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Dr Justin Tonra

B.A.,M.A.,Ph.D

Contact Details

Senior Lecturer
CELT
University of Galway
E: justin.tonra@universityofgalway.ie
 
researcher
 

Biography

Justin Tonra is an Associate Professor and Academic Integrity Officer at University of Galway. He completed his undergraduate degree in English and Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, received an MA in Modern English Literature at University College Dublin, and completed his doctorate on the poetry of Thomas Moore at University of Galway.

He previously worked as a Research Associate on Transcribe Bentham, a project to crowdsource transcriptions of the manuscripts of Jeremy Bentham, at University College London, and has held posts as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Virginia and NUI Galway. He is author of Write My Name: Authorship in the Poetry of Thomas Moore (Routledge, 2020) and peer-reviewed articles in the areas of digital humanities, textual studies, book history, and Romanticism. He has worked on a number of digital humanities projects, including ÚRSCÉAL, Eververse, Ossian Online and Personæ and is currently completing research for the IRC-funded project, "Poetry Machines: Technologies of Poetic Composition."

Justin's research and teaching interests are in digital humanities, book history, textual studies and bibliography, scholarly editing, and literature of the Romantic period. He is currently a Work Package leader and Management Committee member for the Horizon 2020-funded CLS INFRA, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies. He is a founding member of the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association. Previously, he was joint National Co-ordinator for DARIAH Ireland, Working Group leader for COST Action CA16204 Distant Reading for European Literary History, and co-convenor of the Digital Scholarship Seminar at University of Galway.  

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2579-4367

Research Interests

Digital humanities, book history, textual studies, bibliography, scholarly editing, nineteenth-century literature, Romanticism, poetry and poetics, English literature, Irish literature, literary hermeneutics, authorship, paratexts, print culture, publishing history, cultural analytics.

Peer Reviewed Journals

  Year Publication
(2022) 'Social Media Poetics: The Technological Forms of Alt Lit Poetry'
Tonra, Justin (2022) 'Social Media Poetics: The Technological Forms of Alt Lit Poetry'. ASAP/Journal, 7 (3):597-623 [DOI] [ARAN Link] [Details]
(2021) 'Book History and Digital Humanities in the Long Eighteenth Century'
Tonra, Justin (2021) 'Book History and Digital Humanities in the Long Eighteenth Century'. Eighteenth-Century Studies, 54 (4):765-784 [DOI] [ARAN Link] [Details]
(2021) 'Biometric Poetics: The Case of Eververse'
Tonra, Justin; Kelly, David (2021) 'Biometric Poetics: The Case of Eververse'. Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures, 24 [DOI] [Details]
(2020) 'Digital Bibliography and the Irish Book Trades'
Tonra, Justin (2020) 'Digital Bibliography and the Irish Book Trades'. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 49 :337-341 [DOI] [Details]
(2017) 'Pagan Angels and a Moral Law: Byron and Moore's Blasphemous Publications'
Tonra, Justin (2017) 'Pagan Angels and a Moral Law: Byron and Moore's Blasphemous Publications'. European Romantic Review, 28 (6):789-811 [DOI] [ARAN Link] [Details]
(2016) 'A Networks-Science Investigation Into the Epic Poems of Ossian'
Yose, Joseph; Kenna, Ralph; MacCarron, Pádraig; Platini, Thierry; Tonra, Justin (2016) 'A Networks-Science Investigation Into the Epic Poems of Ossian'. Advances In Complex Systems, 19 (04n05):1650008-1-1650008-24 [DOI] [Details]
(2015) 'English Bards and Unknown Reviewers: a Stylometric Analysis of Thomas Moore and the Christabel Review'
Benatti, Francesca; Tonra, Justin (2015) 'English Bards and Unknown Reviewers: a Stylometric Analysis of Thomas Moore and the Christabel Review'. Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies, (3) [ARAN Link] [Details]
(2014) 'Masks of Refinement: Pseudonym, Paratext, and Authorship in the Early Poetry of Thomas Moore'
Tonra, Justin (2014) 'Masks of Refinement: Pseudonym, Paratext, and Authorship in the Early Poetry of Thomas Moore'. European Romantic Review, 25 (5):551-573 [DOI] [ARAN Link] [Details]
(2012) 'Transcription Maximized; Expense Minimized? Crowdsourcing and Editing The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham'
Causer, Tim; Tonra, Justin; Wallace, Valerie (2012) 'Transcription Maximized; Expense Minimized? Crowdsourcing and Editing The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham'. Literary And Linguistic Computing, 27 (2):119-137 [DOI] [ARAN Link] [Details]
(2011) 'Manuscript Transcription by Crowdsourcing: Transcribe Bentham'
Moyle, Martin; Tonra, Justin; Wallace, Valerie (2011) 'Manuscript Transcription by Crowdsourcing: Transcribe Bentham'. LIBER Quarterly, 20 (3/4):347-356 [DOI] [Details]
(2009) 'Textual Studies and the TEI: Encoding Thomas Moore’s Lalla Rookh'
Tonra, Justin (2009) 'Textual Studies and the TEI: Encoding Thomas Moore’s Lalla Rookh'. Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie, 8 :25-36 [Details]

Books

  Year Publication
(2020) Write My Name: Authorship in the Poetry of Thomas Moore.
Tonra, Justin (2020) Write My Name: Authorship in the Poetry of Thomas Moore. New York; Abingdon: Routledge. [DOI] [Details]

Edited Books

  Year Publication
(2013) Thomas Moore: Text, Contexts, Hypertext.
Benatti, Francesca; Ryder, Sean; Tonra, Justin (Ed.). (2013) Thomas Moore: Text, Contexts, Hypertext Thomas Moore: Text, Contexts, Hypertext. Oxford: Peter Lang. [Details]

