Paul Spence

Biography

"Paul is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Digital Humanities, with an academic background in Spanish & Spanish American studies. His research has covered four areas: digital textual scholarship, digital publishing, digital humanities pedagogy and global perspectives on digitally mediated knowledge production. Before entering academia, Paul worked in journalism and English language teaching, spending a number of years in Spain. He joined King's in 2001 and led the ‘Digital Text’ research team here from 2003 to 2010, when he was responsible for the development of sophisticated and semantically enriched frameworks for information retrieval and digital publication on over 30 research projects. He has led and managed digital humanities research on a number of major interdisciplinary projects of a total value of £5 million, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, AHRC, JISC, Leverhulme Trust and various European funding agencies. He has twice been acting Head of Department for DDH, has played several senior roles in international digital humanities organisations, and he is particularly active in Spanish language digital humanities, which he has taken a leading role in promoting internationally. He is part of a multi-institutional team that was awarded £3 million by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in 2016 for the four-year ‘Language Acts and Worldmaking’ project, which looks at “how learning a language affords greater cultural understanding of the world through the multilingual and multicultural lens of Iberian languages, empires and contact zones”."

Research Interest

"digital textual scholarship; digital publishing; digital humanities pedagogy; global perspectives on digitally mediated knowledge production"