My move this summer from McMaster to McGill is requiring me to confront a lot of changes, not least in transferring my hefty digital footprint between institutions. Much like moving house, a digital move is an opportunity to purge a lot of unused and neglected stuff – but still, it’s time-consuming and not much...
This past term I gave a graduate course, in collaboration with Jeff Trzeciak, on “Technologies of Communication” and tried something that feels a bit subversive: I didn’t assign any essays. Of course, I’m almost certainly not the first humanities professor to not assign essays in a graduate course (I haven’t bothered looking for other...
(This is a lightly edited version of a post from my DayOfDH (next year there are rumblings that we may be able to aggregate content from our existing blogs instead of self-plagiarizing.) We now have three years of DayOfDH blogging archives – that’s a pretty rich record of how digital humanists describe their activities...
There are the four seasons – Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall – but there are also other annual phases that my academic physiology anticipates and experiences. I’m not talking about Oobleck, but rather things like the planning of the intense conference season in digital humanities (May-June), start of the academic year (September), preparation of my annual report...
There are few instances when the data you have are exactly what you need, particularly for feeding into analytic tools of various kinds. This is one of the reasons I think it’s so important for a significant subset of digital humanists to have...
There are some digital humanists who are competent mathematicians, but most of us experience some anxiety about the more advanced mathematics involved in the text analysis methodologies that we use. Dammit Jim, I’m a humanist, not a mathematician! The problem of course is that there are clearly some statistical and graphical techniques that can...
I am an Associate Professor in Digital Humanities at McGill University.
My research focuses primarily on the design, development and theorization of tools for the digital humanities, especially for text analysis and visualization. I have led or contributed significantly to projects such as Voyeur Tools, Simulated Environment for Theatre, and BonPatron. Other professional activities include serving as associate editor for Literary and Linguistic Computing and Digital Humanities Quarterly, as well as serving on the executive boards of SDH/SEMI, ACH, ADHO, and centerNET.
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