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 an English professor. She was previously the executive director of the Digital Library Federation and a Council on Library and Information Resources 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, 19th 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.

Media contact: Chad Saylor, saylorcx@jmu.edu