Lecture by John Unsworth on Digital Humanities Takes Place April 28, 2006
The University of Illinois at Chicago University Library’s 2006 Nakata Lecture features John Unsworth, dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and expert on cyberspace policy and digital humanities.
Unsworth co-founded Postmodern Culture, the first peer-reviewed electronic journal in the humanities, in 1990. In 2000, he established the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium. He was the first director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia.
He received the 2005 Richard W. Lyman Award from the National Humanities Center.
He has conducted research projects and publishes widely on the topic of electronic scholarship.