Geoffrey Rockwell, PhD
Contact
Associate Director, A, Vice-President Research Innovation - Signature Research Areas
- grockwel@ualberta.ca
Director, Faculty of Arts - Kule Institute for Advanced Studies (KIAS)
- grockwel@ualberta.ca
Overview
About
Dr. Geoffrey Martin Rockwell is a Professor of Philosophy and Humanities Computing at the University of Alberta, Canada. He was born in Philadelphia, and raised in Rome, Italy. He studied philosophy at Haverford College (BA) and the University of Toronto (MA, PhD). He is currently the Director of the Kule Institute for Advanced Study.
Research
Geoffrey Rockwell has published on textual visualization and analysis, 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 is currently the Director of the Kule Institute for Advanced Study and blogs at theoreti.ca.
Teaching
Geoffrey Rockwell teaches in the MA in Humanities Computing. He teaches courses on Project Management, Theoretical Issues in Humanities Computing, Big Data in the Humanities, and Japanese Game Culture.
Courses
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]