Willard McCarty is Professor of Humanities Computing in the Department of Digital Humanities at

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, England, where he is director of the doctoral programme in the department. He is a visiting professor in the Digital Humanities Research Group in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at the

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, Australia. He is a Fellow of the

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, London, and the editor of the Humanist Discussion Group established by him in 1987, dealing with humanities computing and the digital humanities.

Academic career

He is the author of the book ''Humanities Computing'' and numerous scholarly articles and book chapters in the field. He is editor of the journal ''

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'' and founding editor of

Humanist (electronic seminar) ''Humanist'' is an international electronic seminar on humanities computing and the digital humanities, in the form of a long-running electronic mailing list and its associated archive. The primary aim of ''Humanist'' is to provide a forum for dis ...

. He has also conducted interviews with Digital Humanities researchers like John Burrows and Hugh Craig about network aspect in the research field. He has received several honors and awards including the 2013

Roberto Busa Roberto Busa (November 28, 1913 – August 9, 2011) was an Italian Jesuit priest and one of the pioneers in the usage of computers for linguistic and literary analysis. He was the author of the ''Index Thomisticus'', a complete lemmatization of t ...

Prize for lifetime achievement in the digital humanitiesRoberto Busa Prize
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. The Willard McCarty Fellowship was set up in 2018 by the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London in honour of his contribution to the advances and growth of the field of Digital Humanities and the Department.

References

External links

Professor Willard McCarty

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

Humanist

Humanities Computing

Obi-Wan McCarty
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