monitor-glare; a fairly typical look for me

By day (and more nights than I care to confess), I work as Director of Digital Research & Scholarship at the University of Virginia Library and Associate Director of the Scholarly Communication Institute.

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.

In addition to SCI, a Mellon-funded initiative that brings together leaders in higher education, cultural heritage institutions, and academic publishing to address issues of scholarly communication in a digital age, my work at the University of Virginia Library includes oversight 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 the scholarly endeavor, 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’m vice president of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), an executive council member of NINES (for which I also serve as senior advisor), and I am a member of the MLA’s committee on information technology. My own research interests lie in the intersection of algorithmic or procedural method and traditional humanities interpretation. I currently direct two NEH-funded projects, the Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship and Neatline: Facilitating Geospatial and Temporal Interpretation of Archival Collections, and am working on a print and digital scholarly edition of A.C. Swinburne’s 1866 Poems and Ballads.

Among my other works in progress are two small creatures under the age of six.