CURRICULUM VITAE: W. SCHIPPER
Associate Professor, Department of English
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St John's, Nfld A1C 5S7
Tel.: 709-737-4406; Fax: 709-737-4528
Home: 709-753-7652; Fax: 709-756-4901
Email: schipper@morgan.ucs.mun.ca
Academic and Employment Record:
Degrees:
Ph.D. (1981) Queen's University Kingston
M.A. (1975) University of Windsor
B.A. (1973) University of Windsor
Education:
1975-1980 Graduate studies in English Language and
Literature, Queen's University.
1973-1975 Graduate studies in English Literature, University
of Windsor.
1970-1973 University of Windsor, Arts Faculty (History and
German).
1965-1970 Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Teaching Experience:
1991- Associate Professor of English, Memorial
University, St.John's, Nfld.
1989-1991 Associate Professor of English, International
Christian University, Tokyo.
1984-1989 Assistant Professor of English, ICU (tenured from
April 1987).
1988-1990 Lecturer in English Literature (part-time), Tsuda
College, Kodaira, Tokyo.
1980-1984 Sessional Lecturer in English, University of
Alberta, Edmonton.
1979-1980 Instructor in English, Queen's University.
Computer-related Academic Activities:
1991 ANSAXDAT: Established publicly accessible full-text
database archive for the discussion list ANSAXNET at
Memorial University (now under revision)
1993 ANSAXDAT: Database extended to be accessible via Gopher
and World Wide Web; automatically updated
1993- Faculty of Arts Computing Committee: chairing a sub-
committee to draft a proposal for a Centre for Computing
in the Faculty of Arts at Memorial University
1993- Member, Board of Directors of Labyrinth (a World Wide
Web server for Medieval Studies located at Georgetown
University)
1993- Member, Humanities Federation of Canada Electronic
Initiative Committee (by invitation); established to advise
HFC on establishing an Electronic Information Service for
the Humanities in Canada
1993 Founder and administrator (with Deborah Everhart of
Georgetown University) of Interscripta, an electronic
discussion forum and electronic journal distributed from
Memorial University
1994- Associate Director (with Jean-Claude Guedon of Montreal
and Gregory Bloomquist of Ottawa) of Humanities Canada
(Electronic Information Server for the Humanities)
1994- Founding member of Memorial University of Newfoundland
Advanced Research Computing and Communications
Consortium (MUNARCC Consortium); member of its Board
of Directors
1994 Database similar to ANSAXDAT for MedTextL (in progress)
1994 Database (currently in FoxPro) listing English church
dedications; from September 1995 this will become
publicly searchable
1994- List Administrator, ANSAX-L (ANSAX-L or ANSAXNET is
one of the older discussion lists in existence; founded
in 1988 by Pat Conner)
Publications (since 1986):
"Annotated English Copies of Rabanus Maurus's De rerum naturis,"
article forthcoming in English Manuscripts 1100-1700 6
(1995).
"Drypoint Compilation Notes in the Benedictional of St. Aethelwold,"
British Library Journal 20 (1994) 17-34.
"Collating with MS Word," Literary and Linguistic Computing 6 (1991)
164-166.
"Rabanus Maurus, De rerum naturis: A Provisional Checklist of
Manuscripts," Manuscripta 33 (1989) 109-118.
"English Annotations in CCCC 198," In Geardagum 10 (1989), 1-17.
"The Tremulous Glossator and the Earliest Anglo-Saxon Dictionaries,"
ICU Language Research Bulletin, 4 (1990 for 1989) 73-119.
"A Worksheet of the Worcester 'Tremulous' Glossator," Anglia 105
(1987), 28-49.
"Basil Hall Chamberlain and the Oxford English Dictionary,"
Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, 4th series
8 (1987), 72-96.
"The Normans and the Old English Lives of Saint Giles and Saint
Nicholas," ICU Language Research Bulletin 1 (1986), 97-
108.
"Orthography and Dialect in Cambridge University Library MS
Ii.1.33," Studies in Medieval English Language and
Literature 1 (1986), 53-65.
(editor), Rabani Mauri de rerum naturis (critical edition, to be
published in the series Corpus Christianorum, Series
Continuatio Medievalis, by Brepols in Belgium; expected
date of completion: 1997).