Curriculum Vitae for

John M. Unsworth

Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Contact Information

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, 2003-present
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
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:

"Beyond the ACLS Report: An Interview with John Unsworth," with Kevin Guthrie. Academic Commons, December 2007 (Special Cyberinfrastructure Issue).
Our Cultural Commonwealth: The report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences, John Unsworth (Commission Chair), with commission members and Marlo Welshons (editor). ACLS: New York, 2006.
Electronic Textual Editing, co-edited with Lou Burnard and Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe. New York: Modern Language Association, 2006. Supported 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. An uncorrected full-text preview version is available free from the TEI website.
A Companion to Digital Humanities, co-edited with Susan Schreibman and Ray Siemens. New York: Blackwells, 2004. A free full-text version is also available online from the ADHO web site.
"The Next Wave: Liberation Technology," from The Chronicle of Higher Education's Chronicle Review, January 30, 2004.
"Let's Read Across Boundaries." Library Journal vol. 128, no. 15 (September 15, 2003), 38.
"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.

Awards:

The Richard W. Lyman Award, 2005
Vodafone Fellow, Kings College, University College London, Spring 2005

Teaching:

LIS 310A: Digital Humanities (login required), Spring 2007.
LIS 590AB Advanced Problems in LIS, Topic: 20th Century American Bestsellers (cross-listed as ENGL 564: Seminar in Literary Modes and Genres), Spring 2006
LIS 590DH-L: Digital Humanities, Spring 2005
ENTC 312: 20th-Century American Literature (Bestsellers), Fall 2002
"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.
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-editor (with Boyd Rawyard), Library Trends, 2006-present
Member, Editorial Board, Digital Humanities Quarterly, 2006-present
Member, Editorial Committee, Literary and Linguistic Computing, 2004-present
Member, Editorial Board, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: an international journal of theory, research and practice, 2001-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
Commissioning Editor, Computers and the Humanities, 1997-2004
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.
Co-editor, Research Reports of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities

Member, Electronic Melville Committee, Melville Society, 1998-present
Member, Multimedia Dante Project Advisory Board, Princeton University, 1998-2003

Presentations:

