chaucer's Book of the Duchess: Transcriptions of MS Bodley 638, MS Tanner 346, and Thynne's print edition of 1532, with Collation and Proposed Stemma." 1995.
Heidi Kurtz, "'Mysmetre for Defaute of Tonge': Generative Metrics and the Editing of Chaucer. 1995.
PhD Thesis:
Kenna Olsen, editorial project in Pearl manuscript. In progress.
External examiner of MA theses in University of Calgary departments of Linguistics and of French, Italian and Spanish and in the Communications Studies Programme; examininer of University of Calgary English Department MA and PhD theses; PhD supervisory committee member, Department of English; PhD committee member and examiner in University of Calgary Graduate Division of Educational Research
SERVICE:
Department: Chair ex officio, Planning and Budgeting Committee, Department of English, 1998-
Chair, Community and Contact Committee, Department of English, 1998-
Chair ex officio, Department Appointments Committee, Department of English, 1998-
Member, Graduate Executive Committee, Department of English, 1998-
Member, Task Force on Undergraduate Programme and Course Delivery, Department of English, 1997-98
Chair, Technology Committee, Department of English, Fall 1997
Member, Appointments Committee, Department of English, Fall 1997.
Chair, Equity Issues Committee, Department of English, 1996-97
Member, Technology Committee, Department of English, 1996-97
Member, Senior Programme Committee, Department of English, 1996-97
Chair, New Workspace Planning Committee, Department of English, October 1992 to August 1994
Chair ex officio, Undergraduate Programme Committee, 1992 to 1995
Member ex officio, Senior Programme Committee, Department of English, 1992 to 1995
Member ex officio, First-year Course Committee, Department of English, 1992 to 1995
Chair, Technology Committee, Department of English, 1990-92
Secretary, Graduate Executive Committee, Department of English, 1991-92
English Department Co-Operative Education Officer, 1990-91
Member, Honours and Majors Committee, Department of English, 1989-91
Chair, First-year Course Committee, Department of English, 1989-90
Secretary, First-year Course Committee, Department of English, 1988-89
Member, Graduate Advisory Committee, Department of English, 1989
Faculty: Member ex officio, Dean’s Advisory Committee, 1998-
Member ex officio, Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writer Steering Committee, 1998-
Founding Member and Member, Steering Committee, Philology Research Group, 1997-
Member, Comparative Literature Steering Committee 1996-98
Humanities Representative, General Studies Faculty Council, 1996-98
Member, Curriculum Committee, Faculty of Humanities, 1992-95
Member, Task Force for Curricular Review, Faculty of Humanities, 1993-94
Member, Appointments Committee, Department of French, Italian, and Spanish, 1993-94
University: Member, General Faculties Council, 1997-2000
Member, University Planning Committee, 1997-2000
Member, University Budget Committee, 1997-2000
Member, University Senate, 1998-99
Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Redesign Facilitation Group, 1998-2001
Curriculum Internationalization Fellow, 2000-01
Faculty-level Curriculum Redesign Coordinator, 1999
Full-time Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Redesign Team, January to June 1998
External Member, Appointments Committee, Linguistics, 1998
Member, General Faculties Council Committee to Hear and Determine Student Appeals, Fall 1997
Member, Ad-hoc Subcommittee (of Technology Task Force) on Hardware and Software Standards, 1997-98
Member, General Faculties Council Library Committee, 1996-97
Faculty Association Representative, The University Budget Committee, 1994-95
Member, Steering Committee, Interdisciplinary Minor in Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation Studies, 1992 to 1994
Member, Instructional Development Committee of General Faculties Council, 1989-91
Member, Student Union Teaching Excellence Awards Task Force, 1989-90
External: Member, Canadian Association of Chairs of English, 1998 to present
Advisory Board Member, Canadian Society of Medievalists/Société Canadienne de Médiévistes, 1994-1997
Executive Member, Society for Canadian Medievalists, 1993-94
Founding Member and Member, Ad-Hoc Organizing Committee, Society for Canadian Medievalists, 1992-93.
Member, Professional Concerns Committee, Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English, 1988-1991
EVALUATION:
Referee for book manuscripts and proposals for University of Toronto Press and Broadview Press. External referee for tenure and promotion (Associate Professor) for University of British Columbia, Ohio University, and University of Alberta. External evaluator for proposed BA program in English, Nazarene University College, Calgary.
MEMBERSHIPS: International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (ISAS)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Medieval Academy of America
New Chaucer Society
Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE)
Canadian Society of Medievalists
Medieval Association of the Pacific
Consortium for Computers in the Humanities
SCHOLARY LISTSERVS: ANSAXNET
Chaucer
Medtext-l
LANGUAGES:
MODERN: French: near-native comprehension and writing, good spoken French
Icelandic, German: reading knowledge and basic oral comprehension
Japanese: beginning conversational and written (kana, about 250 kanji)
MEDIEVAL: Old and Middle English, Old Norse, Old French, Latin
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
System Windows (ME, 2000, XT, NT); MacOS to X, Unix (AIX,
Familiarity: Linux)
Programming Basic, Fortran, C, C++, Java, JavaScript
Languages:
Markup Languages: SGML, XML, HTML
Software Packages: WordPerfect, Word, emacs, PhotoShop, Illustrator, PageMaker, FrontPage, Pagemill, etc. [many packages]
July 2002