President and Officers

	Document Contents David Robey Harold Short Melissa Terras Marilyn Deegan Paul Spence Edward Vanhoutte Simon Horobin

Officers are appointed by the Executive Committee, and serve at its pleasure. Click on the names to see biographical information for each person.

	David Robey - President		Harold Short - Chair 2008-2010

	Melissa Terras - Secretary 2009-2012		Paul Spence - Treasurer 2008-2011		Marilyn Deegan - Editor, LLC. The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

	Edward Vanhoutte - Associate Editor, LLC. The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities		Simon Horobin - Associate Editor, LLC. The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

David Robey

d.j.b.robey [at] reading.ac.uk

President

Formerly Professor of Italian at Manchester University, also Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. He has published on 15th-century humanism (educational and poetic theory), language and style in Dante and Renaissance narrative poetry, the computer analysis of literature, and modern critical theory. He has recently completed a computer-based study on 'Sound and Structure in Dante's 'Divine Comedy'', and is currently extending this work to include the major narrative poems of the Italian Renaissance. He was also joint editor of the The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature, now translated as the 'Enciclopedia della Letteratura Italiana Oxford/Zanichelli', and is half-time Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Council's ICT in Arts and Humanities Research Programme.

Harold Short

harold.short [at] kcl.ac.uk

Chair

Harold Short is Director of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London, where he has worked since 1988. He is involved in a number of major projects based at King's, including the Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire (PBE), the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE), the Clergy of the Church of England Database project (CCED) - all funded by the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the EPIDOC Project: Aphrodisias Pilot Project (INSAPH) - funded by the Leverhulme Trust, the Corpus of Contemporary Spanish, and the Thesaurus of Old English. He is also involved in two AHRB-funded projects based at the Courtauld Institute of Art: the Corpus of Romanesque Scultpure in Britain and Ireland and the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi.

He is Co-Director of the Office for Humanities Communication (OHC), and a member of the Organising Committee of the Digital Resources for the Humanities Conferences. He was co-author, with Lou Burnard of Oxford University, of the feasibility study which led to the setting up of the UK's Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS). He was on the steering committee of the ACO*Hum Project, a Europe-wide project on the development of humanities computing components in undergraduate and taught Masters programmes, and is involved in proposals to set up an EU Network of Excellence 'Computing and Humanities in a Multilingual Europe' (CHiME). He is a member of the Management Committee of the English Subject Centre of the UK's Learning and Teaching Support Network.

Melissa Terras

Secretary

m.terras [at] ucl.ac.uk

Melissa Terras is a Lecturer in Electronic Communication and Publishing at University College London, teaching Internet Technologies, Web Publishing, and Digital Resources in the Humanities in the School of Library, Archive, and Information Studies (SLAIS). Her research interests include Humanities Computing, Digitisation and Digital Imaging, Artificial Intelligence, Palaeography, Knowledge Elicitation, Internet Technologies, and Virtual Reality.

Prior to joining UCL in August 2003, she was the Assistant Manager of the Engineering Policy department at the Royal Academy of Engineering. Melissa was awarded a DPhil from The University of Oxford in 2002, her doctoral work being a joint project between the Department of Engineering Science and the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, which looked at how to build cognitive systems to aid historians in the reading of damaged and deteriorated texts. Melissa has published various articles on virtual reality and archaeology, and the use of image processing in the study of ancient documents. She is involved in various research projects, and collaborations with other universities and institutions.

Marilyn Deegan

marilyn.deegan [at] kcl.ac.uk

Editor, LLC. The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

Marilyn Deegan studied English Language and Literature at the University of Manchester, obtaining a first class honours degree. She was awarded a PhD at Manchester in 1989 for a study of Anglo-Saxon and medieval medical texts and herbals. She taught Old and Middle English at Manchester and at the University of Lancaster, before taking an MSc in Computation at UMIST (1989).

She has been Manager for Computing in the Arts at the University of Oxford and Professor of Electronic Library Research at De Montfort University, and is now Director of Forced Migration Online at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.

Her main research interests are: medieval literatures and cultures, in particular in areas related to health and disease; the use of new technologies in humanities subjects; and digital library development. Since joining the RSC, these interests have broadened to include the historical aspects of forced migration and cultural change.

Her recent publications include 'The Politics of the Electronic Text' (with Warren Chernaik and Caroline Davis) and 'Beyond the Book: Theory, Culture, and the Politics of Cyberspace' (with Warren Chernaik and Andrew Gibson.

Paul Spence

paul.spence [at] kcl.ac.uk

Treasurer

Paul Spence is Project Manager for Digital Text research at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London where he has worked on over 40 projects in the humanities and social sciences, including the Fine Rolls of Henry III, Out of the Wings, Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi, Inscriptions of Aphrodisias, Early Modern Spain and Hofmeister XIX.

His research interests include modelling textual information, digital edition and electronic publishing, and he is technical director of a number of the major research projects in which the department is involved. He also co-leads development on the TEI-based publishing application xMod.

He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses on digital edition/publication at CCH and is also a teacher on the course in 'Tecnologías del texto' (Text technologies) at the University of Castilla La Mancha in Spain. He was involved in organising the CLiP 2006 and TEI 2008 Conferences.

Edward Vanhoutte

edward.vanhoutte [at] kantl.be

Associate Editor, LLC. The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

Edward Vanhoutte studied Dutch and English language and literature and mediaeval history. His main research interests include the history, nature, and theory of humanities computing and electronic textual editing, the encoding of modern manuscripts, letter editing, and genetic criticism. He has lectured and published widely on these subjects. He is currently Director of Research in the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature (Belgium) where he heads the Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB). He is Associate Editor of LLC. The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities.

A complete resume can be found here.

Simon Horobin

s.horobin [at] englang.arts.gla.ac.uk

Associate Editor, LLC. The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

Simon Horobin is a Reader in English Language at the University of Glasgow. He has research and teaching interests in Medieval English language and literature, historical linguistics and humanities computing.

His publications include 'An Introduction to Middle English' (2002), 'The Language of the Chaucer Tradition' (2003) and 'Chaucerâs Language' (2006). He is also an Associate Editor for the journal Literary & Linguistic Computing.