Book Chapters

  Year Publication
(2024) 'Digital Scholarly Editing in the Early Modern Curriculum [forthcoming]'
Reid, Lindsay Ann; Tonra, Justin (2024) 'Digital Scholarly Editing in the Early Modern Curriculum [forthcoming]' In: Twenty-First Century Digital Editing & Publishing. Glasgow: Scottish Universities Press. [Details]
(2022) ''The greatest Poet that has [n]ever existed': A Narrative Networks Analysis of the Poems of Ossian'
Yose, Joseph; Kenna, Ralph; MacCarron, Pádraig; Platini, Thierry; Tonra, Justin (2022) ''The greatest Poet that has [n]ever existed': A Narrative Networks Analysis of the Poems of Ossian' In: Thomas Jefferson on Gardens, Poetry, and Music. :1-23 Lewiston: Mellen Press. [DOI] [Details]
(2017) 'Annotation and the Social Edition'
Barr, Rebecca Anne; Tonra, Justin (2017) 'Annotation and the Social Edition' In: A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts. :199-206 Basingstoke: Routledge. [DOI] [Details]
(2013) 'Googling Thomas Moore'
Tonra, Justin (2013) 'Googling Thomas Moore' In: Thomas Moore: Texts, Contexts, Hypertext. :187-203 Bern: Peter Lang. [Details]
(2013) 'Introduction'
Benatti, Francesca; Tonra, Justin (2013) 'Introduction' In: Thomas Moore: Texts, Contexts, Hypertext. :1-8 Bern: Peter Lang. [Details]
(2012) ''CASE STUDY Transcribe Bentham: Crowdsourcing in Practice' in Claire Ross, 'Social Media for Digital Humanities and Community Engagement''
Causer, Tim; Tonra, Justin; Wallace, Valerie (2012) ''CASE STUDY Transcribe Bentham: Crowdsourcing in Practice' in Claire Ross, 'Social Media for Digital Humanities and Community Engagement'' In: Digital Humanities in Practice. :29-32 London: Facet Publishing. [Details]

Conference Publications

  Year Publication
(2023) DH2023: Digital Humanities 2023
Tonra, Justin (2023) ÚRSCÉAL: Building and Analysing a Corpus of the Early Irish-language Novel . In: Baillot, Anne; Tasovac, Toma; Scholger, Walter; Vogeler, Georg eds. DH2023: Digital Humanities 2023 Graz, Austria, , 12-JUL-23 - 12-JUL-23 , pp.188-189 [DOI] [Details]
(2023) DH2023: Digital Humanities 2023
Winters, Jane; Donnay, Michael; Edmond, Jennifer; Murphy, Órla; Tupman, Charlotte, Gooding, Paul; Schuster, Kristen; Ciula, Arianna; Tonra, Justin (2023) Enhancing Research and Teaching Capacity Through Collaboration: Building a UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association . In: Baillot, Anne; Tasovac, Toma; Scholger, Walter; Vogeler, Georg eds. DH2023: Digital Humanities 2023 Graz, Austria, , 13-JUL-23 - 13-JUL-23 , pp.440-442 [DOI] [Details]
(2023) DH2023: Digital Humanities 2023
Birkholz, Julie M.; Börner, Ingo; Byszuk, Joanna; Chambers, Sally; Charvat, Vera Maria; Cinková, Silvie; Dejaeghere, Tess; Dudar, Julia; ¿ur¿o, Matej; Eder, Maciej; Edmond, Jennifer; Fileva, Evgeniia; Fischer, Frank; Garnett, Vicky; Heiden, Serge; K¿en, Michal; Kunda, Bart¿omiej; Laszakovits, Sabine; Mruglaski, Micha¿; Papaki, Eliza; Raciti, Marco; Resch, Stefan; Ros, Salvador; Schöch, Christof; ¿e¿a, Artjoms; Tasovac, Toma; Tonra, Justin; Tóth-Czifra, Erzsébet; Trilcke, Peer; van Dalen-Oskam, Karina; van Rossum, Lisanne (2023) Computational Literary Studies Infrastructure (CLS INFRA): Initial Findings and Conclusions for the Field . In: Baillot, Anne; Tasovac, Toma; Scholger, Walter; Vogeler, Georg eds. DH2023: Digital Humanities 2023 Graz, Austria, , 12-JUL-23 - 12-JUL-23 , pp.496-498 [DOI] [Details]
(2022) DH2022: Digital Humanities 2022
Birkholz, Julie; Börner, Ingo; Chambers, Sally; Charvat, Vera; Cinková, Silvie; Dejaeghere, Tess; Dudar, Julia; ¿ur¿o, Matej; Eder, Maciej; Edmond, Jennifer; Fileva, Evgeniia; Fischer, Frank; Heiden, Serge; K¿en, Michal; Kunda, Bart¿omiej; Mrugalski, Micha¿; Murphy, Ciara; Odebrecht, Carolin; Raciti, Marco; Ros, Salvador; Schöch, Christof; ¿e¿a, Artjoms; Tasovac, Toma; Tonra, Justin; Tóth-Czifra, Erzsébet; Trilcke, Peer; van Dalen-Oskam, Karina; van Rossum, Lisanne (2022) Computational Literary Studies Infrastructure (CLS INFRA): a project to connect people, data, tools, and methods . In: Ikki Ohmukai, Taizo Yamada eds. DH2022: Digital Humanities 2022 Tokyo, , 25-JUL-22 - 29-JUL-22 , pp.624-627 [Details]
(2019) Electronic Literature Organization Conference & Media Arts Festival
Tonra, J., Davis, B., Kelly, D., Khawaja, W. (2019) Poetry in Motion: Quantified Self Data and Automated Poetry Generation Electronic Literature Organization Conference & Media Arts Festival [Details]
(2019) DH2019: Digital Humanities 2019
Tonra, Justin; David, Brian; Kelly, David; Khawaja, Waqas (2019) Poetry In Motion: Quantified Self Data And Automated Poetry Generation . In: Elena Pierazzo, Fabio Ciotti eds. DH2019: Digital Humanities 2019 Utrecht, , 09-JUL-19 - 12-JUL-19 [Details]
(2019) DH2019: Digital Humanities 2019
Wissik, Tanja; McCrae, John P.; Buitelaar, Paul; Tasovac, Toma; Tonra, Justin; Zaytseva, Ksenia (2019) E-Lexicography Between Digital Humanities And Artificial Intelligence: Complexities In Data, Technologies, Communities . In: Elena Pierazzo, Fabio Ciotti eds. DH2019: Digital Humanities 2019 Utrecht, , 09-JUL-19 - 12-JUL-19 [Details]
(2017) DH2017: Digital Humanities 2017
Tonra, Justin; Kelly, David; Reid, Lindsay (2017) Personæ: A Character Visualisation Tool for Dramatic Texts . In: Cecily Raynor, Dominic Forest, Michael Sinatra and Stéfan Sinclair eds. DH2017: Digital Humanities 2017 Montreal, , 08-AUG-17 - 11-AUG-17 , pp.627-630 [Details]
(2014) DH2014: Digital Humanities 2014
Tonra, Justin; Barr, Rebecca (2014) Crowdsourcing Annotation and the `Social Edition¿: Ossian Online . In: Frédéric Kaplan, Claire Clivaz eds. DH2014: Digital Humanities 2014 Lausanne, , 07-JUL-14 - 12-JUL-14 , pp.546-547 [Details]
(2014) AHA!-Workshop 2014 on Information Discovery in Text
Aggarwal, Nitish; Tonra, Justin; Buitelaar, Paul (2014) Using Distributional Semantics to Trace Influence and Imitation in Romantic Orientalist Poetry . In: Akbik, Alan; Visengeriyeva, Larysa eds. AHA!-Workshop 2014 on Information Discovery in Text Dublin, Ireland, , 23-AUG-14 , pp.43-47 [ARAN Link] [Details]