"How Not To Read A Million Books," Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October 19, 2008.
Humanities Cyberinfrastructure and UNC-Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, September 19, 2008. Links mentioned in the talk
"Bamboo and CyberInfrastructure", Project Bamboo Workshop 1.4, Princeton New Jersey, July 15, 2008.
Master Class on Strategic Considerations in Digital Humanities Projects, Digital Humanities Observatory, Dublin, Ireland, July 3, 2008.
"Evidence of Value," panel member, DH2008 conference, June 26, 2008, Oulu, Finland.
"Defining an International Humanities Portal," panel member, DH2008 conference, June 26, 2008, Oulu, Finland.
"The Importance of Digitization to Libraries and to Humanities Scholars," Launch of the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition, British Library, London, May 13, 2008.
Speaker, EXP lecture series, co-sponsored by the Experiential Technologies Center (ETC) and the Center for Research in Engineering, Media, and Performance (REMAP), UCLA, April 11, 2008.
"Cyberinfrastructure and Open Standards, Methods, and Communities," Panel on Open Digital Communities, Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, Dec. 27, 2007.
"Digital Repositories and Publishing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences: Challenges and Opportunities," Society for Scholarly Publishing, "Opportunities for Publishers in a World of Institutional Repositories," Washington, DC, November 12, 2007.
Chair, Funders panel, Annual Members Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, University of Maryland, College Park, November 2nd.
"University 2.0," Integration of Information Services into University Infrastructures: 7th Frankfurt Scientific Symposium, Universitat Frankfurt am Main, Wed. Oct. 12.
Panel discussion on "The Foundations and Futures of Digital Humanities," InFormation Year conference, John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University, Durham, NC, April 20, 2007.
"Digital Humanities Centers as Cyberinfrastructure," Plenary Address, Summit meeting for directors of digital humanities centers, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, College Park, MD, April 13, 2007.
"Learning from nora: distributed software development in the humanities," Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, March 29, 2007.
"New Directions in Humanities Research," Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford, CA, January 18, 2007.
"Sustaining the Humanities and Social Sciences: A discussion of the ACLS report on cyberinfrastructure for humanities and social sciences," EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research Symposium, Carefree, AZ, December 7, 2006. [optimized for Opera browser, 1024x768 projection]
"Digital Humanities: Beyond Representation," University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, November 13, 2006.
"All the King's Horses and All the King's Men Couldn't Do Text-Mining Across the Big Ten," Keynote at the University of Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, Chicago, IL, November 5, 2006.
Participant, ACRL Summit on Technology and Change in Academic Libraries, Chicago, IL, November 2, 2006.
"Virtual Reunification of Scattered Archives," part of a symposium on Manuscript Matters, British Library, London, October 20, 2006. (PPT, 10.6MB)
"Information Behaviors." Part of a panel on "Continuity and Change in University Scholarship," in a symposium on The Research Library in the 21st Century, held at the University of Texas at Austin, September 12, 2006.
"Cyberinfrastructure in the U.S.A." Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. July 18, 2006.
"Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign." Nanjing Public Library, Nanjing, China. July 14, 2006.
"Managing the Digital Library: The ECHO Depository Project." Beihang University, Beijing, China. July 12, 2006.
With Bei Yu, "Toward Discovering Potential Data Mining Applications in Literary Criticism," Digital Humanities 2006, The Sorbonne University, July 8, 2006.
Participant, roundtable discussion on "The Fate and Function of Digital Humanities Centers," Digital Humanities 2006, The Sorbonne University, July 7, 2006.
With Xin Xiang, "Connecting Text Mining and Natural Language Processing in a Humanistic Context" Digital Humanities 2006, The Sorbonne University, July 6, 2006.
"Vernacular Computing," presented at the Electronic Publishing Workshop of the American Association of University Presses, New Orleans, June 14, 2006.
"The Value of the Library to a Liberal Arts Education," presented at the Brookens Library, University of Illinois-Springfield, May 23, 2006.
"Institutionalizing Humanities Computing," lecture co-sponsored by the Wilson Center for the Humanities and Arts and the Department of English, University of Georgia, February 24, 2006.
"Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences: A Report on the ACLS Commission," Director's Seminar, NCSA, February 21, 2006.
"New Methods for Humanities Research," presented at Kenyon College, January 31, 2006.
"New Research Methods for the Humanities," The Lyman Award Lecture, National Humanities Center, November 11, 2005.
"Open Access, Open Archives, and Open Source in Higher Education," Natonal Scholarly Communication Forum, Sydney, Australia, September 27, 2005.
"Cyberinfrastructure in the USA," a talk at the Australian Academy of Humanities, Sydney, Australia, September 26, 2005.
""Digital Publication and Scholarly Communication," Digital Library Lecture Series, Case Western Reserve University, September 16, 2005.
Session Chair, "Portals, Tools, and Data," "Emblems in the Twenty-First Century: Materials and Media," The Seventh International Conference of the Society for Emblem Studies, held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, July 25, 2005.
"Digital Surrogates for the Printed Book: Problems and Possibilities," Opening Plenary, "Emblems in the Twenty-First Century: Materials and Media," The Seventh International Conference of the Society for Emblem Studies, held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, July 25, 2005.
Presentation on ECHO-DEP (the UIUC NDIIPP project) at the National Digital Strategy Advisory Board, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, July 14, 2005.
"Extensible Markup Language (XML) and its Applications in Scholarship & Libraries," part of "Adding Value to Digital Texts: A General Overview," Slavic Digital Text Workshop: Strategies for Humanists & Social Scientists, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, July 6, 2005.
Panelist, "The Blackwell Companion to Digital Humanities: a Roundtable Discussion," Annual Joint Conference of The Association for Computers and the Humanities & The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Victoria, British Columbia, June 18, 2005.
Panelist, "National Support for Humanities Computing: Different Achievements, Needs, and Prospects," Annual Joint Conference of The Association for Computers and the Humanities & The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Victoria, British Columbia, June 17, 2005.
Panelist, "A Revolutionary Approach to Humanities Computing?: Tools Development and the D2K Data-Mining Framework," Annual Joint Conference of The Association for Computers and the Humanities & The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Victoria, British Columbia, June 16, 2005.
Panelist, "Hybrid Cyber-Librarians: The CLIR Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Scholarly Information Resources for Humanists," Annual Joint Conference of The Association for Computers and the Humanities & The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Victoria, British Columbia, June 17, 2005.
Institute Lecture, Humanities Computing Summer Institute, University of Victoria, British Columbia, June 13, 2005.
"Pubrarians and Liblishers: New Roles for Old Foes," [NB: 37MB Flash file] keynote address at the 2005 annual meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, Boston, MA, June 2, 2005.
"'Combustion of Early Summer'," presented as part of a panel on "The Future of Journals: In Print, On Line, and Elsewhere," at "Humanities Journals: Present and Future," a conference convened by New Literary History at the University of Virginia, April 9, 2005.
"Public Networks, Vernacular Computing," presented as the Wisbey Lecture at King's College London, March 23, 2005.
"The Last Rites of the Humanities," an informal seminar at University College London, Senate House, London, March 22, 2005.
Organizer and Moderator, "Electronic Textual Editing" a session at the opening plenary session of the Society for Textual Scholarship's Thirteenth Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference, New York, NY, March 17, 2005.
"Cultural Infrastructure," delivered at the opening plenary session of the Society for Textual Scholarship's Thirteenth Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference, New York, NY, March 17, 2005.
Panelist for "The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communication: The Role of Digital Repositories," Provost's Seminar on Scholarly Communication, University of Kansas, March 8, 2005.
Presenter at "Session 565: Cyberinfrastructure for Social Sciences, Humanities, and Education," Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington DC, February 20, 2005.
Moderator, "Origins of a Networked World: From World War II to the Internet," sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, February 17, 2005.
"The importance of digitization and cyberinfrastructure in the humanities," delivered as the 90th and final seminar in the Kolloquium uber die Anwendung der Elektronischen Datenverarbeitung in den Geisteswissenschaften, at the Zentrum fur Daten-verarbeitung at the University of Tuebingen, Germany, February 5, 2005.
"Forms of Attention: Digital Humanities Beyond Representation," delivered at "The Face of Text: Computer-Assisted Text Analysis in the Humanities," the third conference of the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis (CaSTA), McMaster University, November 19-21, 2004. (Video of presentations available at http://iris.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~fot/.)
Keynote Address: "Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences," Digital Library Federation Fall Forum, Baltimore, MD, October 25, 2004.
"Collaboration and Community: Changing Roles in the Humanities," delivered (by videoconference) as part of the Fall Colloquium on Open Knowledge and Social Research Networks at the Stanford Humanities Center, October 18, 2004
"What is Humanities Computing and What is Not?", delivered at Texas A&M, as part of the Humanities Informatics lecture series, College Station, TX, September 10, 2004.
"The Crisis of Audience," delivered as part of the SPARC session "Scholarly Communication in the Humanities: Does Open Access Apply?" American Library Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, June 26, 2004.
"Changed Priorities Ahead," delivered as part of the ACRL session "Beyond the MLS: Today's Graduates and Tomorrow's Academic Libraries," American Library Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, June 26, 2004.
"The Value of Digitization for Libraries and Humanities Scholarship," Innodata-Isogen Symposium, Newberry Library, Chicago, May 17, 2004.
"Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences," annual meeting of the Research Libraries Group, Washington, DC, April 26, 2004
"Graduate Education at GSLIS," meeting of the Special Libraries Association, Chicago, IL, April 8, 2004
"Born-Digital Scholarship: Some Examples," Notre Dame Library Professional Development Series, South Bend, IN, March 23, 2004
"Variations on Open Access," Notre Dame Library Professional Development Series, South Bend, IN, March 23, 2004
"Open Archives, Open Access," UIUC Library Colloquium, March 19, 2004 (RealAudio recording)
"Graduate Education at GSLIS," meeting of the Chicago Area Law Librarians, Chicago, IL, March 18, 2004
"Graduate Education at GSLIS," meeting of the Directors of the Illinois Regional Library Systems, Springfield, IL, March 17, 2004
"Open Access, Open Archives, and Open Source in Higher Education," Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, February 12, 2004.
"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:

