Justin Tonra

Justin Tonra is an Associate Professor of English and Academic Integrity Officer at University of Galway. He completed his undergraduate degree in English and Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, received an MA in Modern English Literature at University College Dublin, and completed his doctorate on the poetry of Thomas Moore at University of Galway. He previously worked as a Research Associate on Transcribe Bentham, a project to crowdsource transcriptions of the manuscripts of Jeremy Bentham, at University College London, and has held posts as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Virginia and University of Galway. He is author of Write My Name: Authorship in the Poetry of Thomas Moore (Routledge, 2020) and peer-reviewed articles in the areas of digital humanities, textual studies, book history, and Romanticism. He has worked on a number of digital humanities projects, including ÚRSCÉAL, Eververse, Ossian Online, and Personæ and is currently completing research for the IRC-funded project, Poetry Machines: Technologies of Poetic Composition. Justin's research and teaching interests are in digital humanities, book history, textual studies and bibliography, scholarly editing, and literature of the Romantic period. He is currently a Work Package leader and Management Committee member for the Horizon 2020-funded CLS INFRA, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies. He is a founding member of the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association. Previously, he was joint National Co-ordinator for DARIAH Ireland, Working Group leader for COST Action CA16204 Distant Reading for European Literary History, and co-convenor of the Digital Scholarship Seminar at University of Galway.

Digital humanities, book history, textual studies, bibliography, scholarly editing, nineteenth-century literature, Romanticism, poetry and poetics, English literature, Irish literature, literary hermeneutics, authorship, paratexts, print culture, publishing history, cultural analytics.

Digital humanities, book history, textual studies, scholarly editing, Irish literature, postmodern fiction.