Employment:

• Dean of Libraries, University Librarian, and Professor of English, University of Virginia, 2016-present
• Vice Provost, University Librarian, Chief Information Officer and Professor of English, 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, 2003-2012
• 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
• Associate Faculty, Multi-Disciplinary Studies Program, North Carolina State University,1992-1993
• Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, North Carolina State University, 1989-1993

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 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, 2014-2020.

Institute for Liberal Arts and Digital Scholarship

• ILiADS Summer Institute, Hamilton College, July 26-August 2, 2015.

  Brandeis University:

• English 147B: 20th Century American Bestsellers, Spring 2014.
• ENG 158B: Digital Humanities Spring 2013

Editing and Curating:

• Member, Editorial Board, Digital Humanities Quarterly, 2006-present
• 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:

• "Ebooks: The Next Big Deal?" eBooks and the Academic Library Market: The Charlotte Initiative Open Conference, March 9, 2017.
• "August and Everything After: Charlottesville, Virginia 2017." Presented at the 171st Association Meeting, October 2017, in Washington, DC, .
• "Bridging Art and Science: STEAM Education in a Digital World." 4Cast '16, University of Iowa, Iowa City, January 14, 2016. (Also available as a PDF)
• "What are the Digital Humanities, and where did they come from?" Digital Scholarship Symposium, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, October 1, 2015.
• "Annotation: A Very Brief History." Presented at The Poynter Institute's Annotation Summit, New York Times Building, NYC, May 20, 2015.
• "Scholarly Research Infrastructure." Remarks for the closing roundtable at "Scholarly Networks and the Emerging Platforms for Humanities Research and Publication," an international colloquium co-sponsored by The Virtual Humanities Lab and the Center for Digital Scholarship at Brown University, and DARIAH-Italy. Providence, RI, April 18, 2015.
• Panelist, "Big Data and the Digital Humanities," part of "Cultivating Collaboration: Bridging Cultures Through Humanities Research and Innovation," the Fourth US - China Cultural Forum, held at the National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington DC, April 10, 2015.
• Text Mining Workshop, Council on Library an Informaton Resources Summer Seminar for Postdocs, Bryn Mawr College, July 29, 2014.

Recent Service:

• 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, "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.