Stephen Ramsay

Stephen Ramsay, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, specializes in computational text analysis and visualization. He teaches courses in both theater history and digital humanities.

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 a member of the Executive Council of the Association for Computers in the Humanities and as a member of the Computer Studies in Language and Literature committee of the Modern Language Association.

Steve is one of the main co-investigators for Nora Project—a multi-institutional research effort that endeavors to bring data mining and visualization techniques to bear on existing large-scale literary text archives.

He holds a Masters and Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia and did his undergraduate work at Rutgers. He is currently at work on a book entitled "Algorithmic Criticism" that explores the theoretical issues raised by the computational analysis of literary texts.

Steve Ramsay's Digital Humanities Blog: http://lenz.unl.edu/wordpress/