Dr. Jason Boyd

Biography:

I work in a field known as Digital Humanities, a term which refers (among other things) to the use of computer tools and methods to assist humanities scholarship and to the humanistic interrogation of digital technologies. I have backgrounds in nineteenth century studies, queer studies, and early modern theatre history. My teaching interests largely focus on exploring the creative and critical uses of digital media in a literary context (digital scholarship, literature and games).

My current research includes: a book project exploring the potentialities at the intersection of literary and game studies; theorising the critical scholarly editing of born-digital literature; and encoding biographical corpora for computer-assisted exegetical analysis. 

Research Interests:

Queer digital humanities, textual encoding and computer-assisted textual analysis, digital literature, digital games and gaming, digital cultures, critical code/software studies, social knowledge creation, Oscar Wilde, queer studies, life-writing.