Experience:

• 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 (tenured 1996)
• Director, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia, 1993-present
• Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, North Carolina State University, 1989-1993
• Associate Faculty, Multi-Disciplinary Studies Program, North Carolina State University,1992-1993
• Lecturer, Dept. of English, University of Virginia, 1988-89
• Instructor, Dept. of English, University of Virginia, 1985-1987

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

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.
• Essays in Postmodern Culture. Ed. Eyal Amiran and John Unsworth. New York: Oxford UP, 1993.
• "William Gass's The Tunnel: The Work-in-Progress as Post-Modern Genre." Arizona Quarterly 48.1 (Spring, 1992): 63-85.
• "Networked Academic Publishing and the Rhetorics of its Reception. With Eyal Amiran and Carole Chaski. Centennial Review 36.1 (Winter, 1992): 43-58.
• "The Book Market II." In The Columbia History of the American Novel. Ed. Emory Elliot. New York: Columbia UP, 1991.
• "Refereed Electronic Journals and the Future of Scholarly Publishing." With Elaine Orr and Eyal Amiran. In Advances in Library Automation and Networking. Ed. Joe Hewitt. Vol. 4. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press Inc., 1991.
• "Practicing Post-Modernism: The Example of John Hawkes." Contemporary Literature 32.1 (Spring 1991): 38-57.
• "Postmodern Culture: Publishing in the Electronic Medium." With Eyal Amiran. The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 2.1 (1991): 67-76.
• "Orchestrating Reception: The Hierarchy of Readers in Post-Modern American Fiction." Centennial Review 34.3 (Summer 1990): 413-432.
• "Carlos Baker." The Dictionary of Literary Biography. Ed. Steven Serafin. Vol. 103. American Literary Biographers, First Series. Detroit: Gale Research, 1991. 21-30.
• "Tom Jones: The Comedy of Knowledge." Modern Language Quarterly 48.3 (September 1987): 242-253.

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
• ENTC 565: Technologies of Publishing, Spring 2001
• ENTC 312: 20th-Century American Literature (Bestsellers), Spring 2000
• ENLT 226M: 20th-Century American Literature (Bestsellers), Fall 1999
• ENTC 312: 20th-Century American Literature (Bestsellers), Spring 1999
• ENTC 981: Postmodern Fiction and Theory, Fall 1998
• ENTC 312: 20th-Century American Literature (Bestsellers), Spring 1998
• ENSP 981: Hypertext Theory, Fall 1997
• ENTC 312: Contemporary American Literature, Spring 1997
• ENSP 481: Theory and Practice of Hypertext, Fall 1996
• ENSP 482: Theory and Practice of Hypertext, Spring 1996
• ENSP 982: Discourse Networks, Fall 1995
• ENSP 482: Theory and Practice of Hypertext, Spring 1995
• USEM 171: The Information Superhighway: An interdisciplinary introduction to the internet, its evolution and future promise, Spring 1995
• ENCR 481: Contemporary Literature and Theory, University of Virginia, Fall 1994
• The NCSU Virtual Campus
• Graduate courses in postmodern literature, literary theory, and cultural studies
• Undergraduate courses in contemporary American and world literature, hypertext, modernism, literary theory, popular culture and cultural studies, classic American literature, and composition.

