Grants and Service

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.
• Planning grant for Analytical Tools in Humanities Digital Libraries, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. $50,000 (2003). PI. Approved.
• Planning grant for Virtual Collections in American Studies, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. $46,829 (2002). PI. Approved.
• Program Officer's grant in support of Electronic Textual Editing (a volume co-sponsored by the MLA's Committee on Scholarly Editions and the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium), submitted through the Modern Language Association and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. $40,250 (2002). PI. Approved.
• "An Electronic Imprint at the University Press of Virginia," a proposal to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of publishing originally digital scholarship, in partnership with the University of Virginia Press. $640,000 (2001-2003). Co-PI with the director of the Press. Approved.
• "The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive," an April 2000 Collaborative Research Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (Project Director: Ed Folsom). $150,000 (2000-2001). Co-PI. Approved.
• "The William Blake Archive," an April 2000 Preservation and Access Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (Project Directors: Morris Eaves, Robert Essick, Joe Viscomi). $233,824 (2000-2001). Co-PI. Approved.
• Supporting Digital Scholarship, a proposal to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of IATH research and digital library integration, in partnership with the University of Virginia Library. $1,000,000 (2000-2002). Co-PI with Thornton Staples. Approved.
• Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar, "Is Humanities Computing an Academic Discipline?" ($15K). PI. Approved.
• Teaching + Technology Initiative. Proposal in support of ENTC 312 (20th-Century American Bestsellers) ($15K). PI. Approved.
• Delmas Foundation. Support for the 1999 ACH/ALLC Conference ($5K). Approved.
• Trust for Mutual Understanding, Travel Subvention for Eastern and Central European Scholars to Attend the 1999 ACH/ALLC Conference ($25K). Approved.
• National Science Foundation, Education, Outreach, and Training Participant in PACI and NPACI Supercomputing Programs ($150K). Approved.
• Academic Enhancement Program Grant, on behalf of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities ($175K). Approved.
• AT&T Foundation Grant proposal, on behalf of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities ($35K). Approved.
• Getty Fund: Three-year support for the production of an electronic Blake archive at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. February 1994 ($250,000). Approved
• Sprint-Centel: Dissertation Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, April 1994 ($12,000). Approved.
• Provost's Teaching Initiative, North Carolina State University: Development Grant for the NCSU Virtual Campus, Spring 1993. ($10,000). Approved.
• Research Office, North Carolina State Univeristy: Development Grants for Postmodern Culture, 1990-1992 ($11,000). Approved.
• College of Humanities and Social Sciences, North Carolina State University: Organized Research Grants for Postmodern Culture, 1990-1992 ($6,800). Approved.

Service:

Editing:
• 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
• Co-editor (with Boyd Rawyard), Library Trends, 2006-2009.
• Commissioning Editor, Computers and the Humanities, 1997-2004
• Co-Curator (with Lynda Clendenning), "Rave Reviews: Bestselling Fiction in America," an exhibition in Special Collections at the University of Virginia, February 22nd to June 10, 2002.
• Co-editor, Research Reports of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
• First Series (1993)
• Second Series (1994)
• Third Series (1995)
• Fourth Series (1996)
• Fifth Series (1997)
• Sixth Series (1998)
• Seventh Series (1999)
• Member, Electronic Melville Committee, Melville Society, 1998-present
• Member, Multimedia Dante Project Advisory Board, Princeton University, 1998-2003

Other:
• 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.
• 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.
• Member, advisory board, Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building (CLiMB) project, Center for Research on Information Access, Columbia University. 2003-2005
• President, Association for Computers and the Humanities, 2002-2004
• Co-chair, Committee on Scholarly Editions, Modern Language Association, 2001-2003
• Member, Committee on Scholarly Editions, Modern Language Association, 1996-2004
• Member, Advisory Board, Electronic Imprint at the University Press of Virginia. 2002-2004.
• Member, 2004 Busa Award Selection Committee, Association for Computers and the Humanities, 2001-2004.
• Chair of the Board, Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, 2001-2003.
• Chair, TEI Council, 2002-2003.
• Organizer and Acting Director, Master's Degree in Digital Humanities 2000-2001.
• Member, Executive Council, Association for Computers and the Humanities, 1999-2002
• Member, Board of Directors, Virginia Art of the Book Center, 2001-2003.
• Member, University Libraries Committee, University of Virginia, 2000-2002
• Member, University of Virginia Research Computing Task Force (Social Sciences, Arts, Humanities, Business and Law sub-group), 2000-2001.
• Member, Executive Board, University of Virginia Center for Digital Initiatives, 2001.
• Chair, Transition Group, Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, 1999-2000
• Member, Council on Library and Information Resources international task force to consider the role of the artifact in library collections, 1999-2000
• Member, Board of Directors, National Initiative for Networked Cultural Heritage, 1999-2000
• Member, Computer Science & Humanities Steering Committee, National Initiative for Networked Cultural Heritage, 2001
• Chair, World-Wide Web Editorial Committee, Dept. of English, Univeristy of Virginia, 1997-2000
• Chair, Technologies Committee, Dept. of English, University of Virginia, 1997-2000
• Member, Publishing and Communications Advisory Board, Division of Continuing Education, University of Virginia, 1996-2003.
• Member, Network-Based Information Services Committee, University of Virginia, 1995-2001.
• Local Organizer and Co-Host, 1999 joint international conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing
• Member, Search Committee for Director of Media Studies, University of Virginia, 1998-99
• Member, Committee on Information Technology for Research, University of Virginia, 1998
• Member, Subcommittee on Electronic Publication, Committee on the New Variorium Edition of Shakespeare, Modern Language Association, 1997
• Member, Executive Council, Association for Computers and the Humanities, 1996-1997
• Member, Committee on Information Technology for Research, University of Virginia, 1996
• Member, Planning Committee, 1996 Annual Conference of the Special Interest Group for Documentation, Association for Computing Machinery.
• Supervised and participated in the first major overhaul of the University of Virginia's World-Wide Web Home Page.
• Member, Graduate Committee, Dept. of English, University of Virginia
• Member, Student Affairs Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia
• Founder, IATH-MOO: A Virtual Conference Site
• Founder, PMC-MOO: A Postmodern Community
• Founder, NCSU Virtual Campus
• Member, Coalition for Networked Information, Working Group on Technical Requirements, National Initiative for the Humanities and Arts Computing, Coalition for Networked Information/Getty Art History Information Program, co-sponsors
• Member, Coalition for Networked Information, Task Force, Advertising on the internet
• Chair, Computer Affairs Committee, Dept. of English, NCSU
• Computing Coordinator, Dept. of English, NCSU
• Member, CHASS Computing Committee, subcommittee on multi-media, NCSU
• Member, University Library Committee, subcommittee on scholarly communication, NCSU
• Member, Curriculum Committee, Dept. of English, NCSU (revised the major)
• Organizer, Conference on the applications of the Standard Generalized Markup Language in publishing electronic journals, NCSU