Ray Siemens is a professor in the faculty of humanities at the

University of Victoria The University of Victoria (UVic) is a public research university located in the municipalities of Oak Bay, British Columbia, Oak Bay and Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. Established in 1903 as Victoria College, British Columbia, Victoria Col ...

, British Columbia, Canada and former

Canada Research Chair Canada Research Chair (CRC) is a title given to certain Canadian university research professors by the Canada Research Chairs Program. Program goals The Canada Research Chair program was established in 2000 as a part of the Government of Canada ...

in Humanities Computing. Siemens is a recipient of the Antonio Zampolli Prize, presented by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) for outstanding contributions to the field of

Digital Humanities Digital humanities (DH) is an area of scholarly activity at the intersection of computing or Information technology, digital technologies and the disciplines of the humanities. It includes the systematic use of digital resources in the humanitie ...

Appointments

In addition to his role at the University of Victoria, Siemens has been a visiting research fellow at the Institute for English Studies, London (2005 & 2008), visiting professor at

Sheffield Hallam University Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The university is based on two sites; the City Campus is located in the city centre near Sheffield station, Sheffield railway station, whil ...

(2004–2011),

Ritsumeikan University is a private university in Kyoto, Japan, that traces its origin to 1869. In addition to its main campus in Kyoto, the university also has satellite campuses in Ibaraki, Osaka and Kusatsu, Shiga. Today, Ritsumeikan University is known as one o ...

(2010),

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...

(2013), the

University of Passau The University of Passau (''Universität Passau'' in German) is a public research university located in Passau, Lower Bavaria, Germany. Founded in 1973, it is the youngest university in Bavaria and consequently has the most modern campus in the ...

(2014), the

University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...

(2014), and

Western Sydney University Western Sydney University, formerly the University of Western Sydney, is an Australian multi-campus public research university in the Greater Western region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The university in its current form was founde ...

(2014–2015). As of 2017, he was visiting senior research fellow in the Department of Digital Humanities at

King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public university, public research university in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of George IV of the United Kingdom, King George IV ...

. Siemens is the director of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, one of the largest community gatherings in the

. Siemens is a member of the Governcing Council of Canada's Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Chair of the Modern Language Association (MLA) Committee on Scholarly Editions, and Chair of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO). He former chair of the MLA Committee on Information Technology, president of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities, and Vice-president of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Scholarship

Siemens is a literary and textual scholar who largely focuses on Renaissance literature, electronic books, and the

. He has edited several Renaissance texts, as well as a number of high-profile DH titles, including ''A Companion to Digital Humanities'' (Blackwell 2004), ''A'' ''Companion to Digital Literary Studies'' (Blackwell 2008), and the MLA's evolving digital anthology, ''Literary Studies in the Digital Age''. He also talked in an interview with fellow researcher Julianne Nyhan about this first experience in the Digital Humanities as an initial English undergraduate. Siemens received the ADHO's Antonio Zampolli Prize in 2014. He has also received the University of Victoria Humanities Award for Research Excellence (2009), and the University of Waterloo Arts in Academics Alumni Achievement (2008).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Siemens, Ray Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Canadian educators