Mission: to support authors of innovative digital projects by supporting the presses that publish them.
My primary employment is currently at Stanford University Press where I served on its Mellon-funded digital publishing initiative from 2016 to 2024. I’m so passionate about what I helped develop there that I want to continue applying my skills, knowledge, and experience to help other university presses and library publishers. The lack of in-house expertise at most presses for digital editing, production, and preservation should not deter them from acquiring and publishing these increasingly common formats. I want to help all presses reliably and responsibly extend their capacity for supporting innovative formats.
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2024: “Adventures in Digital Publishing: 2020 Dreams,” Episode 3 of Adventures in Digital Publishing Web Series, sponsored by Brown University, Emory University, Association of University Presses, and American Council of Learned Societies, video: https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/adventuresindigitalpublishing/episode-5-2020-dreams/
2024: “Digital Publishing at Stanford University Press,” a webinar for Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk, video: https://youtu.be/t8LLYd-_l90
2023: [Roundtable], invited to participate in the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee’s “Humanities Publishing Roundtable” with Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Lauren Cooper, and Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe,
2023: “Digital Publishing at Stanford University Press,” a presentation at the Mellon convening of the digital scholarly communications and publishing cohort
2023: [Convening], invited to participate in and contribute to the two-day convening of the New-York-University-led Preserving New Forms of Scholarship Mellon grant cohort
2023: “Creating, Storing, and Sharing Your Own Web Archives with Open Source Webrecorder Tools,” a half-day workshop at the Digital Humanities Conference, Graz, Austria
2023: “Publishing Parallels: Author-Publisher Collaboration in Digital Projects vs Print Monographs,” a presentation at the Digital Humanities Conference, Graz, Austria, video: https://youtu.be/bbDavn0ss_4?si=DD6WlUgyvMJUbUY3.
2023: “Digital Web-Based Monograph Publishing: Case Studies of Successful Collaborations,” organized, moderated, and presented on this panel for the Association of University Presses Conference, Virtual
2023: “Crawling the Complex: Web Archiving at Stanford University Press,” a presentation for the panel “Browser Based Crawling for All, The Story So Far” at the International Internet Preservation Consortium’s Web Archiving Conference (Virtual), prerecorded presentation: https://youtu.be/iQ3Rwbe-sqA; live Q&A session: https://youtu.be/gfBevZf3dDE?si=UTY1S1VyoJeY3bZh
2022: “Adventures in Digital Publishing: SUP’s Digital Initiative,” Episode 3 of Adventures in Digital Publishing Web Series, sponsored by Brown University, Emory University, Association of University Presses, and American Council of Learned Societies, https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/adventuresindigitalpublishing/episode-3-sup-digital-projects/
2022: “The Story of a Digital Scholarly Publication, As Told by Its Preservation Format,” a presentation at the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Conference, Baltimore
2022: “Web Archiving at Stanford University Press,” a presentation at the Web Archives As Research Data Workshop, Stanford University, Virtual
2022: “Preservation and Archiving,” presentation at the Born Digital Scholarly Publishing NEH Institute, Brown University, Virtual
2021 “Is it Quality? Let Me Crawl It: Web Archiving as a Test of and Approach to Preservability for Online Projects,” Presentation at Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2021: Open Digital Collaborative Project Preservation in the Humanities Aligned Conference, Virtual
2021 “Digital Publishing and Preservation,” presentation on the panel “Long-Term Preservation of Digital Library Publishing Content” Library Publishing Forum, Virtual Conference
2021 Presentation on SUP’s production process for Feral Atlas, Spring Summit on Enhanced and Interactive Publications, Brown University, Virtual Summit
2020 “Don’t wait until it’s too late – Can preservation influence the design of complex digital publications?” co-presentation with Catherine Nicole Coleman. Preservation of Digital Complex Objects, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, Virtual Conference
2019 “Digital Publishing and Web Archiving” presentation on the panel “Capturing complex websites and publications with Webrecorder” International Internet Preservation Consortium’s Web Archiving Conference, Wellington, New Zealand
2019 “Balancing Innovation & Persistence in Digital Scholarly Publications” presentation on the panel “Clearing the Air for Maintenance and Repair: Strategies, Experiences, Full Disclosure,” Digital Humanities Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands
2019 “Web Archive as Scholarly Communication: Hacking the Publishing Workflow for Persisting the Scholarly Record,” presentation at Web Archiving and Digital Libraries @ Joint Conference of Digital Libraries, Urbana-Champaign, IL
2019 “’That Razor Edge of Balance’: Publishing Interactive Scholarly Works @ Stanford University Press.” Presentation on the panel “Interactive Scholarly Works and Enhanced eBooks: Challenges and Emerging Solutions,” Society for Scholarly Publishing Conference, San Diego
2018 Presenter on panel “Publishing Digital Projects,” Association of University Presses Conference, San Francisco
2018 Organizer and presenter at “Stanford University Press Preservation Workshop,” 2-day summit
2018 Presenter and participant in “Making Digital Scholarly Publications,” Getty Publishing
2017 “Advocating, Legitimizing, and Preserving Digital Scholarship.” Digital Humanities Summer Institute Colloquium, Victoria, BC.
