Tim Allen, Database and Digitization Consultant
Tim Allen is a Database and Digitization Consultant at the ARTFL Project, where he has worked with a wide variety of international collaborators to guide the creation of numerous ARTFL resources. He studied linguistics and French at the University of Chicago, and he is particularly proud to have been a part of the development of the NEH-funded Dictionnaire vivant de la langue française (DVLF).
Charles Cooney, Senior Project Coordinator
Charles Cooney is a Senior Project Coordinator and long-time member of the ARTFL Project who has developed a range of digitized text resources for ARTFL as well as for Electronic Text Services and the Digital South Asia Library Project based in the Regenstein Library. With a doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Chicago, Charles also has extensive experience conducting algorithmic-based text research.
cmcooney@uchicago.edu
Clovis Gladstone, Associate Director
Clovis Gladstone is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and the Associate Director of the ARTFL Project. As a long-time member of the ARTFL Project, he has been leading the development of PhiloLogic for many years, as well as developing a range of data-mining and machine learning techniques for text analysis. He specializes in French Early-Modern intellectual history, and more particularly 18th century materialism, and holds a doctorate in French Literature from the University of Chicago.
clovisgladstone@uchicago.edu
Robert Morrissey, Director
Robert Morrissey is the Benjamin Franklin Professor of French in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. Founder and Director of the ARTFL Project, he is general editor of the ARTFL online edition of Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie. Situated at the confluence of literature and poetics on the one hand and ideology and politics on the other, his work concentrates on themes, topoi, and cultural currents over the longue durée.
rmorriss@uchicago.edu
Mark Olsen, Éminence Grise
Mark Olsen recently retired from ARTFL Project where he had worked since 1988. He received a PhD in French history from the University of Ottawa in 1991 and has been active in Digital Humanities since the mid-1980s. He has published widely with particular focus on the intersection of critical theory and computation, development of large scale text analysis systems, and integration of methods drawn from computer science and bioinformatics into humanistic text analysis. He was lead developer of PhiloLogic3, PhiloLine and PhiloMine, which were the core ARTFL packages for a number of years. He continues on a part time basis at ARTFL working on research and development efforts.
Glenn Roe, Senior Research Fellow
Glenn Roe is a Senior Research Fellow at the ARTFL Project, where he coordinates international outreach projects and serves as associate editor of the ARTFL Encyclopédie, a flagship project for digital Enlightenment studies. In his spare time, Glenn Roe is also Professor of French Literature and Digital Humanities at Sorbonne University, where he is a member of the CELLF (Centre d'étude de la langue et des littératures françaises UMR 8599). He is also currently the Astra Foundation Research Fellow in Digital Humanities at the Voltaire Foundation, where he co-directs the Voltaire Lab.
Rachel Tils, Database Specialist and Administrator
Rachel Tils is a Database Specialist and the Administrator for the ARTFL Project, where she manages current and new subscribers and is helping to develop a new database of texts from the abolitionist and anti-slavery debates in Britain and France. She is also a PhD candidate in the History Department at the University of Chicago where she is completing a dissertation about internal economies in the eighteenth-century Anglo-French Caribbean.
rmtils@uchicago.edu