Ted Underwood. <i>Why Literary Periods Mattered: Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies</i>

Murray McGillivray teaches Old and Middle English language and literature and digital humanities at the University of Calgary. He is the director of the Cotton Nero A.x. Project (www.gawain-MS.ca), which has published an online facsimile of the _Pearl_ manuscript with the assistance of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the British Library and is currently completing new critical editions of its four poems. His work in digital humanities began with his 1997 CD-ROM of Chaucer's _Book of the Duchess_, and continues with his current Online Corpus of Old English Poetry (www.oepoetry.ca).