Alison Byerly is Provost and Executive Vice President as well as Professor of English at Middlebury. She has taught at Middlebury since 1989, and has served in a variety of administrative positions at the College. She received her B.A. from Wellesley College, and her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.  She is the author of numerous articles, and two books, on Victorian literature, culture, and media.  Realism, Representation, and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Literature was published by Cambridge University Press in 1998.  Her book, Are We There Yet? Virtual Travel and Victorian Realism, is forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press.  She has spoken widely on the subject of the impact of technology on the humanities in venues including MIT’s Communications Forum and the Modern Language Association’s annual conference.  Professor Byerly continues to teach regularly as Provost, most recently a multimedia course entitled “Fictional Worlds.'"