Published Reports

  Year Publication
(2022) Promoting diversity and inclusivity in Digital Humanities in Ireland and the UK.
Edmond, Jennifer; Callaghan, Samantha; Ciula, Arianna; Doran, Michelle; Gooding, Paul; Hughes, Lorna; Murphy, Órla; Roy, Samya Brata; Smithies, James; Tonra, Justin; Tupman, Charlotte; Winters, Jane (2022) Promoting diversity and inclusivity in Digital Humanities in Ireland and the UK. UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Network, UK-Ireland. [DOI] [Details]
(2021) Communicating the Value and Impact of Digital Humanities in Teaching, Research, and Infrastructure Development.
Gambell, Sarah; Gooding, Paul; Hughes, Lorna; Doran, Michelle; Murphy, Órla; Tupman, Charlotte; Winters, Jane; Edmond, Jennifer; Ciula, Arianna; Tonra, Justin; Jakeman, Neil; Murietta-Flores, Patricia; Romanova, Natasha; Smithies, James (2021) Communicating the Value and Impact of Digital Humanities in Teaching, Research, and Infrastructure Development. UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Network, UK-Ireland. [DOI] [Details]
(2021) Next Generation Careers in and from Digital Humanities.
Cannelli, Beatrice; Winters, Jane; Ciula, Arianna; Gooding, Paul; Tonra, Justin; Tupman, Charlotte; Doran, Michelle; Edmond, Jennifer; Hughes, Lorna; Murphy, Orla; Smithies, James (2021) Next Generation Careers in and from Digital Humanities. UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Network, UK-Ireland. [DOI] [Details]
(2021) Capacity Enhancement in Digital Humanities in the United Kingdom and Ireland: Training and Beyond.
Romanova, Natasha; Ciula, Arianna; Smithies, James; Jakeman, Neil; Murphy, Órla; Tupman, Charlotte; Winters, Jane; Edmond, Jennifer; Michelle Doran; Gooding, Paul; Hughes, Lorna; Murrieta-Flores, Patricia; Tonra, Justin (2021) Capacity Enhancement in Digital Humanities in the United Kingdom and Ireland: Training and Beyond. UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Network, Ireland; United Kingdom. [DOI] [Details]
(2015) Digital Humanities - Ireland's Opportunity.
Smeaton, Alan; Collins, Sandra; Harrower, Natalie; Murphy, Orla; Greene, Derek; Keane, Mark; Brennan, Rob; Feeney, Kevin; Tonra, Justin; Wade, Karen; Kelleher, Margaret; Bordea, Georgeta; Webb, Sharon; Wade, Vincent; Breathnach, Ciara; Oberlander, Jon; Byrne, Tara; O'Connor, Noel, Schreibman, Susan; Fitzpatrick, Siobhan; O'Connell, Claire (2015) Digital Humanities - Ireland's Opportunity. Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. [DOI] [Details]

