Harvey Quamen
Contact
Professor, Faculty of Arts - English & Film Studies Dept
- hquamen@ualberta.ca
- Address
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4-5 Humanities Centre
11121 Saskatchewan Drive NWEdmonton ABT6G 2H5
Overview
About
I am a Professor of English and Digital Humanities and am currently the Academic Director of the Digital Scholarship Centre located in Cameron Library, as well as the President of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities. I have been a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College, London, and I have participated in several large digital humanities research teams, including Editing Modernism in Canada, the Canadian Writers Research Collaboratory, and the Implementing New Knowledge Environments Project. My research interests include "big data" humanities, including text mining, social network analysis, and humanistic data visualization. Recent publications include "Codework: The Pedagogy of DH Programming" in What We Teach When We Teach DH and an essay on the data visualization of literary style called "Stylometry without Words: The Literary Style of John Milton," part of a special issue of Renaissance and Reformation dedicated to "Digital Milton Studies," a volume which I co-edited.
Research
- Digital Humanities
- Science and Literature (especially 19th- and 20th-centuries)
- Social Network Analysis
- Data Visualization
Teaching
I currently teach almost exclusively in our MA Digital Humanities program, where I lead the technical courses -- a rotation of Python Programming, Data Visualization with R, SQL Databases, and Critical Algorithm Theory.
Announcements
I can be reached via email and hold office hours at my DSC office, which is in 2-20C Cameron Library.