ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the interview of John Unsworth & Charlotte Tupman. It talks about collaborative research. The infrastructure for supporting large interdisciplinary collaborative research activities is recognised as a subject of research in its own right. The long-term significance of this arrangement is considerable: it has created a structure of affiliation. Harold Short has done a remarkable thing by taking what was essentially a support unit and turning it into an academic department. The experience at Virginia and the experience at King's are actually quite different. Virginia hasn't coalesced in the same way it has at King's. Publishing for academic audiences is done in two fundamentally different ways in this part of the world: commercial publishing and non-profit publishing. In digital humanities, John thinks he deserves a great deal of credit for building the field. It is appropriate that a lot of the questions in this interview have been about institution-building, because that is what Harold does.
