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Caroline Szylowicz serves as Associate Professor and Kolb-Proust Librarian at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, holding dual appointments in the University Library and Department of French and Italian. Her unique position bridges library science and literary scholarship, focusing on preservation and digital access to rare materials with specialization in Marcel Proust's corpus.
Her research spans French Literature, Marcel Proust Studies, and Digital Humanities, with concentrated expertise in special collections management and digital archiving methodologies. Key interests include entity reconciliation in historical texts, user feedback systems for digital collections, and data mapping of literary manuscripts. The fingerprint analysis of her work reveals strong connections to Open Data frameworks and lessons learned in digital library implementation.
Recent publications demonstrate consistent scholarly output centered on Proust's visual and epistolary works, with increasing integration of digital humanities approaches since 2020. Media coverage highlights collaborative international digitization projects that transform access to primary sources while maintaining scholarly rigor in textual representation.
Szylowicz actively leads digitization initiatives including the Proust correspondence project with French partners and Deseret Alphabet text preservation, creating significant research infrastructure through cross-institutional partnerships that advance both literary scholarship and library science practices.
