Thinking-Through Voyant offers a methodologically rigorous, scaffolded process from tokenization and corpus design to visualization and interpretive argument, written in clear, practice-oriented prose. Its chapter-by-chapter walkthrough structure provides a transferable framework and workflow for both teaching and research—supporting reproducible inquiry and critical interpretation.
Wendy Perla Kurtz
UCLA Program in Digital Humanities
Dr. Geoffrey Martin Rockwell is a Professor of Philosophy and Digital Humanities at the University of Alberta. He presently holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute. He has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto and has published on subjects such as artificial intelligence and ethics, philosophical dialogue, textual visualization and analysis, digital humanities, instructional technology, computer games and multimedia. His books include Defining Dialogue: From Socrates to the Internet (Humanity Books, 2003) and Hermeneutica, co-authored with Stéfan Sinclair (MIT Press, 2016). Hermeneutica is part of a hybrid text and tool project with Voyant Tools (voyant-tools.org), an award-winning suite of analytical tools. He recently co-edited Right Research: Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene (Open Book Publishers, 2021) and On Making in the Digital Humanities (UCL Press, 2023).
Ayushi Khemka is a Killam Doctoral Laureate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alberta, Canada. She is working on the intersections of philosophy of race, philosophy of AI and ethics, Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism, and digital humanities. She is working as a Highly Qualified Personnel on the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) funded ‘Migrant Integration in the Mid-21st Century: Bridging Divides’ research program at the University of Alberta. She is the current Graduate Student Representative for the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities. She is also a HASTAC scholar (‘24-’26). Khemka hosted the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs’ AI for Information Accessibility podcast. She has published papers in academic journals such as Applied Network Science, Journal of Academic Ethics, and has an upcoming publication in Social Epistemology journal. She earned her Master of Philosophy in Women's Studies, and Master of Arts in English from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.