John Unsworth
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John Unsworth is Dean and Professor at GSLIS. He moved here in the Spring of 2003 from the University of Virginia.
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[edit] Contact Information
Office Phone: (217) 333-3281
Fax: (217) 244-3302
AIM: jmu2m
http://www3.isrl.uiuc.edu/~unsworth/
[edit] Teaching
LIS590DH Digital Humanities - Spring 2004
[edit] Random Unsworth Quote
"I will argue, PMC-MOO and MOOs in general take shape under twin forces not unlike fate and free will, where free will is what we always have understood it to be, but where the role of fate is played by the operating system in which the MOO is embedded. The aporia in this analogy, and it is an important one for my argument, is that unlike transcendental fate, computer operating systems are historically and culturally determined."
-read more http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/Virtual.Community.html
[edit] Brief Bio
Department of English, and on the Library faculty. During the previous ten years, from 1993-2003, he served as the first Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, and a faculty member in the English Department, at the University of Virginia. As the Institute's Director, he supervised research projects across the disciplines in the humanities and he published widely on the topic of electronic scholarship, as well as securing grants for Institute projects from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Getty Grant Program, IBM, Sun, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and others. His first faculty appointment was in English, at North Carolina State University, from 1989 to 1993. He attended Princeton University and Amherst College as an undergraduate, graduating from Amherst in 1981. He received a Master's degree in English from Boston University in 1982 and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia in 1988. in 1990, at NCSU, he co-founded the first peer-reviewed electronic journal in the humanities, Postmodern Culture (now published by Johns Hopkins University Press, as part of Project Muse). He also organized, incorporated, and chaired the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, co-chaired the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions, and served as President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, as well as serving on many other editorial and advisory boards. He was born in 1958, in Northampton, Massachusetts; in 1979, he married Margaret English, with whom he has three children: Bill, Thomas, and Eleanor.
