Research

Books & Edited Collections

Dissertation

Refereed Journal Articles, Book Chapters, & Introductions

Major Digital Projects

Canadian Modernist Magazines Project – Principal Investigator

  • A public-facing digital repository and virtual research hub for those interested in reading, analyzing, or teaching Canadian modernist “little magazines.” The CMMP website will include critical introductions of select Canadian modernist magazines, tools for computational analysis of the transcribed texts, sample lesson plans, and relevant syllabi. Partnered with the Modernist Versions Project, Editing Modernism in Canada, the Blue Mountain Project, Princeton University Library, McGill University Archives, Dalhousie University, the University of New Brunswick, University of Toronto Libraries, and Mount Allison University. Grant funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences Commons – Co-lead, research, development, and strategy

  • An in-development, national-scale, bilingual network for Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences researchers to share, access, re-purpose, and develop scholarly projects, publications, educational resources, data, and tools. It is being developed by the Implementing New Knowledge Environments Partnership with the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, University of Victoria Systems, Compute Canada, CANARIE, the Canadian Research Knowledge Network, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Humanities Commons, the University of Newcastle, and others.

Mary Butts Letters Project – Lead web developer and TEI developer

  • A SSHRC-funded digital archive of previously unpublished correspondence by the English modernist writer Mary Butts. Principal Investigator: Dr. Joel Hawkes.

Mapping Alcohol Consumption in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘May Day’: A Digital Critical Edition (in progress) – Principal Investigator

  • An annotated edition of the 1920 public-domain text of “May Day,” which will feature an integrated map, critical apparatus, and sample lesson plans. TEI mark-up of the text will also facilitate interactive DH course assignments for my “Alcohol in/and Modernist Fiction” course.

Edited Special Issues

  • Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2022 Conference & Colloquium. Special issue of Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities. Co-edited with Caroline Winter. [Forthcoming]
  • Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2021 Conference & Colloquium. Special issue of Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities 3.2 (2022): https://ideah.pubpub.org/vol3iss2. Co-edited with Caroline Winter and Lindsey Seatter.
  • Engaging Open Social Scholarship. Special issue of Pop! Public. Open. Participatory 3 (Nov. 2021): https://doi.org/10.54590/pop.2021.001. Co-edited by Alyssa Arbuckle, Graham Jensen, Tully Barnett, and Ray Siemens.

Other Publications

Plenaries, Keynotes, & Invited Talks

  • Invited talk. Siemens, Ray, Alyssa Arbuckle, and Graham Jensen. “The Digital Humanities, and its Foundation for Open Social Scholarship.” HEPiX Autumn 2023 Workshop, University of Victoria, 16 Oct. 2023.
  • Invited talk. “Digital Commons and Institutional Repositories: A Conversation.” CDH Virtual Drop-In. Centre for Digital Humanities, Toronto Metropolitan University: 6 Dec. 2022.
  • Plenary. Jensen, Graham, Alyssa Arbuckle, and Ray Siemens. “Digital Knowledge Commons in the Humanities and Social Sciences.” Plenary. Mapping Culture and History. NUspace, University of Newcastle, Australia, 17 Nov. 2022.
  • Invited talk. Siemens, Ray, Alyssa Arbuckle, Caroline Winter, and Graham Jensen. “DH Foundations for Open Social Scholarship.” Building Digital Humanities. Western Sydney University, Australia, 11 Nov 2022.
  • Keynote. Siemens, Ray, Alyssa Arbuckle, Luis Meneses, Randa El Khatib, Caroline Winter, and Graham Jensen. Invited talk. “Foundations for Open Social Scholarship: Activities in The Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory.” VELS University Chennai, Online, Mar. 12, 2022.
  • Keynote. Siemens, Ray, Alyssa Arbuckle, Luis Meneses, Randa El Khatib, Caroline Winter, and Graham Jensen. “Opportunity, Cost, and the DH Watershed Moment? Foundations for Open Social Scholarship.” Beyond Pandemics: Reimagining the Humanities and the New Normal. English Language and Literature Association of Korea, Korea University, online, Dec. 16-18, 2021.
  • Keynote. Siemens, Ray, Alyssa Arbuckle, Randa El Khatib, Luis Meneses, Graham Jensen, and Caroline Winter. “Foundations for Open Social Scholarship in the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute (C-SKI).” Contemporary Trends and Development in Cultural Studies and the Humanities. U of Rome Tor Vergata and Guru Ghasidas Visyavidyalaya, online, Oct. 22, 2021.
  • Keynote. Siemens, Ray, Randa El Khatib, Luis Meneses, Graham Jensen, and Caroline Winter. “Open Social Scholarship as a Foundation for Digital Humanities.” European Summer University in Digital Humanities, online, Aug. 2-13, 2021.
  • Public talk. “Towards a New History of Modern Canadian Poetry and Religion.” The Centre for Studies in Religion and Society Weekly Lecture Series, University of Victoria. November 28, 2019.
  • Invited talk. “EMiC and Knowledge Mobilization.” Mobilizing Science Knowledge and Research. Halifax, NS: The Marine Environmental Observation Prediction and Response Network. January 27-29, 2015.

