Peter A. Stokes

Senior Lecturer
Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London
2nd Floor, 26–29 Drury Lane
London W2CB 5RL
Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813
Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980
Twitter: @pa_stokes

Teaching Experience

October 2010–Present Module Coordinator, Course Tutor, Chair of Staff-Student Liaison Committe, Deputy Chair of Departmental Postgraduate Board of Examiners, MA in Digital Humanities Department of Digital Humanities (formerly Centre for Computing in Humanities), King's College London, U.K.

  • Deputy Chair of Departmental Postgraduate Board of Examiners
  • Chair of Staff Student Liaison Committee (SSLC, from 2012); carried out substantial review and revision of SSLC Terms of Reference (in 2012)
  • Designed, coordinated and co-taught new module, 'Digital Resources for Historical Studies' (from 2011/12).
  • Redesigned, coordinating and teaching module 'Material Culture of the Book' (from 2010/11).
  • Taught classes 'Digital Representations of Images and Texts' and 'Graphical Representation of Data' in the core module 'Methods and Techniques' (2010).
  • First supervisor of MA dissertations.

PhD Students and other Supervision

  • Matilda Watson, Scandinavian Manuscript Fragments, c. 1000-1300 AD. <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/people/students/watson/> Second supervisor is Dr Lesley Abrams (History; Balliol College Oxford). Commenced in September 2011.
  • Debora Matos, Hebrew Book Illumination in Portugal. Cosupervisor with Dr. Andrea Schatz (Dept. Theology and Religious Studies). Commenced in January 2012.
  • External Advisor, Alberto Campagnolo, PhD in historical book bindings (Ligatus Unit, University of the Arts London).
  • Supervised MA dissertations in Digital Humanities (KCL) and BA dissertations in palaeography (Cambridge).
  • Approx. 175 hours of one-on-one or one-on-two undergraduate supervisions in palaeography from 2004–2009 (ASNC).

June 2008–Present Principal Coordinator, COST/AHRC Research Training: 'Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age' <http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/study-training/research-training-courses/medieval-manuscripts-digital-age/medieval-manuscripts-digit> Under the direction of the Institute of English Studies, in collaboration with King's College London, the Warburg Institute, and the Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, University of Cambridge

  • Awarded grants from AHRC and COST to design and run annual six-day training programme for postgraduate students (grants prepared with Prof. Warwick Gould, Prof. Michelle Brown, Prof. Charles Burnett, Dr Hanna Vorholt, Dr Arianna Ciula, Dr Wim van Mierlo, and Jon Millington).
  • Received approx. two hundred applications total for the three years to date, along with many enquiries.
  • Coordinated specialist instructors from seven institutions in Cambridge and London.
  • Designed and implemented course including lectures, visits to libraries, and practical computing sessions (with Dr Hanna Vorholt, Dr Arianna Ciula and Dr Elena Pierazzo).
  • Wrote and delivered classes on 'Manuscript-Production', 'Provenance and Bindings', 'Palaeography', 'Digital Imaging', 'Digital Resources, Tools and Projects'.
  • Assisted with computer lab exercises on XML markup, TEI for transcription and cataloguing, and digital image-enhancement.

July 2010–Present Module Coordinator, Course Tutor, London Rare Book School and MA in the History of the Book Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, U.K.

  • Designed, coordinated and taught a week-long intensive course 'Digital Publishing and Book Studies' for the London Rare Book School (LRBS).
  • Redesigned, coordinated and taught the same material as an MA module for the History of the Book.
  • First marker for both the LRBS and MA courses.

October 2004–Present Associated Lecturer in Palaeography and Codicology (with additional teaching in Medieval Latin) Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, University of Cambridge, U.K.

  • Written and delivered approximately 450 hours of lectures, classes and supervisions on palaeography and medieval Latin.
  • Supervised undergraduate dissertations.
  • Set and marked examination-papers at BA and MPhil level in Latin and in Palaeography.

October 2009–June 2010 Associated Lecturer in Early Medieval History School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester, U.K.

  • Co-convenor of second-year undergraduate module, 'Race and Ethnicity': five lectures and six seminars on Viking history.
  • Designed, convened and taught first-year module, 'People and Places: Medieval Worcester'.
  • Designed, convened and taught second-year module, 'Early Medieval History: Books, Manuscripts and Documents'.
  • All teaching includes writing and delivering lectures, running seminars, and marking exams and essays.