John M. Unsworth

Dean and Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Chair of the Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences, American Council of Learned Societies. 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. As the Institute's Director, he supervised research projects across the disciplines in the humanities, and he published widely on the topic of electronic scholarship, as well as securing grants for Institute projects from several sources. In 1990 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, as well as serving on many other editorial and advisory boards. With Susan Schreibman (Maryland) and Ray Siemens (Victoria) he is editor of the recent Companion to Digital Humanities (Blackwell, 2004).

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