Add to Ray Siemens, Professor of English, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
All are welcome. 2pm - 5pm Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2
Abstract
This master class will focus on the underpinnings of a digital humanities approach to research issues relating to the 'electronic book'. It will be seminar/discussion format, structured around [1] several key theoretical concepts, [2] their modeled, pragmatic applications, and [3] consideration of key partner relations in this enterprise, with all seminar members having an opportunity to participate. Advanced reading is not required, however, a short article in preparation for the talk is available for download.
About Ray
Ray Siemens is Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Professor of English at the University of Victoria with appointment also in Computer Science. The editor of several Renaissance texts, Siemens is also the founding editor of the electronic scholarly journal Early Modern Literary Studies; he has authored numerous articles on the intersection of literary studies and computational methods and is the co-editor of several book collections on humanities computing topics, among them Blackwell's Companion to Digital Humanities (with Susan Schreibman and John Unsworth) and Companion to Digital Literary Studies (with Susan Schreibman).
Codex Redux: Books and New Knowledge Environments by Claire Warwick, Ray Siemens, and Stan Rueker.