Conference Contributions

  Year Publication
(2024) Navigating the New Frontier: Generative AI and Academic Integrity Conference,
Tonra, Justin (2024) Crafting and Deploying GenAI-Responsive Academic Integrity Policies and Procedures. [Conference Paper], Navigating the New Frontier: Generative AI and Academic Integrity Conference, Limerick , 14-OCT-24 - 15-OCT-24. [Details]
(2024) Enhancing Academic Integrity: From Ideas to Action 2024 Conference,
Tonra, Justin (2024) From Policy to Practice: Implementing University of Galway¿s Academic Integrity Framework. [Conference Paper], Enhancing Academic Integrity: From Ideas to Action 2024 Conference, CCT College, Dublin , 04-SEP-24 - 04-SEP-24. [Details]
(2024) Teaching Humanities and Social Sciences in the Era of Generative AI,
Tonra, Justin (2024) (Accidental) AI Resilience. [Conference Paper], Teaching Humanities and Social Sciences in the Era of Generative AI, University College Dublin , 17-MAY-24 - 17-MAY-24. [Details]
(2024) Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting,
Lindsay Ann Reid and Justin Tonra (2024) Seventeenth-Century Drama and Digital Scholarly Editing. [Conference Paper], Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Chicago , 21-MAR-24 - 23-MAR-24. [Details]
(2023) Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference,
Lindsay Ann Reid and Justin Tonra (2023) The Werburgh Street Theatre and Digital Scholarly Editing in the Contemporary Classroom. [Conference Paper], Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference, Maynooth University , 19-AUG-23 - 19-AUG-23. [Details]
(2023) Academic and Research Integrity Conference Ireland 2023,
Tonra, Justin (2023) Hosted in Galway City by University of Galway, Ireland, in partnership with National Academic Integrity Network (NAIN). [Conference Organising Committee Member], Academic and Research Integrity Conference Ireland 2023, Galway , 04-OCT-23 - 06-OCT-23. [Details]
(2023) UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association Annual Event,
Tonra, Justin (2023) Launch and first Annual event of the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association. [Conference Organising Committee Member], UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association Annual Event, University of London , 29-JUN-23 - 30-JUN-23. [Details]
(2023) DH2023: Digital Humanities 2023,
Tonra, Justin (2023) ÚRSCÉAL: Building and Analysing a Corpus of the Early Irish-language Novel. [Conference Paper], DH2023: Digital Humanities 2023, Graz, Austria , 12-JUL-23 - 12-JUL-23. [Details]
(2020) Reading #Instapoetry Conference,
Tonra, Justin (2020) Social Media Poetics: Traces of Twitter in Alt Lit. [Conference Paper], Reading #Instapoetry Conference, University of Glasgow [online] , 14-JUL-20 - 16-JUL-20. [Details]
(2019) ELO2019: Electronic Literature Organization Conference & Media Arts Festival,
Tonra, Justin (2019) Poetry in Motion: Quantified Self Data and Automated Poetry Generation. [Conference Paper], ELO2019: Electronic Literature Organization Conference & Media Arts Festival, University College Cork , 15-JUL-19 - 17-JUL-19. [Details]
(2019) DH2019: Annual Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations,
Tonra, Justin (2019) Poetry in Motion: Quantified Self Data and Automated Poetry Generation. [Conference Paper], DH2019: Annual Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations, Utrecht, Netherlands , 09-JUL-19 - 12-JUL-19. [Details]
(2019) Cúirt International Festival of Literature,
Tonra, Justin (2019) Transhumanism: Extending Mortality? (Interview with Mark O'Connell). [Chaired Session], Cúirt International Festival of Literature, Galway , 10-APR-19 - 10-APR-19. [Details]
(2018) European Association for Digital Humanities Conference,
Tonra, Justin (2018) Poetry in Motion: Quantified Self Data and Automated Poetry Generation. [Conference Paper], European Association for Digital Humanities Conference, NUI Galway , 07-DEC-18 - 09-DEC-18. [Details]
(2018) Bodies of Data: Intersecting Medical and Digital Humanities Conference,
Tonra, Justin (2018) Poetry in Motion: Quantified Self Data and Automated Poetry Generation. [Conference Paper], Bodies of Data: Intersecting Medical and Digital Humanities Conference, Royal Irish Academy & University College Dublin , 22-NOV-18 - 23-NOV-18. [Details]
(2018) English Research Day,
Tonra, Justin (2018) “Mr Bellew’s extensive and choice library.”. [Conference Paper], English Research Day, NUI Galway , 23-APR-18 - 23-APR-18. [Details]
(2018) DH Benelux 2018,
Schöch, Christof; Eder, Maciej; Odebrecht, Carolin; Kestemont, Mike; Primorac, Antonija; Tonra, Justin; Mihurko Poniž, Katja; Kanellopoulou, Catherine (2018) Distant Reading for European Literary History. [Poster Presentation], DH Benelux 2018, International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam, Netherlands , 07-JUN-18 - 08-JUN-18. [Details]
(2018) Language Technologies and Digital Humanities 2018,
Schöch, Christof; Eder, Maciej; Odebrecht, Carolin; Kestemont, Mike; Primorac, Antonija; Tonra, Justin; Mihurko Poniž, Katja; Kanellopoulou, Catherine (2018) Distant Reading for European Literary History. [Poster Presentation], Language Technologies and Digital Humanities 2018, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia , 20-SEP-18 - 21-SEP-18. [Details]
(2018) DH_BUDAPEST_2018,
Schöch, Christof; Eder, Maciej; Odebrecht, Carolin; Kestemont, Mike; Primorac, Antonija; Tonra, Justin; Mihurko Poniž, Katja; Kanellopoulou, Catherine (2018) Distant Reading for European Literary History. [Poster Presentation], DH_BUDAPEST_2018, Budapest, Hungary , 28-MAY-18 - 31-MAY-18. [Details]
(2018) DH2018: Annual Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations,
Schöch, Christof; Eder, Maciej; Odebrecht, Carolin; Kestemont, Mike; Primorac, Antonija; Tonra, Justin; Mihurko Poniž, Katja; Kanellopoulou, Catherine (2018) Distant Reading for European Literary History. [Poster Presentation], DH2018: Annual Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations, Mexico City, Mexico , 26-JUN-18 - 29-JUN-18. [Details]
(2018) ASECS: Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
Tonra, Justin (2018) Digital Data and the Irish Book Trades. [Conference Paper], ASECS: Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Orlando, United States , 22-MAR-18 - 25-MAR-18. [Details]
(2018) Digital Cultures, Big Data & Society Symposium,