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Bailey Jr, Charles. (2023). "Academic Library as Scholarly Publisher Bibliography." Version 3. 2023. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369587864_Academic_Library_as_Scholarly_Publisher_Bibliography_Version_3
Greenberg, Jonathan, Karen Hanson, and Deb Verhoff. "Report on Enhancing Services to Preserve New Forms of Scholarship." Dec. 2021,
https://doi.org/10.33682/0dvh-dvr2.Hare, Sarah and Madison Sullivan. "A Qualitative Study on the Digital Preservation of OER." portal: Libraries and the Academy, vol. 20 no. 4, 2020, p. 749-773. Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.1353/pla.2020.0036.
Hawkins, Donald T. and Hinds, Leah H. "Don's Conference Notes- Shopping the New Status Quo: The 41st Society for Scholarly Publishing Meeting," Against the Grain 31.6 (2019), Article 29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7771/2380-176X.8499.Milligan, Ian. The Transformation of Historical Research in the Digital Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009026055.
Tham, Jason, & Grace, Rob. Reading born-digital scholarship: A study of webtext user experience. Computers and Composition. Advance online publication, 2020. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S8755461520300621 .
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The following are blog posts I wrote for Stanford University Press's supDigital blog:
The Highly Collaborative Nature of Making, Producing, and Preserving Digital Publications
Completing the Archives, or How We’re Extending the Life of Web-Based Digital Scholarship
Intentionally Blurring the Line between Production and Preservation
3 Approaches to the Preservation of Interactive Scholarly Works
Saving the Internet: An Interview with Webrecorder’s Dragan Espenchied
Background
I received my Ph.D. in English from the University of Texas at Austin in May 2011 and spent the following five years as Visiting Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University teaching Intro to Lit, British Lit Survey (II), Honors Critical Analysis and Writing (with a focus on digital identity), and Freshman Composition.
I am the author and editor of the online Mapping Dubliners Project, an interactive critical and geographic resource examining the historical-political layers James Joyce embedded, through over 200 geographical references, into his 1914 Dubliners, a work many others argue lacks strong political critique. The project evolved out of a digital appendix to my dissertation “From ‘Disentangling the Subtle Soul’ to ‘Ineluctable Modality’ : James Joyce’s Transmodal Techniques,” which examines James Joyce’s transmodal techniques in Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, and Ulysses, arguing that by the process of “re-rendering,” Joyce employs the conventions of one artistic medium to create work in another medium. Such instances of re-rendering can be best identified, analyzed, and illustrated by digital means.
As a scholar with a digital project and nowhere to publish it, I was excited about Stanford University Press’s program that sought to legitimize the work of scholars producing arguments in innovative digital formats. Rather than continue spinning my wheels toward a traditional tenure-track academic career, I joined SUP’s Mellon-funded initiative to become a leading advocate for scholars like myself, helping others realize their innovative publications and learning how to improve my own work along the way.
When I’m not enjoying my passion of all things digital publishing (it truly is a huge part my identity!), I like to run, play flute in my community band, geek out on Star Trek, and play games like Cyberpunk 2077 and World of Warcraft. I also write poetry when the mood is right, preferably on a typewriter (as pictured).
My cat Pixel is my mascot and is the inspiration for my logo, a very focused keyboard cat.