Alison Booth, Professor of English and Academic Director, Scholars’ Lab at UVA, specializes in feminist cultural studies, nineteenth-century British and American literature, and digital humanities. Her research on biographies and typologies of women has included Jewish writers, performers, and literary characters, and she has advised dissertations related to religion and literature. She directs Collective Biographies of Women, a database project emerging from her book How to Make It as a Woman (UChicago Press, 2004). Booth’s other books include Greatness Engendered: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf and most recently, Homes and Haunts: Touring Writers’ Shrines and Countries. Booth, a member of Congregation Beth Israel in Charlottesville, co-directs the Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities, open to any graduate student at the University.