My name is Lisa Rhody. I have a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Maryland, and I am the Project Manager for WebWise 2013 at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) at George Mason University. My research interests include Modernism, ekphrastic poetry (poems that take the visual arts as their subject) by contemporary women poets, and computational text analysis--particularly using topic modeling. More broadly, I'm interested in the digital humanities, literature and ethics, 20th and 21st-century American literature, textual studies, women's studies, and teaching with technology.
My work has been supported by a MITH Winnemore Dissertation Fellowship and grants from the Department of English and the Center for Teaching Excellence. My experience in academic administration ranges from student affairs to project management to program coordination. My accomplishments include winning institutional grants to create online course curricular materials, awards for teaching excellence, and recognition for campus leadership. As editor for the Teaching and Learning News , I recruited, edited, and published articles about teaching with technology, improving pedagogy, and the University of Maryland's transition to a new General Education curriculum. I also edited the newly-revised edition of the Teaching Resource Guide 2011-2012 for faculty, graduate students, and lecturers. Previously, I was the Site Manager for Romantic Circles, a refereed, scholarly Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture.
