CURRICULUM VITAE

 

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

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 and Forthcoming 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.

Awards:

The Richard W. Lyman Award, 2005

Vodafone Fellow, Kings College, University College London, Spring 2005

Recent 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

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

Recent and Upcoming 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.

 

Recent 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.

Recent 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.

 

 

 

 

John Unsworth CV: http://www3.isrl.uiuc.edu/~unsworth/vita.html