July 6, 2023

The College of Arts & Sciences has announced the appointment of Dr. Maura Ives as Interim Director of the Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoDHR).

Dr. Ives has been an advocate for Digital Humanities (DH) at Texas A&M for nearly two decades. In 2009, she assembled and led the interdisciplinary team that identified DH as a “landmark research area” for Texas A&M and secured initial funding for the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture (IDHMC).

A specialist in Victorian literature, critical bibliography and textual scholarship, Dr. Ives is the author or editor of four books and numerous articles in her research fields and has received research fellowships from the Princeton University Library, the Bibliographical Society of America, and the Bibliographical Society of the United Kingdom. For the past seven years, she has served as the Department Head of English.

She will begin her new position in CoDHR on August 1, 2023.