Workshops Organized

  • Jensen, Graham, Ray Siemens, and Randa El Khatib. “Introduction to the Canadian HSS Commons.” HSS Winter Series, Digital Research Alliance of Canada, Online, 12 Feb. 2024.
  • Jensen, Graham, Randa El Khatib, and Ray Siemens. “A Scoped Commons Environment for the Social Sciences and Humanities.” Winter Institute in Digital Humanities. NYU Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 16 Jan. 2024.
  • Jensen, Graham. “Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences Commons Workshop and Information Session.” Creative Approaches to Open Social Scholarship, Canadian-Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship. U Sydney, NSW, 28 Nov. 2023.
  • Jensen, Graham, Alan Colín-Arce, Alyssa Arbuckle, Ray Siemens, and Caroline Winter. “Using the Canadian HSS Commons: Guided Workshop for Scholarly Societies.” Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. York U, 27 May. 2023.
  • “Building Community and Sharing Research Online: An Introduction to HSSCommons.ca.” Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. York U, 27 May. 2023.
  • El Khatib, Randa, Alyssa Arbuckle, Ray Siemens, Caroline Winter, and Graham Jensen. “RSA Workshop for PhD Candidates I: Open Knowledge in the Humanities.” Renaissance Society of America. Online, 2 Dec. 2022.
  • Siemens, Ray Siemens, Alyssa Arbuckle, Randa El Khatib, and Graham Jensen. “Open Knowledge in the Humanities.” Mapping Culture and History. NUspace, University of Newcastle, Australia, 17 Nov. 2022.
  • “Using the Commons: Training Workshop and Guided Exploration.” Launching a Digital Commons for the Humanities and Social Sciences: DHSI, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, Online, June 9, 2022.
  • “Using the Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences: An Interactive Workshop.” Launching a Digital Commons for the Humanities and Social Sciences: Congress. Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Online, May 12, 2022.

Panels & Roundtables Organized

  • Co-organizer of “CanLit Adapts/Adapting Canadian Literature.” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, Jan. 4-7. 2024.
  • Co-organizer of “Building Digital Communities in the Humanities and Social Sciences.” Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. York U, 28 May. 2023.
  • Organizer of “Working in Canadian Literary Archives.” Modern Language Association, San Francisco, January 5-8, 2023.
  • Organizer of “Canadian Literature and the Digital Humanities.” Modern Language Association. Online. January 6-9, 2022.
  • Organizer of “Transnational Currents in Canadian Literature.” Roundtable. Modern Language Association. Seattle. January 9-12, 2020.
  • Organizer of “New Directions in Canadian Modernism.” Roundtable. Modernist Studies Association. Toronto. October 17-20, 2019.
  • Co-organizer with Suzanne Hobson of “‘Believing doesn’t trouble her’: William James and Modernist Varieties of Supernatural and Religious Experience.” Panel. Troublesome Modernisms, British Association for Modernist Studies. London. June 20-22, 2019.
  • Organizer of “Afterlives: Death and the End(s) of Religion in Literary Modernism.” Panel. Modernist Studies Association. Amsterdam. August 10-13, 2017.
  • Co-organizer with Brandi Estey-Burtt of “Feminist and Queer Approaches to Religion.” Panel. The Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English. Toronto: Ryerson University. May 27-30, 2017.

