Bryan E. Wagner

University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA) Literature in Context: An Open Anthology Project Director: John O'Brien Co-Project Director: Tonya Howe, Marymount University Co-Project Director: Christine Ruotolo, University of Virginia Outright: $72,542 To support: Development of a working prototype for an open-access, curated, and classroom-sourced digital anthology of British and American literature in English (1650-1800).

Why these funders chose to do this remains something of a mystery. To find precise explanations, we would need to have access to private conversations and communications, though it is remarkable that such an epoch-making shift can be so lacking in explicit justification.

Democracy demands wisdom and vision in its citizens. It must therefore foster and support a form of education, and access to the arts and the humanities, designed to make people of all backgrounds and wherever located masters of their technology and not its unthinking servants.

Democracy demands wisdom and vision in its citizens. It must therefore foster and support aform of education, and access to the arts and the humanities, designed to make people of all back-grounds and wherever located masters of their technology and not its unthinking servants.

a major report on cyberinfrastructure, "Our Cultural Commonwealth," underwritten by Mellon and published in 2006, was used by the NEH "as a blueprint" in forming its Office of Digital Humanities, says Brett Bobley, the director of that office.