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:

• "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.
• "Learning from nora: distributed software development in the humanities," Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, March 29, 2007.
• "New Directions in Humanities Research," Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford, CA, January 18, 2007.
• "Sustaining the Humanities and Social Sciences: A discussion of the ACLS report on cyberinfrastructure for humanities and social sciences," EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research Symposium, Carefree, AZ, December 7, 2006. [optimized for Opera browser, 1024x768 projection]
• "Digital Humanities: Beyond Representation," University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, November 13, 2006.
• "All the King's Horses and All the King's Men Couldn't Do Text-Mining Across the Big Ten," Keynote at the University of Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, Chicago, IL, November 5, 2006.
• Participant, ACRL Summit on Technology and Change in Academic Libraries, Chicago, IL, November 2, 2006.
• "Virtual Reunification of Scattered Archives," part of a symposium on Manuscript Matters, British Library, London, October 20, 2006. (PPT, 10.6MB)
• "Information Behaviors." Part of a panel on "Continuity and Change in University Scholarship," in a symposium on The Research Library in the 21st Century, held at the University of Texas at Austin, September 12, 2006.
• "Cyberinfrastructure in the U.S.A." Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. July 18, 2006.
• "Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign." Nanjing Public Library, Nanjing, China. July 14, 2006.
• "Managing the Digital Library: The ECHO Depository Project." Beihang University, Beijing, China. July 12, 2006.
• With Bei Yu, "Toward Discovering Potential Data Mining Applications in Literary Criticism," Digital Humanities 2006, The Sorbonne University, July 8, 2006.
• Participant, roundtable discussion on "The Fate and Function of Digital Humanities Centers," Digital Humanities 2006, The Sorbonne University, July 7, 2006.
• With Xin Xiang, "Connecting Text Mining and Natural Language Processing in a Humanistic Context" Digital Humanities 2006, The Sorbonne University, July 6, 2006.
• "Vernacular Computing," presented at the Electronic Publishing Workshop of the American Association of University Presses, New Orleans, June 14, 2006.
• "The Value of the Library to a Liberal Arts Education," presented at the Brookens Library, University of Illinois-Springfield, May 23, 2006.
• "Institutionalizing Humanities Computing," lecture co-sponsored by the Wilson Center for the Humanities and Arts and the Department of English, University of Georgia, February 24, 2006.
• "Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences: A Report on the ACLS Commission," Director's Seminar, NCSA, February 21, 2006.
• "New Methods for Humanities Research," presented at Kenyon College, January 31, 2006.

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.