Territorial Acknowledgement

We acknowledge that this digital project is created and hosted on servers located on the ancestral, unceded lands of the Songhees, Esquimalt, and WSÁNEĆ peoples. Our editors live around the world, many of them on the territories of Indigenous peoples in Canada, the United States, Australia, and Aotearoa/New Zealand.
The Executive Summary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada calls us to become aware of the origins of colonial expansion and the racialization of non-European peoples. By connecting historiography and civic pageantry, this project makes it possible to study how early modern conceptions of capitalism and race were formed and performed in the streets of London each year. Coupled with reconciliation work and active engagement with Indigenous and post-colonial literatures, stories, and histories in and outside of the classroom, the study of civic pageantry can open our eyes to the origins of ongoing global injustices. We encourage educators and readers to learn about early histories of race, especially from initiatives like RaceB4Race.

Prosopography

Janelle Jenstad

Janelle Jenstad is a Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and Director of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge). She has edited John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and 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, and The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 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); Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana); Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota); Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge); and Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (Routledge). For more details, see janellejenstad.com.

Mark Kaethler

Mark Kaethler is Department Chair, Arts, at Medicine Hat College; Assistant Director, Mayoral Shows, with MoEML; and Assistant Director for LEMDO. They are the author of Thomas Middleton and the Plural Politics of Jacobean Drama (De Gruyter, 2021) and a co-editor with Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Janelle Jenstad of Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge, 2018). Their work has appeared in The London Journal, Early Theatre, Literature Compass, Digital Studies/Le Champe Numérique, and Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, as well as in several edited collections. Mark’s research interests include early modern literature’s intersections with politics; digital media and humanities; textual editing; game studies; cognitive science; and ecocriticism.

Molly Rothwell

MoEML Project Manager, 2022-present. Research Assistant, 2020-2022. Molly Rothwell was an undergraduate student at the University of Victoria, with a double major in English and History. During her time at LEMDO, Molly primarily worked on encoding the MoEML Mayoral Shows.

Navarra Houldin

Project manager 2022-present. Textual remediator 2021-present. Navarra Houldin completed their BA in History and Spanish at the University of Victoria in 2022. During their degree, they worked as a teaching assistant with the University of Victoriaʼs Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies. Their primary research was on gender and sexuality in early modern Europe and Latin America.

Orgography

LEMDO Team (LEMD1)

The LEMDO Team is based at the University of Victoria and normally comprises the project director, the lead developer, project manager, junior developers(s), remediators, encoders, and remediating editors.

MoEML Mayoral Shows (MOMS1)

The MoMS General Editors are Mark Kaethler and Janelle Jenstad. The team includes SSHRC-funded research assistants. Peer review is coordinated by the General Editors but conducted by other editors and external scholars.

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