Work

I am an experienced digital project director, grant writer, and community leader; a knowledgeable expert in digital humanities, scholarly communication, Open Access, crowdsourcing, website content, and Agile software development; a popular teacher of digital skills; and, all in all, a fun and effective colleague.

Experience

Technical Community Manager, Research Organization Registry (ROR), Crossref, 2022-present

Community Lead, The COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic, 2020-2021

Director, Resilient Networks for Inclusive Digital Humanities, Libraries and Academic Innovation, George Washington University, 2017-2018

Director of Digital Research Services (Associate Professor), University Libraries, Virginia Tech, 2015-2017

THATCamp Coordinator (Research Assistant Professor), Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, 2010-2014

Digital Curriculum Specialist (Assistant Research Scholar), Archives and Public History MA program, New York University, 2008-2009

Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of English, North Carolina State University, 2006-2007

Council on Library and Information Resources Postdoctoral Fellowship, North Carolina State University Libraries, 2004-2006

Consulting

Advisory Board, The American Soldier in World War II, National Endowment for the Humanities, Virginia Tech, 2018-present. Principal Investigator Ed Gitre

Grant Proposal Co-writer / Community Manager, Frankenreads, National Endowment for the Humanities, Keats-Shelley Association of America, 2017-2019. Principal Investigator Neil Fraistat

Co-Principal Investigator (converted to Advisory Board), The American Soldier: A Collaborative Digital Archive, National Endowment for the Humanities, Virginia Tech, 2017-2018. Principal Investigator Ed Gitre

Advisory Board, Humanities CORE, National Endowment for the Humanities, Modern Language Association and Columbia University, 2016-2018

Advisory Board, The People, Places, and Things of Montgomery County, Virginia, National Endowment for the Humanities, Virginia Tech, 2016

Grant Proposal Writer / Coordinator, Connected Academics: Preparing Doctoral Students of Language and Literature for a Variety of Careers, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Modern Language Association, Arizona State University, Georgetown University, University of California Humanities Research Initiative, 2014

Facilitator, Digital Humanities Summer Faculty Workshop, Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, Northwestern University, 2013-2014

Principal Investigator, Sustaining Digital Humanities Training Through THATCamp, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, George Mason University, 2012-2014

Invited Talks

Keynote, Chesapeake Digital Humanities Consortium, online, February 2021

Short remarks, ODH at Ten, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC, February 2018

Panel remarks, Evaluating Digital Scholarship, panel discussion, Digital Humanities Initiative, Texas A&M, College Station, TX, April 2016

Panel remarks, Libraries, the Digital Humanities, and Organizational Change, Dartmouth College Library, October 2014

Panel remarks, Our Gadgets, Ourselves: Virtues, Vices and These New Devices, Transduction Lecture Series, Charlottesville, VA, April 2014

Panel remarks, Global MOOCs, GABFest MOOCs, Charlottesville, VA, November 2013

On Projects, and THATCamp, keynote, Digital Humanities Project Directors Meeting, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC, October 2013. (Event canceled due to government shutdown; talk given at subsequent Maryland Institute for Technology and the Humanities unconference

‘Why Not Invent Human Intercourse?’: Scholarly Conversations at THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp), Freedman Center Colloquium: Exploring Collaboration in Digital Scholarship, Case Western University, Cleveland, OH, April 2013

Visual Arguments in the Digital Humanities, Visualizing the Digital: Design, Ideas, and Platforms, Digital Pragmata symposium, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, March 2013

Alexandria is a Port: The Digital Library in Physical Space, response to John Palfrey at the Fredric M. Miller Memorial Lecture, Philadelphia, PA, May 2012

Aubade: The Soul and Body of a Library, Digital Public Library of America plenary, Washington, DC, October 2011

Imagine a National Digital Library: I Wonder If We Can, keynote, Electronic Resources and Libraries, Austin, TX, March 2011

Plied with Cheese No More: New Metaphors for the University in a Digital Future, The Digital and the Human(ities), symposium, Texas Institute for Literary and Textual Studies 2011, University of Texas, Austin, TX, March 2011

Other Talks

Co-instructor, Jumpstarting Digital Humanities Projects, workshop, Digital Humanities 2018, Mexico City, June 2018

Building and Managing Communities with Multisite, BuddyPress, Commons-in-a-Box, and bbPress, WordCamp Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, April 2018

Co-presenter, Resilient Networks for Inclusive Digital Humanities, Digital Humanities 2017, Montréal, Canada, August 2017

Millay and Her Books, Things My Computer Taught Me About Poems (panel organizer), special session, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, January 2014

Email is Made of Women, Alt-Ac Work and Gender: It’s Not Plan B, special session, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, January 2014

Introduction to Omeka, Two Tools for Student-Generated Digital Projects: WordPress and Omeka in the Classroom, special session, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Boston, MA, January 2013

Panel remarks, Large Digital Libraries: Beyond Google Books, special session, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Los Angeles, CA, January 2012

Panel remarks, Infinite Jest and the Internet (panel organizer), South by Southwest Interactive, Austin, TX, March 2011

Your Twitter Followers and Facebook Friends Won’t Read Your Peer-Reviewed Article If They Have to Pay For It, and Neither Will Strangers, The Open Professoriat on the Social Web, special session, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Los Angeles, CA, January 2011

