Digital Humanities and Academic Change

Alan Liu is professor and chair in the English department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he teaches in the fields of digital humanities, British Romantic literature and art, and literary theory. He has published three books: Wordsworth: The Sense of History (Stanford University Press, 1989), The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information (University of Chicago Press, 2004), and Local Transcendence: Essays on Post-modern Historicism and the Database (University of Chicago Press, 2008). Liu is principal investigator of the University of California's multi-campus research group on “Transliteracies: Research in the Technological, Social, and Cultural Practices of Online Reading.” He is the editor of The Voice of the Shuttle: Web Site for Humanities Research.