Rebecca Niles

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What if you could become a time-traveller? I am a digital solutions architect who creates experiences that transform how we connect with history. Whether it’s through historic manuscripts, rare books, cultural artifacts, or performance arts from the past, I create tools that let people become time-travellers—reaching across centuries to discover the stories, creators, and communities that shaped our world.

Rebecca Niles, a person with fair skin, brown eyes, and short pink hair, smiling towards the camera

Projects

A featured selection of experiences, tools, and resources that I’ve created, or co-created with partners, during my 13 years working with the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Images from various Folger Shakespeare performances arranged as a series

The Folger Shakespeare

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Nowadays I prefer to explore my ideas through prototypes, but every once in a while someone convinces me to write, and I’m grateful that they did. Here are some recent examples.

Implementing the Do-It-Yourself First Folio: From Concept Model to Pedagogical Tool

By Meaghan Brown, Rebecca Niles, and Stacey Redick. Digital Pedagogy in Early Modern Studies: Method and Praxis, edited by Andie Silva and Scott Schofield. Iter Press, 2023.

“Into a thousand parts divide”: The Pursuit of Precision in Shakespeare’s Interfaces

The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface, edited by Clifford Werier and Paul Budra. Routledge, 2022.

Moving Parts: Digital Modeling and the Infrastructures of Shakespeare Editing

By Alan Galey, Rebecca Niles. Shakespeare Quarterly 68.1 (2017): 21-55.

Re-Modelling the Edition: Creating the Corpus of Folger Digital Texts

By Rebecca Niles, Michael Poston. Early Modern Studies After the Digital Turn. Iter Press, 2016.

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