Biography
Mark Sweetnam read English Literature and Mathematical Science at Trinity College Dublin, before completing a Higher Diploma in Education, and a Ph.D, which focused on the issue of religious authority in the thought of John Donne. He is currently the Director of the M. Phil. in Digital Humanities and Culture.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Religion and Literature in the Scottish Reformation in, editor(s)Ian P. Hazlett , The Brill Companion to the Scottish Reformation, Leiden, Brill, 2022, [Mark S. Sweetnam]
Mark Sweetnam, Walter Boyd, Shepherding the Sheep: Tracing the Theme of Shepherds and Shepherding Through Scripture, Lisburn, Scripture Teaching Library, 2020
Georgia Angelaki, Karolina Badzmierowska, David Brown, Vera Chiquet, Joris Colla, Judith Finlay-McAlester, Klaudia Grabowska, Vanessa Hannesschläger, Natalie Harrower, Freja Howat-Maxted, Maria Ilvanidou, Wojciech Kordyzon, Magdalena Król, Antonio Gabriel Losada Gómez, Maciej Maryl, Sanita Reinsone, Natalia Suslova, Mark Sweetnam, Kamil Śliwowski, Marcin Werla , 'How to Facilitate Cooperation between Humanities Researchers and Cultural Heritage Institutions. Guidelines', Warsaw, Digital Humanities Centre at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 2019, -
Evangelicals and the End of the World in, editor(s)Andrew Atherstone David Ceri Jones , The Routledge Research Companion to the History of Evangelicalism, London and New York, Routledge, 2019, pp178 - 197, [Mark S. Sweetnam]
Calvinism and Literature in, editor(s)Crawford Gribben Graeme Murdock , Cultures of Calvinism in early modern Europe, New York, Oxford University Press, 2019, pp94 - 116, [Mark S. Sweetnam]
Mark Sweetnam, 'Biblical Literature', Oxford Bibliography of British and Irish Literature, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018, -
Sweetnam Mark S., The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne Volume XII: Sermons Preached at St. Paulâ s Cathedral, 1626. Mary Ann Lund. ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. lx + 362 pp. $190. , Renaissance Quarterly , 71 , (3 ), 2018, p1219-1220 -
Protestant Views of the Afterlife in, editor(s)Christopher M. Moreman , The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying, London and New York, Routledge, 2017, pp14 - 24, [Mark S. Sweetnam]
Steiner, Christina; Agosti, Maristella; Sweetnam, Mark; Hillemann, Eva-C.; Orio, Nicola; Ponchia, Chiara; Hampson, Cormac; Munnelly, Gary; Nussbaumer, Alexander; Albert, Dietrich; Conlan, Owen, Evaluating a digital humanities research environment: the CULTURA approach, International Journal on Digital Libraries, 15, (1), 2014, p53 - 70
Mark S. Sweetnam, The Caroline Sermon: Texts, Contexts and Challenges' , Yearbook of English Studies, 44, 2014, p215 - 231
Mark S. Sweetnam, John Donne and Religious Authority in the Reformed English Church, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2014, 220pp
Aidan Clarke, Mark Sweetnam, Seamus Lawless, Placename Indices for the IMC-edition of the 1641 Depositions, Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2014
Fundamentalism and Literature, Dale C. Allison, Jr. Christine Helmer Volker Leppin Choon-Leong Seow Hermann Spieckermann Barry Dov Walfish Eric J. Ziolkowski, Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception vol. 9, Boston, De Gruyter, 2014, pp828 - 830, [Mark S. Sweetnam]
Raptured, Rewarding, and Reigning: The Hope of the Believer in The Gospel Hymn Book in, editor(s)Neil Dickson T. J. Marinello , The Brethren Movement: Studies in Society and Spirituality, Troon, BAHN, 2014, pp237-258 , [Mark S. Sweetnam]
Mark S. Sweetnam, The CULTURA Evaluation Model: An Approach Responding to Evaluation Needs in an Innovative Research Environment, First Workshop on Exploration, Navigation and Retrieval of Information in Cultural Heritage, SIGIR 2013, Dublin, edited by S. Lawless, M. Agosti, P. Clough, O. Conlan , Association for Computing Machinery, 2013, pp43-46
