Adventures in Digital Publishing - remarks

Adventures in Digital Publishing: Opportunities, Challenges, Looking Ahead - remarks

Ana Maria Jimenez-Moreno, Acquisitions Editor, The Ohio State University Press

Allison Levy, Director, Brown University Digital Publications

Mae Velloso-Lyons, Associate Director, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University

Launched in 2020 to celebrate, document, and encourage new innovations in the publication of digital humanistic scholarship, Adventures in Digital Publishing has completed five episodes. This panel will give a broad overview of the genesis of the Emory, Brown, and AUPresses partnership, what they have learned about the challenges and opportunities in these collaborations, and what trends they see ahead for this genre of scholarly work and how it has impacted the scholarly ecosystem. The series has brought to light the many kinds of relationships forged and tested by publishing born-digital projects and it has also showcased the wide range of forms engaged and responsible scholarship can take, such as multimodal/multimedia, album, podcast, etc. Finally, the panelists will turn to the impact these publications have made in the field, for academic publishing, in the careers of the scholars who participated, and what they anticipate will be the conversation moving forward.

Ana Maria Jimenez-Moreno is Acquisitions Editor at The Ohio State University Press. She oversees the literary and cultural studies lists ranging from Classics to contemporary Black Performance. She served as a committee member and then chair of AUPresses’ Library Relations Committee.

Allison Levy is Director of Brown University Digital Publications, a program of distinction based in the University Library’s renowned Center for Digital Scholarship and launched with generous support from the Mellon Foundation with further support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. BUDP, which provides a novel and intentional university-based approach to digital content development, is helping to set the standards for the future of scholarship in the digital age. In her role as director, Levy brings together key organizational, academic, and technological resources to support new forms of faculty-authored scholarship, resulting in pathbreaking, award-winning publications. A hallmark of BUDP under her leadership is the centering of access and inclusion in the practice and production of digital scholarship, as exemplified by the NEH Institute on Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities “Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing: Resources and Roadmaps” (2022, 2024) and the IMLS program “Advancing HBCU Scholarship, Diversifying Digital Publishing” (2023-2026). Levy also spearheads efforts at the industry level to advance the conversation around the development, evaluation, and publication of born-digital scholarship. She currently serves on the Association of University Presses Library Relations Committee and the Renaissance Society of America Digital and Multimedia Committee.

Mae Velloso-Lyons is Associate Director of the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University. She coordinates the Mellon-funded Digital Publishing in the Humanities initiative, which supports the development of digital and open access monographs by faculty at Emory and partner institutions in metro-Atlanta. Prior to joining Emory, Velloso-Lyons managed digital humanities research and training programs at Stanford University’s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature in 2022.