The Digital Humanities Working Group at UIC’s Institute for the Humanities
has secured Steven E. Jones as its inaugural speaker.

Steven E. Jones<http://stevenejones.org/>  is Professor of English and Co-Director
of the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities<http://ctsdh.luc.edu/>
at Loyola University Chicago. His research interests include Romantic-period
literature, textual studies – which is concerned with the production,
transmission, and reception of texts of all kinds in multiple media – and
digital humanities, the intersection of humanities research and computing.

Based on his book-in-progress, his talk, entitled “The Emergence of the
Digital Humanities,” will be presented on Wednesday, November 28th from 3-5 p.m.
at UIC’s Institute for the Humanities (basement of Stevenson Hall).

More details will be forthcoming closer to the date.

Benn E. Williams
Secretary, Digital Humanities Working Group
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL 60607-7106
Email: bwilli7@uic.edu