Panel remarks, Labor in the Digital Humanities, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Los Angeles, CA, January 2011

The Binary Hero, World One, and World Zero, Swarming Plato’s Cave: Rethinking Digital Fantasies, South by Southwest Interactive, Austin, TX, March 2010

Co-host of Digital Campus podcast, digitalcampus.tv, October 2010 to December 2015

Wosh, Peter and Amanda French, Digital History Across the Curriculum, Digital Humanities (ACH/ALLC) Conference, College Park, MD, June 2009

From Horse and Buggy to Hovercraft: My Research Before and After Google Book Search, The Library of Google: Researching Scanned Books, SHARP special session, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA, December 2008

Writing

Behind The COVID Tracking Project’s Public Help Desk, The COVID Tracking Project, Analysis & Updates, May 3, 2021

Inside The COVID Tracking Project’s Volunteer Organization, The COVID Tracking Project, Analysis & Updates, April 22, 2021

We Don’t Know How Many People Have Recovered From COVID-19, The Atlantic, January 14, 2021

The ‘Good’ Metric Is Pretty Bad: Why It’s Hard to Count the People Who Have Recovered from COVID-19, The COVID Tracking Project, Analysis & Updates, January 13, 2021

How We Went from Worst Practices to Best Practices, The Code4Lib Journal 32, April 25, 2016

Creation of a Library Tour Application for Mobile Equipment Using IBeacon Technology, The Code4Lib Journal 32, April 25, 2016

My Scandalous Future in Libraries, Re:Thinking blog, Council on Library and Information Resources, July 7, 2015

The Binary Hero and other articles, HiLobrow blog, eds. Joshua Glenn and Matthew Battles, 2010-2015

Voices: Twitter at Conferences, edited contribution in Hacking the Academy: A Book Crowdsourced in One Week, eds. Dan Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt, University of Michigan Press, 2013

Knowledge Under Pressure, review of Too Big to Know by David Weinberger, Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy, September 2012

Of Hybrarians, Scholar-Librarians, Academic Refugees, and Feral Professionals, in #Alt-Academy: Alternate Academic Careers for Humanities Scholars, ed. Bethany Nowviskie, MediaCommons, 2011

Steepletop Library: The Books of Edna St. Vincent Millay, website, 2011

Edmund Gosse and the Stubborn Villanelle Blunder, Victorian Poetry 48:2 (Summer 2010): 243-66

Refrain, Again: The Return of the Villanelle, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Virginia, 2004

The First Villanelle: A New Translation of Jean Passerat’s ‘J’ay perdu ma Tourterelle’ (1574), Meridian 12 (Fall/Winter 2003): 30-37

‘A Strangely Useless Thing’: Iseult Gonne and Yeats, Yeats Eliot Review: A Journal of Criticism and Scholarship, 19:2 (2002 Aug): 13-24

Teaching

Instructor, Omeka workshops: University of Colorado at Boulder, July 2014; Muhlenberg College, October 2013; many THATCamps. Intro to Omeka lesson plan, Editors’ Choice, Digital Humanities Now, November 2013

The Digital Past, undergraduate course, George Mason University, fall 2012 and fall 2013.

Creating Digital History, graduate course, New York University, fall 2009 (with Peter Wosh)

The Victorian Period, undergraduate course, North Carolina State University, spring 2007.

Literary Scandals and Controversies, undergraduate Honors course, North Carolina State University, spring 2007.

Bibliography and Methodology, graduate course, North Carolina State University, fall 2006.

Victorian Poetry and Critical Prose, graduate course, North Carolina State University, fall 2006.

History of English Literature II, undergraduate course, North Carolina State University, fall 2006.

Academic Research Strategies and Contexts, undergraduate Honors course, North Carolina State University, spring 2005, spring 2006, and spring 2007 (with Karen Ciccone, Megan Oakleaf, and Amy VanScoy)

Professional Service

Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Digital Humanities, 2009, 2021

Reviewer, Digital Humanities conference, 2009-present

Reviewer, The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy,, 2011-2019

Advisory Board, CORE Open Access Repository, 2015-2017

Reviewer, Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2016

Advisory Board, Archive Journal, 2011-2016

Program Committee, Digital Library Federation Fall Forum, 2010, 2016

Outreach Working Group, National Digital Stewardship Alliance, 2011-2013

Advisory Board, Drexel University Legacy Center Digital History Toolkit, 2010-2012

Professional Memberships

Modern Language Association

Association for Computers and the Humanities

Skills, Certifications, and Languages

Certified Scrum Product Owner, Scrum Alliance

PHP, (X)HTML, CSS; TEI, SGML, XML

UNIX, nano, vim, emacs, regex, Markdown, git, GitHub

Contentful, WordPress, Omeka, MediaWiki, DSpace, Scalar, OJS, some Drupal

Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, Audacity, GarageBand, iMovie, Peak, Morae, Camstudio

Blackboard, Moodle, Sakai, Zotero, EndNote, research databases

Jira, Basecamp, Trello, Front, Slack, Skype, WebEx, Zoom

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Google Docs, Open Office, iLife

Spoken and written French; some German, Spanish

Education

Ph.D. in English Language and Literature, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

M.A. in English Language and Literature, concentration in Women’s Studies, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

B.A. in English cum laude, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO