Who I Am
I am the College of Wooster's Digital Scholarship Librarian and the Director of its Collaborative Research Environment (CoRE). As the former, I partner with library colleagues, faculty, and students as we explore digital technologies and resources for our teaching and research. In my capacity as the latter, I collaborate with campus stakeholders to build CoRE into an environment that is not only for collaborative research, but is one in which students' process-based projects provide an ever-evolving backdrop. Additionally, I offer a course in Digital Humanities meanings and methods at the College.
Until mid-2024 I am also the Program Manager for the The Five Colleges of Ohio's grant-funded CODEX Project. The Collaborative for Digital Engagement and Experience is an opportunity to develop and implement courses designed (or redesigned) using open pedagogy practices and material. The cornerstone of CODEX is an annual week-long institute during which collaborative teams work on course material while they learn from one another and expert "Mentors" recruited specifically to consult on their projects.
Before joining the College of Wooster, I was the Mellon Digital Scholar for The Five Colleges of Ohio, working under the auspices of the Digital Scholarship: Projects & Pedagogy grant, which was generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. As the Ohio Five Digital Scholar, I worked with librarians and faculty across the five colleges to help small, often interdepartmental teams to imagine, plan, and develop digital pedagogical projects. Before joining the Ohio Five I was a book historian and project manager on the Early Modern OCR Project (eMOP), a Mellon-funded initiative centered at my alma mater, Texas A&M University.
Since earning my PhD from A&M in 2009, I've joked that I've somehow managed to do things that interest me and stay employed. That's still true today, of course, and I often find opportunities to draw upon the work of my dissertation on early modern (mostly Eizabethan) plays and playwrights. I am always eager to talk about the connections between the material book and the digital, especially the ways in which an understanding of the former can facilitate a broader conceptualization of the latter.
