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Anthony Harris

Anthony Harris, Dr.

  • Research Software Engineer
Phone
+44 777 5504526

Research Interests

  • Medieval Studies
  • Early mathematics, early astronomy, and the science of computus
  • Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) for teaching and research
  • Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence in the Digital Humanities
  • Old English and Middle English lexicography including hapax legomena
  • Non-Shakespearian early modern dramatists

About Me

I am a Research Software Engineer on the SNSF-funded project Waxing and Waning Words: Lexical Variation and Change in Middle English (WAW-ME). My MA (Oxon) focused on Middle English, Old English, early modern drama, and critical theory. My MA (Res) in Medieval Studies focused on manuscript studies, palaeography and hapax legomena in ‘Beowulf’ and my PhD (Cantab) considered early mathematics and astronomy in the Latin west (2nd-14th C. computus). I am the author of Beowulf and The Southern Sun (BEOWULF, 603b–06, 1965b–66a). Notes and Queries, 266(3), 245-248; A Review of Seb Falk, ‘The Light Ages (A Medieval Journey of Discovery)’ in Peritia, v. 34 (2024) and was a technical consultant and contributor to ‘Zeit Zählen und messen’ in the Library of St. Gallen exhibition catalogue ‘Sterne: Das Firmament in St. Galler Handschriften’ (14/3/23 ¬ 29/10/23).

At Cambridge, I am a visiting academic at the Department of Computer Science, a Fellow and Director of Studies for Computer Science at Emmanuel College, and a Graduate Tutor and Associate at Clare Hall. At Oxford I am a visiting fellow of Kellogg College, a research fellow of Regent’s Park college, and an associate in Medieval Studies at Harvard University. I am also a fellow of the higher education academy (FHEA).

Recent Activities

I am a technical research officer for the Kemble Anglo-Saxon charters website on behalf of the British Academy & Royal Historical Society, and a technical research advisor for the Revised Regesta regni Hierosolymitani Database Project. I am also a British Academy Neil Ker Memorial Fund Award Holder progressing a digital humanities manuscript research project at the Bodleian (Oxford) and completed a Fulbright all-disciplines scholar award at Harvard (Houghton Library) in spring 2025. I am particularly interested in the use of generative AI for teaching and researching and delivered numerous conference papers and workshops on this topic in 2025. In 2025 I contributed a ‘Short Introduction’ to the ROEP: Resources for Old English Prose website on Byrhtferth’s ‘Enchiridion’ and am working on another on Ælfric’s De temporibus anni.