Susan Brown

Susan Brown is Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Digital Scholarship and Professor of English at the University of Guelph, and Visiting Professor at the University of Alberta. She researches Victorian literature, women’s writing, and digital humanities. All of these interests inform Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present, an ongoing experiment in digital literary history published by Cambridge UP since 2006 that she co-directs and co-edits. She directs the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory, an online repository and research environment for literary studies in and about Canada produced with the support of the Canada Foundation for Innovation.

Her current research touches on a range of topics in the digital humanities including interface design and usability, visualization and data mining, semantic technologies, and humanist-centered tool development. She is increasingly engaged with inquiry into how linked open data can serve humanities research. She is currently involved in the Implementing New Knowledge Environments, Linked Modernism, and Text Mining the Novel projects, and advises on the Coding Character and Spanish Civil War research projects. She also works on the impact of new technologies in the literature of the Victorian period. Brown is President of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Société canadienne des humanités numériques.