Joseph Gilbert

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Head of the Scholars’ Lab, UVA Library

I am the Head of the Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia Library. The Scholars’ Lab supports digital scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, with particular emphasis on methodolgies employing geospatial, temporal, textual, and qualitative analysis tools. The Scholars’ Lab combines the services of UVA’s former digital centers: the GeoStat Center, the E-Text Center, and the Research Computing Support group.

Day-to-day, I consult with teaching faculty and graduate students on digital projects, manage our team of three full-time staff (one research computing/qualitative analysis specialist and two GIS specialists) and 10-or-so student assistants, and contribute to the web design and development efforts of our department (mostly using XML, XSLT, CSS, Javascript, and Ruby on Rails). I also coordinate various outreach events and our exciting graduate fellowship program.

I hold a bachelor’s degree in English and Computer Science from Vanderbilt University and a master’s degree in English from UVA. My research interests include the scholarly implications of user interfaces, the ethical claims of American poetic discourse, and the cultural role of poetry in mid-20th-century America.