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

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.
• "Thematic Research Collections: An Emerging Scholarly Genre," delivered as part of a panel on "The Future of the Scholarly Monograph" sponsored by the MLA Bibliography Advisory Committee, at the 2000 MLA convention, Washington, D.C., December 28, 2000
• "What is Humanities Computing and What is Not?" Distinguished Speakers Series, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland, College Park MD, October 5, 2000
• Supporting Digital Scholarship," delivered as part of "New Models of Electronic Publication/Dissemination" at the Building Blocks Workshop of the National Initiative for Networked Cultural Heritage, Washington, D.C., September 20, 2000.
• "The TEI Consortium," panel discussion at Digital Resources in the Humanities 2000, Sheffield, England, Sept. 11, 2000
• "Second-Generation Digital Resources in the Humanities," opening plenary address at Digital Resources in the Humanities 2000, Sheffield, England, Sept. 10, 2000.
• "Supporting Digital Scholarship," panel discussion at the 2000 annual joint conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities, Glasgow, Scotland, July 25, 2000.
• Panelist, "Digital Rights Management: Legal Issues, and Ownership of Ideas," The Second Annual Summer Publishing Institute for Professionals, University of Virginia, June 11-16, 2000
• Panelist, "Functionality and Accessibility of Digital Content: New Features on the Horizon," presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Scholarly Publishing, June 2, Baltimore, MD
• "Scholarly Primitives: what methods do humanities researchers have in common, and how might our tools reflect this?" part of a symposium on "Humanities Computing: formal methods, experimental practice" sponsored by King's College, London, May 13, 2000.
• "Information technology, teaching, research, and scholarly publishing," a series of workshops at Texas Christian University, May 4-5, 2000.
• "Humanities Adventures in Computerland", an interdisciplinary symposium at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, April 21-22, 2000
• "The Scholar in the Digital Library," the George Ford Lecture, University of Rochester, April 6, 2000
• Panelist, "Critical Thinking and the Bible in the Age of New Media" conference, American Bible Society, New York, NY, February 11, 2000
• Panelist for "Teaching and Learning" and "The Academical Village in the Internet Age," e-summit@virginia, November 12-13, Charlottesville, VA.
• "Art in Space and Time," part of a panel titled "The nature and consequences of the globalization of technology in the conduct of research" at the National Gallery of Art, sponsored by the Association for Research in Art History, November 6, 1999, Washington, DC.
• SGML in Action II: How Publishers are Making SGML Work, a seminar sponsored by the Society for Scholarly Publishing. October 28, 1999, New York City
• "The Library as Laboratory," delivered as part of a panel on "The Politics of Scholarly Communication in the New Millennium," program sponsored by the Law and Political Science Section of ACRL, at the annual meeting of the American Library Assocation, New Orleans, LA, June 27, 1999.
• "Scholarly Tools and Expectations in a Digital Age", delivered in "Track I: The Role of New Technologies" at the annual meeting of the American Association of University Presses, Austin, Texas, June 21, 1999.
• Invited panelist for "Track IV: Journals Strategies: A Revolutionin Progress and a New Model for Scholarly Publishing" at the annual meeting of the American Association of University Presses, Austin, Texas, June 22, 1999.
• Instructor, Day 3, University of Virginia Summer Publishing Institute, June 15, 1999.
• Association for Computers and the Humanities Panel: "Humanities Computing and the Rise of New Media Studies: Synergy or Disjunction?" with Allen Renear, Adrian Miles, Nancy Kaplan, Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, John Lavagnino, at the annual joint convention of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Compouting, Charlottesville, June 12, 1999.
• Faculty Seminar on Teaching and Technology, College of William and Mary, March 18, 1999.
• "Establishing a Center of Expertise and a Space for Interdisciplinary Interaction: The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia," Text Studies Series, University of Nebraska Library, March 12, 1999.
• Chair, "Creation and Use of Electronic Editions," a panel sponsored by the Committee on Scholarly Editions, presented at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA, December 28, 1998
• Chair, "Making Text Smarter," a panel sponsored by the Association of Documentary Editors, presented at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA, December 28, 1998
• Chair, "Author, Editor, Publisher," a panel sponsored by the Committee on Scholarly Editions, presented at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA, December 29, 1998
• "Technology and Teaching in the Humanities", a Faculty Proseminar at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, December 16, 1998
• "Web Sites for Classroom Use," a six-part faculty seminar delivered at Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, September 17-18, 1998
• "Humanities Applications for Information Power Grids," an invited talk at Grids '98: Designing, Building, and Using a National-Scale Grid, July 27-28, 1998, Chicago, IL.
• "After the Fall: Structured Data at IATH" (with Daniel Pitti), at the annual joint meeting of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, July 1998, Debrecen, Hungary.
• "Scholarly Communication, Scholarly Transmission, Scholarly Publishing: Multilevel Roles in the New(er) Environment," Assocation of American University Presses, Annual Meeting and Workshops, June 25, 1998.
• "Humanities Research Computing at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities", Delivered at the Annual Membership Meeting of the Research Libraries Group, British Library, London, Tuesday May 5th, 1998.
• "Espen Aarseth's Cybertext," delivered as part of the Graduate Theory Seminar, Department of English, University of Virginia, April 24, 1998
• Panelist, "The Humanities and the DLI-2 Challenge: Raising the Bar for Humanities Digital Library Research and Projects," CNI Spring Task Force Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 14, 1998
• Workshop on Electronic Publishing, at the Exploring the New Media Conference, Library of Congress, Washington D.C., Friday, April 17, 1998.
• "Do Electronic Journals Need Publishers?" Presented as part of "The Refereed Electronic Journal: A New Venue for Scholarship in the Humanities," a special panel of the MLA Committee on Computers and Emerging Technologies in Teaching and Research, Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Assocation, Toronto, Canada, Monday, 29 December, 1997
