Emma Annette Wilson Author & Editor

Dr. Emma Annette Wilson holds a BA and M.Phil. in English from the University of Cambridge, a Ph.D. in Renaissance literature from the University of St. Andrews, and an MLIS from the University of Western Ontario. For the past 4 years she has worked in the University Libraries at the University of Alabama running the Alabama Digital Humanities Center (ADHC). In that time, as the leader of a 2-person team (herself and an IT Specialist), she has grown the ADHC from having 5 Digital Humanities projects to having over 140, and this volume is an opportunity to share that experience and successful approaches and strategies with an LIS and librarian readership. Dr. Wilson has initiated Digital Humanities collaborations for research and pedagogy in more than 20 different departments across the University of Alabama, ranging from partnerships in English, History, Art and Art History, and Modern Languages, to perhaps more unexpected areas such as Music, Diversity initiatives, and Clothing, Textile, and Interior Design. Furthermore, a number of these projects include significant inter-institutional collaborations with establishments including Somerville College, Oxford, and St. Louis Public Library, to name just a couple. As Digital Scholarship Librarian at the ADHC, Dr. Wilson established Digitorium, an annual Digital Humanities conference that saw its third iteration in Spring 2017. Since its inception in 2015, the conference has grown by over 60%, attracting more than 130 delegates from 3 different continents, 25 different institutions and 10 different subject areas in 2017 alone. Digitorium always includes plenary speaker sessions, and the combination of these with highly diverse panels of speakers from all over North America and Europe, all of whom Dr. Wilson corresponds with directly and regularly, means that she has built up an extensive network of librarians and scholars practicing in the field of Digital Humanities, a resource which she intends to draw upon in the making of this book. She has published articles and an edited collection in Renaissance literature, but germane to this project her recent work has involved presenting at the ALA and ACRL and publishing on the role of metadata in Digital Humanities alongside her colleague, Metadata Librarian Mary Alexander, as well as putting together an edited collection on Digital Humanities for teaching for Indiana University Press.