Ph.D.	English Literature	Indiana University	December 2000
M.A.	English and American Literature	Indiana University	August 1988
B.A.	English and American Literature	Ohio University	June 1987

Ph.D. Major Area: Nineteenth-Century British Literature, especially poetry.
Ph.D. Minors: Classical Studies (Greek) and Victorian Studies.

Dissertation

Title: The Classical Dramas of Shelley and Swinburne.

Committee: Patrick Brantlinger (director), Cynthia Bannon, Fred Beaty, Nick Williams, and Paul Zietlow.

My dissertation examines the classical dramas of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Prometheus Unbound and Hellas) and Algernon Charles Swinburne (Atalanta in Calydon and Erechtheus). Greek tragedy, the form upon which these works are modeled, is a hybrid form that combines the lyric and the dramatic, and in my study, I examine how Shelley and Swinburne exploit the generic contrasts between the lyric and dramatic and how the poets manipulate the generic structures of Greek tragedy, often by interpolating forms and conventions from other genres, to transcend mere pastiche or imitation and create new forms of poetic expression. I also analyze their fidelity to their classical Greek models and how that fidelity resonates with the thematic concerns of the four plays. In addition, I locate in each poem what I call a poet figure, a character or group of characters who acts as an advocate for the creative, artistic, and prophetic impulse and serves as a mouthpiece for the aesthetic and political concerns of the poet. Through my analysis of these poet figures and the generic dynamics in each poem, I conclude that each of these four poems is in large measure a meta-poem, a poem about poetry and poets.

In conjunction with my dissertation, I began work on The Swinburne Archive, a digital collection devoted to the life and works of Victorian poet, Algernon Charles Swinburne.

Grants & Awards

Indiana University New Frontiers Arts and Humanities Travel Exploration Traveling Fellowship to support presentation of "Topic Maps in Digital Humanities: Sure They're Cool, but Do They Make a Difference?, A User Study." and "The Chymistry of Isaac Newton: New Technologies and Old Science" at the Digital Resources for the Humanities (DRH) conference at Lancaster University, Lancaster, England, UK. 4-7 September 2005. The grant also supported research on Victorian poet Algernon Charles Swinburne at the British Library following the conference.

Indiana University Libraries Research Leave/Support Grant to support presentation of "Are You a Boy? Masculinity Outside the Panels" at the 13th Annual Comic Arts Conference, San Diego, CA, July 13-17, 2005.

Departmental and University Committees

Bloomington Library Fee-Based Library Services Procedural Working Group, 2006

Bloomington Faculty Council Technology Policy Committee, 2005-06.

Bloomington Library Faculty Council Continuing Education Committee, 2005-07.

Bloomington Library Faculty Council Research Committee, 2005-06.

Bloomington Library NEH Endowment Selection Committee, 2005.

Bloomington Library Institutional Repository Working Group, 2004-06.

Bloomington Library Collections Digitization Committee, 2004-05.

Search and Screen Committees, Indiana University Libraries, 1997 - present. I regularly serve on search and screen committees charged with finding, screening, and interviewing suitable candidates for professional and tenure-track library appointments.

Member, Indiana University Library Student Advisory Committee, 1995-96.

Graduate Student Representative, Indiana University Department of English Undergraduate Studies Committee, 1994-95.

Technical Certifications

Brainbench Master Certification, XML. Certified November, 2005.

IBM Certified Developer, XML and Related Technologies. Certified August, 2001.

Sun Certified Java Programmer. Certified September, 1999.

Technical Training

The Next Generation of Access: OpenURL and Metasearch, National Information Standards Organization (NISO), October 29-30, 2003.

Sun TechDays: A Developer Conference 2000/2001, April 2-3, 2001.

Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Workshop, Society of American Archivists, February 17-18, 2000.

Java Programming (Sun Educational Services Course Number SL-275), August, 1998.

Supporting Windows NT Core Technologies (Official Microsoft Curriculum Course Number 687), July-August, 1998.

Administering Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (Official Microsoft Curriculum Course Number 803), June, 1998.

Bloomington Professional Council, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Awarded competitive professional development grant to pursue Java programming training and certification, April, 1998.

University Information Technology Services, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

Unix Workstation System Administration, Education Certification, Fall, 1997.

Supporting PC Hardware, Education Certification, Fall, 1994.

Supporting DOS/Windows, Education Certification, Fall, 1994.

Novell Netware LAN Administration, Education Certification, Fall, 1994.

Associate Director for Projects and Services

Indiana University Digital Library Program, Bloomington, IN

September, 2004 - present

Responsible for coordinating projects and services of the Digital Library Program, on all eight campuses of Indiana University.

Assist with preparing and monitoring budgets.

Develops digital library projects and identifies funding and other resources to support them, both internal and external to the DLP.

Writes grant proposals for Digital Library Program projects and contributes to proposals developed by other administrative units or by academic departments that have a digital library component.

Coordinates the activities of Digital Library Program project managers.

