Current Employment:

• Dean and Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science (also Professor, Department of English, and Professor, Library Faculty), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, beginning August 15, 2003.
• Associate Professor, Dept. of English, University of Virginia, 1993-2003
• Director, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia, 1993-present

Education:

• University of Virginia: Ph.D. in English, 1988
• Boston University: M.A. in English, 1982
• Amherst College: B.A. Magna Cum Laude in English, 1981

Recent and Forthcoming Publications:

• A Companion to Digital Humanities, co-edited with Susan Schreibman and Ray Siemens. Under contract with Blackwell's. Due to be published in 2004.
• Electronic Textual Editing, co-edited with Lou Burnard and Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe. Co-sponsored by the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions and the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Due to be published in 2004.
• "Let's Read Across Boundaries." Library Journal vol. 128, no. 15 (September 15, 2003), 38.
• "The Next Wave: Liberation Technology," The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Chronicle Review, January 30, 2004.
• "The Crisis in Scholarly Publishing in the Humanities," ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC. June 2003. 1-4.
• "What is Humanities Computing, and What is Not?" in Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie 4, Georg Braungart, Karl Eibl & Fotis Jannidis, eds. Paderborn: mentis 2002.
• "Launching a scholarly electronic imprint," Logos 13.1 (2002): 43-48.
• "The Importance of Failure," in The Journal of Electronic Publishing, 3.2 (December, 1997).
• "Networked Scholarship: The Effects of Advanced Technology on Research in the Humanities," in Gateways to Knowledge, ed. Larry Dowler. MIT Press, 1997.
• "Electronic Scholarship" in The Literary Text in the Digital Age, ed. Richard Finneran. University of Michigan Press, 1996.
• "Living Inside the (Operating) System," in Computer Networking and Scholarship in the 21st-Century University, ed. Teresa Harrison and Timothy D. Stephen. SUNY Press, 1996.

Recent Teaching:

• "Is Humanities Computing an Academic Discipline?" -- A seminar funded by the College of Arts and Sciences. This seminar led to a proposal for an MA in digital humanities, and to an NEH-funded seminar on the digital humanities curriculum. The MA has been approved by the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia, but is currently on hold because of the budget crisis.
• ENTC 312: 20th-Century American Literature (Bestsellers), Fall 2002

Editing and Curating:

• Co-Curator (with Lynda Clendenning), "Rave Reviews: Bestselling Fiction in America," an exhibition in Special Collections at the University of Virginia, February 22nd to June 10, 2002.
• Member, Editorial Board, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: an international journal of theory, research and practice, 2001-
• Commissioning Editor, Computers and the Humanities, 1997-present
• Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Electronic Publishing, University of Michigan Press.
• Co-editor, Research Reports of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
• First Series (1993)
• Second Series (1994)
• Third Series (1995)
• Fourth Series (1996)
• Fifth Series (1997)
• Sixth Series (1998)
• Seventh Series (1999)
• Co-founder and Editor Emeritus, Member, Editorial Board, Postmodern Culture: an electronic journal of interdisciplinary criticism (published by Johns Hopkins University Press): issue editor for issues 1.1, 1.3, 2.1, 2.3, 3.3, 4.2, 5.1, 5.3.
• Member, Blake Archive Advisory Board, 1998-present
• Member, Dickinson Editorial Collective Advisory Board, 1998-present
• Member, Electronic Melville Committee, Melville Society, 1998-present
• Member, Multimedia Dante Project Advisory Board, Princeton University, 1998-present
• Member, Romantic Circles Advisory Board, 1997-present

Recent and Upcoming Presentations:

