Stephen Ramsay

Associate Professor

Fellow, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities

Degrees and institutions granting the degree

• Rutgers University, BA (1992)
• University of Virginia, MA (2000)
• University of Virginia, PhD (2003)

Professional areas of specialty

• Digital Humanities
• Theory of new media
• Theater History

Courses regularly taught

• Electronic Texts
• Modern Drama

Selected Publications

Books:

• Reading Machines: Toward an Algorithmic Criticism (University of Illinois Press, 2011).
• Mathematics for the Humanist (forthcoming, Oxford University Press)

Recent Articles:

• "Programming with Humanists: Reflections on Raising an Army of Hacker-Scholars in the Digital Humanities"Teaching Digital Humanities: Principles, Practices, and Politics. (digitalculturebooks series, University of Michigan Press, 2012).
• "Developing Things: Notes Toward an Epistemology of Building in the Digital Humanities (with Geoffrey Rockwell) Debates in the Digital Humanities (University of Minnesota Press, 2012).
• "The Hermeneutics of Screwing Around"PastPlay (University of British Columbia Press, 2012).
• "Algorithmic Criticism," Blackwell Companion to Digital Literary Studies (2007)
• "In Praise of Pattern,"TEXT Technology 14.2 (2005)
• "Toward an Algorithmic Criticism,"Literary and Linguistic Computing 18.2 (2003)