Mark S. Sweetnam, "Sheep Amongst Wolves"? The Protestant Ministry in 1641', Journal of Scottish and Irish Studies, 6, (2), 2013, p71-92
Mark Sweetnam, Micheál Ó Siochrú, Maristella Agosti, Marta Manfioletti, Nicola Orio, Chiara Ponchia, Stereotype or Spectrum: Designing for a User Continuum, First Workshop on Exploration, Navigation and Retrieval of Information in Cultural Heritage, SIGIR 2013, Dublin, edited by S. Lawless, M. Agosti, P. Clough, O. Conlan , Association for Computing Machinery, 2013, pp23-30
E. Bailey, M. Sweetnam, M. O'Siochru, O. Conlan, CULTURA: Supporting Professional Humanities Researchers, Digital Humanities 2013, Lincoln, Nebraska, July 2013, University of Nebraska, 2013, pp99 - 101
Canonicity and Radical Evangelicalism: The Case of Thomas Kelly' in, editor(s)John Kirk Andrew Noble Michael Brown , United Islands? The Languages of Resistance, London, Pickering & Chatto, 2012, pp77-94 , [Mark S. Sweetnam]
Mark Sweetnam, Maristella Agosti, Nicola Orio, Chiara Ponchia, Christina Steiner, Eva Hillemann, Micheál Ó Siochrú, Séamus Lawless, User Needs for Enhanced Engagement with Cultural Heritage Collections, The 16th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2012, Paphos, Cyprus, 23rd-27th September, 2012
Mark S. Sweetnam, Micheál Ó Siochrú, The 1641 Rebellion in Armagh', Seanchas Ard Mhacha: journal of the Armagh Diocesan Historical Society, 24, (1), 2012, p72-103
Knox, John in, editor(s)Garrett A. Sullivan Jr. Alan Stewart , The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature, Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, ppII, 569-57 , [Mark S. Sweetnam]
Ignorance is Iniquity: The arcana imperii in the sermons of John Donne' in, editor(s)Helen M. Cooney Mark S. Sweetnam , Revelation and Enigma in Renaissance Literature: Essays Presented to Professor Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2012, pp167-182 , [Mark S. Sweetnam]
Evangelical Millennialism in the Lyrics of Johnny Cash in, editor(s)Christopher Partridge , Anthems of Apocalypse: Popular Music and Apocalyptic Thought , Sheffield, Sheffield Phoenix, 2012, pp13-26 , [Mark S. Sweetnam]
Mark S. Sweetnam, The Minutes of the Antrim Ministers' Meetings 1654-1658, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2012, 189pp
Mark S. Sweetnam Helen M. Cooney, Revelation and Enigma in Renaissance Literature: Essays Presented to Professor Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2012, 246pp
Leslie, John in, editor(s)Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. Alan Stewart , The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature, Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, ppII, 590-591 , [Mark S. Sweetnam]
Eleanor O'Neill, Mark Sweetnam, Owen Conlan, Séamus Lawless, Alexander O'Connor, Micheál Ó'Siochrú, Jane Ohlmeyer and Vincent Wade, Towards Multi-Dimensional Adaptation of Digitised Historical Content, Supporting Digital Humanities, Copenhagen, 17-18 November 2011, 2011
Mark S. Sweetnam, Hal Lindsey and the Great Dispensational Mutation, Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, 23, (2), 2011, p217-235
Mark S. Sweetnam, Natural language processing and early-modern dirty data: applying IBM Languageware to the 1641 depositions, Literary and Linguistic Computing, 2011
Introduction: Left Behind and the Challenge of the Unfamiliar' in, editor(s)Crawford Gribben Mark S. Sweetnam , Left Behind and the Evangelical Imagination, Sheffield, Sheffield Phoenix, 2011, pp1-14 , [Mark S. Sweetnam]
Crawford Gribben Mark S. Sweetnam, Left Behind and the Evangelical Imagination, Sheffield, Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2011
Mark S. Sweetnam, Defining Dispensationalism: A Cultural Studies Perspective, Journal of Religious History, 34, 2010, p191-212
