About
John A. Walsh is the Director of the HathiTrust Research Center and Associate Professor of Information and Library Science in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University. His research applies computational methods to the study of literary and historical documents. Walsh is an editor of digital scholarly editions, including: the Petrarchive, the Algernon Charles Swinburne Project, and the Chymistry of Isaac Newton. He developed Comic Book Markup Language (CBML) for scholarly encoding of comics and graphic novels, and TEI Boilerplate, for publishing documents encoded according to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange. He is the founding Technical Editor and a current General Editor of Digital Humanities Quarterly, an open-access online journal published by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. Walsh’s research interests include: computational literary studies; textual studies and bibliography; text technologies; book history; 19th-century British literature, poetry and poetics; and comic books.
Curriculum vitae
A full cv is available.
Summary
John A. Walsh
Innovative and deadline-driven Graphic Designer with 3+ years of experience designing and developing user-centered digital/print marketing material from initial concept to final, polished deliverable.
- 700 North Woodlawn Avenue, Room 2032, Bloomington, IN 47405
- +1 812 856 0707
- jawalsh@indiana.edu
Education
Ph.D., English literature
Ph.D. minors in Victorian Studies and Classical Greek
Dissertation: The Classical Dramas of Shelley and Swinburne
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
M.A., English literature
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
A.B. (summa cum laude), English literature,
Ohio University, Athens, OH
Academic Appointments
Associate Professor, Department of Information and Library Science, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing & Engineering
2013-present
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Affiliate Associate Professor, Department of English
2013-present
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science
2006-2013
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Department of English
2004-2013
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Recent publications & presentations
Walsh, J. A. (2022). “It was as much ours…”: Reader contributions to teen humor fashion comics. Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, 6(2), 142-171. https://doi.org/10.1353/ink.2022.0011
Walsh, J. A., Cobb, P. J., de Fremery, W., Golub, K., Keah, H., Kim, J., Kiplang’at, J., Liu, Y.-H., Mahony, S., Oh, S. G., Sula, C. A., Underwood, T., & Wang, X. (2022). Digital humanities in the iSchool. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 73(2), 188-203. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24535
Parulian N. N., Dubnicek, R., Worthey, G., Downie, J. S., Evans, D. & Walsh J. (2022). “Uncovering Black Fantastic: Piloting A Word Feature Analysis and Machine Learning Approach for Genre Classification.” Paper presented at the 85th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Pittsburgh, PA, 29 October - 1 November 2022.
Dubnicek, R., Harrison, J., Magni, I. Walsh, J. A., Graham, M., Downie, J. S., & Layne-Worthey, G. (2022). “SCWAReD: Scholar-Curated Worksets from the HathiTrust Research Center.” Paper presented at the Digital Humanities Congress, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 8-10 September 2022.
Walsh, J. A., Wingate, A., Nurkkala, C., & Christie, J. (2022). “Nineteenth-Century Poets and Their Libraries.” Paper presented at the Digital Humanities Congress, University of Sheffield, UK, September 8-10, 2022.
Walsh, J. A. (2022). “Comic Book Markup Language, Comics, and the Scholarly Digital Edition.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Comics Studies Society, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, 28 July 2022.
Walsh, J. A. (2022). “The Comic Book Paratext.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Comics Studies Society, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, 28 July 2022.
Magni, I., Worthey, G. C., Graham, M., Walsh, J. A., Downie, S. J. & Dubnicek, R. C. (2022). “Centering the Marginalized: Scholar-Curated Worksets from the HathiTrust Digital Library.” Poster presented at the Digital Humanities conference, Tokyo, Japan, 25-29 July 2022.
Dubnicek, R. C., Christie, J. Kudeki, D., Layne-Worthey, G., Walsh, J. A., Downie, J. S. (2022). “Workshop: HathiTrust Research Center’s Extracted Features 2.0 Dataset .” Workshop presented at the Digital Humanities conference, Tokyo, Japan, 25-29 July 2022.
Walsh, J. A. (2022). “Far-Out Fanfare”: Fan Engagement in the 1970s Comics Prozines. Poster presented at the Comics Arts Conference / Comic-Con International, San Diego, CA, 23 July 2022.
Walsh, J. A., Wingate, A., Nurkkala, C., Evans, D., Mertka, A., & Christie, J. (2022). “Bibliographic and textual studies and the personal library.” Paper presented at Digital Humanities Benelux, University of Luxembourg, Belval Campus, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg. 1-3 June 2022.
Dubnicek, R., Walsh, J. A., Graham, M., Downie, J. S., Magni, I., & Layne-Worthey, G. (2022). “Scholar-Curated Worksets for Analysis, Reuse & Dissemination (SCWAReD) from the HathiTrust Research Center.” Poster presented at Digital Humanities Benelux, University of Luxembourg, Belval Campus, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg. 1-3 June 2022.
Walsh, J. A. (2021). “Documenting Fandom: A Content Analysis of 1970s American Comics Prozines.” Paper presented at the Colloque international MEDIADB: “La bédéphilie en revues,” Angoulême, France, 17 June 2021.
A full cv is available.
Projects
The Algernon Charles Swinburne Project is a digital collection devoted to the life and work of Victorian poet Algernon Charles Swinburne.
The Chymistry of Isaac Newton is a digital edition of the alchemical writings of Isaac Newton, of which only a fraction has been previously edited and published.
Comic Book Markup Language (CBML) is a TEI/XML-based vocabulary for encoding comics, comic books, and graphic novels.
The Comic Book Readership Archive (CoBRA) is building a digital archive—of primary source material and related data sets—to document American comic book readership and fandom.
The Petrarchive is a digital edition of Petrarch’s songbook, the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (Rvf).
HathiTrust Research Center is a research initiative to develop infrastructure, tools, and services develop infrastructure and tools for research and analysis of content in the HathiTrust Digital Library.
TEI Boilerplate is a lightweight solution for publishing styled TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) P5 content directly in modern browsers
Teaching
In recent years I have taught two graduate courses, one on building digital collections and another on comic book readership and fandom.
Comic Books and Their Readers
ILS Z604/Z762
Digital and empirical methods for studying comics readership and fandom.
Z604/Z762 on GithubContact
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