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DR. ADRIAN S. WISNICKI Dept DR. ADRIAN S. WISNICKI Dept. of English | 338B Andrews Hall | Lincoln, NE 68588 (c) 724-762-1242 | [email protected] Education Ph.D. in English Literature: City University of New York, Graduate Center 2003 ● Irving Howe Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Politics and Literature M.A. in English Literature: University of Virginia 1999 B.A. with General Honors and Special Honors in English Literature: University of Chicago 1996 Positions Assistant Professor of English, Faculty Fellow of the CDRH: University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2013- Assistant Professor of English: Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011-13 Additional Positions Director: Livingstone Online (http://www.livingstoneonline.com/, co-director, 2010-2013) 2014- Honorary Research Fellow: University of Glasgow 2014- Honorary Senior Research Associate: University College London 2011- Director: The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project (http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/) 2010- Teaching and Other Relevant Experience Lead Historical Consultant / Principal Onscreen Contributor: The Lost Diary of David Livingstone. Sky Vision documentary for National Geographic (14 Dec. 2013, http://natgeotv.com/uk/the-lost-diary-of-dr-livingstone) and PBS (26 Mar. 2014, http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/episodes/the-lost-diary-of-dr-livingstone-watch-the-full- episode/1157/). 2013-14 Co-Director: Summer Program in Africa, Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013 Co-Director: Center for Digital Humanities and Culture: Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011-13 Honorary Research Fellow: Birkbeck College, University of London 2009-12 Visiting Scholar: Fordham University 2009-10 Lecturer: Birkbeck College, University of London 2008 Lecturer: University of Nottingham 2007-08 Assistant Professor (tenure-track equivalent): Southern New Hampshire University 2005-06 Visiting Assistant Adjunct Professor: Yeshiva University, Stern College 2005 Writing Consultant: African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships, Botswana 2003-04 Writing Fellow: City University of New York 2001-03 Dr. Adrian S. Wisnicki: Curriculum Vitae—Page 2 Scholarship Major Digital Humanities Publications and Projects Project Director: The Livingstone Online Enrichment and Access Project (LEAP), 2013-16. NEH-funded project ($275,000) to develop Livingstone Online (http://www.livingstoneonline.ucl.ac.uk/). Project Director: The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project. Los Angeles: UCLA Digital Library Program and Livingstone Online, 2010-2012. http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/. Peer reviewed and accepted for inclusion in NINES (http://www.nines.org/). 1st Runner Up, DH Awards 2012: Best professional resources for learning about or doing DH work. This NEH-funded project ($208,605 total to date) includes: ● Livingstone’s 1870 Field Diary and Select 1871 Letters: A Multispectral Critical Edition. In progress. ● Livingstone’s 1871 Field Diary: A Multispectral Critical Edition. 2011 (beta edition), 2012 (first edition), 2013 (corrections). http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/1871diary/. Peer reviewed. ● Livingstone Spectral Image Archive: TIFF Images, XML Transcriptions, Metadata. 2011 (beta edition), 2012 (first edition). http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/livingstone_archive/. Peer reviewed. ● Livingstone’s Letter from Bambarre: A Multispectral Critical Edition. 2010 (beta edition), 2011 (first edition). http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/bambarre/. Peer reviewed. Monograph Conspiracy, Revolution, and Terrorism from Victorian Fiction to the Modern Novel. New York; London: Routledge, 2008. Peer-Reviewed Articles in Journals Solicited Contribution. “Victorian Field Notes from the Lualaba River, Congo.” Scottish Geographical Journal 129:3-4 (2013): 210-39. Special David Livingstone bicentennial commemorative issue. “Rewriting Agency: Baker, Bunyoro-Kitara, and the Egyptian Slave Trade.” Studies in Travel Writing 14:1 (2010): 1-27. Selected by Routledge as one of nine articles to represent its publications in “Interdisciplinary Approaches” at the 2011 MLA Convention: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/articlecollections/mla2011/ (accessed 16 Apr. 2011). “Interstitial Cartographer: David Livingstone and the Invention of South Central Africa.” Victorian Literature and Culture 37:1 (Mar. 2009): 255-71. “Charting the Frontier: Indigenous Geography, Arab-Nyamwezi Caravans, and the East African Expedition of 1856-59.” Victorian Studies 51.1 (Aut. 2008): 103-37. “Cartographical Quandaries: The Limits of Knowledge Production in Burton’s and Speke’s Search for the Source of the Nile.” History in Africa 35 (2008): 455-79. “Reformulating the Empire’s Hero: Rhodesian Gold, Boer Veld-Craft, and the Displaced Scotsman in John Buchan’s The Thirty-Nine Steps.” