Brief Curriculum Vitae for
John M. Unsworth
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Contact Information
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:
- University 2.0," in Richard N. Katz, ed., The Tower and The Cloud. EDUCAUSE, 2008.
- "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:
Recent Teaching:
Editing and Curating:
- 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:
- "Computational Work with Very Large Text Collections: Google Books, HathiTrust, the Open Content Alliance, and the Future of TEI," Text Encoding Initiative Consortium Annual Members' Meeting, Ann Arbor, Michigan, November 13, 2009. (Powerpoint, 30MB)
- Panelist, "Revitalizing the Illinois Land Grant Mission: Spanning the 19th, 20th & 21st Centuries," presented as part of Lincoln's Unfinished Work: The Morrill Act and the Future of Higher Education," University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, October 24, 2009.
- "Ink-Stained Wretches vs. The Google Monster, in Terra Incognita," presented at Rochester University, Rochester, NY, September 17, 2009.
- "Mass Digitization: The Revenge of Print?" a workshop presented at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, September 16, 2009.
- "Text-Mining and Humanities Research," presented at th Microsoft Faculty Summit, Redmond, WA, July 13, 2009.
- "Informatics at the University of Illinois," presented with Charles Linville at Archer Daniels Midland, Research division, July 9, 2009.
- Participant, NSF/ACM Summit on the Future of Computational Education, Arlington, VA, June 25-26, 2009.
- "Current Developments in Digital Library Management and Research in the USA," delivered at Peking University, Beijing, China, June 17, 2009,
- "Challenges and Opportunities: Making Exchange and Collaboration Work," presented at Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, June 16, 2009.
- "Current Developments in Digital Library Management and Research in the USA," delivered at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, June 15, 2009,
- "An Introduction to the University of Illinois and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science," presented at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, June 13, 2009.
- "Current Developments in Digital Library Management and Research in the USA," delivered at East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, June 12, 2009,
- "Tools for Textual Data," presented as part of the Illinois Summer Institute in Humanities Data Curation, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, May 20, 2009.
- "Vernacular Computing and the iSchools," the Lazerow Lecture, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, April 24, 2009
- "How Not To Read A Million Books," updated. Seminar on the History of the Book. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, March 5, 2009.
- "The Value of Digitization for Libraries and Humanities Scholarship," New Directions in Digital Humanities Scholarship Symposium, Champaign, Illinois, February 26, 2009.
- "Clumps and Runners" 3rd Bamboo Workshop, Tucson, Arizona, January 13, 2009.
- "How Not To Read A Million Books,", with Tanya Clement, Sara Steger and Kirsten Uszkalo, 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.
- "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.
Recent Service:
- Participant, NSF Workshop on the responsible conduct of research, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, October 23, 2009.
- Unit leader for GSLIS, Campus Charitable Fund Drive, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 2009.
- Panelist, NEH/NSF/JISC "Digging Into Data" grant competition. London, England, September, 2009.
- Member, Hathi Trust Research Committee, 2009-present.
- Chair, International Scientific Committee, Synergies: Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Infrastructure, 2008-present.
- Chair, campus-wide E-Learning Committee, UIUC. 2007-present.
- Coordinator, iSchools Caucus, 2008-2009l
- Chair, Conference Coordinating Committee, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2008-present.
- Member, Centernet Steering Committee, 2007-present.
- Member and budget officer, University of Illinois three-campus collaboration with The HistoryMakers, 2007-present.
- 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:
- "Integrating MONK with InCommon, providing access to CIC researchers," funded by the CIC Library Directors, $15,000 (2009). PI. Approved.
- Participant, Text Encoding Initiative Consortium Digitization Vendor Program Development, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, $35,800 (2008-2009). PI Daniel O'Donnell, Chair, TEI Consortium Board. Approved.
- "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.
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