Tonra, Justin (2018) Quantitative Bibliography and the Digital Book Trades. [Conference Paper], Digital Cultures, Big Data & Society Symposium, Royal Irish Academy , 15-FEB-18 - 16-FEB-18. [Details]
(2017) DH2017: Annual Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations,
Kelly, David; Reid, Lindsay Ann; Tonra, Justin (2017) Personæ: A Character-Visualisation Tool for Dramatic Texts. [Conference Paper], DH2017: Annual Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations, Montreal, Canada , 08-AUG-17 - 11-AUG-17. [Details]
(2017) British Association for Romantic Studies International Conference,
Tonra, Justin (2017) Room for Improvement: the Romantic Digital Scholarly Edition. [Conference Paper], British Association for Romantic Studies International Conference, York, UK , 27-JUL-17 - 30-JUL-17. [Details]
(2017) Discovery Across Boundaries: New Approaches to Tomorrow's Challenges,
Tonra, Justin (2017) Digital Humanities and Literature. [Invited Oral Presentation], Discovery Across Boundaries: New Approaches to Tomorrow's Challenges, Atlantec '17 Festival, National University of Ireland Galway , 06-JUN-17 - 06-JUN-17. [Details]
(2017) Lalla Rookh Bicentenary Symposium,
Tonra, Justin (2017) The Bibliographic Problem of Lalla Rookh. [Conference Paper], Lalla Rookh Bicentenary Symposium, National University of Ireland Galway , 27-MAY-17 - 27-MAY-17. [Details]
(2017) Lalla Rookh Bicentenary Symposium,
Tonra, Justin (2017) Symposium Commemorating 200th anniversary of Thomas Moore's Lalla Rookh. [Organising Chair], Lalla Rookh Bicentenary Symposium, Marsh's Library, Dublin , 27-MAY-17 - 27-MAY-17. [Details]
(2017) Translation Meets Book History: Intersections 1700-1900,
Tonra, Justin (2017) Conference held at Moore Institute. [Chaired Session], Translation Meets Book History: Intersections 1700-1900, National University of Ireland Galway , 25-MAY-17 - 26-MAY-17. [Details]
(2017) Other Codes / Cóid Eile: Digital Literature in Context,
Tonra, Justin (2017) Social Media Poetics. [Conference Paper], Other Codes / Cóid Eile: Digital Literature in Context, Moore Institute, NUI Galway , 11-MAY-17 - 12-MAY-17. [Details]
(2017) Other Codes / Cóid Eile: Digital Literature in Context,
David Kelly, Lindsay Ann Reid, and Justin Tonra (2017) 'Patterns of Character and Structure in Shakespeare: Exploring Approaches to Data Visualisation'. [Conference Paper], Other Codes / Cóid Eile: Digital Literature in Context, Galway , 11-MAY-17 - 12-MAY-17. [Details]
(2017) Cúirt International Festival of Literature,
Tonra, Justin (2017) Panel participant for Digital Literature & Art: Interface as Creative Device. [Invited Oral Presentation], Cúirt International Festival of Literature, Galway Arts Centre , 28-APR-17 - 28-APR-17. [Details]
(2017) Reception, Reputation and Circulation in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800,
Tonra, Justin (2017) RECIRC Conference. [Chaired Session], Reception, Reputation and Circulation in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800, National University of ireland Galway , 22-MAR-17 - 25-MAR-17. [Details]
(2017) Nineteenth Century Trade Periodicals: Transnational Perspectives,
Tonra, Justin (2017) Symposium featuring IRC research partners. [Chaired Session], Nineteenth Century Trade Periodicals: Transnational Perspectives, Moore Institute, NUI Galway , 09-MAR-17 - 09-MAR-17. [Details]
(2017) DPASSH 2017: Digital Preservation for Social Sciences and Humanities,
Tonra, Justin (2017) DPASSH is a response to the problem of digital preservation within the arts and social sciences domains. [Refereed Abstracts], DPASSH 2017: Digital Preservation for Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK , 14-JUN-17 - 15-JUN-17. [Details]
(2016) Digital Entanglements: the Post-digital Present,
Tonra, Justin (2016) Conference organised by the DAH PhD Programme. [Chaired Session], Digital Entanglements: the Post-digital Present, Trinity College Dublin , 17-NOV-16 - 18-NOV-16. [Details]
(2016) Digital Entanglements: the Post-digital Present,
Tonra, Justin (2016) Conference organised by the DAH PhD Programme. [Invited Oral Presentation], Digital Entanglements: the Post-digital Present, Trinity College Dublin , 17-NOV-16 - 18-NOV-16. [Details]
(2016) Digital Entanglements: the Post-digital Present,
Tonra, Justin (2016) Conference organised by the DAH PhD Programme. [Program Committee], Digital Entanglements: the Post-digital Present, Trinity College Dublin , 17-NOV-16 - 18-NOV-16. [Details]
(2016) 2nd International Workshop on Computational History and Data-Driven Humanities,
Tonra, Justin (2016) 2nd International Workshop on Computational History and Data-Driven Humanities. [Program Committee], 2nd International Workshop on Computational History and Data-Driven Humanities, Trinity College Dublin , 25-MAY-16 - 25-MAY-16. [Details]
(2016) British and Irish Print Networks: Print Networks Annual Conference,
Tonra, Justin (2016) Print Networks Annual Conference. [Conference Organising Committee Member], British and Irish Print Networks: Print Networks Annual Conference, NUI Galway , 11-JUL-16 - 12-JUL-16. [Details]
(2015) IASIL2015: International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures Annual Conference,
Tonra, Justin (2015) Truckle to Tithe-mongers: Thomas Moore’s Textual Reconciliations. [Conference Paper], IASIL2015: International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures Annual Conference, University of York, UK , 20-JUL-15 - 24-JUL-15. [Details]
(2015) New Approaches to Ossian Symposium,
Tonra, Justin (2015) Ossian Online: 'Many more remains of ancient genius'. [Oral Presentation], New Approaches to Ossian Symposium, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin , 04-SEP-15 - 04-SEP-15. [Details]
(2015) Digital Material Conference,
Tonra, Justin (2015) Digital Material. [Organising Chair], Digital Material Conference, Moore Institute, NUI Galway , 21-MAY-15 - 22-MAY-15. [Details]
(2015) DARIAH Ireland Launch,
Tonra, Justin (2015) “Social Editing and the Crowd”. [Oral Presentation], DARIAH Ireland Launch, Maynooth University, Ireland , 18-MAY-15 - 18-MAY-15. [Details]
(2015) IASIL2015: International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures Annual Conference,
Tonra, Justin (2015) Roundtable Discussion on Digital Humanities and Irish Studies. [Oral Presentation], IASIL2015: International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures Annual Conference, University of York, UK , 20-JUL-15 - 24-JUL-15. [Details]
(2015) New Approaches to Ossian Symposium,
