James Tauber, M. A.

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Promovend)

Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS)
W3-Professur für Digital Humanities mit Schwerpunkt Computing Text and Language

Nürnbergerstraße 74
91052 Erlangen

Education

since 05/2026 Doctoral Candidate, Department Digital Humanities and Social Studies, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
2021–2023 MA, Corpus Linguistics (Distinction), Lancaster University
2018–2019 Professional Certificate, Music Theory and Composition,
Berklee College of Music
2017–2019 Graduate Diploma, Germanic Philology (with honours), Signum University
2017–2018 Certificate, Educational Research Methodology, University of Illinois Chicago
2014–2017 Postgraduate Diploma, Greek, University of Wales Trinity Saint David
1991–1995 BSc, Linguistics (with Honours), University of Western Australia

Employment

2023–2024 Director of Educational Software and Digital Humanities / Lecturer and Preceptor, Signum University
2009–2023 CEO, CTO and Co-Founder, Eldarion, Inc
2002–2009 Chief Scientist / CTO, mValent, Inc.
1999–2002 Director XML Technology, Bowstreet, Inc.
1998–1999 Adjunct Lecturer, School of Information Systems, Curtin University

  • 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)

  • 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