Arts and Humanities Consultant at the Oxford e-Research Centre

http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ 

David Robey was until recently Director of the AHRC's ICT in Arts and Humanities Research Programme and Professor of Italian at Reading University. Formerly Professor of Italian at Manchester University, he is also Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. He has published on 15th-century Italian humanism (educational and poetic theory), language and style in Dante and Renaissance narrative poetry, the computer analysis of literature, and modern critical theory. He is the author of a computer-based study on Sound and Structure in Dante's Divine Comedy (Oxford University Press, 2000), and of a substantial database on Sound and Metre in Italian Narrative Verse. He was also joint editor of the Oxford Companion to Italian Literature, now translated as the Enciclopedia Oxford/Zanichelli della Letteratura Italiana. He is currently Arts and Humanities Consultant for OeRC. (More information athttp://www.rdg.ac.uk/Languages/about/staff/d-j-b-robey.asp) 

The talk will focus on the AHRC-EPSRC-JISC Arts and Humanities e-Science 

Initiative, which David Robey developed and co-ordinated; details are available 
at http://www.ahrcict.rdg.ac.uk/activities/e-science/. He will talk about the 
thinking behind it, the range of projects that it covers, and issues for the 
future.