Libraries Welcomes CLIR Post-Doctoral Fellow, Paul Broyles

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Paul A. Broyles as the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Medieval Studies, appointed to Digital Library Initiatives. The NCSU Libraries was awarded a two-year position in the CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This fellowship provides recent Ph.Ds. with professional development, education, and training opportunities in data curation for Medieval Studies.
For this program, the Middle Ages are defined roughly from the fall of Rome in the fifth century to the late fifteenth century, while the geographic focus is the British Isles, the landmass of contemporary Europe, and regions of the Middle East and sections of northeastern Africa. At NC State, Broyles’ work will draw upon his disciplinary expertise in order to help advance data curation practices and services, acting as a liaison among academic departments, faculty researchers, and the Libraries working on three NCSU-based projects: the Society for Early English and Norse Electronic Texts, the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive, and the Advanced Research Consortium. 
Broyles received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia (UVA) and the A.B. summa cum laude in English and American Literature and Language and Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University. His dissertation, Remapping Insularity: Geographic Imagination in Medieval English Romance, was the English Department Nominee for the CGS/Proquest Dissertation Award in the Humanities and Fine Arts, 2015. At UVA, he served as Visiting Lecturer and Postdoctoral Preceptor, as well as Research Assistant, Programmer, and Adjunct Editor for the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the Modern Language Association, and the Medieval Academy of America.