Tonra, Justin (2015) New Approaches to Ossian Symposium. [Conference Organising Committee Member], New Approaches to Ossian Symposium, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin , 04-SEP-15 - 04-SEP-15. [Details]
(2015) BARS2015: International Conference of the British Association for Romantic Studies,
Tonra, Justin (2015) Orientalising the Angels: Thomas Moore's Reactionary Muse. [Conference Paper], BARS2015: International Conference of the British Association for Romantic Studies, Cardiff University, UK , 16-JUL-15 - 19-JUL-15. [Details]
(2015) DH2015: Annual Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations,
Tonra, Justin (2015) Crowdsourcing Texts of Many Dimensions. [International Refereed Conference], DH2015: Annual Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations, University of Western Sydney, Australia , 29-JUN-15 - 03-JUL-15. [Details]
(2015) Macpherson's Ossian Legacy Conference,
Barr, Rebecca Anne; Tonra, Justin (2015) Ossian Online: A Digital Resource for Macpherson’s Ossian. [Conference Paper], Macpherson's Ossian Legacy Conference, Kingussie, Scotland , 18-APR-15 - 19-APR-15. [Details]
(2015) ASECS: Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
Barr, Rebecca Anne; Tonra, Justin (2015) Carefully Corrected / Mutilated Mess: Ossian's Textual Legacies. [International Refereed Conference], ASECS: Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Los Angeles, United States , 19-MAR-15 - 22-MAR-15. [Details]
(2014) Reading and Identity Conference,
Barr, Rebecca Anne; Tonra, Justin (2014) Reading Nations, Debating Identities: New Approaches to Macpherson’s Ossian. [Conference Paper], Reading and Identity Conference, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland , 26-AUG-14 - 26-AUG-14. [Details]
(2014) Experimental Interfaces for Reading 2.0 Conference,
Barr, Rebecca Anne; Kelly, David; Tonra, Justin (2014) Ossian Online: Crowdsourcing Annotation and the Social Edition. [Poster Presentation (Refereed)], Experimental Interfaces for Reading 2.0 Conference, Chicago, USA , 18-SEP-14 - 18-SEP-14. [Details]
(2014) School of Humanities Research Day,
Barr, Rebecca Anne; Tonra, Justin (2014) Ossian Online: Building a Collaborative Research Environment. [Conference Paper], School of Humanities Research Day, NUI Galway , 30-APR-14 - 30-APR-14. [Details]
(2014) DH2014: Annual Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations,
Barr, Rebecca Anne; Tonra, Justin (2014) Crowdsourcing Annotation and the ‘Social Edition’: Ossian Online. [Poster Presentation (Refereed)], DH2014: Annual Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations, Lausanne, Switzerland , 09-JUL-14 - 12-JUL-14. [Details]
(2014) The Edition as Argument, 1550-1750 Conference,,
Barr, Rebecca Anne; Tonra, Justin (2014) For the Sake of Argument: Crowdsourcing Annotation of Macpherson’s Ossian. [Conference Paper], The Edition as Argument, 1550-1750 Conference,, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK , 17-JUL-14 - 17-JUL-14. [Details]
(2013) New Voices Conference,
Tonra, Justin (2013) The Contraband of Hibernia. [Conference Paper], New Voices Conference, NUI Maynooth , 15-JUN-13 - 15-JUN-13. [Details]
(2013) The Limits of the Archive: Classification, Management, Digitization symposium,
Tonra, Justin (2013) Manuscript Transcription: the Habits of Crowds. [Conference Paper], The Limits of the Archive: Classification, Management, Digitization symposium, University College Cork , 16-MAY-13 - 16-MAY-13. [Details]
(2013) New DIrections in Thomas Moore Research conference,
Tonra, Justin (2013) Of Little Consequence: the Early Career of Thomas Moore. [Conference Paper], New DIrections in Thomas Moore Research conference, Queen's University Belfast , 03-MAY-13 - 03-MAY-13. [Details]
(2013) School of Humanities Research Day,
Tonra, Justin (2013) Poetry by the Book, Poetry by Numbers. [Conference Paper], School of Humanities Research Day, NUI Galway , 20-MAY-13 - 20-MAY-13. [Details]
(2012) Digital Humanities Congress,
Benatti, Francesca; Tonra, Justin (2012) “Who Killed Christabel? Can Authorship Attribution Solve the Case?”. [Conference Paper], Digital Humanities Congress, University of Sheffield , 09-SEP-12 - 09-SEP-12. [Details]
(2012) ASECS: Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
Tonra, Justin (2012) “The Common Property of All Mankind: The Politics of Reprinting In Ireland and America.”. [Conference Paper], ASECS: Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, San Antonio, USA , 21-MAR-12 - 24-MAR-12. [Details]
(2012) Reconfiguring Authorship Conference,
Benatti, Francesca; Tonra, Justin (2012) “English Bards and Unknown Reviewers: In Search of the Author of the Christabel Review.”. [Conference Paper], Reconfiguring Authorship Conference, Ghent University, Belgium , 18-NOV-12 - 18-NOV-12. [Details]
(2011) BARS Romantic Identities Conference,
Tonra, Justin (2011) “‘Masks of Refinement’: Pseudonymous and Public Personae in the Early Poetry of Thomas Moore”. [Conference Paper], BARS Romantic Identities Conference, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK , 13-MAY-11 - 13-MAY-11. [Details]
(2010) Textual Scholarship Seminar,
Schofield, Philip; Tonra, Justin (2010) “Transcription Maximized; Expense Minimized: Crowdsourcing and Editing The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham”. [Invited Paper], Textual Scholarship Seminar, School of Advanced Study, University of London , 12-OCT-10 - 12-OCT-10. [Details]
(2009) Society for Textual Scholarship International Conference,
Tonra, Justin (2009) “A Digital Edition of Thomas Moore’s Lalla Rookh (1817)”. [Conference Paper], Society for Textual Scholarship International Conference, New York University, USA , 19-MAR-09 - 20-MAR-09. [Details]
(2008) Society for Textual Scholarship International Conference,
Tonra, Justin (2008) “A Text Without a Country, or, What are the Boundaries of an Electronic Edition?”. [Conference Paper], Society for Textual Scholarship International Conference, Boston University, USA , 13-MAR-08 - 14-MAR-08. [Details]
(2008) TEI Members Meeting,
Rehbein, Malte; Tonra, Justin (2008) “Encoding Genetic Editions: Two Case Studies”. [Conference Paper], TEI Members Meeting, King’s College London, UK , 06-NOV-08 - 06-NOV-08. [Details]
(2007) Making Books, Shaping Readers Conference,
Tonra, Justin (2007) “Reading Electronic Texts”. [Conference Paper], Making Books, Shaping Readers Conference, University College Cork , 18-APR-07 - 18-APR-07. [Details]

