James Cummings

James Cummings (born 1971) is an Anglo-Canadian academic in the fields of digital humanities and late medieval English drama. He is the reader in digital textual studies and late medieval literature at Newcastle University (UK). In the field of digital humanities, he is most associated with contributions to the Text Encoding Initiative, where, after many years on the TEI Technical Council (2005-2019), he was elected to their board of directors in 2019 and became chair of the board of directors in 2026. Outside text encoding, Cummings founded and directed the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (2010-2017). He was one of the founders of Digital Medievalist and served on their executive board (2003-2012). He was the founder and remains 'main instigator' of an annual grassroots openly nominated openly voted Digital Humanities awareness activity 'DH Awards' (2012-Present). He is on the board of directors of the long-running Records of Early English Drama project.