International Journal of Digital Humanities - Welcoming new core editors of the International Journal of Digital Humanities: George Mikros, Thorsten Ries, and Kees Teszelszky
International Journal of Digital Humanities welcomes George Mikros, Thorsten Ries, and Kees Teszelszky as new core editors.
Dr. George Mikros is currently a Professor at the MA Program of Digital Humanities at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar. Since 1999 and till 2019, he has been a Professor of Computational and Quantitative Linguistics at the University of Athens, Greece. He is the Director of the Computational Stylistics lab. Since 2013 he is also Adj. Professor at the Department of Applied Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA. He had the position of Research Associate at the Institute for Language and Speech Processing. He was part of research groups that have developed important language resources and NLP tools for Modern Greek.
Since 1999 he holds the position of Teaching Associate at the Hellenic Open University, and from 2016 till 2019, he was the Director of the Undergraduate Program “Spanish Language and Culture.” Prof. Mikros has authored 5 monographs and more than 80 papers published in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and edited volumes. Since 2007 he has been elected as a Member of the Council of the International Association of Quantitative Linguistics (IQLA). In 2018 he was elected its President.
He is the keynote speaker and invited speaker in many international conferences, workshops, and summer schools related to Digital Humanities and Quantitative Linguistics. His main research interests are computational stylistics, quantitative linguistics, computational linguistics, and forensic linguistics.
Dr. Thorsten Ries is Assistant Professor at the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, specialised in German Literature of the 18th to 21st century, Digital Humanities and Digital Learning. Additionally, he is also a Visiting Professor (5%) at Ghent University, Belgium. Before taking up these roles roles, he taught as Visiting Professor at Regensburg University (Germany, 2020) and Antwerp University (Belgium, 2019-20), and had worked at Ghent University, University of Sussex and Hamburg University.
His main research interests are German literature of the 18th and 20th-21st century, digital humanities (digital scholarly editing, digital forensics and born-digital preservation and analysis, corpus analysis and nlp, digital history, (born-)digital literature, general DH methodology), methodology and discipline history of the “Germanistik”.
At the moment, he is especially interested in born-digital philology, which puts to work digital forensics to preserve and study born-digital archives. Born-digital archives that let us analyse how literay ways of writing change in the digital era, how writing is affected by the digital tools that we use. Born-digital archives are the material historical record of our present day, which will mean a paradigm shift for literary studies as well as for all historical humanities disciplines.
Dr. Kees Teszelszky has been online since 1992 and makes use of computers since 1984. He is a historian and curator of the (born) digital collections at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek - National Library of the Netherlands. He graduated at the University of Leiden (Political Science, 1999) and at the University of Amsterdam (East European Studies, 1998) and obtained his PhD at the University of Groningen (Cultural History, 2006). He has been involved in research on web archiving and born digital sources since 2012.
His present research field covers the selection, harvest and presentation of born digital sources and digital humanities. He is currently involved in projects on internet archaeology in the Netherlands, mapping the Frisian and Dutch national web domain, online news, special web collections and the historic sources of our Post-truth era.
Next to this, he acted as lead curator Climate Change at the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC), a worldwide network of organizations from over 35 countries involving web archiving and research on web archives, including national, university and regional libraries, archives and the Internet Archive. Furthermore, he is a steering member of the international academic research network Web ARChive studies researching web domains and events. His team was two times nominated for the Internet Society (ISOC) Innovation Award.