How do we envision and deliver exceptional teaching and research services for academic libraries while ensuring that patrons discover, access and use library collections easily and effectively? This question provides a through line for Carol’s work in academic libraries. With demonstrated success in leading strategic digital transformation initiatives, Carol leverages cutting edge technology and crucial library expertise to make collections more discoverable and available at scale. Her management is defined by a commitment to professional practices and innovative services to meet the changing needs of students, faculty and staff. Her high level training in the humanities and computational methods as well as her background in publishing provide her with a unique understanding of the transformative role and responsibilities of research libraries in today’s rapidly evolving information landscape.
She is currently the Director of Distinctive Collections and Digital Scholarship at The Claremont Colleges Library. In this role, she has connected the departments within her portfolio to augment and enhance user-focused services and ensure sustainability. These units include The Asian Library and Special Collections and Archives, Digital Initiatives and Open Publishing, and Data and Digital Scholarship Services. As a member of the Library Leadership Team, she plays a key role in budget and strategic planning in support of the seven colleges that comprise The Claremont Colleges Consortium (Pomona College, Scripps College, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont McKenna College, Pitzer College, Keck Graduate Institute, and Claremont Graduate University).
Before joining the Claremont Colleges, she was the Librarian for Collections and Digital Scholarship in the Americas, Europe and Oceania Division at Harvard University Library, overseeing and developing the general and distinctive Western European collections, among the most storied and largest library collections in the world which includes Harvard’s Pamphlet collections, the Germanic collections, and the French and Italian collections. Her service included chairing the Stewardship Standing Committee for Harvard University Library and the Digital Scholarship Group for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Carol has deep understanding of the transformative change that technology brings to academic scholarship and its potential to amplify the reach and broaden engagement with library collections. To this end, she has been involved in numerous local, national and international digital initiatives, including France in the Americas, Boston DH, Collections as Data: Part to Whole, and the European Summer University in Digital Humanities. She was a major contributor to this last initiative, leading an international advisory group charged with the Summer University’s transfer in 2022 from the University of Leipzig to Babeş-Bolyai University and then, in 2024, to its current home at Marie and Louis Pasteur University. In addition, she has taught courses and workshops on approaches to the description, digitization, discovery, and delivery of cultural heritage at a number of universities in the U.S. and abroad, including Yale, Princeton, University of Leipzig (Germany), NYU Abu Dhabi (UAE), Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland), Université Marie et Louis Pasteur (Besançon, France), Babeş-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania) and Meiji Gakuin University (Tokyo, Japan).
Currently, she chairs the Student Engagement Committee for the Board of Yale Graduate School Alumni Association where she was responsible for coordinating the organization’s signature event, “Where Do I Go From Yale?” She serves on the external advisory board of the Research Center for the Humanities at Aston University in Birmingham, UK and was an active advisory board member of The Harvard Library Bulletin from 2020 to 2023. In 2024, she joined the advisory board of the new open access journal, Computational Humanities Research published by Cambridge University Press. She also served for over a decade as a member of the Scientific Committee for the European Summer University in Digital Humanities where she held a range of responsibilities, from curricular evaluation to bursary selection. Most recently, she is a contributor to the Ethical Stewardship Planning Group convened by the Getty Research Institute.
Carol also has an active research agenda situated at the crossroads of Global Medieval and Early Modern Studies, History of the Book, and Translation Studies. Her research attends to the history of a text’s travels, translations, and travails, with a secondary focus on the textual representations of libraries and collections. Her postdoctoral research, conducted at the Digital Humanities Lab at Yale University Library, used large language models and social network analysis to identify and analyze 19th century reading communities focused on Dante’s Divine Comedy.
A former faculty member at Princeton and Yale in the departments of French and Italian and Italian Studies respectively, she organized the Dante Society of America’s virtual symposium at Harvard in May 2021, bringing together scholars, poets, and readers from across the globe for the 700th Anniversary Commemoration. She has published widely on Dante Alighieri’s reception among women readers in North America and edited the book, Dante’s Volume: From Alpha to Omega, published by ACMRS Press. Her next book, nearing completion, is on the cross-border and cross- linguistic fortunes of Dante, Boccaccio and Petrarch among readers in North America. She also has a manuscript in preparation on collaborative modes of vernacular literary production in Italy and England against the backdrop of 16th century religious reform in Europe.
She received her B.A. in International Studies magna cum laude from Fairfield University and a M.A. and M.Phil., in addition to her Ph.D., in Italian Language and Literature from Yale University.
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