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Dr. Mark Faulkner

Associate Professor (English)
      
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Dr. Mark Faulkner

Associate Professor (English)

 faulknem@tcd.ie

 


I joined the School of English at Trinity in September 2016 after four years as Lecturer in Medieval English at the University of Sheffield. I completed my D. Phil at Oxford under the supervision of the late palaeographer M. B. Parkes. Partly in tribute to Malcolm, I co-edited the three-volume History of Punctuation in English Literature, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2025 with Jeff Guttierez, John Lennard and Elizabeth Bonapfel. At Trinity, I co-developed the manuscript-focused, interdisciplinary M. Phil in Medieval Studies, which launched in 2019 and which I directed from 2019-2022. I have also worked extensively with the Library to showcase Trinity's world-class collection of medieval manuscripts. In 2017/8, in partnership with the Long Room Hub and the Library I organised a series of public lectures on Trinity's manuscripts entitled Beyond the Book of Kells. I have also organised conferences on individual Trinity manuscripts, such as the Dublin Apocalypse (MS. 64), and been active in the Library's Carnegie-and Arcadia-Funded Manuscripts for Medieval Studies Projects, which have so far seen the digitisation of forty manuscripts, including the famous Book of St Albans (MS. 177). I led the development of the new Trinity Centre for the Book in 2022, and am now its inaugural Director.
  Digital Humanities - Computational Philology   Early Middle English   Historical Linguistics   Literary History   manuscript studies   Old English
Project Title
 Wandering Books
From
2024
To
2028
Summary
Funding Agency
Trinity Research Doctorate Award for Group-based Research Projects
Project Title
 M3D: Medieval Manuscripts: From Material to Digital and Back
From
2024
To
2025
Summary
Funding Agency
Enterprise Ireland
Programme
Horizon Europe Travel Support
Project Title
 Antidote: Advanced Training in Digitization of Older Texts
From
2024
To
2027
Summary
Funding Agency
Erasmus+
Project Title
 Ansund: Using Machine Learning to Develop a New, Exhaustive, Open Access Corpus of Old English
From
2023
To
2026
Summary
Funding Agency
Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Benefactions Fund
Project Title
 Ansund: Using Machine Learning to Develop a New, Exhaustive, Open Access Corpus of Old English
From
To
Summary
Funding Agency
Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Events Fund

