Education

• PhD. Candidate, English Literature and Digial Studies, University of Maryland, College Park.
• M.A., English Literature and Digital Studies, University of Maryland, 2004.
• M.F.A., Fiction, University of Virginia, 2000.
• A.B., American History and Literature, Harvard University, cum laude, 1994.

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

• "'A thing not beginning or ending': Using Digital Tools to Distant-Read Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans." Literary and Linguistic Computing 23.1 (Invited, April 2008) .

Chapters in Books

• "Datamining, visualizations, and collaborative application: critical trends in literary scholarship?" Literary Studies in a Digital Age: A Methodological Primer (under consideration, MLA 2008).
  
  
• "The Sweetest Messages" in A Companion to Emily Dickinson (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture). Martha Nell Smith and Mary Loeffelholz, eds. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.
  
  
• "Annotated Bibliography: Exemplary Projects" in The Blackwell Companion to Digital Literary Studies (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture). Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman, eds. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.
  
  

Technology Reports

• Don, A.; Zheleva, E.; Gregory, M.; Tarkan, S.; Auvil, L.; Clement, T.; Shneiderman, B.; & Plaisant, C. "Discovering interesting usage patterns in text collections: Integrating text mining with visualization." Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management. New York: ACM Press, 2007: 213-222.
  
  
• Plaisant, C., Rose, J., Yu, B., Auvil, L., Kirschenbaum, M.G., Smith, M. N. , Clement, T., Lord, G., Exploring Erotics in Emily Dickinson's Correspondence with Text Mining and Visual Interfaces, Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. New York: ACM Press, 2006: 141-150.
  
  

Electronic Publications

• ".these t.ex][e][ts: 'a challenge wrapped in velvet visuals'". Published in the collection E-Lit Up Close in Word Circuits <http://www.wordcircuits.com/>, a peer-reviewed electronic journal highlighting hypertextual, interactive, self-generating, kinetic, and multimedia poetry and fiction and commentary.
  
  

Conferences and Professional Presentations

• "'A thing not beginning or ending': Using Digital Tools to Not-Read Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans". Digital Dialogues, Maryland Institutute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), College Park, MD, September 2007.
  
  
• Clement, Tanya, Loretta Auvil, Catherine Plaisant, Greg Pape, and Vered Goren. "'Something that is interesting is interesting them': Using text mining and visualizations to aid interpreting repetition in Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans". Digital Humanities Conference, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, June 2007.
  
  
• "The Stein Experiment: Human Computer Collaboration: Literary Interpretation as Provocation and Response." Modern Language Association (MLA) Conference, Philadelphia, December 2006.
  
  
• "Discovering Undiscovered Knowledges: Supporting Literary Scholars with Data Mining and Visual Interfaces." Annual Conference for the Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Philadelphia, PA November 2006.
  
  
• "What to do, what to do, what to do with 3183 paragraphs: the nora project and repetition in Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans." What to Do with a Million Books: Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, Chicago, IL, November 2006.
  
  
• "Dressing Dada, Loving Dada, Living Dada . . . Again: Reproducing Performance in the Baroness Elsa von Fretytag-Loringhoven Digital Archive." Modern Language Association (MLA) Conference, Washington D.C., December 2005.
  
  
• "Editing *IS* Performance: Interpreting the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven." Modern Language Association (MLA) Conference, Washington D.C., December 2005.
  
  
• "'The Most Agonizing Spy an Enemy Could Send': The Database as Narrative in the Dickinson Electronic Archives." Society for Literature and Science in the Arts (SLSA) Conference, Chicago, November 2005.
  
  
• Invited participant at the Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities <http://www.iath.virginia.edu/dtsummit/>, University of Virginia, September 2005.
  
  
• Invited participant at the Text Analysis Summit <http://tapor1.mcmaster.ca/~tada/Summit/05/>, McMaster University, May 2005.
  
  
• "Laying that damned book aside? Evaluating different digital versions of Doctor Faustus." The Joint Annual Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Victoria, BC, June 2005.
  
  
• "What Nerdy Navigators Need Now: Evaluating different digital versions of similar texts" at Teaching With Technology Conference, University of Maryland, College Park, April 2005.
  
  
• With Dr. Susan Schreibman and Amit Kumar, "Teaching Technology With Technology" at Teaching With Technology Conference, University of Maryland, College Park, April 2004.
  
