John M. Unsworth

Professional Preparation:

 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

Appointments:

 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

Projects & Publications:

1. Enhancing Knowledge Discovery for Humanities through the Software Environment for the

Advancement of Scholarly Research (SEASR). Co-PI. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon

Foundation.

MONK: Metadata Offer New Knowledge. PI. http://www.monkproject.org/. Funded by the

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

2. Nora: text-mining in humanities digital libraries. PI. http://www.noraproject.org/. Funded by

the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

3. 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.

4. Electronic Textual Editing, co-edited with Lou Burnard and Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe. New

York: Modern Language Association, 2006.

5. A Companion to Digital Humanities, co-edited with Susan Schreibman and Ray Siemens. New

York: Blackwells, 2004.

6. "The Next Wave: Liberation Technology,"from The Chronicle of Higher Education's Chronicle

Review, January 30, 2004.

7. "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.

8. "What is Humanities Computing, and What is Not?" in Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie 4,

Georg Braungart, Karl Eibl & Fotis Jannidis, eds. Paderborn: mentis 2002.

9. "Launching a scholarly electronic imprint," Logos 13.1 (2002): 43-48.

10. "The Importance of Failure," in The Journal of Electronic Publishing, 3.2 (December, 1997).

Synergistic Activities:

1. ACLS Cyberinfrastructure report: This report seeks to extend a process begun in the

Atkins/NSF report on cyberinfrastructure to historically underserved and underrepresented

disciplinary communities, in cyberinfrastructure design and development, namely the

humanities and qualitative social sciences.

2. I3: As a member of the original planning group and the subsequently appointed steering

committee, I worked with Marc Snir, Paula Kaufman, and Thom Dunning to plan and establish

the Illinois Informatics Initiative as a major strategic research initiative of the UIUC campus.

Weare now working together to launch the undergraduate minor in informatics and to set up

other teaching, research, and public engagement programs under this Initiative.

3. Nora & MONK: These sequentially related research projects, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon

Foundation, is developing software for text-mining in humanities digital libraries; in both, and

in SEASR, we work with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and their D2K

data-mining software.

4. IATH: The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia

was my primary occupation and responsibility during the first ten years of its existence, from

1993-2003. Its purpose was to propagate the application of advanced computing technology

and methodology to humanities research problems.

5. SDS: Supporting Digital Scholarship was a Mellon-funded project that looked at the technical

and policy challenges involved in collecting born-digital scholarly publications into academic

research library collections. It provided key early-stage funding for the development of

FEDORA, the digital object repository software that originated with Carl Lagoze et al., at

Cornell University.

Collaborators, Co-editors, Co-authors:

Loretta Auvil, National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Paul Courant, University of Michigan

Sarah Fraser, Northwestern University

Michael Goodchild, University of California-Berkeley

Margaret Hedstrom, University of Michigan

Charles Henry, Council on Library and Information Resources

Michael Jensen, National Academy Press

Peter Kaufman, Columbia University

Matthew Kirschenbaum, University of Maryland-College Park

Amit Kumar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Worthy Martin, University of Virginia

Jerome McGann, University of Virginia

Daniel Pitti, University of Virginia

Catherine Plaisant, University of Maryland-College Park

Roy Rosenzweig, George Mason University

Stan Ruecker, University of Alberta

Stephen Ramsay, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Susan Schreibman, University of Maryland-College Park

Ray Siemens, University of Victoria-British Columbia

Martha Nell Smith, University of Maryland-College Park

Michael Welge, National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Bruce Zuckerman, University of Southern California

Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors:

Michael Levenson, University of Virginia

Richard Rorty, Stanford University

Thesis Advisees:

Julia Flanders, Brown University

Matthew Kirschenbaum, University of Maryland-College Park

Bei Yu, Northwestern University

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