Lisa M. Rhody is a research assistant professor at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) at George Mason University in Fairfax Virginia. She is co-editor of the Journal of Digital Humanities and project manager for the Institute of Museum and Library Services's signature conference WebWise--for gallery, library, archive, and museum professionals interested in developing digitally-inflected projects at their institutions. She regularly contributes to the PressForward Initiative as a consultant for Digital Humanities Now. Her research interests include the tradition of ekphrasis (poetry to, for, and about the visual arts), women's literature, topic modeling, digital humanities, and scholarly communication.