Jean Gilmour Anderson, M.A., Dip.Comp.Sci. (Glasgow)
Resource Development Officer, Faculty of Arts
Room 201, 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
- Digitising 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
- Convener SESLL Course 20, Literary and Linguistic Computing
- Humanities computing lecturer, Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)
- SESLL Resource Owners' Committee (chair)
- SESLL Teaching and Learning Committee (member)
- Faculty of Arts Humanities Computing Development Committee (member)
- Faculty of Arts Research Ethics Officer
- Member of Senate
External
- Executive member of the Committee of Managment of the International Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing since 1998.
- Member of the Standing Committee for the Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts conferences since 1997; 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. She is the Research Ethics officer for the Faculty of Arts.
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 Manager, Programmer and now Director of the STELLA Project (Software for Teaching English and Scottish Language and Literature), which produces 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'. The main current project is SCOTS, the Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech, funded by EPSRC and AHRC.