Chair, search committee for Department Head, Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education, UIUC. 2007.
Member, CIO's Information Technology Advisory Council, UIUC. 2007.
Chair, Provost's ad hoc review committee reporting on Campus Information Technologies and Educations Services (CITES), UIUC. 2005.
Chair, Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities & Social Sciences, American Council of Learned Societies, 2004-2005.
Chair, Steering Committee, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2004-2007.
Member, Board of Directors, Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, 2004-2005.
Chair, Provost's five-year review committee reporting on the University Librarian, UIUC. 2004.
Member, external board, Text Analysis Portal for Research. 2003-present.
External evaluator, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education Search Engine project, 2003-2006.
Member, advisory board, Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building (CLiMB) project, Center for Research on Information Access, Columbia University. 2003-2005
President, Association for Computers and the Humanities, 2002-2004
Co-chair, Committee on Scholarly Editions, Modern Language Association, 2001-2003
Member, Committee on Scholarly Editions, Modern Language Association, 1996-2004
Member, Advisory Board, Electronic Imprint at the University Press of Virginia. 2002-2004.
Member, 2004 Busa Award Selection Committee, Association for Computers and the Humanities, 2001-2004.
Chair of the Board, Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, 2001-2003.
Chair, TEI Council, 2002-2003.
Organizer and Acting Director, Master's Degree in Digital Humanities 2000-2001.
Member, Executive Council, Association for Computers and the Humanities, 1999-2002
Member, Board of Directors, Virginia Art of the Book Center, 2001-2003.
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, 1996-2003.
Member, Network-Based Information Services Committee, University of Virginia, 1995-2001.
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:

"Enhancing Knowledge Discovery for Humanities through the Software Environment for the Advancement of Scholarly Research (SEASR)," funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, $1,125,000 (2007-2009). PI, Michael Welge (NCSA); Co-PIs Loretta Auvil (NCSA) and John Unsworth. Approved.
"MONK: Metadata Offer New Knowledge," funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, $1,000,000 (2007-2009). PI with multiple partners at other universities in the US and Canada. Approved.
ECHODep: a partnership in the National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program, funded by the Library of Congress. $2,600,000 (2004-2007). Co-PI with Beth Sandore. Approved. $500,000 extension (2007-2009) approved March 2007.
NORA: Web-based text-mining and visualization for humanities digital libraries, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. $600,000 (2004-2006). PI with multiple partners at other universities in the US and Canada. Approved.
Planning grant for Analytical Tools in Humanities Digital Libraries, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. $50,000 (2003). PI. Approved.
Planning grant for Virtual Collections in American Studies, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. $46,829 (2002). PI. 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). PI. 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). Co-PI with the director of the Press. 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). Co-PI. 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). Co-PI. 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). Co-PI with Thornton Staples. Approved.
Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar, "Is Humanities Computing an Academic Discipline?" ($15K). PI. Approved.
Teaching + Technology Initiative. Proposal in support of ENTC 312 (20th-Century American Bestsellers) ($15K). PI. 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:

· Association for Computers and the Humanities, 1996-present

· Modern Language Association, 1987-2003

· American Library Association, 2003-present

· American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2003-present

· Association for Library and Information Science Education, 2003-present

· Illinois Library Association, 2003-present

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