Dr Melissa Terras
Email: m.terras@ucl.ac.uk


I am the Senior Lecturer in Electronic Communication in the Department of Information Studies at University College London (UCL), where I teach Internet Technologies, Digital Resources in the Humanities, and Web Publishing.

My research interests involve applying computational technologies to Humanities problems, to allow research that would otherwise be impossible. As such, I'm interested in - and been involved in - a variety of research areas that span Digital Humanities, Digitization and Digital Imaging, Image Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Palaeography, Knowledge Elicitation, and Internet Technologies.

I am co-Investigator of the AHRC-EPSRC-JISC funded Image, Text, Interpretation: e-Science, Technology and Documents Project (with the University of Oxford), Associate Director of the JISC funded Linksphere project (with the University of Reading), and Associate Director of the JISC funded Virtual Environments for Research in Archaeology(VERA) Project (with the University of Reading).

I was the Primary Investigator of the ReACH (Researching e-Science Analysis of Census Holdings) project: an AHRC funded e-Science workshop series, and co-investigator in the Log Analysis of Internet Resources in the Arts and Humanities (LAIRAH) project, both based as UCL DIS. I am co-manager of TEI By Example, based at the Centre for Textual Criticism and Document Studies in Ghent, Belgium.

I am general editor of Digital Humanities Quarterly, and am on the executive of both the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association of Literary and Linguistic Computing. I am serving as Vice President of ACH in 2008-9, and Secretary of ALLC from 2009 onwards. I am also on the executive of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. I am on the editorial boards of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, Literary and Linguistic Computing, and the new Text Encoding Initiative's Extramural Journal (TEI-EJ).

My monograph, Image to Interpretation: An intelligent system to aid historians in reading the Vindolanda texts, was recently published by Oxford University Press. My second book, Digital Images for the Information Professional, was recently published by Ashgate. There are a couple more edited collections currently in the pipeline.

UCL extension: 37206
Direct Line: 020-7679-7206 (non-UK: +44 20 7679 7206)
Fax: 020 7383 0557 (non-UK: +44 20 7383 0557)
Office: Room 7, Henry Morley Building (First floor, opposite the department office. The entrance to the department is in square D4 on this map.)

Address correspondence to:
Dr Melissa Terras
Department of Information Studies
Henry Morley Building
University College London
Gower Street
WC1E 6BT

External links for courses and online reading materials can be found at melissaterras on del.icio.us. Random musing can be found on my blog. I can also be found @melissaterras on twitter.