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The Library is pleased to announce the appointment of Clare Kirkpatrick Jones as Assistant Editor of Brown University Digital Publications (BUDP). Reporting to Director Allison Levy, Clare’s first day will be July 10, 2023.

Clare joins an innovative and exciting program expanding the frontiers of scholarly publishing. A collaboration between the University Library and the Dean of the Faculty, launched with generous support from the Mellon Foundation with additional support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, BUDP creates new possibilities for the production and sharing of knowledge for both scholarly audiences and the wider public. Landmark publications include Furnace and Fugue: A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s Atalanta fugiens (1618) with Scholarly Commentary (University of Virginia Press, 2020), recipient of the 2022 Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History awarded by the American Historical Association; Shadow Plays: Virtual Realities in an Analog World (Stanford University Press, 2022), recipient of the 2023 PROSE Award in the category of eProduct awarded by the Association of American Publishers; and A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures (MIT Press, 2022). Thirteen other works are currently in development and represent a broad disciplinary range. BUDP also partners with the MIT Press on a new multimodal book series, On Seeing, committed to centering under-examined questions at the intersection of visual culture and social justice.

As Assistant Editor, Clare will work as part of a multi-skilled team of experts to develop complex born-digital scholarship intended for publication with leading academic presses. She will play a key role in supporting humanities scholars in the creation of new scholarly forms that present research and advance arguments in ways not achievable in a conventional print format, whether through multimedia enhancements or interactive engagement with research materials. Clare will help administer national training workshops such as Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing: Resources and Roadmaps, an NEH Institute on Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, and will work in close collaboration with the director to support new initiatives and partnerships.

“I am very excited to join the BUDP team,” shared Clare. “I look forward to contributing to this collaborative, creative endeavor that is setting the standards for the future of scholarship in the digital age and developing accessible, intentional, and inclusive scholarship.” Clare brings a decade of publishing experience to Brown. In her current role as an Associate Editor at Cornell University Press, she leads the management of the literary studies list as well as the award-winning Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment. Clare is the recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Program, Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is a graduate of Carleton College, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and the University of Iowa Center for the Book. Clare received the Keats-Shelley Prize for her essay “Bat, Bat, Come Under My Hat.” She holds the degree of Master of Philosophy in Eighteenth Century and Romantic Studies from Queens’ College, Cambridge.