Bethany Nowviskie

Bethany Nowviskie is Dean of Libraries and Professor of English at James Madison University, where she also serves as JMU’s Chief Academic Technology Officer and as co-PI for the Mellon-funded Flowerings Project, a partnership with the Furious Flower Poetry Center. Nowviskie formerly directed the Digital Library Federation at CLIR (where she has been a Distinguished Presidential Fellow) and served as a Research Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Virginia. She has been a member of the teaching faculty at UVA’s Rare Book School since 2011, and was the inaugural director of the Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia Library. A past president of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and chair of the Modern Language Association’s committee on information technology, Nowviskie received her Ph.D. in Literature from UVA in 2004 and has worked on numerous ground-breaking projects in digital libraries and the digital humanities, including the Rossetti Archive, Temporal Modelling, NINES/Collex and Blacklight, the Ivanhoe Game, and Neatline. The Chronicle of Higher Education once summed her up: “Bethany Nowviskie likes to build things.”