Supervises the Metadata Librarian, the Digital Media Specialist, and the Digital Media and Image Center (DMIC).

Plans and implements informational and educational programs for Indiana University staff on digital library topics.

Coordinates the development of the Digital Library Program web site and project web sites.

Coordinates support for humanities text encoding projects and technologies.

Serves as collection manager for Informatics (as of July 1, 2005). As collection manager, manages collection fund, identifies and purchases library resources to support the research of the School of Informatics; works with faculty and graduates students to identify appropriate resources; provides reference and bibliographic instruction to faculty and students in the School of Informatics.

Adjunct Associate Professor of English

Department of English, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

May, 2004 - present

Research interests: Romantic and Victorian literature, especially poetry and poetics; Shelley; Swinburne; popular culture and comics studies; digital humanities.

Manager of Electronic Text Technologies

University Information Technology Services

Library Electronic Text Resource Service (LETRS) and the Digital Library Program, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

July, 2000 - September, 2004

Responsible for managing the development of digital library projects, with special emphasis on the electronic text (XML and SGML) components and related Web development for such projects.

Responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining digital library and electronic text infrastructure for LETRS and the Digital Library Program, especially those parts of the infrastructure related to electronic text technologies, such as SGML and XML search tools and XML-aware database products.

Manage the Digital Library Program technical and development staff from University Information Technology Services, which includes four full-time professionals (a project manager, a programmer, a web developer and usability specialist, and a systems administrator), a graduate assistant, and three part-time graduate student employees.

Manage the day-to-day operations of the Library Electronic Text Resource Service (LETRS), which includes a number of online electronic text services and a public Humanities Computing Lab staffed by graduate student consultants.

As a member of the Digital Library Program administrative team, contribute to the decision-making and long-term strategic planning for the Digital Library Program.

Lead Electronic Text Specialist

University Information Technology Services

Library Electronic Text Resource Service (LETRS) and the Digital Library Program, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

January, 1998 - July, 2000

Responsibilities are the same as those below for "Electronic Text Support Specialist" but with increased emphasis on project management and development and less emphasis on system administration duties. Additional duties also include supervision of full-time professional staff.

Electronic Text Support Specialist

University Information Technology Services

Library Electronic Text Resource Service (LETRS), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

April, 1996 - January, 1998

Responsible for content development and delivery of electronic text services. Areas of expertise required to carry out this responsibility include: SGML, HTML, Perl, Java, Web server administration, and Unix system administration (AIX, Solaris, and Linux).

Manage the day-to-day operations of the Library Electronic Text Resource Service (LETRS), which includes a number of online electronic text services and a public Humanities Computing Lab staffed by graduate student consultants.

Supervise and train a graduate assistant and three part-time graduate student employees who staff the Humanities Computing Lab and contribute to electronic text development projects.

Design, write, test, and maintain computer programs for development and online delivery of electronic texts.

Develop and maintain online and print documentation related to LETRS services.

LAN/Workstation Specialist

University Information Technology Services

Library Electronic Text Resource Service (LETRS), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

October, 1994 - April, 1996

Responsible for all facets of on-site computing technical support, including Novell Netware (3.x and 4.x) system administration, Macintosh and PC hardware support, and Macintosh and DOS/Windows (3.x, 95, and NT) software support.

Provide support for a wide variety of industry standard productivity and communications applications as well as a large number of non-standard, specialized humanities applications in a networked, multi-platform environment.

Participate in areas such as technical infrastructure design, hardware and software acquisition, budgeting, training, documentation, and LETRS HTML and SGML projects, including the LETRS Web site and the Victorian Women Writers Project.

Walsh, John A. and Michelle Dalmau. "Navigating a Sea of Texts: Topic Maps and the Poetry of Algernon Charles Swinbure." Digital Library Federation Spring Forum. The Driskill Hotel, Austin, Texas. 10-12 April 2006.

Walsh, John A. "TEI Markup and the Power of Heavy Encoding." Roman de la Rose Workshop. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. 28-29 March 2006.

Walsh, John A. "Digital Content Selection" (panel). Association of Information and Dissemination Centers (ASIDIC) Spring 2006 Meeting. Fort Myers, Florida. 12-14 March 2006.

Piez, Wendell and John A. Walsh. "SVG Visualization of TEI Texts." Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Members Meeting 2005. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria. 28-29 October 2005.

Walsh, John (panel moderator). "Digital Victorianism." North American Victorian Studies Association Conference. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. 30 September - 2 October 2005.

Walsh, John. "The Need for Coordinated Efforts to Develop Digital Annotation Tools." Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities. Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. 28-30 September 2005.

Dalmau, Michelle and John A. Walsh. "Topic Maps in Digital Humanities: Sure They're Cool, but Do They Make a Difference?, A User Study." Digital Resources for the Humanities (DRH) 2005. Lancaster University, Lancaster, England, UK. 4-7 September 2005.

Walsh, John A. "The Chymistry of Isaac Newton: New Technologies and Old Science" (poster). Digital Resources for the Humanities (DRH) 2005. Lancaster University, Lancaster, England, UK. 4-7 September 2005.

