Christopher Ohge

Dr. Christopher Ohge is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Approaches to Literature at the Institute of English Studies (IES), University of London. He holds a PhD from Boston University and has held academic roles at institutions including the University of Maine and the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the intersection of digital humanities with textual scholarship, book history, and literary studies. He serves as Associate Director of the Herman Melville Electronic Library and contributes to Melville’s Marginalia Online.

Key research interests include computational methods for analyzing literary texts, digital editing, and the environmental impact of digital research. Notable projects include the digital edition of Mary Anne Rawson’s The Bow in the Cloud (funded by an NEH-Mellon Fellowship) and the AHRC-DFG-funded 'Project StoryMachine' exploring AI and spatial hypertext in folklore studies. He co-leads the Green Digital Humanities Toolkit initiative under the Digital Humanities Climate Coalition.

Ohge has taught at digital humanities summer schools globally and is a core faculty member of e-Laboratories’ Fundamentals of Editing course. His publications span monographs, edited volumes, and articles in journals like Leviathan and Textual Cultures. Awards include the Boydston Essay Prize (2020) for his work on Melville’s incomplete manuscripts.

Education: PhD and MA in English from Boston University. Professional roles include editorial positions at the Mark Twain Papers Project and teaching at institutions across the US and UK.