About
Dr. Laura Estill is a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities and Associate Professor of English at St Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada. Her monograph (Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Changing Plays) and co-edited collections (Early Modern Studies after the Digital Turn, edited with Diane Jakacki and Michael Ullyot; Early British Drama in Manuscript, edited with Tamara Atkin; The Past, Present, and Future of Early Modern Digital Studies: Iter at 25, edited with Ray Siemens; and Digital Humanities Workshops: Lessons Learned, edited with Jennifer Guiliano) speak to her interest in both the scribal and the digital. Her recent articles and chapters have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly; Humanities; Doing More Digital Humanities; Shakespeare’s Theatrical Documents; and The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies. With Beatrice Montedoro, she is co-editor of DEx: A Database of Dramatic Extracts (dex.digitalearlymodern.com).