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:

• "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 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.