Roundtable & Seminar Participation

  • (Invited) participant: “Christian Poetics Initiative Scholars Network Conference.” Christian Poetics Initiative, Rivendell Institute, Yale U, July 7-8, 2023.
  • Roundtable participant: “Future Horizons: Digital Humanities in Canada.” Canadian Society for Digital Humanities, York U, May 29, 2023.
  • Roundtable participant: “Canadian Literature and the Digital Humanities.” Modern Language Association, Online, January 6-9, 2022.
  • Roundtable participant: “EdTech and the English Classroom.” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English, Online, May 29-June 1, 2021.
  • (Invited) Roundtable participant: Digital Project Showcase. Association for Computers and the Humanities. Modern Language Association, Toronto, January 7-10, 2021.
  • Roundtable participant: “Transnational Currents in Canadian Literature.” Modern Language Association, Seattle, January 9-12, 2020.
  • Position paper: “Postwar Modernisms and the Problem of Religion.” Seminar: Late, Between, Belated, Bereft, organized by Matthew Hart. Modernist Studies Association, Columbus, OH, November 8-11, 2018.
  • (Invited) Roundtable participant: Committee for Professional Concerns I: Enrollments in Graduate Programs, organized by Melissa Dalgleish. Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English, Toronto, Ryerson University, May 27-30, 2017.
  • Position paper: “Syncretism and Modernist Poetry.” Seminar: Modernism and Religion – New Theoretical Approaches, organized by Gregory Erickson and Suzanne Hobson. Modernist Studies Association, Pittsburgh, PA, November 6-9, 2014.

Conference Presentations

  • “Creative Forms of Open Social Scholarship in the Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences Commons: Case Studies.” Creative Approaches to Open Social Scholarship, Canadian-Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship. U Sydney, NSW, 28 Nov. 2023.
  • “Connecting Researchers and Research Communities: (Re)introducing the Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences Commons.” Reviewing, Revising, and Refining Open Social Scholarship: Canada. Victoria, 17 Jan. 2023.
  • “Connecting Researchers and Research Communities: (Re)introducing the Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences Commons.” Reviewing, Revising, and Refining Open Social Scholarship: Australasia. University of Newcastle, Online, 16 Nov. 2022.
  • “Toward a Vision of Community-Engaged Digital Research Infrastructure: The Canadian HSS Commons and Beyond.” Canadian Research Knowledge Network Conference, Online, Oct. 3-7, 2022.
  • “Digital Research Commons and/as Project Management Tools.” Project Management in the Humanities. Aligned conference, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, Online, June 9, 2022.
  • “Leveraging Open Source Software for the Humanities and Social Sciences: The Canadian HSS Commons.” Canadian Research Software Conference, Montreal, May 31-June 1, 2022.
  • Arbuckle, Alyssa, Randa El Khatib, Graham Jensen, and Caroline Winter, with Ray Siemens. “Surveying the Open Social Scholarship Critical Landscape: Connection, Training, Community, Policy.” Putting Open Social Scholarship into Practice, INKE Partnership and Canadian-Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship, Online, Dec. 8-9, 2021.
  • Jensen, Graham. “Designing Digital Commons to Support Open Social Scholarship.” Putting Open Social Scholarship into Practice, INKE Partnership and Canadian-Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship, Online, Dec. 8-9, 2021.
  • Jensen, Graham (lead author), and Talya Jesperson. “New Pastures: Expanding the Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences Commons.” Putting Open Social Scholarship into Practice, INKE Partnership and Canadian-Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship, Online, Dec. 8-9, 2021.
  • Jensen, Graham, Alyssa Arbuckle, Caroline Winter, Talya Jesperson, and Raymond G. Siemens. “Fostering Digital Communities of Care: Safety, Security, and Trust in the Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences Commons.” Digital Humanities Summer Institute, Conference & Colloquium, Online, June 7-11, 14-18, 2021.
  • Jensen, Graham, Caroline Winter, Alyssa Arbuckle, Luis Meneses, and Raymond G. Siemens. “Reimagining the Digital Research Commons for the Canadian HSS Community.” Canadian Society for Digital Humanities, June 1-5, 2021.
  • Winter, Caroline, Graham Jensen, Alyssa Arbuckle, and Raymond G. Siemens. “Research Data Management for the Large-Scale Research Commons.” RDM for Digitally Curious Humanists. Digital Humanities Summer Institute, Online, June 2021.
  • “William James, Mysticism, and the Modernist Epiphany.” Troublesome Modernisms, British Association for Modernist Studies. London. June 20-22, 2019.
  • “Margaret Avison, Autobiography, and the Paradox of the Self.” Association for Canadian and Québec Literatures. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia. June 1-3, 2019.
  • “‘Other than the very thing’: Mysticism and the Problem of Representation in the Art of P.K. Page.” Modernist Studies Association, Columbus, OH, November 8-11, 2018.
  • “Make it (re)new: Modernist and Religious Discourses of the New in the Poetry of Margaret Avison.” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English. Regina, SK: University of Regina. May 26-29, 2018.
  • “The Idea of God: Louis Dudek as Religious Poet.” Association for Canadian and Québec Literatures. Regina, SK: University of Regina. May 26-28, 2018.
  • Mixed Spirits: Dead Muses and Religious Syncretism in Canadian Modernist Poetry.” Modernist Studies Association. Amsterdam, NL, August 10-13, 2017.
  • “Theological Modernism and the Poetry of E.J. Pratt.” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English. Calgary, AB: University of Calgary. May 28-31, 2016.
  • “Rupture and Reform: Intersections of Theological and Literary Modernism in the Poetry of E.J. Pratt.” American Comparative Literature Association. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University. March 17-20, 2016.
  • “SpokenWeb, PennSound, and the Future of the Digital Audio Archive.” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English. Ottawa, ON: University of Ottawa. May 30 – June 2, 2015.
  • “God(s) Keep Our Land: Religious Pluralism in Canadian Poetry and Poetics of the 1960s.” Association for Canadian and Québec Literatures. Ottawa, ON: University of Ottawa. May 30 – June 2, 2015.
  • “Modernist Commons” [Co-authored with Dean Irvine, Alan Stanley, and Nigel Banks]. CSDH/SCHN-ACH Digital Humanities Conference. Ottawa, ON: University of Ottawa. June 1-3, 2015.
  • “Canadian Modernist Magazines and the ‘Secularization Thesis’: God’s Afterlife North of the Forty-Ninth.” History across the Disciplines. Halifax, NS: Dalhousie University. March 20-22, 2015.
  • “Louis Dudek, T. S. Eliot, and Modernist (Re)visions of Utopian Civilization.” Society for Utopian Studies. Montreal, QC. October 23-26, 2014.
  • “Dialogue and the Problem of Translation in Sepass Poems: Ancient Songs of Y-Ail-Mihth.” Association for Canadian and Québec Literatures.  St. Catharines, ON: Brock University. May 24-26, 2014.
  • “‘Change is Freedom, Change is Life’: Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed and the Künstlerroman Tradition.” Society for Utopian Studies. Charleston, SC. November 14-17, 2013.
  • “Reading and Rehabilitating the Body in Mary Bradley Lane’s Mizora: A Prophecy.” Marvelous Bodies: Corporeality in Literature. Madrid, Spain: Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus. May 24-25, 2013.
  • “‘Something Terrible in Me’: A Note on Demon-Possession and Suicide in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury.” The Literary Eclectic VI. Saskatoon: University of Saskatchewan. September 23-24, 2011.
  • “Unfinalizability and Ethics in John Sayles’s Lone Star.” Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture & American Culture Association and the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture & American Culture Association. San Antonio, TX. April 20-23, 2011.
  • “The Palimpsest as a Model of Revisionary History in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient.” The Literary Eclectic V. Regina: University of Regina. September 24-25, 2010.

