Staff Directory
College of Arts and HumanitiesI am the Lead Humanities and Co-Lead Open Education Librarian. I am also the Subject Librarian for Africana Studies, Art, English, Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies, Modern Languages, Texts & Technology, and Writing & Rhetoric. I provide research assistance, instruction, and collection development in these subject areas.
John is the primary librarian for these colleges/programs:
and the secondary librarian for these programs:
Mauer, Barry and John Venecek. Strategies for Conducting Literary Research. An Open Access research skills course made freely available on the Pressbooks platform with a revised edition published every year. Originally published in 2022.
Co-editor with Christian Beck of Saying the Unsayable: Essays and Meditations on the Ineffability of Aesthetic Experiences. Forthcoming from Springer Nature (2026).
Mauer, Barry and John Venecek. “Making the Repulsive Monument” in Making Sense of Digital Humanities (2022).
Beck, Christian, John Venecek, Sarah Norris, and Lily Dubach. “Humanities in the Open.” Open Pedagogy: Varied Definitions, Multiple Approaches. Milne Publishing (June 2020).
Mauer, Barry and John Venecek. “Teaching the Repulsive Monument.” Producing Public Memory: Museums, Memorials, and Archives as Sites for Teaching Writing. Routledge Press (June 2015).
Venecek, John. “The Database as a Distressed Genre.” Genuine Copies: The Paradox of Authenticity in a Globalized World. Palgrave Macmillan (April 2014).
Venecek, John. “Your Experiment this Week: The Epic Tale of Mystery Science Theater and the Moral Imagination (in Color).” Reading Mystery Science Theater 3000: Critical Approaches. Scarecrow Press (June 2013).
Venecek, John and Katheryn Giglio. “Shakespeare Is Not a One-Shot Deal.” In Teaching Information Literacy Online. Ed. Thomas P. Mackey. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc. (January 2011).
Off the Rails: Remembering Peace Corps Russia. Completed fall 2020. Seeking publication.
Mauer, Barry and John Venecek. “Making the Repulsive Monument.” Textshop Experiments (fall 2016).
Venecek, John and Linda Colding. “There’s Going to be an Evolution: The Subject Librarian Initiative in Review” The Reference Librarian (February 2015).
Venecek, John & Kathleen Bell. “Successful Alliances.” Faculty Focus 12.1 (March 2013).
Venecek, John. “Exhibiting Kerouac in Florida: on the Road to Partnership.” Florida Library Review (fall 2012).
Venecek, John. “Processing Racism: African American Memorabilia and the Threat of Infinity.” The Journal of History & Culture 1.4 (summer 2011).
Giglio, Katheryn and John Venecek. “The Radical History of Everything: Exploring Shakespearean Identity with Web 2.0.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 3.3 (2009).