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
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