Recent MLA conferences seem to be a privileged venue for the Digital Humanities community to look into the mirror (which actually means that a lot of people wonder if what they’re seeing in the mirror is themselves, the other, or something in between). The effect has obviously been amplified by the embrace of social...
This may be a bit warped given the greater political and philosophical implications, but one of the things I find most fascinating (and exciting) about Cablegate is how quickly several news providers scrambled to provide text analysis and visualization interfaces for readers to explore the corpus themselves (so far only about 300 documents have...
The Digital Humanities 2010 programme committee sent out messages yesterday about acceptances and rejections. My motivation for this post has mostly to do with the impact of this process on newer members of the digital humanities community, but more on that a bit later. I had some success, but more failures, which more or...
Geoffrey Rockwell and I have just completed our first full experiment in pair text analysis: Now Analyze That. Using text analysis, we wanted to try to say something interesting about a corpus of texts, and I think we succeeded; the point wasn’t to do a thorough and theoretically meticulous reading of the corpus (as...
The Text Analysis Developers’ Alliance is a very loose kludge of coders (to coin a collective noun) – actually, it’s not just coders, but designers and users of text analysis tools as well. The group, founded in 2005, has as a mission to encourage collaboration among researchers and to provide useful resources to developers and...
I ordered my MacBook Air soon after they were announced in January 2008 – I needed to upgrade, and I was intrigued by the ultra-thin and light form factor, as well as the idea of having an SSD, flash-based drive (similar to memory cards in digital cameras), which I’m convinced will be the norm...
I am an Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at McGill University. My primary area of research is in the design, development, usage and theorization of tools for the digital humanities, especially for text analysis and visualization. I have led or contributed significantly to projects such as Voyant Tools, the Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR), the MONK Project, the Simulated Environment for Theatre, the Mandala Browser, and BonPatron. In additional to my work developing sophisticated scholarly tools, I have numerous publications related to research and teaching in the Digital Humanities, including Visual Interface Design for Digital Cultural Heritage, co-authored with Stan Ruecker and Milena Radzikowska (Ashgate 2011).
Other professional activities include serving as Vice President of both the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude de médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI), on executive committees of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Associations (ADHO) and centerNET, and as an editor of Digital Humanities Quarterly (Digital Humanities Quarterly). Prior to moving to McGill University, I was Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia at McMaster University from 2004 to 2011, where I was also Director of the Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship. Before joining McMaster University, I was at the University of Alberta where I was co-responsible for the creation and development of the M.A. in Humanities Computing programme from 2001 to 2004. My Ph.D. in French Literature is from Queen's University (2000), my M.A. in French literature is from the University of Victoria (1995), and my honours B.A. in French is from the University of British Columbia (1994).
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