Electronic Publication

  Year Publication
(2023) ÚRSCÉAL.
Tonra, Justin (2023) ÚRSCÉAL. Electronic Publication [Details]
(2018) Frances Burney Twitterbot.
Tonra, Justin (2018) Frances Burney Twitterbot. Electronic Publication [Details]
(2016) Personae.
David Kelly, Lindsay Ann Reid, and Justin Tonra (2016) Personae. Electronic Publication [Details]
(2015) Ossian Online.
Tonra, Justin; Barr, Rebecca (2015) Ossian Online. Electronic Publication [Details]

Book Review

  Year Publication
(2014) New Life for The Dead. Rev. of James Joyce – The Dead, ed. Gerardine Meaney.
Tonra, Justin (2014) New Life for The Dead. Rev. of James Joyce – The Dead, ed. Gerardine Meaney. Book Review [Details]
(2014) Rev. of The Shadow-Line: A Confession, ed. J. H. Stape and Allan H. Simmons, intro. Owen Knowles.
Tonra, Justin (2014) Rev. of The Shadow-Line: A Confession, ed. J. H. Stape and Allan H. Simmons, intro. Owen Knowles. The Conradian 39.2 (2014) Book Review [Details]
(2013) Rev. of Ireland and Romanticism: Publics, Nations and Scenes of Cultural Production, ed. Jim Kelly.
Tonra, Justin (2013) Rev. of Ireland and Romanticism: Publics, Nations and Scenes of Cultural Production, ed. Jim Kelly. Romantic Textualities 21 (Winter 2013) Book Review [Details]
(2013) Rev. of How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain, by Leah Price.
Tonra, Justin (2013) Rev. of How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain, by Leah Price. Nineteenth-Century Contexts 35.2 Book Review [Details]
(2013) How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain.
Tonra, J (2013) How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain. Book Review [DOI] [Details]
(2013) Rev. of British Periodicals and Romantic Identity: The Literary Lower Empire, by Mark Schoenfield.
Tonra, Justin (2013) Rev. of British Periodicals and Romantic Identity: The Literary Lower Empire, by Mark Schoenfield. Studies in Romanticism 52.2 (2013) Book Review [DOI] [Details]
(2011) Rev. of Vincent Van Gogh: The Letters, ed. Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten, and Nienke Bakker.
Tonra, Justin (2011) Rev. of Vincent Van Gogh: The Letters, ed. Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten, and Nienke Bakker. Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie 9 Book Review [Details]
(2011) Rev. of The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online, ed. John van Wyhe.
Tonra, Justin (2011) Rev. of The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online, ed. John van Wyhe. Variants 8 Book Review [Details]

Blog

  Year Publication
(2020) Five Questions: Justin Tonra on Thomas Moore.
Tonra, Justin (2020) Five Questions: Justin Tonra on Thomas Moore. British Association of Romantic Studies Blog [Details]
(2019) What is Distant Reading?.
Tonra, Justin (2019) What is Distant Reading?. Dublin: RTÉ Brainstorm Blog [Details]
(2018) A Short Story About Bookshelves.
Tonra, Justin (2018) A Short Story About Bookshelves. Dublin: RTÉ Brainstorm Blog [Details]
(2015) Teaching Romanticism XIII: James Macpherson’s Ossian.
Lindfield-Ott, Kristin; Mulholland, James; Tonra, Justin (2015) Teaching Romanticism XIII: James Macpherson’s Ossian. Cardiff University: Romantic Textualities Blog [Details]
(2015) Social Media and Contemporary Authorship.
Tonra, Justin (2015) Social Media and Contemporary Authorship. University College Dublin: Contemporary Irish Writing Blog [Details]

Conference Poster

  Year Publication
(2018) Distant Reading for European Literary History, a COST Action.
Schöch, Christof; Eder, Maciej; Odebrecht, Carolin; Kestemont, Mike; Primorac, Antonija; Tonra, Justin; Mihurko Poniž, Katja; Kanellopoulou, Catherine (2018) Distant Reading for European Literary History, a COST Action. Conference Poster [DOI] [Details]

Dataset

  Year Publication
(2023) Irish novels for the European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC).
Tonra, Justin; Ó Mathúna, Pádraig Fhia (2023) Irish novels for the European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC). ELTeC Dataset [Details]
(2020) Eververse data.
Tonra, Justin; Kelly, David; Khawaja, Waqas; Davis, Brian (2020) Eververse data. Zenodo Dataset [DOI] [ARAN Link] [Details]

