Jean Gilmour Anderson, M.A., Dip.Comp.Sci. (Glasgow)

Resource Development Officer, Faculty of Arts

Room 309a, 6 University Gardens
Email: j.anderson@arts.gla.ac.uk
Tele:  0141 330 4980, Internal: 4980

Interests

• Computers in teaching and research in English and Scottish Studies
• Courseware development
• Text retrieval and analysis
• Hypertext
• The Internet and World Wide Web
• Digital resources for the humanities

GU responsibilities

• Academic Computing Officer, School of English and Scottish Language and Literature (SESLL)
• STELLA Project Director
• SCOTS (Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech) Co-Director
• ENROLLER Principal Investigator
• Convener and lecturer for SESLL Course 20, Literary and Linguistic Computing
• Humanities computing lecturer, Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)
• SESLL Teaching and Learning Committee (member)
• Faculty of Arts Humanities Computing Development Committee (member)
• Member of Senate

External

• Honorary member of the International Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing; executive member of the Committee of Managment 1998-2008. 
• Member of the Standing Committee for the Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts conferences, 1997-2007; Chair of the Committee 2004- 2007.

Publications

Biography

Jean Anderson is Resource Development Officer for the School of English and Scottish Language and Literature and a member of  the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute at the University of Glasgow. She lectures in Literary and Linguistic Computing and in Humanities Computing.

After graduating in Philosophy and Linguistics in 1983, Jean Anderson took a postgraduate diploma course in Computing Science. She worked for three years in commerce and local government as a systems analyst and programmer. Since 1987, she has been Programmer, Manager and now Director of the STELLA  Project (Software for Teaching English and Scottish Language and Literature), which produced teaching packages for English and Scottish language and literature. She manages sub-projects in this area, including STARN, the Scots Teaching and Research Network, and works with members of the School in digitization projects such as 'The Sounds of Scots' which provides digitized readings of Scots poetry by Scots poets (funded by the Scots Cultural Resources Access Network), 'A Guide to Scottish Literature from 1350', 'An Anthology of Early Scottish Poetry', and 'Readings in Old, Middle and Early English'.

She was co-director of the Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS) project, funded firstly by EPSRC and then by AHRC, and is the Principal Investigator for ENROLLER, a JISC-funded humanities/e-Science collaboration to create an enhanced repository of Scottish and English resources for research. This project will run from April 2009 to 2011.