About
I’m
Assistant Research Professor of Digital Humanities in Brigham Young University’s
Office of Digital Humanities. I imagine, design, and manage digital scholarship projects in collaboration with faculty, colleagues, and students. I also
teach classes in our
Digital Humanities and Technology minor. I’m passionate about integrating digital approaches into pedagogy.
Prior to coming to BYU, I worked at the Centers for Digital Scholarship at both
Brown University and
Emory University. I was Digital Humanities Librarian at Brown and Digital Humanities Strategist and Lecturer of English at Emory. At both schools, I managed large, multi-year, grant-funded projects in
collaboration with faculty, librarians, graduate students, and other staff. These projects included the
digitization of previously classified documents about Brazil / US relations; a
digital edition of and edited collection about a 17th-century book of alchemy; the
paved-over landscape and history of the Battle of Atlanta; the
literary networks of writers in Northern Ireland; and the
relationship among poets and editors in mid-century modern American poetry.
I completed my Ph.D. at Emory University, investigating the
relationships among technology, media, and psychological trauma. After that, I taught modern and contemporary American literature as well as courses on media studies, digital culture, and war fiction for a year at Emory and another year at Clemson University. I then became Emory’s first
CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow and Emerging Technologies Librarian. Somewhere in there, I co-edited both a
book and a
journal issue on steampunk, edited a
cluster at #Alt-Academy, and wrote for the group blog
ProfHacker.
I am the elected Secretary of the international
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, an elected member of the
Modern Language Association‘s Delegate Assembly, and an appointed member of the MLA’s Program Committee. I am a past member of the Executive Councils of the MLA and the
Association for Computers and the Humanities. I use
Twitter on occasion and track my publications with
ORCID.