JT

James Tauber

W3-Professur für Digital Humanities mit Schwerpunkt Computing Text and Language

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeitende

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Curriculum Vitae

  • Education

  1. since 05/2026

    Doctoral Candidate, Department Digital Humanities and Social Studies, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

  2. 2021–2023

    MA, Corpus Linguistics (Distinction), Lancaster University

  3. 2018–2019

    Professional Certificate, Music Theory and Composition,
    Berklee College of Music

  4. 2017–2019

    Graduate Diploma, Germanic Philology (with honours), Signum University

  5. 2017–2018

    Certificate, Educational Research Methodology, University of Illinois Chicago

  6. 2014–2017

    Postgraduate Diploma, Greek, University of Wales Trinity Saint David

  7. 1991–1995

    BSc, Linguistics (with Honours), University of Western Australia

  • Employment

  1. 2023–2024

    Director of Educational Software and Digital Humanities / Lecturer and Preceptor, Signum University

  2. 2009–2023

    CEO, CTO and Co-Founder, Eldarion, Inc.

  3. 2002–2009

    Chief Scientist / CTO, mValent, Inc.

  4. 1999–2002

    Director XML Technology, Bowstreet, Inc.

  5. 1998–1999

    Adjunct Lecturer, School of Information Systems, Curtin University

Teaching Experience

  • Tolkien’s Invented Languages in The Lord of the Rings (Signum Continuing Education, 2022, 2025)
  • Electronic Text Markup With XML and TEI (Signum Cont. Ed., 2024)
  • Music Theory for the Mathematically-Inclined (Signum Cont. Ed., 2023)
  • A Journey Through The History of Middle-earth (12-course series, Signum Cont. Ed., 2023)
  • Ancient Greek Morphology (Signum Cont. Ed.., 2022)
  • Digital Text (Signum Graduate Program, 2022)

Projects, Conference Papers & more

  • Scaife Viewer, Perseus Digital Library
  • Digital Tolkien Project
  • Greek Learner Texts Project

  • Tauber, J. (2019) Character Encoding of Classical Languages in Digital Classical Philology. De Gruyter
  • Tauber, J. (2023) Tolkien’s Use of Invented Languages in Lord of the Rings in Reading Fictional Languages. Edinburgh University Press.
  • Tauber, J. (forthcoming) Digital Humanities in Oxford Handbook of J.R.R. Tolkien. Oxford University Press.

  • Crane, G., et al. (2023) Beyond translation: engaging with foreign languages in a digital library. International Journal on Digital Libraries 24 (3), 163-176.
  • Crane, G., et al. (2025) Humanities data reuse: Humanity first. Harvard Data Science Review 7 (2).

  • Tolkien and Digital Philology, Tolkien 2019
  • Homeric Formula and Meter (with S. Sklaviadis), Quantitative Approaches to Versification, 2019
  • Challenges for the Representation of Morphology in Ontology Lexicons (with B. Klimek et al.), eLeX 2019
  • Computing the Interlace Structure of Lord of the Rings, International Medieval Congress Leeds, 2022
  • Untangling the Second Age Tale of Years, International Medieval Congress Leeds, 2023
  • Linguistic Variation in Tolkien’s Writing Styles, Oxonmoot 2023
  • Modelling Multi-domain Voicing in the Goldberg Variations (with S. Monnier), Music Encoding Conference 2024
  • LOD of the Rings: Tolkien’s Sub-Creation as Linked Open Data, Linked Open Data and Literary Studies, 2024

  • Better Greek Learning through Better Greek Databases, BibleTech 2015
  • A Morphological Lexicon of New Testament Greek, SBL Annual Meeting 2015
  • Corpus-driven Greek Language Learning, BibleTech 2019
  • The Vocabulary of the Latin Translation of the Hobbit, Tolkien Society Fall Seminar 2021
  • Remaking Text: Text Reuse in Tolkien, Mythmoot IX 2022
  • Visualizing the Structure of HoMe, Mythmoot X 2023
  • From the Hobbit to Homer and Back Again, Furman University 2024
  • The Digital Tolkien Project, Erlangen DH Training Day 2024
  • The State of the Digital Tolkien Project, Westmoot 2025
  • Three Gems: A showcase of three annotation projects at the Digital Tolkien Project, Forodrim Jubilee