Walsh, John A. "'Are You a Boy?': Masculinities Outside the Panels." Comic Arts Conference / Comic-Con International. San Diego Convention Center, San Diego. 14-17 July 2005.

Walsh, John A. "The Chymistry of Isaac Newton: New Technologies and Old Science" (poster). Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Science and Technology Section (STS), American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference. McCormick Place Convention Center, Chicago. 23-29 June 2005.

Walsh, John A. "TM4DH: Topic Maps for Digital Humanities: Examples and Tool Kits." Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC). University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 15-18 June 2005.

Walsh, John A., Jenn Riley, Michelle Dalmau, and David Jiao. "METS Navigator: A METS-based Display and Navigation Utility for Multi-Part Digital Objects." Digital Library Federation Spring Forum. Westin Horton Plaza, San Diego. 13-15 April 2005.

Hess, Charlotte, Andy Revelle, and John A. Walsh. "Digital Libraries, Digital Commons, and the Digital Library of the Commons." Digital Library Federation Spring Forum. Westin Horton Plaza, San Diego. 13-15 April 2005.

Kumar, Amit and John A. Walsh. "<teiPublisher>: A Repository Management System for TEI Documents." Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Members Meeting. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. 22-23 October 2004.

Kumar, Amit, Alejandro Bia, Martin Holmes, Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John A. Walsh. "<teiPublisher>: Bridging the Gap Between a Simple Set of Structured Documents and a Functional Digital Library." European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL). University of Bath, Bath, England, UK. 12-17 September 2004.

Walsh, John A. "Topic Maps and TEI-Encoded Literary Texts." Digital Resources for the Humanities (DRH) 2004. University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle, England, UK. 5-8 September 2004.

Walsh, John A. "The Marvel Age as Romantic Age." Comic Arts Conference / Comic-Con International. San Diego Convention Center, San Diego. 22-25 July 2004.

Kumar, Amit, Susan Schreibman, Stewart Arneil, Alejandro Bia, Martin Holmes, and John Walsh. "<teiPublisher>: A Repository Management System for TEI Documents." Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC). University of Göteburg, Göteburg, Sweden. 11-16 June, 2004

Walsh, John A. "Pop Goes the TEI: TEI Markup Applied to Comic Books and Graphic Novels." Digital Resources for the Humanities (DRH) 2003. University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, England, UK. 31 August - 3 September 2003.

Walsh, John A. "XML and Comics: Comic Book Markup Language (CBML)." Comic Arts Conference / Comic-Con International. San Diego Convention Center, San Diego. 17-20 July 2003.

Walsh, John A. "CBML: Comic Book Markup Language." XML Conference and Exposition 2002. Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore. 8-13 December 2002.

Walsh, John A. "'Unicode Ate My Brain,' or The Trials and Tribulations of Implementing a Unicode-Dependent Digital Library Project." Digital Library Federation Fall Forum 2002. Hilton Seattle, Seattle. 4-6 November 2002.

Walsh, John A. "Free the Data: Accessibility, Format, and Transformation Issues Related to XML-Based Humanities Resources." Digital Resources in the Humanities (DRH) 2002. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. 9 September 2002.

Walsh, John A. "Creating an XML-Based Scholarly Research Tool: Challenges and Methodology." XML Conference and Exposition 2001. Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel, Orlando. 9 December 2001.

Technical Editor for Digital Humanities Quarterly <http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/>, an open-access, peer-reviewed, digital journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities and published by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations <http://www.digitalhumanities.org/>. 2005 - present.

Victorian Editorial Board of Nines <http://www.nines.org/>, a project, funded in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to found a publishing environment for integrated, peer-reviewed online scholarship centered in nineteenth-century studies, British and American. May 2003 - present.

Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) "Text and Graphics" Special Interest Group (SIG). TEI Members Meeting 2003. University of Nancy, Nancy, France. 7-8 November 2003. I initiated and organized the first meeting of this special interest group focusing on the special concerns of graphics-intensive electronic text projects.

Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) / National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Task Force on SGML/XML Migration. 2002-present.

Adjunct Instructor

School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

May, 2004 - present

Introduction to Digital Humanities (I designed this graduate-level course, which will be taught for the first time in Fall, 2004.)

Part-Time Instructor of English

Department of English, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

September, 2001 - May, 2004

Ethnic American Literature, with Professor Yoonmee Chang

Professional Writing Skills (Technical Communication)

Associate Instructor

Department of English, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

September, 1992 - May, 1995

Projects in Reading and Writing: Cyberpunk and Technology in Literature and Society

Elementary Composition

Professional Writing Skills (Technical Communication)

Children's Literature, with Professor Mary Burgan

Introduction to Fiction, with Professor Patrick Brantlinger

American Library Association

Association for Computers and the Humanities

Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing

Modern Language Association

North American Society for the Study of Romanticism

North American Victorian Studies Association

Popular Culture Association

Society for Textual Studies