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Dr. Ian Lancashire

Affiliation

University of Toronto

Academy or College

Academy of the Arts and Humanities

Year Elected

2007

Areas of Interest

poetry, digital humanities, lexicography, early modern English, speculative fiction

Long Citation
Ian Lancashire is Canada's pioneer and premier theorist and practitioner of humanities computing. Through his creative research and teaching, he has revealed the rich scholarly possibilities of electronic technology and, in the process, revolutionized the work of teachers and scholars around the world. The recent recipient of a lifetime achievement award, he is the co-developer of the widely recognized text-analysis program, TACT; the creator of five public research and educational Internet databases, including the award-winning Representative Poetry Online; and a Senior Principal Investigator for TAPoR--a multi-university research consortium. Almost single-handedly, he has placed Canada in the forefront of the digital humanities.

Short Citation
Ian Lancashire is Canada's pioneer and premier theorist and practitioner of humanities computing. Through his creative research and teaching, he has revealed the rich scholarly possibilities of electronic technology and, in the process, revolutionized the work of teachers and scholars around the world. He has been instrumental in situating Canada in the forefront of the digital humanities.