Geoffrey Rockwell

University of Alberta, Member Citizenship and Participation Theme, Member Technology + AI Adoption Working Group

EducationPhD, University of Toronto

Areas of ExpertiseDigital humanities, text analysis and visualization, ethics of information and technology

Geoffrey Rockwell is Professor of Philosophy and Digital Humanities at the University of Alberta, and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii (Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute). He publishes on video games, textual visualization, text analysis, ethics of technology and on digital humanities. He co-edited the book on Right Research: Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene (Open Book Publishers, 2021) co-authored the book Hermeneutica: Computer-Assisted Interpretation in the Humanities (MIT Press, 2016). He is the co-developer, together with Stéfan Sinclair, of Voyant Tools (voyant-tools.org (external link) ), an award-winning suite of text analysis and visualization tools.

Recent Publications

Bradley, J., Nyhan, J., Rockwell, G.M., Sinclair, S., & Ortolja-Baird, A. (Eds.). (2023). On Making in the Digital Humanities: The Scholarship of Digital Humanities Development in Honour of John Bradley. UCL Press.

Chee, F. M., Suomela, T., Berendt, B., & Rockwell, G. M. (2023). Applying a Feminist Ethics of Care in Conducting Internet-based Archival Gender Research: The Case of Studying Gamergate Reactions (external link) . In, Trauth, E. & J. Quesenberry (Eds), Handbook of Gender and Technology: Environment, Identity, Individual, (pp. 369–385). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Suomela, T., Chee, F., Berendt, B., & Rockwell, G.M. (2019). Applying an Ethics of Care to Internet Research: Gamergate and Digital Humanities (external link) . Digital Studies/Le Champ Numérique, 9(1), 4.