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Charles Travis is a senior research fellow with the Trinity Long Room Hub at Trinity College Dublin, where he holds a PhD in geography. He develops methodologies and applications for humanities geographical information systems (HGIS) and conducts research in the digital and environmental humanities and in human and literary geography. He edited the volume, History and GIS: Epistemologies, Considerations and Reflections (2012), with Alexander von Lünen; and published the monograph Literary Landscapes of Ireland: Geographies of Irish Stories, 1929–1946 (2009). He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the digital humanities at Trinity College and has held teaching posts at Trinity College, the University of South Florida, and several other universities.

Preface
Acknowledgments

Part 1: GIS and the digital humanities
1: Introduction
2: Toward the spatial turn
3: Writing time and space with GIS: The conquest and mapping of seventeenth-century Ireland

Part 2: Writers, texts, and mapping
4: GIS and the poetic eye
5: Modeling and visualizing in GIS: The topological influences of Homer’s Odyssey and Dante’s Inferno on James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922)
6: Psychogeographical GIS: Creating a kaleidoscope equipped with consciousness Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds (1939)
7: Geovisualizing Beckett

Part 3: Toward a humanities GIS
8: The terrae incognitae of humanities GIS

About the author
Index -- Esri