Stephen Ramsay has published widely on subjects related to the digital humanities and has been teaching students in the arts and humanities how to write software since the early 2000s. He also regularly teaches classes in game design, new media, and theater history. He is a Faculty Fellow at UNL's Center for Digital Research in the Humanities.

Selected Publications

Books

On the Digital Humanities: Essays and Provocations (University of Minnesota Press, 2023).

Six Septembers: Mathematics for the Humanist with Patrick Juola (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Reading Machines: Toward an Algorithmic Criticism (University of Illinois Press, 2011).

Recent Articles

"The Politics of Tools." Digital Humanities Quarterly 17.2 (2023).

"Machine." Further Reading. 21st Century Approaches to Literature series. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2020

“Can Videogames Be Humanities Scholarship?'” (with James Coltrain, forthcoming). Debates in the Digital Humanities. Ed. Matt Gold and Lauren Klein. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019.

“Where Semantics Lies''.  The Shape of Data in Digital Humanities. New York: Routledge, 2018.

"Humane Computation." <em>Debates in the Digital Humanities,</em> edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

“Programming with Humanists: Reflections on Raising an Army of Hacker-Scholars in the Digital Humanities,” Teaching Digital Humanities: Principles, Practices, and Politics. (digitalculturebooks series, University of Michigan Press, 2012).

Areas of Interest

Digital Humanities

Theory of new media

Theater History