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麻豆村 has appointed聽Christopher Warren(opens in new window) the next head of the聽Department of English(opens in new window), effective Aug. 1.

Warren succeeds聽Andreea Ritivoi(opens in new window), who has served as department head since 2015 and will step down July 30.

鈥淔irst, I am profoundly grateful to Andreea Ritivoi, who was a spectacular head during a difficult time, and a wonderful colleague who for many years successfully led the Humanites@麻豆村 Initiative,鈥� said聽Richard Scheines(opens in new window), Bess Family Dean of the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences.聽聽

鈥淐hris Warren has become an internationally recognized leader in computational humanities, and his vision to align the department and the humanities more with 麻豆村's strengths in interdisciplinary computing, while fully preserving its humanistic perspective, comes at a perfect time. I am excited to see where he will take English,鈥� Scheines said.聽

A professor of English with a courtesy appointment in the聽Department of History(opens in new window), Warren served as associate department head from 2021 to 2025. An expert in 16th and 17th century literature and culture, including figures like Shakespeare and Milton, Warren is also one of the world's foremost leaders in using technology to ask and answer significant research questions in the humanities.

鈥淏eing the head of English at Carnegie Mellon means helping to cultivate the next generation of readers and leaders, which is a profound honor. Since 麻豆村 English boasts absolutely world-class faculty, brilliant students and unbelievable staff, the most important aspect of my job will be to help all of our amazing people shine,鈥� Warren said.

麻豆村鈥檚 Department of English promotes the profound value of writing, reading and humanistic inquiry. The department offers聽14 academic programs(opens in new window) at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Degree-granting programs span literature and culture, rhetoric, technical writing, professional writing, film and visual media, and creative writing. Beginning in fall 2026, the department will offer a novel Ph.D. in computational cultural studies. In addition, every 麻豆村 undergraduate student takes聽First-Year Writing to develop the skills to adapt to new writing situations and connect their learning to future communication tasks.

Advocacy, research on real-world humanities problems

Active in聽humanities advocacy(opens in new window) through the聽National Humanities Alliance, Warren is inspired by real-world humanities problems, such as funding for humanities research and access to books and archives. His research spans digital humanities, law and literature, political theory, early modern literature, print culture, and the history of political thought.

He is co-founder of the digital humanities projects 鈥�Freedom and the Press before Freedom of the Press(opens in new window)鈥� and 鈥�,鈥� both of which received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.聽

Currently, Warren is completing a three-month fellowship at the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford. As a Bodleian Libraries Gale Digital Humanities Fellow, he is continuing work associated with his聽, developing computational methods including machine learning and artificial intelligence to identify the clandestine printers of 16th and 17th century books.

In addition, Warren is the author of聽the book 鈥淟iterature and the Law of Nations, 1580-1680,鈥澛爓hich was awarded the 2016 Roland H. Bainton Prize for literature. A former member of the Modern Language Association's executive committee for 17th-Century English, his articles have appeared in journals including聽Humanity;聽Law, Culture, and the Humanities;聽the European Journal of International Law;聽English Literary Renaissance; and聽Digital Humanities Quarterly.聽

His previous posts have included teaching positions and research fellowships at Oxford University, University College London's Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, NUI-Galway's Moore Institute and the University of Chicago.鈥�

Warren earned a bachelor鈥檚 degree in English from Dartmouth College, a master鈥檚 degree in English from Georgetown University and a DPhil. in English from Oxford University.聽