Dr. Raymond Siemens, a Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and professor in the Department of English, recently became UVic's twelfth Distinguished Professor.  This title is the highest academic honour that UVic can bestow on a faculty member. It is awarded to individuals who have achieved great distinction in the areas of both teaching and scholarly research, and who have made a substantial contribution to the university and wider communities. The title is awarded to those whose scholarly work is of exceptionally high international calibre and whose teaching and student supervision is outstanding as judged by peers and students.

Siemens is a digital humanist who specializes in Early Modern texts. He also contributes to the Department of Computer Science, and heads the SSHRC-funded “Implementing New Knowledge Environments” project (INKE), a digital humanities research group that seeks to investigate the many questions produced by this dynamic and burgeoning intersection between information technology and the humanities.

Dr. Siemens will present a Distinguished Lecture on March 7, 2012. In the meantime learn more about Dr. Siemens in The Ring.

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