• "'The Only Responsible Intellectual is One Who is Wired,'" Jack A. Austin Lecture Series on Teaching, Learning, and Research with Technology, Tufts University, Cambridge, MA, Nov. 17, 1997
• "Documenting the reinvention of text: the importance of imperfection, doubt, and failure." Delivered at the Transformations of the Book Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, October 25, 1997
• "The Future of Publishing: A Roundtable Looking Toward the 21st Century," Panel Chair. Envisioning the Future (an H-Net Conference), East Lansing, MI, Friday, September 26, 1997
• "Creating Digital Resources: the Work of Many Hands," Panel Chair and Organizer. Digital Resources in the Humanities, Oxford University, England, September 14th, 1997
• "Creating Electronic Editions," International Center for Jefferson Studies, Charlottesville, VA, September 6, 1997
• "Bringing Journals Into an Online Environment," to be presented at Electronic Publishing 1997 and Beyond, Co-sponsored by the University of Virginia and the Library of Congress, Washington D.C., April 10-12, 1997.
• "New Copyright and Database Regulations: USPTO, WIPO, and You." Delivered at University of London and Oxford University, England, February 3 and 4, 1997
• "Esoteric vs. Exoteric: Economic Models for Electronic Publishing," Delivered at Electronic Publishing: A Day Conference, University of London, January 31, 1997.
• "'The Only Responsible Intellectual is One Who is Wired,'" Convocation Series, Drury College, Springfield MO, November 13, 1996
• Plenary Address, CHANT conference, University of Maryland, November 8, 1996
• Conference Paper, 150th Anniversary of the Smithsonian, Westminster College, London, October 26, 1996
• "Information Economy, Community," Keynote speech, SIGDOC conference, Research Triangle Park, NC, October 20, 1996
• "Curricular Change and Choice: Reaching Across the Disciplines and Opening New Avenues of Inquiry with New Technologies", Clinch Valley Community College, Norton, VA, August 23, 1996
• Petrou Lecture, "Digital Research in the Humanities: Community, Collaboration, and Intellectual Technologies," University of Maryland, April 24, 1996.
• Conference paper, American Association of University Presses, Southeast Regional Meeting, Charlottesville, VA, March 23, 1996
• Speaker, CELJ session on editing scholarly journals, presented at the Annual Modern Language Association Convention (Chicago, IL, 27 December 1995).
• "Cost Recovery in Networked Electronic Publishing," presented at the Northeast Regional Meeting of the Association of American University Presses, New York, NY, 30 October, 1995.
• "Publishing on the World-Wide Web," presented at Exploring The New Media: Migrating Online from Print and CD-ROM: Business and Legal Issues, San Francisco, CA, 28 September 1995.
• Speaker, "Electronic Publishing: New Strategies, Roles, and Responsibilities for Information Delivery," Southeast Regional UNC/CAUSE/CNI Conference (UNC-Greensboro, 14 September, 1995).
• Speaker and Moderator for "Collaboration Between Humanities Scholars and Computer Professionals," presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Computing in the Humanities/Association of Literary and Linguistic Computing (University of California, Santa Barbara, 12 July, 1995).
• "Advanced Scholarly Computing in the Humanities: the University of Virginia Approach," presented at "Cultural Resources in the Electronic Era: Beyond Enthusiasm: Some Critical Perspectives," Tel Aviv University, 5-6 June, 1995.
• "Producing Networked Scholarship," presented at Davis Library, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC, April 21, 1995)
• "Publishing on the Internet," presented at Exploring The New Media: CD-ROM, Internet/Online, and Copyright Issues (Washington D.C., March 30-April 1, 1995)
• "Electronic Scholarship," presented at The Convergence of Science and the Humanities: Internet Technologies and Scholarly Resources (Buffalo NY, March 24, 1995)
• "Electronic Scholarship," presented at the Annual Modern Language Association Convention, San Diego, CA, December 1994.
• "The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities," presented at Northwestern University, Evanston IL, December, 1994.
• "Information Theory, Postmodernism, and Mind Control (or, What LSD, Mass Media, and the Internet Have in Common)," presented at the 1994 Conference of the Society for Literature and Science, New Orleans, LA, November, 1994. See also the handout, LSD, Mind Control, and the Internet: A Chronology
• "Not Your Average Fool: The Humanist on the Internet," presented at the National Institutes for Health, October 1994.
• "Producing Peer-Reviewed Electronic Journals," presented at SIGNIDR V, Mitre Corp., McClean VA, August 1994.
• "The NCSU Virtual Campus," presented at the Annual Modern Language Association Convention, Toronto, December, 1993.
• "Networked Scholarship: The Effects of Advanced Technology on Research in the Humanities," presented at Harvard University, Cambridge MA, November 1993.
• "Editing an Electronic Journal," presented at Harvard University, Loeb Library, May 1993.
• "Electronic Journals in the Virtual Library," presented at University of Minnesota, St. Thomas Campus, Minneapolis, MN, March 1993.
• Featured Speaker, MCNC video-conference on electronic publishing, January 1993.
• "Developing and Managing an Electronic Journal," presented at the American Society for Information Science Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October 1992.
• "Scholarly Research Publishing on the Electronic Networks," presented at the Association of Research Libraries' workshop on Electronic Publishing, Washington, D.C., April 1992
• "Editing an Electronic Journal, presented at the third North Carolina Serials Conference, Durham, N.C., April 1992.
• "Problems and Possibilities in the Networked Publication of Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Research, presented at the American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Francisco CA, April 1992
• "Patterned Responses to Electronic Publishing," presented with Eyal Amiran at the Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco CA, December 1991.
• "Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and Libraries," presented for the Davis Library LAUNC-CH lecture series, UNC-Chapel Hill, December 1991.
• "Electronic Publication of Peer-Reviewed Journals," presented at the conference on Using Network Information Services, sponsored by New England Regional Computer Program, Inc., Trinity College, Hartford CT, April 1991.
• "Bridging the gap--The migration of scholarly publishing from print to electronic text," presented at the National Net '91 Conference, sponsored by the National Association of Research Libraries, Washington D.C., March 1991.

