Morning, noon, and night, I am Director of Digital Research & Scholarship at the University of Virginia Library, Associate Director of the Scholarly Communication Institute, and President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH).

In addition to leading the ACH, I am a steering committee member for centerNet (the international organization of digital humanities centers) and MediaCommons, and chair of the MLA‘s Committee on Information Technology. At UVa, I represent the Library on the General Faculty Council.

My day job at the University of Virginia Library 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.

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. As Associate Director, I am leading initiatives related to graduate education reform, the expansion of “alternative academic careers” (about which I edit an open-access publication, “#Alt-Academy“), and the Scholars’ Lab’s new Praxis Program.

My own research interests lie in the intersection of algorithmic or procedural method and traditional humanities interpretation. I have recently directed two projects funded by the NEH, IMLS, and Library of Congress: 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 served as Senior Advisor and an executive council member of NINES from 2007-2012.

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 five and eight.