Steven Jones

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Steven E. Jones was DeBartolo Chair in Liberal Arts and Professor of English and Digital Humanities, 2016-2021. Before coming to USF, he was Distinguished Visiting Professor at CUNY Grad Center in New York, 2014-2015, and taught at Loyola University Chicago for 28 years, where he was Founding Co-Director of the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities. He received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Keats-Shelley Association of America (2013), was Editor of the Keats-Shelley Journal (1993-2004) and Vice President of the Keats-Shelley Association of America (2004-2013). He was a founding board member of NINES (the Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship), and was a co-creator and a General Editor of the Romantic Circles Website (1996-2019). He was Principal Investigator on the 3D-modeling and archiving project, 鈥淩econstructing the First Humanities Computing Center,鈥� supported by a Level II Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the NEH (2017-2019).
His published books include: Against Technology: From the Luddites to Neo-Luddism (Routledge, 2006), The Meaning of Video Games: Gaming and Textual Strategies (Routledge, 2008), with co-author George K. Thiruvathukal, Codename Revolution: The Nintendo Wii Platform, Platform Studies series (MIT Press, 2012), The Emergence of the Digital Humanities (Routledge, 2014), Roberto Busa, S.J. and the Emergence of Humanities Computing (Routledge, 2016), and Cell Tower, Object Lessons series (Bloomsbury, 2020).