About
Alison Booth was Faculty Director of the Library’s DH Center at the University of Virginia 2023-2025, and Academic Director of Scholars’ Lab 2016-2023.
A UVA Professor of English, her books include Homes and Haunts: Touring Writers’ Shrines and Countries (Oxford UP, 2016), How to Make It as a Woman: Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present (2004), and Greatness Engendered: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf (1992), as well as an edition of Wuthering Heights for Longman. Her digital project, Collective Biographies of Women, is supported by ACLS, NEH, and UVA’s English Department, as well as the Scholars’ Lab and the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. Collaborators include Rennie Mapp, Worthy Martin, Daniel Pitti, and Jeremy Boggs.
Research Posts & Lab Updates for Alison
- A Limited Comparison of Louisa May Alcott and Harriet Tubman on 08/05/2024
- A World War I Gallery of Women, or, a 1919 Project on 06/20/2024
- Harlem in Lynchburg: Stories about Space in a Summer Internship and the Jim Crow South on 08/06/2019
- CFP: PMLA Special Issue, Varieties of Digital Humanities on 08/24/2017
- Walt Whitman's Jack Engle and Lola Montez: New from Collective Biographies of Women on 08/15/2017
- What has Scholars' Lab been up to? Or, a community of practice, communicating. on 07/03/2016
- What's the Scholars' Lab? on 07/01/2016