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Mark Faulkner, Corpus philology: Using the Dictionary of Old English to get bigger data for Old English spelling variation, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 38, (4), 2023, p1508 - 1521, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Mark Faulkner, A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century: Language and Literature between Old and Middle English, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, Book, PUBLISHED  DOI
Corpus Philology, Big Dating and Bottom-Up Periodisation in, editor(s)Stephen Pink Anthony Lappin , Dark Archives: Voyages into the Medieval Unread and Unreadable, 2019-2021, Oxford, 2022, pp280 - 308, [Mark Faulkner], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Mark Faulkner, Using Manuscript Books as a Source for Medieval Culture, Oxford, 2021, Notes: [Adam Matthew: Research Methods: Primary Sources], Case Study, PUBLISHED  DOI
Mark Faulkner, The Old English Bede: a new source for the F-version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Medium Aevum, 90, (2), 2021, p217 - 229, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Mark Faulkner, Habemus Corpora: Reapproaching Philological Problems in the Age of 'Big' Data, Anglia: Journal of English Philology, 139, 2021, p94 - 127, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
English in, editor(s)Anthony Grant , The Oxford Handbook of Language Contact, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, pp374 - 387, [Mark Faulkner and Joan Beal], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Mark Faulkner, Quantifying the Consistency of 'Standard' Old English Spelling, Transactions of the Philological Society, 118, (1), 2020, p192 - 205, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Mark Faulkner, Review of Language and Chronology: Text Dating by Machine Learning, by Gregory Toner and Xiwu Han , Linguist List, 2020, Review, SUBMITTED
Mark Faulkner, 'Medieval Manuscripts', Oxford Bibliographies Online, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, -, Bibliography, filmography, etc., PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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Mark Faulkner, When Philology Meets Big Data: Thoughts on Argumentation in Studies of Early English, Once and Future English, London, March, 2022, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Mark Faulkner, 'Babbling in the Vernacular': The English Language in the Middle Ages, 2022, -, Notes: [https://www.tcd.ie/library/manuscripts/blog/2022/01/babbling-in-the-vernacular/], Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Mark Faulkner, An Even Heardra Nut to Crack: using the Dictionary of Old English Corpus to get big data for Old English spelling variation, International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 2022, Oral Presentation, PUBLISHED
Mark Faulkner, What do we mean by "the continuity of English literature"? Insights From the Borderlands of "Old" and "Middle" English, ICOME: 12th International Conference on Middle English, Glasgow, 2022, Oral Presentation, PUBLISHED
Mark Faulkner, Corpus Philology: Using the Dictionary of Old English Corpus to Get Big Data for Old English Spelling Variation, SELIM 32: Spanish Society for Mediaeval English Language and Literature, University of La Rioja, Logrono, Spain, 14-16 September 2022, 2022, Oral Presentation, PUBLISHED
Mark Faulkner and Elisabetta Magnanti, Using Machine Learning to Generate Big Data for Book History, Manscript, Book and Print Cultures Seminar Series, Trinity College Dublin, 6 December 2022, 2022, Oral Presentation, PUBLISHED
Mark Faulkner, Corpus Philology: Towards Automatic Linguistic Profiling of Old English Texts, Keynote at 43rd Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries, Leiden, December, 2021, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Mark Faulkner, Adventures in Translation: Creative Translation in the Undergraduate Curriculum at TCD, TOEBI Newsletter, 38, 2021, p8 - 18, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Mark Faulkner, A Tough Hnutu to Crack: Using the Dictionary of Old English Corpus to Get Big Data for Major 'Transitional' English Sound Changes, From Old English to Middle English, Online, August, 2020, Oral Presentation, PUBLISHED
Mark Faulkner, Corpus Philology, Big Dating and Bottom-Up Periodisation', Dark Archives, Oxford, September, 2019, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED

  


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Award Date
Election to Membership, Comité Internationale de paléographie latine 2025-
Election to Board of International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England 2023-2027
Election to Fellowship of Trinity College, Dublin 2023-
Winner, International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England Best First Monograph Award 2023
I began academic life a literary historian and have become variously a historical linguist, book historian, corpus linguist and digital humanist: in sum, a philologist. I am particularly known for my work on late Old English and early Middle English, especially my "New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century: Language and Literary History Between Old and Middle English" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), which won the ISSEME First Monograph Award in 2023, and was described in "The Review of English Studies" as 'a field-changing contribution to scholarship' and 'formidable achievement'. I am currently editing "A Critical Anthology of Twelfth-Century English" for Arc Humanities Press. Since 2016, with the help of over €1m of funding from Trinity, the Irish Research Council and Enterprise Ireland, I have been developing a corpus philology that seeks to apply corpus-linguistic, statistical and computational approaches to bring a new sense of quantitative precision to our understanding of the medieval textual record, and now work with a large research group of undergraduate, graduate and PhD students on these topics. Between 2022 and 2024, I was PI on the IRC-Coalesce-funded project, Searobend: Linked Metadata for English-Language Texts, 1000-1300, a collaboration with Prof. Declan O'Sullivan (Computer Science). I currently hold Trinity Long Room Hub Research Incentive Scheme, FAHSS Benefactions and Research Boost funding for Ansund: Using Machine Learning to Develop a New, Exhaustive, Open Access Corpus of Old English, a collaboration with Elisabetta Magnanti (Vienna / Trinity). I am also PI of Wandering Books, a TCD group-based Research Doctoral project, with four PhD students collaborating between English, Genetics and History, to develop new interdisciplinary approaches to localising medieval manuscripts and a partner in Erasmus+-funded network Antidote (Advanced Techniques for Editing Older Texts), based at the University of Reyjkavik and with partners in Prague, Venice, Lyon, Bratislava and the monastery of Klosterneuburg in Austria.