Encyclopedia Entry

  Year Publication
(2008) Lalla Rookh. The Literary Encyclopedia.
Tonra, Justin (2008) Lalla Rookh. The Literary Encyclopedia. Encyclopedia Entry [Details]
(2008) Thomas Moore. The Literary Encyclopedia.
Tonra, Justin (2008) Thomas Moore. The Literary Encyclopedia. Encyclopedia Entry [Details]

Invited Lectures

  Year Publication
(2022) Poetry Machines: Technologies of Poetic Composition.
Tonra, Justin (2022) Poetry Machines: Technologies of Poetic Composition. University of Coimbra: MATLIT 2022: Materialities of Literature Symposium Invited Lectures [Details]
(2019) Publishing Your Research: TEI & Digital Editions.
Tonra, Justin (2019) Publishing Your Research: TEI & Digital Editions. Society for Neo-Latin Studies Conference Invited Lectures [Details]
(2016) 'Many more remains of ancient genius': Editing James Macpherson's Ossian.
Tonra, Justin (2016) 'Many more remains of ancient genius': Editing James Macpherson's Ossian. University College Dublin: .¿ School of English, Drama, and Film Faculty Research Seminar Invited Lectures [Details]
(2016) Twitter and Contemporary Literature.
Tonra, Justin (2016) Twitter and Contemporary Literature. University College Dublin: The Future of the Contemporary: An International Colloquium Invited Lectures [Details]
(2015) Collaboration and the Crowd in Digital Scholarly Editing.
Tonra, Justin (2015) Collaboration and the Crowd in Digital Scholarly Editing. Lehrstuhl für Digital Humanities, University of Passau: Invited Lectures [Details]
(2014) Bad Books: On the Value of Error and Imperfection.
Tonra, Justin (2014) Bad Books: On the Value of Error and Imperfection. Special Collections Lunchtime Lectures, NUI Galway: Invited Lectures [Details]
(2014) Ossian Online: Building an Interdisciplinary Research Environment.
Tonra, Justin (2014) Ossian Online: Building an Interdisciplinary Research Environment. Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research, Cardiff University: Invited Lectures [Details]
(2012) Forcing Serendipity: Computing and Literary Criticism.
Tonra, Justin (2012) Forcing Serendipity: Computing and Literary Criticism. An Foras Feasa Digital Humanities Research Seminar, NUI Maynooth: Invited Lectures [Details]

Invited Seminars

  Year Publication
(2020) Normal People: A View from the West.
Tonra, Justin (2020) Normal People: A View from the West. Moore Institute Invited Seminars [Details]
(2017) Perspectives on Collaboration.
Tonra, Justin (2017) Perspectives on Collaboration. Moore Institute, NUI Galway: Collections as Data Hackathon Invited Seminars [Details]
(2016) Social Media and Academia.
Tonra, Justin (2016) Social Media and Academia. EDEN: English and Drama Exchange Network, NUI Galway: Invited Seminars [Details]

Newspaper Articles

  Year Publication
(2020) Put down The Plague, a novel by De Maistre is more hopeful.
Tonra, Justin (2020) Put down The Plague, a novel by De Maistre is more hopeful. Dublin: Irish Times Newspaper Articles [Details]

Poetry

  Year Publication
(2020) Eververse.
Tonra, Justin (2020) Eververse. Poetry [Details]

Teaching Interests

Digital humanities, book history, textual studies, scholarly editing, Irish literature, postmodern fiction.

Modules Taught

  Term/Year Module Title Module Code Subject / Desc
2022-23 Digital Scholarly Editing: Theory and Practice EN6138 MA Seminar Module
2022-23 Publishing History EN6140 MA Seminar Module
2017-2023 Literature in the Digital Age EN3138 3BA lecture course
2022-23 Publishing: Perspectives & Professionalisation EN6128 MA Seminar Module
2005-10; 2012-17; 2019-20 Textual Studies: Problems in the History and Materiality of Texts. EN563 MA / PhD seminar module
2012-14; 2017-20 Textual Histories: Materiality and Meaning ENG244 BA seminar module (3rd year)
2015; 2017-19 Introduction to Digital Humanities EN6105 MA / PhD seminar module
2015-16 Text Technologies EN6108 MA / PhD seminar module
2015-16 Literature of the Internet EN3013/EN3104 BA seminar module (3rd year)
2013-16 Digital Humanities ENG235 BA seminar module (3rd year)
2013-16 Modernism/Postmodernism EN302 BA lecture module (3rd year)
2013-15 Irish Literature in English Before 1900 ENG214 BA lecture module (2nd year)
2013-14 Book History EN570 MA / PhD seminar module
2013-14 Humanities Tools and Methodologies DA803 Structured PhD seminar module
2013-14 Conceptual Introduction to Digital Arts and Humanities DA801 Structured PhD seminar module
2008-09 Contemporary Irish Poetry EN404 BA seminar module (3rd year)
2007-09 Twentieth-Century American Short Stories EN427 BA seminar module (3rd year)
2007-09 Young Ireland to the Free State: Writing in English, 1849-1922 IS105 MA seminar module
2007 The Politics of Modernity: Writing in English, 1922 to the present IS108 MA seminar module

Internal Collaborators

  Name Description of Collaboration
Internal Collaborators
Dr Rebecca Anne Barr and Mr David Kelly, NUI Galway. Ossian Online project. Dr Paul Buitelaar and Mr Nitish Aggarwal, Insight at NUI Galway. Imitation and Influence in Romantic Orientalist Poetry project.

External Collaborators

  Name Organisation / Institute Country Description of Collaboration
External Collaborators
Dr Francesca Benatti, Open University. Authorship Attribution of the Christabel Review project.Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities in Ireland.