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 8:1 (Spr. 2007). http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_colonialism_and_colonial_history/v008/8.1wisnicki.html (accessed 24 July 2010). “A Trove of New Works by Thomas Pynchon? Bomarc Service News Rediscovered.” Pynchon Notes 46- 49 (2000-01): 6-32. Dr. Adrian S. Wisnicki: Curriculum Vitae—Page 3 Articles in Edited Collections “The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project.” Michael B. Toth, co-author (25%). In David Livingstone: The Man, the Myth and the Legacy. Sarah Worden, ed. Forthcoming, 2012. Book to accompany Livingstone bi-centenary exhibition at the National Museums Scotland (Nov. 2012- Apr. 2013). “The End of Resolution? Reflections on the Ethics of Closure in Don DeLillo’s Detective Plots.” Philipp Schweighauser, co-author (55%). In Terrorism, Media, and the Ethics of Fiction: Transatlantic Perspectives on Don DeLillo. Peter Schneck and Philipp Schweighauser, eds. New York: Continuum, 2010. 158-70. “Reaches of Empire: Heart of Darkness, Colonial Administration, and the Victorian Conspiracy Narrative Tradition.” In R|EVOLUTIONS: Mapping Culture, Community and Change from Ben Jonson to Angela Carter. Jennifer Craig and Warren Steele, eds. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. 101-15. Other Solicited Publications Rev. of The Last Blank Spaces: Exploring Africa and Australia, by Dane Kennedy. Forthcoming, Journal of British Studies 53:3. “Journey into Digital Humanities: One Victorianist’s Tale.” Journal of Victorian Culture 18.2 (Spring 2013): 280-86. Rev. of Travel Writing and Atrocities: Eyewitness Accounts of Colonialism in the Congo, Angola, and the Putumayo, by Robert Burroughs. Studies in Travel Writing 15:3 (Sept. 2011): 325-26. Rev. of Paths Without Glory: Richard Francis Burton in Africa, by James L. Newman. Journal of British Studies 50:2 (Apr. 2011): 526-27. Rev. of Visualizing Africa in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Accounts, by Leila Koivunen. Victorian Studies 52:4 (Sum. 2010): 673-75. Grants ($504,533 total to date; principal writer or co-writer on all grants) National and International Grants PI: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Grant, NEH ($275,000) 2013-16 PI: Scholarly Translations and Editions Grant, NEH ($158,605) 2013-15 PI: Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant, NEH ($50,000) 2010-11 Project Director: Small Research Grant, British Academy (£7,125; D. Harrison, grant holder) 2010-11 Internal Grants PI: Arts & Humanities Research Enhancement Grant, University of Nebraska-Lincoln ($7,500) 2014-15 PI: ACPAC Technology Innovation and Exploration Fund Grant, Indiana Univ. of Penn. ($1,479) 2012-13 PI: President’s Advancing Grantmanship Award, Indiana Univ. of Penn. (2 awards, $2,500 each) 2012 Co-PI: University Senate Research Committee Award, Indiana U. of Penn. ($2000) 2012 PI: Centers & Institutes Special Projects Grant, Indiana University of Pennsylvania ($1,000) 2012 Dr. Adrian S. Wisnicki: Curriculum Vitae—Page 4 Lectures, Conference Papers, Panels, Posters "One Tiny LEAP: A Case Study for Using TEI P5 ODD for Project-Specific Encoding Documentation." James Cummings, co-presenter. Poster for the "Decoding the Encoded: Text Encoding Initiative Conference and Members Meeting 2014," Northwestern University, 22-24 Oct. 2014. Invited Speaker: “Message Received, Just 140 Years Later.” Michael B. Toth, co-presenter. The Smithsonian Associates Lecture, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C., 21 Oct. 2014 Invited Public Lecture: “Digging through Layers of Text.” To be delivered to “Lincoln-Lancaster County Genealogical Society,” Lincoln, NE, 12 Aug.2014. Invited Public Lecture: “Imaging David Livingstone’s Manuscripts.” Presented to the Rotary Club of Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, 23 Apr. 2014. Invited Speaker: “Transparent Digital Victorians.” Presented at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, University of Houston, 27-30 March 2014. Invited Speaker: “Digital Victorians” series, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies: Sum. 2013. Declined due to lack of travel funds. Invited Speaker: “Between Commercial Digitization and the Digital Edition: Thoughts on a British Library Spectral Imaging Initiative.” Internal presentation to British Library staff: 24 Jan. 2013 Invited Speaker: “Digitizing a Victorian Manuscript: Challenges and Lessons Learned.” Presented at a special panel on “Digital Humanities” at “Victorian Values: Economics, Ethics and Aesthetics,” British Association of Victorian Studies (BAVS) Conference, University of Sheffield, 30 Aug.-1 Sept. 2012. “The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project.” Stephen Davison and Lisa McAulay, co-presenters. Poster for the “ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries,” George Washington University, 10-14 June 2012. Invited Speaker: “Digital Conversations: Annotation and Sharing.” Panel presentation,
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