Green, Johanna

Dr. Johanna Green is currently a researcher in English Language at the University of Glasgow, where she completed her Ph.D. (2012). She has particular research interests in the history of texts, that is, the material and social conditions of their reception and the historical context of their production. Her current research centres on the anatomy – or paratextual mechanisms – of the page as a visual aid to literacy, particularly as it relates to mouvance. This research is influenced by, inter alia, theories of editing of medieval and early printed texts, the concept of the digital ‘page’, the development of digital editions and the rationale of hypertext. She also has interests in representations of the transitional body in Old, Middle and Early Modern English literature, and the development and use of Digital Humanities tools and methodologies for medieval textual studies.

Johanna currently manages the UK-based Quadrivium Medieval Textual Studies Twitter feed (@Quadrivium_UK) and also oversees the collaborative redevelopment of its website as a resource for medievalist postgraduates and early career researchers. In 2012 Johanna worked as a Research Assistant indexing The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220, funded by the College of Arts, University of Leicester. Until it was published in 2009, she was a Section Editor and Thesaurus Assistant for the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary and from May 2009 to August 2011 she held the post of Research Assistant (formerly Project Assistant) on the JISC-funded Enroller pilot-project at the University of Glasgow.

Johanna is currently an assistant for three research projects at the University of Glasgow: the AHRC-funded The Consultation Letters of Dr William Cullen (1710-1790) at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, the AHRC-funded Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus of English, and the Mellon-funded Manuscripts of Ælfric’s ‘Catholic Homilies’.