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Principal Investigator and Director – Beth Rapp Young, UCF
Lead Editor – Jack Lynch, Rutgers University
Co-Principal Investigator – Carmen Faye Mathes, University of Regina
Co-Principal Investigator – Amy Larner Giroux
Senior XML Analyst – William Dorner
Programmer / Database Analyst – Connie Harper
XML Editor/Social Media Manager – Abigail Moreshead
Advisory Board
Mark Kamrath, University of Central Florida
Lynda Mugglestone, Pembroke College, Oxford
Allen Reddick, University of Zurich
Neil Weijer, University of Florida
Ian Lancashire, University of Toronto
Project Consultants
Marc Alexander, University of Glasgow
David-Antoine Williams, St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo
Jorge Fonseca Cacho, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Rebecca Shapiro, New York City College of Technology
Student Researchers and Volunteers
Gisella Alcazar
Kayla Aranda
Ashley Artigas
Michele Austin
Emily Aycrigg
Joshua Benedict
Charlotte Bergholz
Hailey Birdsong
Symone Blount
Alfredo Luis Blume
Christopher Bode
Vincent Boyce
Brianna Bradley
Teresa Breyer
Shannon Bristol
Tia Butterfield
Paolo Caballero
Courtney Campbell
Margie Castillo
Farrah Cato
Evelin Cecilia
Nada Chehab
Robert Clark
Logan Clark
Kelsea Coe
Berenice Cornejo
Jace DeAngelo
Rose Dees
Sebastián J. Delgado Suárez
Lauryn Dryden
Sarai Duque
Hannah Eiserman
Steven Eley
Jada Ellison
Lucas Fairbairn
Desiree Flores
Christopher Font
Hayden Freedline
Jared Dennis Freedline
Kaley Frye
Shannon Ganeshram
Anthony Garcia
Mel Garey
Nolan Grad
Jalen Grant
Jesse Gringold
Emily Gruber
Janelle Guichard
Laura Hard Åf Segerstad
Drew Hiltbrand
Julia Horensten
Janet Jaimes
Emma James
Kathleen Elaine Johnson
Raquel Kadin
Tiffany Kelley
Kathleen Kilcommons
Kenneth Kimberly
Bernard King
Christopher King
Amina Kotenko
Josie Kraher
Shelby Lomen
Polina Lopez
Sarah Lugo
Oliver Lyon
Eduarda Santos Maciel
Emily McCaleb
Caroline McGregor
Mckhyla Meas
Luci Meier
Jamie Montgomery
Ileia Mooney
Geralyn Moore
Clara Parente Moraes
Wesley Morrison
Maria Gabriella Muratti
Joseph Murphy
Mary Norton
Marisa Norzagaray
Luiz Filipe Oliveira
Gustavo Padron
Laura Parces
Amanda Cavalcante Pereira
Makiye Phillips
Danielle Porres
Sarah Pruitt
Sher Respess
Glenn Ritchey
Jacob Rodriguez
John Rose
Maya Saez
Gabriella Santiago
Jack Scheidhauer
Torie Schranz
Eli Shroeder
Tiffany Sidders
Paul Ricardo Small, Jr.
Brian Smith
Brooke Smith
Justin Smith
Lillian Snyder
Kianna Solano
Danae Stafford
Hailey Stearman
Mia Stephens
Julia Valadares de Sousa
Roman Syed
Siara Tirado
TJ Joseph Tolle
Kristal Torres
Annabella Tubbs
Maxx Tyre
Kyle Ulloa
Ana Valdes
Courtney Verna-Brown
Rebecca Watters
Natalie Wells
Al Whitt
Haley Woods
Caroline Young
Lindsey Zakula
Jordan Zeigler
Quotations Software:
Sean Datta
Jacob Hofstein
Christopher Melton
Brent Pappas
Drew Schilling
Images Software:
Vincent Cardaman
Jacob Rodriguez
Miguel Severino
Brian Smith
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This project was made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this web resource do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
A transcribed, XML-encoded text of Samuel Johnson’s 1755 folio edition of A Dictionary of the English Language has been licensed to our project under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) by Ian Lancashire, editor, Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME), the University of Toronto. We wish to thank our colleagues in Canada for their generous help. LEME anticipates release of its 1755 Johnson encoded transcription sometime in 2021.
Facsimile images were provided with support from the Digital Support Services Team at the University of Florida’s George A. Smathers Libraries..
Additional facsimile images were provided by the Warren N. and Suzanne B. Cordell Collection of Dictionaries at Indiana State University.
The portrait of Samuel Johnson that appears on the project homepage is known as “Blinking Sam”; painted by Joshua Reynolds in 1755, the portrait is used courtesy of the Huntington Art Collections, San Marino, California.
The mezzotint portrait “Samuel Johnson” that appears in the top page banner, created by William Doughty in 1779 after Joshua Reynolds, is available from NGA Images, the National Gallery of Art website for digital images of works of art in the public domain.