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.
• Local Organizer and Co-Host, 1999 joint international conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing
• Member, Search Committee for Director of Media Studies, University of Virginia, 1998-99
• Member, Committee on Information Technology for Research, University of Virginia, 1998
• Member, Subcommittee on Electronic Publication, Committee on the New Variorium Edition of Shakespeare, Modern Language Association, 1997
• Member, Executive Council, Association for Computers and the Humanities, 1996-1997
• Member, Committee on Information Technology for Research, University of Virginia, 1996
• Member, Planning Committee, 1996 Annual Conference of the Special Interest Group for Documentation, Association for Computing Machinery.
• Supervised and participated in the first major overhaul of the University of Virginia's World-Wide Web Home Page.
• Member, Graduate Committee, Dept. of English, University of Virginia
• Member, Student Affairs Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia
• Founder, IATH-MOO: A Virtual Conference Site
• Founder, PMC-MOO: A Postmodern Community
• Founder, NCSU Virtual Campus
• Member, Coalition for Networked Information, Working Group on Technical Requirements, National Initiative for the Humanities and Arts Computing, Coalition for Networked Information/Getty Art History Information Program, co-sponsors
• Member, Coalition for Networked Information, Task Force, Advertising on the internet
• Chair, Computer Affairs Committee, Dept. of English, NCSU
• Computing Coordinator, Dept. of English, NCSU
• Member, CHASS Computing Committee, subcommittee on multi-media, NCSU
• Member, University Library Committee, subcommittee on scholarly communication, NCSU
• Member, Curriculum Committee, Dept. of English, NCSU (revised the major)
• Organizer, Conference on the applications of the Standard Generalized Markup Language in publishing electronic journals, NCSU

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.
• Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar, "Is Humanities Computing an Academic Discipline?" ($15K). Approved.
• Teaching + Technology Initiative. Proposal in support of ENTC 312 (20th-Century American Bestsellers) ($15K). Approved.
• Delmas Foundation. Support for the 1999 ACH/ALLC Conference ($5K). Approved.
• Trust for Mutual Understanding, Travel Subvention for Eastern and Central European Scholars to Attend the 1999 ACH/ALLC Conference ($25K). Approved.
• National Science Foundation, Education, Outreach, and Training Participant in PACI and NPACI Supercomputing Programs ($150K). Approved.
• Academic Enhancement Program Grant, on behalf of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities ($175K). Approved.
• AT&T Foundation Grant proposal, on behalf of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities ($35K). Approved.
• Getty Fund: Three-year support for the production of an electronic Blake archive at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. February 1994 ($250,000). Approved
• Sprint-Centel: Dissertation Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, April 1994 ($12,000). Approved.
• Provost's Teaching Initiative, North Carolina State University: Development Grant for the NCSU Virtual Campus, Spring 1993. ($10,000). Approved.
• Research Office, North Carolina State Univeristy: Development Grants for Postmodern Culture, 1990-1992 ($11,000). Approved.
• College of Humanities and Social Sciences, North Carolina State University: Organized Research Grants for Postmodern Culture, 1990-1992 ($6,800). Approved.

Membership: