NSF-style two-page bio, 7/2007
In 2003,
John Unsworth was named Dean of the Graduate School
of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
with appointments as Professor in GSLIS, in the department of English, and on
the Library faculty. During the previous ten years, from 1993-2003, he served
as the first Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the
Humanities, and a faculty member in the English Department, at the University
of Virginia. For his work at IATH, he received the 2005 Richard W. Lyman Award
from the National Humanities Center. He chaired the national commission that
produced Our Cultural Commonwealth, the 2006 report on Cyberinfrastructure
for Humanities and Social Science, on behalf of the American Council of Learned
Societies, and he has supervised research projects across the disciplines in
the humanities. He has also published widely on the topic of electronic
scholarship, as well as co-directing one of nine national partnerships in the
Library of Congress's National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation
Program, and securing grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities,
the National Science Foundation, the Getty Grant Program, IBM, Sun, the Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation, and others. His first faculty appointment was in English,
at North Carolina State University, from 1989 to 1993. He attended Princeton
University and Amherst College as an undergraduate, graduating from Amherst in
1981. He received a Master's degree in English from Boston University in 1982
and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia in 1988. In 1990, at
NCSU, he co-founded the first peer-reviewed electronic journal in the
humanities, Postmodern Culture (now
published by Johns Hopkins University Press, as part of Project Muse). He also
organized, incorporated, and chaired the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium,
co-chaired the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions,
and served as President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and
later as chair of the steering committee for the Alliance of Digital Humanities
Organizations, as well as serving on many other editorial and advisory boards.
He was born in 1958, in Northampton, Massachusetts; in 1978, he married
Margaret English, with whom he has three children: Bill, Thomas, and Eleanor.
Home page: © http:/www3.isrl.uiuc.edu/~unsworth/
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