Willard McCarty

Reader in Humanities Computing
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
King's College, London

Biography

When the National Humanities Center awarded the Richard Lyman award to Willard McCarty, the news release proclaimed him a "humanities computing 'wizard'."  McCarty is best known as a theoretician and an advocate for humanities computing as an intellectual field of inquiry.  His latest book, Humanities Computing, explains how and why this is the case.  McCarty's theoretical approach is grounded in his own project "The Analytical Onomasticon, a digital humanities approach to Ovid's Metamorphoses."

In 1987, he founded Humanist, a digital medium designed to bring together scholars working on problems born of the intersection of computing and the humanities. Humanist, which McCarty continues to moderate, has grown from a small e-mail listserv to an international digital resource for all humanities scholars with interests in humanities computing. In addition, he has taught Humanities Computing at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London where he has been a Reader in Humanities Computing since 1996.

• "What's going on" Plenary Address
• Slides (PowerPoint)