User:Oceanbourne

Wikipedia user Oceanbourne is Mike.

Oceanbourne is a writer, translator, legal scholar, linguist, and theorist who has written for the popular, trade, news, and academic media on a variety of topics including:


 * video games and gaming as a cultural aspect
 * gay rights and gay-oreinted legal issues
 * law and technology issues
 * architecture
 * the literary work of Hélène Cixous
 * Nordic history and lore
 * translation theory
 * transliteration of non-Slavic languages that use Cyrillic orthographies.
 * medico-legal issues & legal ethics
 * aviation law
 * admiralty law

In regard to Wikipedia, his main focus is the creation and editing of articles dealing with:


 * law and technology
 * Faroese Culture
 * Nordic culture and languages
 * mythologies
 * Danish writers
 * military history
 * computer languages
 * computer science
 * transliteration

A few of Oceanbourne's peer-reviewed publications:

"Programming and Analysis of Historic Texts" Multilingual Computing & Technology, 12: 7. pp. 37-39

"Metaphor in Old French and Its Translation: Chrétien de Troyes’ Érec et Énide". The ATA Chronicle. May, 2002.

"Queer manifestations on the Internet: the evolution of legal obstacles and legal freedoms". Mots Pluriels, 19. October 2001.

the above is availible online here

Some Quirky Personal details:

favourite authors:

Fiction and Non-fiction: Jane Austen, Clarice Lispector, Thomas Mann, Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva, Gloria Jahoda, Kate Chopin, JT Leroy, Marcel Proust, Dennis Cooper, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Carson McCullers, and Emily Brontë.

Poetry: Robert Frost, John Clare, Muriel Rukeyser, T.S. Eliot, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Arthur Rimbaud, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Terik Trout, Autumn McClintock, and Jorie Graham.

I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

--Mike 03:54, 21 October 2005 (UTC)