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