About

As head of digital initiatives at the MLA, I project manage Humanities Commons, MLA Commons, and CORE. I am a firm believer in expanding the scope of what we understand to be scholarship to include all sorts of scholarly labor, and am particularly interested in how the various aspects of “open”–open-access publishing models, open educational resources, and open peer review–might play a role in the creation of a more equitable academy. I am co-PI on the Mellon-funded HumetricsHSS initiative, an investigation into the viability of a values-based framework for indicating excellence, and a founding editor of The Idealis, an overlay journal promoting the best in open-access scholarly communication. I also serve on the digital publishing committee of the Association of University Presses, the editorial board of the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, and various Force11 committees.