Morning, noon, and night, I am Director of Digital Research & Scholarship at the University of Virginia Library and Associate Director of the Scholarly Communication Institute.

SCI is a Mellon-funded initiative that brings together leaders in higher education, cultural heritage institutions, and academic publishing to explore new possibilities for scholarly communication in the digital age.

My work at the University of Virginia Library addresses similar issues, and includes direction of the Scholars’ Lab, which combines the services and resources of UVA’s former Etext, GeoStat, and Research Computing Support Centers. The Scholars’ Lab hosts public programs on the impact of new media and methods on humanities and social science research, and also sponsors a fantastic Graduate Fellowship in Digital Humanities. I additionally manage a “Digital Scholarship R&D” department, providing consultation, programming support, and infrastructure for innovative work in the humanities and social sciences.

I am currently Vice President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), a steering committee member for centerNet (the international organization of digital humanities centers), an executive council member of NINES (for which I also serve as Senior Advisor), and a member of the MLA‘s Committee on Information Technology. At UVa, I represent the Library on the General Faculty Council.

My own research interests lie in the intersection of algorithmic or procedural method and traditional humanities interpretation. I direct two NEH-funded projects, the Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship and Neatline: Facilitating Geospatial and Temporal Interpretation of Archival Collections.

My doctorate is in English Language and Literature from the University of Virginia and I have taught courses in writing, poetry, bibliography, and new media aesthetics and design. Among my more notable digital projects, through IATH and UVA’s SpecLab, are the Rossetti Archive (for which I served as Jerome McGann’s project manager and design editor) and Temporal Modelling, in collaboration with Johanna Drucker.

From 2004-2007, as a postdoctoral fellow and later a member of UVA’s research faculty, I developed software and social systems for NINES, the “networked infrastructure for nineteenth-century electronic scholarship.” These included Collex, Juxta, and the Ivanhoe Game.

I am desultorily working on a print and digital scholarly edition of A.C. Swinburne’s 1866 Poems and Ballads. Publications (including a forthcoming edited collection of essays on alternative academic careers) can be found on my CV.

Among my other works in progress are two small creatures aged four and seven.