Peter Robinson
Professor Of English And Digital Textuality at University of Birmingham
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Robinson is a professor of English and digital textuality with over three decades of experience bridging humanities scholarship and digital publishing. He founded and leads Scholarly Digital Editions Ltd., combining academic rigor with entrepreneurial stewardship in digital scholarly editing. Based at the University of Saskatchewan and an honorary research fellow at the University of Birmingham, he has directed major textual scholarship initiatives and built teams that translate editorial practice into sustainable digital infrastructure. His career traces back to computing services at Oxford and teaching roles in Australia and the UK, reflecting a rare blend of technical, managerial and pedagogical depth. Known for longstanding curiosity—manifested in an admitted “profound nerd-ery,” a fondness for YouTube cricket clips, and encyclopedic knowledge of Saskatoon pubs—he pairs convivial cultural interests with serious research leadership.
11 years of coding experience
Master of Arts, English, Master of Arts, English at University of OxfordHolbrook Central SchoolThe University of SydneyThe Kings School, ParramattaD. Phil, English, D. Phil, English at Oxford University
Github Skills (47)
text-encoding9
xml9
js8
zooming8
porter-stemmer8
jquery8
viewer8
hdr8
angularjs8
pdf-reader8
image-viewer8
zoomify8
high-resolution8
bootstrap8
image7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
peterrobinson/Textual-Communities
Oct 2024 - Jun 2026
Contributions:45 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 8 months
peterrobinson/CTSpellingArticle2024
Nov 2024 - Aug 2025
Contributions:1 release, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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