The Centre for Digital Humanities is pleased to welcome Dr. Alex Christie to the position of Assistant Professor, Digital Prototyping.

Dr. Christie comes to the Centre from the University of Victoria, where he completed his Ph.D. and worked as a research assistant for the Modernist Versions Project (MVP) and Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) in the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL) and the Maker Lab. His research interests include 3D geospatial expression, interactive reading environments, digital pedagogy, and pre-digital approaches to the procedural production and interpretation of literature. He is particularly interested in prototypes that draw from experimental modernist practice to innovate digital knowledge expression, whether recovering manuscript archives as game-based reading experiences or warping historical maps to express diverse representations of space. Dr. Christie leads the Pedagogy Toolkit project, an open source repository for digital humanities teaching that he developed with grant funding from the Association for Computers and the Humanities. He also serves on the executive board of the Modernist Studies Association.

Further information about Professor Christie’s work can be found at axchristie.github.io.