Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing
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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 |
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| Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen - Secretary 2008-2009 | Paul Spence - Treasurer 2008-2011 | Marilyn Deegan - Editor, Literary and Linguistic Computing |
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| Edward Vanhoutte - Associate Editor, Literary and Linguistic Computing | Simon Horobin - Associate Editor, Literary and Linguistic Computing |
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d.j.b.robey [at] reading.ac.uk
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 [at] kcl.ac.uk
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.
lisa.lena.opas-hanninen [at] oulu.fi
marilyn.deegan [at] kcl.ac.uk
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 [at] kcl.ac.uk
edward.vanhoutte [at] kantl.be
Edward Vanhoutte is coordinator of the Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies, a research institute of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature - Ghent, Belgium. He is an independent SGML/XML consultant in different academic projects in Belgium and The Netherlands, and publishes widely on textual and genetic criticism and electronic scholarly editing. He teaches graduate courses on genetic editing and humanities computing at the University of Antwerp, and is Associate Editor of Literary & Linguistic Computing . He runs the occasional series Seminars in Electronic Editing . He serves as a member of several boards and councils such as the TEI Council (2004-2006). His research interests include text-encoding and markup of modern manuscript material, electronic scholarly editing, genetic editing, and the history of electronic scholarly editing. He is currentlyfinishing a doctorate in that field.
Together with Espen S. Ore and Mats Dahlström he edited /Electronic Scholarly Editing - Some Northern European Approaches./ A Special Issue of /Literary and Linguistic Computing/, 19/1 (2004). Amongst his most recent publications are several text-critical reading editions and electronic editions as well as several edited collections of essays. Edward is also a passionate food writer , mainly reviews cookery books, and runs culinary workshops and courses as well as a catering service.
A complete resume can be found here.
s.horobin [at] englang.arts.gla.ac.uk
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.