During the past six years, I have served in several meritorious ways. Not only have I chaired the Graduate Studies and the Rank and Tenure committees, I have also served there--as well as on Faculty Employment and Benefits--as a representative of the School of Arts & Sciences. This is important work, as shared governance is the foundation of our membership in the Marymount community and the academic community more broadly. I directed our graduate program in English and Humanities for three years. I serve as a reviewer for several journals, and I have developed a sub-speciality of a sorts as a reviewer of born-digital projects. As our delegate to the Virginia Humanities Conference and its 2015 President, I brought close to 100 speakers and participants to Marymount's campus to learn about the role of the humanities in the public sphere. Currently, I am beginning a five-year term as Digital Humanities Section Editor for ABO: An Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830, and I have also served as the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Digital Humanities Caucus president for the past three years.
I am also active in the wider community, particularly as an advocate for the humanities and the historical consciousness. I served as co-producer and dramaturg of How to Give Birth to a Rabbit, a piece of musical theater performed as part of the 2016 Capital Fringe Festival; you can read more about this in the scholarship section of this application file. The 2015 VHC conference I brought to campus, on "The Humanities and/in the Public Sphere," was actively open to the wider community, and most recently, I spoke as an expert and a representative of Marymount University on Choose to Be Curious, a local WERA 96.7 FM talk radio show that advocates the essential role of curiosity in our world.
My service work is creative as well as meritorious, and it is a meaningful part of my academic life; indeed, my work at the crossroads of digital humanities and eighteenth-century studies has shaped some of the ways my discipline has evolved to incorporate technological thought.