Paul Spence is a Reader in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London. His background is in modern languages, digital methods, digital pedagogy and structured knowledge representation.
His research currently focuses on digital publishing, global perspectives on digital scholarship and multilingual digital humanities. Through his work on the Language Acts and Worldmaking project (https://languageacts.org/digital-mediations/), he has focused in particular on digital transformations in how we engage with languages, while also analysing the power of language to disrupt digital monolingualism in knowledge infrastructures, methods and data. He co-directed the Disrupting Digital Monolingualism initiative in 2020 https://zenodo.org/record/5743283 and is co-editor of the first edited volume on Multilingual Digital Humanities https://www.routledge.com/Multilingual-Digital-Humanities/Viola-Spence/p/book/9781032491943.