Dr. Willard McCarty
Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk		 Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), King's College London; Vice-President, Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH); &c. 

Research

My research interests lie in two overlapping areas: Ovidian studies, particularly the Metamorphoses, and problems of meta-textual representation on the computer. These areas come together in work on the forthcoming Analytical Onomasticon to the Metamorphoses of Ovid, for which see the online Onomasticon Sampler and the (somewhat outdated) project Web site at King's London and Princeton. Otherwise, as editor of Humanist and in other capacities I watch the evolution of humanities computing as a field and am involved in an ongoing attempt to understand its nature, function and institutional role.

Teaching

At King's I have overall responsibility for our Humanities with applied computing undergraduate minor programme, teach the first year course and serve as tutor for students in the third year. I also share responsibilities for the postgraduate course in applied computing.

Since 1987, with a five-year hiatus, I have directed the online seminar Humanist, a forum for discussion of all matters related to humanities computing.

Previously I co-directed the CETH Summer Seminar, "Electronic Texts in the Humanities: Methods and Tools", at Princeton University (1991-96), with Susan Hockey (Alberta at Edmonton). I also designed and taught a certificate programme in humanities computing for graduate students at the University of Toronto, Canada (1990-96).

Publishing and publications

I co-edit CH Working Papers, a refereed online publication series for studies in humanities computing, at Toronto and King's College London and serve on the editorial boards of Markup Languages and Text Technology.

For the details of my own publications and other professional activities see my curriculum vitae. I have a few papers independently online:

  1. On humanities computing


    2. These represent stages in an ongoing attempt to understand the field and to argue for its intellectual character and scholarly role in the academy. Much is repeated from version to version, and perhaps all previous versions will be scrapped once I have something that satisfies me. For the moment the intention is to provoke critical thinking, so comments are most welcome.

    1. [X] "Humanities computing as interdiscipline". Is Humanities Computing an Academic Discipline?. IATH, University of Virginia, 5 November 1999.
    2. [X] "Humanities computing units and institutional resources" (with Matthew Kirschenbaum), October 1999--.
    3. [X] "We would know how we know what we know: Responding to the computational transformation of the humanities". The Transformation of Science: Research between Printed Information and the Challenges of Electronic Networks. Max Planck Gesellschaft, Schloss Elmau, 31 May -- 2 June 1999.
    4. [X] "Poem and algorithm: humanities computing in the life and place of the mind". The Open University, Milton Keynes, 10 October 1998, rev. of a paper previously given at Edinburgh, September 1998.
    5. [X] "What is humanities computing? Toward a definition of the field". Liverpool, 20 February 1998. Reed College (Portland, Oregon, U.S.) and Stanford University (Palo Alto, California, U.S.), March 1998. Würzburg (Germany), July 1998.
    6. [X] "Literary and mechanical thinking: a position paper on the boundaries of computer-assisted literary analysis", Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA, November 1995.
    7. [X] "A Potency of Life: Scholarship in the Electronic Age". If We Build It: Scholarly Communications and Networking Technologies. Proceedings of the North American Serials Interest Group. New York: Haworth Press, 1993. Pp. 79-97. A plenary address available here and so in no need of a summary.
  2. The Analytical Onomasticon Project and textual encoding
    1. [X] "Theft of fire: meaning in the markup of names", ACH/ALLC 97, Kingston (Ontario, Canada), 7 June 1997.
    2. [X] "In nova fert animus...Computing the Metamorphoses in the Analytical Onomasticon Project", American Philological Association, New York, December 1996.
  3. Electronic publication
    1. [X] "Basic challenges of electronic publication", Tübingen (Germany), July 1998.
    2. [X] "The shape of things to come is continuous change: fundamental problems in electronic publishing", Centre for English Studies and the Office for Humanities Communication, London, January 1997.
    An additional item may be found in CH Working Papers.
     

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