Very Brief Curriculum Vitae for
John M. Unsworth
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Contact Information
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-present
- 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:
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
- 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 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.