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John Unsworth is the University Librarian, Vice Provost, and Chief Information Officer at Brandeis University, a title he has held since 2012. Unsworth is also a Professor of English at Brandeis, teaching courses on the Digital Humanities and on 20th-century American bestsellers. In August 2013, the White House appointed Unsworth to the National Council on the Humanities, the advisory board of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a post he will hold through January 26, 2016. ==Biography== John Unsworth was born in 1958, in Northampton, Massachusetts. He graduated from Northampton High School in 1975, and attended Princeton University and Amherst College as an undergraduate, graduating from Amherst in 1981. He received a Master's degree in English from Boston University in 1982 and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia in 1988.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://lts.brandeis.edu/about/org/aboutthecio.html )〕 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://people.lis.illinois.edu/~unsworth/ )〕 His first faculty appointment was in English, at North Carolina State University, from 1989 to 1993. In 1990, at North Carolina State University, he co-founded the first peer-reviewed electronic journal in the humanities, ''Postmodern Culture'' (now published by Johns Hopkins University Press, as part of Project Muse). He also organized, incorporated, and chaired the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, co-chaired the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions, and served as President of the (Association for Computers and the Humanities ) and later as chair of the steering committee for the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, as well as serving on many other editorial and advisory boards. From 1993-2003, at the University of Virginia he served as the first Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, and as a faculty member in the English department.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://lts.brandeis.edu/about/org/aboutthecio.html )〕 From 2003-2012 he was the Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and was also on the faculty of the English department.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://people.lis.illinois.edu/~unsworth/bio.html )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Unsworth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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