Mark S. Sweetnam, 'IBM LanguageWare and the 1641 Depositions' , Supporting the Digital Humanities, CLARIN/DARIAH Conference, Technical University Vienna, 19-21 October 2010, 2010
Foundational Faults: Heresy and Religious Toleration in the Later Thought of John Donne in, editor(s)Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin John Flood , Heresy in Early English Literature, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2010, pp113-126 , [Mark S. Sweetnam]
Mark S. Sweetnam, Todd Mangum, The Scofield Bible: Its History and Impact on the Evangelical Church , Downers Grove, IL, Inter-varsity Press, 2009, 245pp
Calvinism, Counter-Reformation and Conversion: Doctrinal Palimpsest in Alexander Montgomerie's Religious Lyrics in, editor(s)Crawford Gribben David George Mullan , Literature and the Scottish Reformations, London, Ashgate, 2009, pp143-160 , [Mark S. Sweetnam]
Crawford Gribben, Mark Sweetnam, J. N. Darby and the Irish origins of dispensationalism, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society , 52, (3), 2009, p569-577
Sweetnam Mark S., The growth of the Brethren movement. National and international experiences. Essays in honour of Harold H. Rowdon. Edited by Neil T. R. Dickson and Tim Grass. (Studies in Evangelical History and Thought.) Pp. xiv+281 incl. colour frontispiece. Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2006. £19.99 (paper). 978 1 84227 427 9 , The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , 60 , (1 ), 2009, p194-196 -
Mark S. Sweetnam, Reading Paradise Lost in a post-modern world, SEARCH, 31, (3), 2008, p204-212
Mark S. Sweetnam, Dan Crawford, Thinking Black, and the challenge of a missionary canon, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 58, (4), 2007, p704-725
Mark S. Sweetnam, Hamlet and the Reformation of the Eucharist, Literature and Theology, 21, (1), 2007, p11 - 28
Tensions in Dispensational Eschatology' in, editor(s)Crawford Gribben, Kenneth Newport , Expecting the End: Millennialism in Social and Historical Context , Baylor, TX, Baylor University Press, 2006, pp173 - 192, [Mark S. Sweetnam]
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Mark Sweetnam, Allí Estoy Yo: "Qué es una iglesia según la Biblia?, Guadalajara, México, Editorial Dia, 2020, 114pp
Mark S. Sweetnam, Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage at Trinity College Dublin. Keynote Address. , Open and Engaged: Open Access Week at the British Library, British Library, 2019
Mark Sweetnam, John Knox. Jane Dawson., Review of John Knox, by Jane Dawson , Renaissance Quarterly, 70, (4), 2018
Shane Mawe, Dr Graeme Murdock, Dr Mark Sweetnam, 'Power and Belief: The Reformation at 500', Online , Google Arts & Culture, 2017, -
Mark S. Sweetnam, The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne Volume XII: Sermons Preached at St. Paul's Cathedral, 1626. Mary Ann Lund. ed., Review of The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne Volume XII: Sermons Preached at St. Paul's Cathedral, 1626, by Mary Ann Lund , Renaissance Quarterly, 71, (3), 2017, p1219-1220
Mark S. Sweetnam, '"Six by nine. Forty two." or How to Ask the Ultimate Question', Memory in a Digital Age: Collecting, Accessing and Forgetting, Trinity Week Seminar, Trinity College Dublin, 14 April 2016, 2016
Mark S. Sweetnam, 'John Donne and the Knowledge of God', Religion and Literature: A Symposium in honour of Professor Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Trinity College Dublin, 31 May 2012, 2012
Mark S. Sweetnam, 'Do you know where your towel is? Digital Humanities and the Discipline of English', School of English Staff/Postgraduate Seminar, Trinity College Dublin, 3 March 2011, 2011
Mark S. Sweetnam, 'Mapping the Language of Early Modern Cultural Contact', Irish Renaissance Seminar, University College Dublin, 4 November 2011, 2011
