Dr. Ian Lancashire
Fellow
Current Employer
University of Toronto
Election Year
2007
Academy
Académie des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada
Discipline
Literature
Department
Department of English
Keywords
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.
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.