Geoffrey Rockwell is a professor of Philosophy and Digital Humanities and the Director of the Kule Institute for Advanced Study at the U of A. He received a MA and PhD in Philosophy, both from the University of Toronto, and served as the Director of the Humanities Media and Computing Centre at McMaster University for a decade.

Rockwell's research includes work on textual visualization, text analysis, computing in the humanities and the ethics of technology. He's the author of a book on digital humanities: Hermeneutica: Computer-Assisted Interpretation in the Humanities. Rockwell is also the co-developer of Voyant Tools, an open-source platform for text analysis in the humanities and leads the Text Analysis Portal for Research project.