Stephen Ramsay

Stephen Ramsay is an Associate Professor of English and a Fellow at the Center. He specializes in computational text analysis and theory of new media, and teaches courses in programming and software engineering to humanities students in both the Department of English and the Department Computer Science and Engineering.

Before coming to Lincoln, Steve worked as a software engineer for the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities and the Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia. He has lectured widely on subjects related to critical theory and software design in digital humanities, and serves as the Director of the Digital Humanities Certificate Program at UNL.

Steve is the author of Reading Machines: Toward an Algorithmic Criticism (University of Illinois Press, 2011) and is at work (with Patrick Juola) on a book for Oxford University Press entitled Mathematics for the Humanist. He is a co-investigator with Brian Pytlik-Zillig on Abbot -- an interoperability framework for large-scale text corpora.

He holds a Masters and Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia and did his undergraduate work at Rutgers.

Steve blogs regularly on subjects related to the digital humanities at http://lenz.unl.edu.