  
• "IZAAC: The First Automated Multi-Format Data Conversion Solution" at NIST Electronic Book Conference, Washington, D.C., 2001.
  
  

Research

Humanities Computing

• Research Associate, the MONK project <http://www.monkproject.org>; conduct research in text mining and visualization, February 2007 to present.
  
  
• Research Associate, the nora project <http://www.noraproject.org>; researched user case studies and text encoding (xml), October 2005 to February 2007.
  
  
• Project Manager, Dickinson Electronic Archives <http://www.emilydickinson.org>; managed site, staff supervision, training, outreach, text encoding (html/xml), databases, digital imaging, web archive maintenance, July 2005 to August 2007.
  
  
• Program Associate, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), University of Maryland, developed and managed digital projects published and researched by visiting fellows from the University; encode in XML, SGML, and HTML; designed and wrote technical specifications for projects. Some projects include Early Americas Digital Archive <http://www.mith2.umd.edu/eada/> and The Steinschneider Bibliographic Database <http://www.mith.umd.edu/steinschneider/>, August 2002 to August 2005.
  
  
• Project Designer, Apex ePublishing, Herndon, VA; developed and wrote specifications for XML, SGML, and HTML-based electronic documents; designed modes of production, managed customer goals in producing electronic products, December 2000 to August 2002.
  
  
• Database Development Assistant, Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities (IATH) <http://www.iath.virginia.edu/> , University of VA; assisted in planning relational database research web site with professional developers, January to June 2000.
  
  

Editing Activities

• Technical editor; encoding correspondence between Emily Dickinson and Mrs. Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson edited by Lara Vetter, Martha Nell Smith, and Ellen Hart for Emily Dickinson’s Correspondence: A Born-Digital Inquiry forthcoming from the Mellon-sponsored University of Virginia Press Electronic Imprint, 2008.
  
  
• Co-Editor, the collection E-Lit Up Close in Word Circuits <http://www.wordcircuits.com/>, a peer-reviewed electronic journal highlighting hypertextual, interactive, self-generating, kinetic, and multimedia poetry and fiction and commentary.
  
  
• Editorial Assistant, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; assisted professor and writer John Casey, National Book Award winner, 1989, in editing and researching for personal writings; organized material for special collections at the Clemmons Library, January 1999 to June 2000.

Teaching

• ENGL222—American Literature: 1865-Present; Teacher Assistant, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; Spring 2006.
  
  
• ENGL278w—Literature in a Wired World; Instructor, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; Fall 2004.
  
  
• Library Day Class; Special Lecturer, University of Maryland Libraries' User Education Services, College Park, Fall 2004.
  
  
• XML Workshop—Introduction to the theory and practice of text encoding using Extensible Markup Language (XML) with a focus on encoding through the scheme most humanities projects utilize, the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI); organizer and presenter, University of Maryland; Winter 2004.
  
  
• ENGL101—Introduction to Academic Writing; Teaching Assistant, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; Fall 2003.
  
  
• ARHU298—Digital Directions: Arts, Humanities, & Technology; Instructor, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; Summer 2003.
  
  
• ENWR110—Accelerated Academic Writing; Instructor; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; Fall 1999 and Spring 2000.
  
  
• Humanities—English and History; Instructor, Pasadena High School with Teach for America and Americorps, Pasadena, CA; September 1995 to June 1997.
  
  

Fellowships and Awards

• Winnemore Fellowship, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, Spring 2008
  
  
• Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities Graduate Travel Award, Spring 2007
  
  
• University of Maryland Graduate School Fellowship, academic year 2006-2007
  
  
• Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities Graduate Travel Award, Fall 2005
  
  
• Association for Computing in the Humanities Bursary Award, June 2005
  
  
• University of Maryland Graduate School Fellowship, academic year 2002-2003
  
  

Academic Service

• Executive member, Computer Studies in Language and Literature MLA Discussion Group, December 2005 to present.
  
  
• Technology Chair for the Graduate English Organization (GEO), Fall 2004 to Fall 2006.
  
  
• Graduate student representative for the English Department Graduate Program Committee, Spring 2005.
  
  
• Reviewer three conference proposals for the Joint Annual Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing 2005.
  
  
• Reviewer (in Spanish) for the Joint Annual Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing 2004.
  
  
• Assistant organizer for the Mid-Atlantic Regional American Conference for Irish Studies: Material Ireland / Virtual Ireland 2003 at the University of Maryland under Dr. Susan Schreibman.