The Brown University Library is pleased to announce the appointment of Brian Croxall to the post of Digital Humanities Librarian.

Brian comes to Brown from Emory University where he was a Digital Humanities Strategist and Lecturer of English. He completed his PhD in English literature in 2008 at Emory and taught subsequently at Emory and Clemson University.

His research focuses on digital humanities, media studies, and American literature. Brian has published in American Imago, Writing & Pedagogy, and Neo-Victorian Studies, among others. He is co-editing a book on steampunk; is a cluster editor at #alt-academy; serves on the Executive Councils of the Modern Language Association and the Association for Computers and the Humanities; and is a writer for the group blog ProfHacker.