• "Humanities and Cyberinfrastructure: Changes in Disciplinary Practice." Coalition for Networked Information, Portland, Oregon, December 9th. Closing plenary panel, with Don Waters and Mark Kornbluh
• "Not-so-Modest Proposals: What do we want our system of scholarly communication to look like in 2010?" CIC Summit on Scholarly Communications, Chicago, IL, December 2, 2003.
• "Scholarly Tribes and Tribulations." Panelist at the Annual Forum of the Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC, October 17, 2003.
• "The Emergence of Digital Scholarship: New Models for Librarians, Scholars and Publishers." Presented at the Digital Libraries Round Table, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Kanazawa, Japan, July 3, 2003.
• "The crisis in scholarly publishing." Presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies, Philadelphia, PA, May 10, 2003.
• "Tool-Time, or 'Haven't We Been Here Already?' Ten Years in Humanities Computing," Delivered as part of "Transforming Disciplines: The Humanities and Computer Science," Saturday, January 18, 2003. Washington, DC.
• "Less is More: The Benefits of Low Bandwidth in Virtual Communities," Scholarly Communication on the Internet: A Retrospective Look at H-Net on its Tenth Anniversary, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, January 3, 2003.
• "Electronic Textual Editing and The Text Encoding Initiative," delivered as part of "Electronic Textual Editing I", sponsored by Committee on Scholarly Editions session Concourse B, Hilton, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Saturday December 28, 2002.
• Chair, "Electronic Textual Editing II", sponsored by Committee on Scholarly Editions session Concourse B, Hilton, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Saturday December 28, 2002.
• "Using Digital Primary Resources to Produce Scholarship in Print," presented as part of Literary Studies in Cyberspace: Texts, Contexts, and Criticism. Concourse G, Hilton. Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Sunday, December 29, 2002.
• "The Emergence of Digital Scholarship: New Models for Librarians, Scholars, and Publishers," delivered as part of a The New Scholarship: Scholarship and Libraries in the 21st Century, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, November 9, 2002.
• "Cutting a Gordian Knot," delivered as a talk in the Text Studies series at The University of Nebraska, Lincoln Nebraska, November 7, 2002.
• Panelist, "The Emergence of Digital Scholarship: New Models for Librarians, Archivists, and Humanists." RBMS Program, American Library Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, June 16, 2002
• Presenter, "Session One: New-Model Scholarship and the Creation of Web-Based Documents," part of Preserving Web-Based Documents, a symposium convened by the Council on Library and Information Resources, Washington, DC, April 23, 2002
• Panelist, "Reinventing Publishing: Digital Libraries," part of Publishing in the 21st Century, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, April 20, 2002
• "Humanities and Computing at IATH," delivered with Worthy Martin as the Design and Technology Lecture at the Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago, April 15, 2002
• "Using Digital Primary Resources to Produce Scholarship in Print," delivered as part of "The Future of Literary Studies," a conference of the English Department at the University of Virginia, April 5-6, 2002
• "Collecting Digital Scholarship in Academic Libraries," delivered at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, October 5, 2001.
• "What do Scholars Need and Expect from Electronic Texts? Lessons Learned at IATH," delivered at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, October 4, 2001.
• "Knowledge Representation as a Core Activity of Humanities Computing," delivered as part of "A Practicable Future For Computing in the Humanities: An International Symposium," University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia, July 2-5.
• "Publishing originally digital scholarship at the University of Virginia," delivered at the 2001 ACH/ALLC Conference, New York University, June 16th, 2001
• "A Master's Degree in Digital Humanities at the University of Virginia," delivered at the 2001 ACH/ALLC Conference, New York University, June 16th, 2001
• "Containing Multitudes: Assessing Manuscript Material and Developing a Whitman DTD" (with Alice Rutkowski), delivered at the 2001 ACH/ALLC Conference, New York University, June 13th, 2001
• "A Master's Degree in Digital Humanities: Part of the Media Studies Program at the University of Virginia," delivered at the 2001 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Université Laval, Québec, Canada, May 25, 2001.
• "Reconsidering and revising the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions' Guidelines for Scholarly Editions" part of the panel on "New Directions for Digital Textuality" at the 2001 Conference of the Society for Textual Scholarship, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, April 19, 2001
• "Knowledge Representation in Humanities Computing," Lecture I in the eHumanities NEH Lecture Series on Technology & the Humanities, Washington, DC, April 3, 2001.
• Panelist, "Librarians, Scholars, and Publishers: Creating Resources for Scholarship," part of "Beyond Business as Usual: Building Partnerships for Fundamental Change," the 2001 Annual Sponsors' Symposium of the Council on Library and Information Resources, Washington, D.C., March 14, 2001.
• "Humanities Informatics: Some Examples," presented at Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, PA, February 9, 2001.

Recent Service:

• Member, Board of Directors, Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, 2004-2005.
• Member, external board, Text Analysis Portal for Research, http://tapor.humanities.mcmaster.ca/. 2003-present.
• Member, advisory board, Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building (CLiMB) project, Center for Research on Information Access, Columbia University. 2003-
• President, Association for Computers and the Humanities, 2002-2004
• Chairman of the Board, Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, 2001-2003.
• Chair, TEI Council, 2002-2003.
• Co-chair, Committee on Scholarly Editions, Modern Language Association, 2001-2003
• Member, Committee on Scholarly Editions, Modern Language Association, 1996-2001
• Member, Advisory Board, Electronic Imprint at the University Press of Virginia. 2002-present.
• Organizer and Acting Director, Master's Degree in Digital Humanities
• Member, 2004 Busa Award Selection Committee, Association for Computers and the Humanities, 2001-2004.
• Member, Executive Council, Association for Computers and the Humanities, 1999-2002
• Member, Board of Directors, Virginia Art of the Book Center, 2001-present .
• Member, University Libraries Committee, University of Virginia, 2000-2002
• Member, University of Virginia Research Computing Task Force (Social Sciences, Arts, Humanities, Business and Law sub-group), 2000-2001.
• Member, Executive Board, University of Virginia Center for Digital Initiatives, 2001.
• Chair, Transition Group, Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, 1999-2000
• Member, Council on Library and Information Resources international task force to consider the role of the artifact in library collections, 1999-2000
• Member, Board of Directors, National Initiative for Networked Cultural Heritage, 1999-2000
• Member, Computer Science & Humanities Steering Committee, National Initiative for Networked Cultural Heritage, 2001
• Chair, World-Wide Web Editorial Committee, Dept. of English, Univeristy of Virginia, 1997-2000
• Chair, Technologies Committee, Dept. of English, University of Virginia, 1997-2000
• Member, Publishing and Communications Advisory Board, Division of Continuing Education, University of Virginia, 1996-present
• Member, Network-Based Information Services Committee, University of Virginia, 1995-present.

Recent Grants:

• Planning grant for Analytical Tools in Humanities Digital Libraries, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. $50,000 (2003). Approved.
• Planning grant for Virtual Collections in American Studies, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. $46,829 (2002). Approved.
• Program Officer's grant in support of Electronic Textual Editing (a volume co-sponsored by the MLA's Committee on Scholarly Editions and the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium), submitted through the Modern Language Association and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. $40,250 (2002). Approved.
• "An Electronic Imprint at the University Press of Virginia," a proposal to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of publishing originally digital scholarship, in partnership with the University of Virginia Press. $640,000 (2001-2003). Approved.
• "The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive," an April 2000 Collaborative Research Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (Project Director: Ed Folsom). $150,000 (2000-2001). Approved.
• "The William Blake Archive," an April 2000 Preservation and Access Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (Project Directors: Morris Eaves, Robert Essick, Joe Viscomi). $233,824 (2000-2001). Approved.
• Supporting Digital Scholarship, a proposal to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of IATH research and digital library integration, in partnership with the University of Virginia Library. $1,000,000 (2000-2002). Approved.