User:Jkmcgrath

Jim McGrath lives in Brookline, Massachusetts. He received a doctorate in English from Northeastern University in 2015, and his dissertation includes a chapter that discusses the relationship between Wikipedia, ideas of poetry in the twenty-first century, and John Ashbery.

Jim currently works as a postdoctoral fellow at Brown University's John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage. In 2017 he worked with Wiki Ed to sponsor a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar. Wikipedia is a frequent topic of discussion in courses, guest lectures, and consultations with students and faculty at Brown. He has also worked with community partners in Providence to consider the relationship between Wikipedia and local history.

Jim is interested in new media, digital preservation, American poetry, graphic novels, professional wrestling, and pizza.