À propos
I am a Professor of Digital Humanities at the Université de Montréal. Trained in Romanticism at Oxford and a specialist in Leigh Hunt, I have been involved in digital publishing and the digital humanities for twenty-five years. I am one of the founding members of the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN) and have been directing it since its inception in 2013.
In February 1996, while at Oxford, I created one of the first open-access academic electronic journals, Romanticism on the Net, which has been funded by SSHRC for the past decade and for which I am still the editor-in-chief. From 2007 to 2012, I was the lead of the pan-Canadian project “Synergies: Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences Research Infrastructure.” This initiative, funded under the CFI national platforms program with a $13 million grant, brought together twenty-two universities across five provinces and forty researchers in a major scholarly digital publishing venture. The Érudit consortium was our main partner in Quebec. With Marcello Vitali-Rosati, I launched an innovative collection entitled “Parcours numériques” in the spring of 2014, which includes our volume Manuel des pratiques de l’édition numérique.
I have played a major role in institutionalizing Digital Humanities internationally, serving as the Francophone president of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Société canadienne des humanités numériques (CSDH/SCHN) from 2009 to 2015. I then represented Canada on the executive committee of Humanistica, the international Francophone association for digital humanities, from its inception in 2014 until 2019 (serving as secretary from 2016 to 2019). From 2021 to 2023, I chaired the scientific council of OpenEdition, the French portal for electronic resources in the humanities and social sciences. I am currently the co-chair of centerNet: An international network of digital humanities centers (2022-2026), and I was the President of ADHO: The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations in 2024-2025, the global digital humanities organization comprising 13 member institutions. I also served as Chair of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Dissemination Advisory Committee from 2013 to 2015, and was elected Director of Research Dissemination at the Federation in the spring of 2015 for a two-year term, which was renewed for two years in the spring of 2017. I am also the Principal Investigator for the Groupe de recherche sur les éditions critiques en contexte numérique, funded by the FRQSC (in their programme de soutien à l’innovation et à la structuration : Soutien aux équipes de recherche, équipes en fonctionnement).
Over the past decade, I have co-organized numerous international conferences, some gathering as many as nine hundred researchers. These include “Humanités numériques 2015: Identités, Pratiques et Théorie” (August 2015), the global “Digital Humanities 2017: Access/Accès” conference (August 2017), and CRIHN’s fifth anniversary symposium in October 2018, “Repenser les Humanités numériques / Thinking the Digital Humanities Anew,” the Humanistica conference in May 2022, and CRIHN’s tenth anniversary symposium in October 2023. I am also one of the co-organiser for conference « DH@LLM: Large Language Models and Digital Humanities » that took place at Sorbonne Université in July 2025.
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