Mark S. Sweetnam, A Collaborative Linguistic Research Interface for the 1641 Deposition, Digital Humanities 2011, Stanford University, 17-22 July 2011, 2011
Mark S. Sweetnam, Theorising conversion in Early-Modern Imagined Commonwealths, Trans-Atlantic Renaissance Seminar, Web-seminar involving Syracuse University, Cornell University, Trinity College Dublin and University of Manchester, 9 December 2011, 2011
Mark S. Sweetnam, Ministry and the Minister in Stuart Ireland, Social Order and Social Ordering in Stuart Ireland and Scotland, Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen, 2011
Mark S. Sweetnam, A Linguistic Analysis of the 1641 Corpus, Collaborative Research on the 1641 Depositions: Process and Impact', University of Aberdeen, University of Aberdeen, 18-19 February 2011, 2011
Mark S. Sweetnam, Analysing Early Modern English Language in the 1641 Depositions, Centre for Early-Modern Studies Seminar, University of Aberdeen, 2 March 2011, 2011
Mark S. Sweetnam, 'Transgressing the arcana imperii: John Donne and the Unsearchable Councils of God', Staging Transgression in the Early Modern Period, Trinity College Dublin, 6-7 August 2010, 2010
Mark S. Sweetnam, 'Digital Darby: Exploiting the Digital Greek New Testament', New Directions in Millennial Studies, Trinity College Dublin, September 2010, 2010
Mark S. Sweetnam, Natural Language Processing and Early Modern Dirty Data - Applying IBM LanguageWare to the 1641 Depositions Corpus, Chicago Colloquium on the Digital Humanities, North Western University, Evanston, IL, 21-22 November 2010, 2010
Mark S. Sweetnam, The growth of the Brethren movement. National and international experiences. Essays in honour of Harold H. Rowdon. , Review of The growth of the Brethren movement. National and international experiences. Essays in honour of Harold H. Rowdon. , by Neil T. R. Dickson and Tim Grass , Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 60, (1), 2009, p194-196
Mark S. Sweetnam, ' "Zion's King Shall Reign Victorious": The Millennial Orientation of Thomas Kelly's Hymns', United Islands 2: Multi-Lingual Radical Poetry and Song in Britain and Ireland, 1770-1820, Queen's University Belfast, 26-29 August 2009, 2009
Mark S. Sweetnam, 'Things to Come: Eschatology and Spirituality', invited keynote address, Brethren Archivists and Historians Network Conference 2007: Brethren Spirituality, Edinburgh, July 2009, 2009
Mark S. Sweetnam, '"Hello, I'm a Dispensationalist": Evangelical Millennialism in the lyrics of Johnny Cash', Millennialism in The Modern World, Second Liverpool Hope International Conference on Millennialism, Centre for Millennialism Studies, Liverpool Hope University, 7-9 July 2008, 2008
Mark S. Sweetnam, 'Dan Crawford: the missionary and central-African culture' Keynote address, Brethren Archivists and Historians Network Conference 2007: Brethren, Culture and Society, Liverpool Hope University, 5-7 July 2007, 2007
Mark S. Sweetnam, . '"Thou hast not Done": John Donne and the seductive perils of biographical criticism', International Conference on Biography, University of Ulster at Coleraine, 20-22 June 2007, 2007
Mark S. Sweetnam, '"A change of heart": The Critical Paradigm of C.S. Lewis' Preface to Paradise Lost', C. S. Lewis: Critic, Christian and creative writer: An Ulster-Manchester Colloquium in Literature and Belief, University of Manchester, 13 April 2007, 2007
Mark S. Sweetnam, 'Raptured, Rewarded, and Reigning: The Hope of the Believer in The Gospel Hymn Book', Hope-Manchester Colloquium on Millennialism: Texts and Reception, Ripon College Cuddeston, Oxford, 13-15 September 2005, 2005
Recognition
Representations
Participated in ERC (SSH) Consolidator grants mock review panel organised by the Irish Universities Association
Memberships
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Trinity Centre for Biblical Studies