Bethany Nowviskei, PhD

Department: English, Libraries 
Areas of expertise:

Digital Humanities
Artificial intelligence and machine learning
Digital libraries and museums
Open access and scholarly publishing 

Nowviskie is the Dean of Libraries and a professor of English. She was previously the executive director of the Digital Library Federation and a Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Distinguished Presidential Fellow. She was president of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and chair of the Modern Language Association’s Committee on Information Technology. 
Her research interests include digital humanities, digital libraries, community-based archives, Nineteenth-century literature, material culture, textual criticism, machine learning, environmental humanities in the context of climate change, indigenous ways of knowing and the history of the book. 
Nowviskie earned a bachelor's degree in English and archaeology at the University of Virginia, a master's degree in English education at Wake Forest University and a doctorate in English at the University of Virginia.