Digital Exhibits & Poster Presentations

  • Jensen, Graham, Randa El Khatib, and Ray Siemens. “An Open Humanities and Social Sciences Commons.” Winter Institute in Digital Humanities. NYU Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 17 Jan. 2024.
  • Jensen, Graham, and Joel Hawkes. “Launching the Mary Butts Letters Project.” Modernist Studies Association, Brooklyn, 26-29 Oct. 2023.
  • “Official Launch: Canadian Modernist Magazines Project.” Modernist Studies Association, Portland, Oct. 27-30, 2022.
  • “Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences Commons Overview and Update.” Launching a Digital Commons for the Humanities and Social Sciences: INKE Partnership, Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, University of Victoria, Online, Jan. 24, 2022.
  • “Digitizing Modernism in Canada.” Modern Language Association. Online. Jan. 7-10, 2021.
  • Jensen, Graham, and Luis Meneses. “Canadian Modernist Magazines Project.” Modernist Studies Association. Toronto. October 17-20, 2019.
  • “Canadian Modernist Magazines Project.” Digital Humanities Summer Institute Conference & Colloquium. Victoria: University of Victoria. June 7, 2019.
  • “Canadian Modernist Magazines Project.” Canadian Society for Digital Humanities. Vancouver: University of British Columbia. June 2-5, 2019.
  • “The Modernist Commons and the Canadian Modernist Magazines Project” [Digital exhibit co-presented with Dean Irvine]. Modernist Studies Association. Pittsburgh, PA. November 6-9, 2014.