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  1. Stephen Ramsay. Associate Professor of English. sramsay2@unl.edu. Selected Publications. Books. 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.

  2. Stephen Ramsay is Susan J. Rosowski Associate University Professor of English and a Fellow at the Center. He specializes in philosophical issues related to the use of technology in digital humanities, and teaches courses in programming and software engineering to humanities students in both the Department of English and the Department of ...

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    Ann Cleeves's six murder mysteries featuring Inspector Stephen Ramsay were published in the 1990s, and have become collectors items. Like Ann's Vera Stanhope, Inspector Ramsay is based in Northumberland, and the books show all aspects of that multi-faceted county. All six books will be reissued in striking new editions, starting in June 2024. If yo...

    Inspector Ramsay made his much-praised debut in 1990, in A Lesson in Dying. Heppleburn, once a Northumberland pit village, has always been close-knit, friendly and safe - until the murder of headmaster Harold Medburn. Suddenly, the village seems unfamiliar, uncomfortable. The school caretaker and his daughter pursue their own route of investigation...

    In this second Inspector Ramsay novel, our hero faces a murder investigation on his own doorstep following his impulsive decision to buy a cottage in the quiet Northumberland village of Heppleburn. When local uproar over a proposed housing development ends in murder, the pressure is once again on Ramsay to act from within and interrogate every poss...

    Dorothea Cassidy, the vicar's wife, lies dead in the park's flower bed. The parishioners were daunted by her goodness. But one of them wanted her dead. Who? 0ld Mrs Bowman, dying of cancer; Clive Stringer, a disturbed adolescent; Theresa Stringer, a single mother with a child in care and a violent boyfriend - or was it someone in her own family? "....

    Gabriella Preston is found in the boot of a car, lying curled on her side like a child asleep. She is dead. The car belongs to Gus Lynch. Gus Lynch is the director of Hallowgate's Youth Theatre, Gabriella his female lead. Inspector Ramsay and Sergeant Hunter are called in to assist the local police who have their hands full with an outbreak of joy-...

    Farmer Ernie Bowles is found lying on his kitchen floor - strangled. Not a pretty sight. Inspector Ramsay fears the case will not be simple. It isn't. Certainly not when there is a second strangulation. Two killings are more than a chilling coincidence. A third suspicious death provides a tenuous link between all three and leads Inspector Ramsay to...

    When 15-year old Marilyn Howe turns up on Inspector Ramsay's doorstep he has little choice but to invite her in, for Marilyn is convinced that her mother has disappeared. But when Ramsay returns the young girl to her home, on the isolated coastal community known as the Headland, they find Mrs Howe safe and well. Six months later, Ramsay has more or...

  3. A spirited defense of the field of digital humanities, On the Digital Humanities collects and updates Stephen Ramsay’s most influential and notorious essays and speeches from the past fifteen years, considering DH from an array of practical and theoretical perspectives.

  4. Stephen Ramsay. 6-8 minutes. [I’m pleased to offer a transcript of my pithy, underdeveloped position paper at the “History and Future of Digital Humanities” panel at the 2011 mla.

  5. Jan 20, 2024 · I am an Associate Professor of English and a Fellow at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I discovered digital humanities (“humanities computing,” as it was then called) while I was a graduate student at the University of Virginia in the mid-nineties.

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  7. Nov 30, 2011 · Besides familiar and now-commonplace tasks that computers do all the time, what else are they capable of? Stephen Ramsay's intriguing study of computational text analysis examines how computers can be used as "reading machines" to open up entirely new possibilities for literary critics.

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