Geoffrey Rockwell, PhD
Pronouns: he, him, his
Contact
Professor, Faculty of Arts - Media Tech Studies (MTS)
- Geoffrey.Rockwell@ualberta.ca
- Address
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209 D Arts Building (Main & Conv Hall)
113 St and 91 AveEdmonton ABT6G 2E6
Canada CIFAR AI Chair and Amii Fellow
- grockwel@ualberta.ca
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Digital Humanities AI Ethics Text Analysis and Visualization
About
Dr. Geoffrey Martin Rockwell is a Professor of Philosophy and Digital Humanities at the University of Alberta, Canada since 2008. He studied philosophy at Haverford College (BA) and the University of Toronto (MA, PhD). He is currently an Amii (Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute) Fellow and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair.
Research
Geoffrey Rockwell has published on textual visualization and analysis, AI ethics and computing in the humanities including a book from the MIT Press, Hermeneutica: Computer-Assisted Interpretation in the Humanities (2016). He is a co-developer of Voyant Tools, a suite of text analysis tools, and leads the TAPoR project documenting text tools. He blogs at theoreti.ca.
Teaching
Geoffrey Rockwell teaches in the MA in Digital Humanities. He teaches courses on Theoretical Issues in Humanities Computing, Big Data and Text Analysis in the Humanities, and Information Ethics.
Courses
DH 500 - Survey of Digital Humanities
DH 510 - Topics in Digital Theory and Culture
INT D 225 - Topics in Interdisciplinary Studies
May require payment of additional student instructional support fees. Refer to the Tuition and Fees page in the University Regulations section of the Calendar. Offered by various departments depending upon the content of the course in a given year. [Faculty of Arts]