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{{StoryTemplate |name = Ben Authers |email = bauthers@uoguelph.ca |role = Graduate Student |inst = University of Guelph |field = Canadian Studies, Law and Literature, Victorian Studies |selfDescription = I am a graduate student completing my dissertation and about to begin a postdoctoral research fellowship. I work in Canadian studies, with a particular interest in the representations of nation produced interdisciplinarily by law and literature.
I use computers in my current research primarily in order to access primary and critical materials. Major case law and legislative materials have been made publicly available by government and universities, so that much of what I need to do my research is readily available online (although, frustratingly with case law, without the pagination of the original text). I use the collection of Supreme Court decisions and CanLII very frequently (both are provided by LexUM), as well as material provided online by government. I use legal journal searches less frequently (often because of lack of institutional access).
Fewer of the primary materials that I need for research are available online (I largely work with novels that are currently in print and in copyright). That said, I make extensive use of online tools such as library catalogues and journal indexes in finding material for research, and have made use of tools like Google Books and OCLC WorldCat for bibliographic information.
|project = Much of my work tends to be explicitly text-based analysis. Having found that teaching this material, and interdisciplinarity more generally, has come with challenges, I am interested in how such interconnections might be represented visually. I am also interested in creating a tool that might be deployed to enable further research in this area. |story = Having completed a project that examines how rights concepts such as freedom of expression, legal rights, and equality, as well as more abstractly rights-based ideas including the personal, excess, or citizenship, are promulgated by, and constitutive of, Canadian national discourse, a textbase tagged in a manner that recognises concepts like these across a spectrum of works would have been a fantastic research and teaching tool. In particular, because interdisciplinarity (and cross-disciplinarity) has for me a visualized nature—metaphors of meshing, of cross-pollination, of border-crossing and liminality—some way of representing this visually could have mirrored the research and theoretical project and provided a useful means for students to begin to conceive of literary texts in their legal and political contexts. |scope = * shared by some |when = present |keywords =
- Annotate
- Consider
- Visualize
- Historicize
- Contextualise
- Interdisciplinary
|related-stories = Legal Advice to Women in the Eighteenth Century |related-tools = LexUM Supreme Court of Canada Decisions, CanLII }}
