The history of knowledge is a multifaceted subject and its study depends upon an interdisciplinary faculty fluent in digital analytical methods. Working with the Digital Futures Institute makes it possible to examine how changing social values have impacted the nature of knowledge at different moments in time, and I am grateful to be part of this exciting initiative at King’s College.
Professor Peter M. Logan, Visiting Professor in Digital Futures
04 December 2024
Peter Logan joins Digital Futures Institute as Visiting Professor
The Digital Futures Institute appoints Professor Peter M. Logan as Visiting Professor in Digital Futures.
Peter M. Logan, Emeritus Professor of English at Temple University and Director of The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, has joined the Digital Futures Institute as Visiting Professor.
Professor Logan works on analysing the history of knowledge in 19th-century Europe and America using text from multiple editions of Encyclopedia Britannica as the primary data set. At the Digital Futures Institute, he will be continuing his research on nineteenth-century knowledge in collaboration with Kings Digital Lab and Temple University. The work will include a research grant application and a series of collaborative workshops culminating in a special journal issue.
We are proud to welcome Professor Peter M. Logan as Visiting Professor for the Digital Futures Institute. His research into the history of knowledge will contribute to the Institute’s mission of solving human and social challenges through innovative approaches to knowing, questioning and making.
Professor Marion Thain, Chair-Director of the Digital Futures Institute
Peter Logan’s research interests include digital humanities, 19th-century British literature and culture, the histories of medicine and anthropology, and literary theory and criticism.
He is the author of two machine-readable transcriptions of Encyclopedia Britannica (2023, Seventh and Ninth Edition) as well as Victorian Fetishism: Intellectuals and Primitives (2009), and Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century British Prose (1997).