Dr. Christopher Ohge is Senior Lecturer in Digital Approaches to Literature at the Institute of English Studies and Digital Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. He serves as the co-director of the Melville Electronic Library, and has also contributed to scholarly editions such as the Melville’s Marginalia Online and the Mark Twain Papers & Project. He has taught in the MA programme in the History of the Book at the Institute of English Studies since 2017 and has convened additional courses at the London Rare Books School. He is the author of the book Publishing Scholarly Editions: Archives, Computing, and Experience (2021) and other writings on Herman Melville, textual editing and digital humanities. In 2023 he was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation to complete a digital edition of the 1834 British anti-slavery anthology The Bow in the Cloud (available at https://antislavery-anthologies.org/books/bow-in-the-cloud/index).

Research Project at EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities":

Herman Melville and the Digital Humanities: Material Texts, Computation and Al in a Broken World