Employment:

• Dean of Libraries, University Librarian, and Professor of English, University of Virginia, 2016-present
• Vice-Provost for Library and Technology Services and Chief Information Officer, Brandeis University, 2012-2016
• 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, 2003-present
• Director, Illinois Informatics Institute, 2008-2011
• Associate Professor, Dept. of English, University of Virginia, 1993-2003 (tenured 1996)
• Director, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia, 1993-2003

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 Publications:

• A New Companion to Digital Humanities. Edited with Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman. Oxford: Wiley, 2016.
• "Pubrarians and Liblishers at 20: Reflections on Library Publishing from 1995–2014." Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 2(4):eP1201. http://dx.doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.1201
• "What is Humanities Computing and What is Not?" in Defining Digital Humanities: A Reader (London: Ashgate, 2013).
• "Medievalists as Early Adopters of Information Technology." Introduction to "Selected Proceedings of the "Third International MARGOT Conference, The Digital Middle Ages: Teaching and Research." Digital Medievalist 2011.
• "Collaborative Research: an interview." Collaborative Research in the Digital Humanities. Edited by Marilyn Deegan and Willard McCarty. Ashgate: London, 2013.

Awards:

• Appointed Distinguished Presidential Fellow at the Council on Library and Information Resources, 2014-2015.
• Appointed by President Barack Obama to the National Coiuncil on the Humanities August 5, 2013-January 26, 2016.
• Allen Smith Visiting Scholar, School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, 2012-2013.
• The Richard W. Lyman Award, 2005
• Vodafone Fellow, Kings College, University College London, Spring 2005

Recent Teaching:

University of Virginia:

• Introduction to Digital Humanities, Grad Seminar, Spring 2021.
• Introduction to Digital Humanities, Grad Seminar, Spring 2020. Syllabus.
• Introduction to Digital Humanities, Grad Seminar, Spring 2019.
• 20th-Century American Bestsellers, Undergraduate class, Spring 2018.

Digital Humanities Summer Institute

• "Digital Humanities for Deans and Department Heads," with Ray Siemens, University of Victoria, BC, 2014-2022.

Editing and Curating:

• Member, Editorial Board, Digital Humanities Quarterly, 2006-2022
• Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Electronic Publishing, University of Michigan Press.
• 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, Romantic Circles Advisory Board, 1997-present

Recent Presentations:

• Panelist for "Ensuring Accessibility of Information Products and Services," a webinar hosted by the National Information Standards Organization, June 8th, 2022.
• Panelist for "The Development, Planning, and Design of UVA’s Main Library" with Alice Raucher, Architect for the University; John Unsworth, Dean of Libraries, University Librarian, Professor of English; William Kinane, Principal, HBRA Architects SCUP Mid-Atlantic Conference, Charlottesville, Virginia March 10, 2022
• Panelist for "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Libraries & Publishers Providing Accessible Content,"" Charleston Conference, November 3rd, 2021

Recent Service:

• Member, Search Committee, junior faculty position in the School of Data Science at the University of Virginia.
• Board Member, The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries, 2021-
• Chair of the Steering Committee for the Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA), 2019-2021.
• Member, Search Committee, Vice President for Human Resources, Brandeis University, 2015
• Member, Search Committee, Vice Provost for Research, Brandeis University, 2015
• Invited participant, "Envisioning Our Information Future and How to Educate For It." A Planning Forum funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Held at Simmons College School of Library and Information Science, Boston MA, January 14-16, 2015.
• Member, external review committee on library and IT, American University of Cairo, Egypt, January 2015.
• Member, Library Steering Committee, Knowledge Unlatched 2014-2016.
• Member, Executive Management Committee, HathiTrust Research Center, 2011-present
• Member, TAPAS Project Advisory Board, 2015-present
• President, Boston Library Consortium, 2014-2015
• Member, National Council on the Humanities, 2013-2016
• Member, Search Committee for the Senior Vice President for Communications at Brandeis University, 2015
• Member, external library review committee, Lafayette College, October, 2014.
• Member, external review committee, Bates College Library, Lewiston, ME, September 2014.
• Member, external review committee, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland at College Park, June 2014.
• Co-Chair, Online Learning Advisory Committee, Brandeis University, 2013-
• Invited visitor, University Press of New England, Board of Governors, 2013-
• Member, Steering Committee, Coalition for Networked Information, 2013-
• Treasurer, Text Encoding Initaitive Consortium, 2013-
• Member, Council on Library and Information Resources, CIOs group, 2012-present
• Staff, Committee on Library and IT, Brandeis University Board of Trustees, 2014-present.

Recent Grants:

• PI, "FRAME Phase 2," a further two-year grant to pilot a national infrastructure for sharing educational materials made accessible for those with print disabilities, in partnership with seven other universities, HathiTrust, the Internet Archive, ACE, and Bookshare. $1.175M requested from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 2021.
• PI, "Federated Repositories of Accessible Materials for Education." A two-year grant to pilot a national infrastructure for sharing educational materials made accessible for those with print disabilities, in partnership with six other universities, HathiTrust, the Internet Archive, and Bookshare. Funded at $1M by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 2019
• PI, "The HistoryMakers in Higher Education" A two-year grant funded at $1M by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 2018.
• PI, "The HistoryMakers: The Next Generation." A two-year grant to modernize The HistoryMakers infrastructure and connect it to research and teaching in higher education. Funded at $725,000 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 2016.
• Co-PI, with Laura Wood (Tufts University). "The Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust (East): A Large-Scale Shared Print Collection Serving Northeastern Academic Libraries." Proposed on behalf of the Boston Library Consortium to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for funding of $994,771, March 30, 2015.
• Co-PI, with Laura Wood (Tufts University). "Repository Services for Accessible Course Content." Funded at $49,870 by the Institute for Museum and Library Studies. 2015.
• PI. "The HistoryMakers and the Higher Education Market." A planning grant to help a Brandeis alumna's non-profit oral history project become part of the collections of college and university libraries. Funded at $51,000 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 2015.