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Curriculum Vitae
MATTHEW G. KIRSCHENBAUM
Associate Professor
Department of English
University of Maryland, College Park
I have read the following and certify that this curriculum vitae is a current and accurate
statement of my professional record.
Signature: Date: August 4, 2015
1. Personal Information
Education
Ph.D., English, University of Virginia, August 1999.
M.A., English, University of Virginia, 1994.
B.A., English and History, State University of New York at Albany, summa cum
laude and Phi Beta Kappa, 1992.
Employment
Associate Professor of English, University of Maryland, College Park, 2007 to
present. Tenured 2007. Affiliate faculty status with American Studies (2001-), Art
History (2002-), Human-Computer Interaction Lab (2007-), College of Information
Studies (2012-).
Assistant Professor of English, University of Maryland, College Park, 2001-2007.
Assistant Professor of English, University of Kentucky, 1999-2001.
2. Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activities
a. Books.
i. Books authored.
Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination. Cambridge: MIT
Press, 2008. 296 pages. Reviews in Contemporary Literature, Leonardo,
Kirschenbaum/CV 2
GrandTextAuto, ebr, Digital Humanities Quarterly, Choice, more.
Paperback printing 2012.
Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing. Under contract to
Harvard University Press, manuscript submission May, 2015.
ii. Books edited.
Zones of Control: Perspectives on Wargaming. Ed. with Pat Harrigan.
Forthcoming, MIT Press, 2016. Approx. 300,000 words, 68 contributors.
iii. Chapters in books.
“Hypertext.” Unspun: Key Concepts for Understanding the World Wide Web.
Ed. Thomas Swiss. New York: New York University Press, 2000. 120-37.
“The Word as Image in an Age of Digital Reproduction.” Eloquent Images:
Word and Image in the Age of New Media. Eds. Mary E. Hocks and
Michelle R. Kendricks. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003: 137-156.
“Virtuality and VRML: Software Studies After Manovich.” The Politics of
Information: The Electronic Mediation of Social Change, Eds. Mark
Bousquet and Katherine Wills. Alt-X Press eBook, 2004. Available online:
http://www.altx.com/ebooks/infopol.html.
“From Monograph to Multigraph: Next Generation Electronic Theses and
Dissertations.” The ETD Sourcebook. Ed. Edward Fox, et al. New York:
Marcel Dekker, 2004. 19-32.
“‘So the Colors Cover the Wires’: Interface, Aesthetics, and Usability.” A
Companion to Digital Humanities. Eds. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens,
and John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. 523-42.
“Teaching the Technologies of Literature,” Teaching Bibliography, Textual
Criticism, and Book History. Ed. Ann Hawkins. London: Pickering and
Chatto, 2006. 155-60.
“War Stories: Board Wargames and (Vast) Procedural Narratives,” Third
Person. Eds. Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin. Cambridge: MIT Press,
2009: 357-71.
“Urban Renewal: Some Lessons for Hypercities from the Preserving Virtual
Worlds Project. Online Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to
Come. Ed. Jerome McGann. Houston: Rice UP, 2010. Approx. 2500 words.
“Poetry, Patterns, and Provocation.” Reading Graphs, Maps, Trees: Critical
Responses to Franco Moretti. Eds. Jonathan Goodwin and John Holbo.
Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, 2011. 31-41.
“What is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments?”
Debates in the Digital Humanities. Ed. Matthew K. Gold. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 2012: 3-11. Originally published in
Association of Departments of English Bulletin 150 (2010): 55-61.
Reprinted in Defining Digital Humanities: A Reader, eds. Melissa Terras,
Julianne Nyhan and Edward Vanhoutte (Ashgate, 2013).
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“Digital Humanities As/Is a Tactical Term.” Debates in the Digital
Humanities. Ed. Matthew K. Gold. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 2012: 415-28.
“Tracking the Changes: Textual Scholarship and the Challenge of the Born-
Digital.” With Doug Reside. The Cambridge Companion to Textual
Scholarship, eds. Neil Fraistat and Julia Flanders. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2013. 257-73.
“Contests for Meaning: Playing King Philip’s War in the 21st Century.”
PastPlay: Teaching and Learning History with Technology, ed. Kevin Kee,
University of Michigan Press, 2014: 198-213. Approx. 6000 words.
“Distant Mirrors and the LAMP,” Between Humanities and the Digital, eds.
David Theo Goldberg and Patrik Svensson. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2015:
375-81. Approx. 3200 words.
“Ancient Evenings: Retrocomputing in the Digital Humanities.”
Forthcoming in A Companion to Digital Humanities, second edition, eds.
Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell
Publishing, 2015. Approx. 6000 words.
“Kriegsspiel.” Forthcoming in Debugging Game History, eds. Raiford
Guins and Henry Lowood. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2015. Approx. 3000
words.
b. Articles in Refereed Journals.
“‘Through Light and the Alphabet’: An Interview with Johanna Drucker.”
Postmodern Culture 7.3 (May 1997). Available online:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/v007/7.3kirschenbaum/index.h
tml. Reprinted in Johanna Drucker, Figuring the Word: Essays on Books,
Writing, and Visual Poetics. New York: Granary Books, 1998. 9-52. Reprinted
in Johanna Drucker, Druckworks, 1972-2012: 40 Years of Books and Projects.
Chicago: Epicenter, 2012. 86-107.
“Lucid Mapping: Information Landscaping and Three-Dimensional Writing
Spaces.” Leonardo 32.4 (August 1999): 261-8.
“Standards, Methods, and Objectives in the William Blake Archive.” With
Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi. The Wordsworth Circle
30.3 (Summer 1999): 135-144.
Guest Editor and Introduction, Computers and the Humanities 36.1 (2002): 3-6.
“Editing the Interface: Textual Studies and First Generation Electronic
Objects.” TEXT: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies 14 (2002): 15-
51.
“Extreme Inscription: The Grammatology of the Hard Drive.” Text Technology
13.2 (2004): 91-125.
“No Round Trip: Two New Primary Sources for Agrippa,” published on The
Agrippa Files (http://agrippa.english.ucsb.edu) on December 9th, 2008. [While
neither a “journal” nor “refereed” in the traditional sense, this is the
authoritative online resource for its topic, edited by the leading scholar in the
field. Therefore I am treating this as a peer-reviewed publication.]
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Editor and Introduction (approx. 750 words), “Done: Finishing Projects in the
Digital Humanities,” cluster of three articles, Digital Humanities Quarterly 3.2
(Spring 2009).
“Twisty Little Passages Almost All Alike: Applying the FRBR Model to a
Classic Computer Game.” With Jerome McDonough, et al. Digital Humanities
Quarterly (Fall 2010).
“The .txtual Condition: Digital Humanities, Born-Digital Archives, and the
Future Literary.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 7.1 (2013). Approx. 9500
words. Abridged and reprinted in Comparative Textual Media: Transforming
the Humanities in the Postprint Era, eds. N. Katherine Hayles and Jessica
Pressman (University of Minnesota Press, 2013): 53-70.
“What is ‘Digital Humanities,’ and Why Are They Saying Such Terrible Things
about It?” differences 25.1 (June 2014): 46-63.
“Digital Scholarship and Digital Studies: The State of the Discipline.” With
Sarah Werner. Book History 17 (November 2014): 406-458. Approx. 21,000
words.
“Operating Systems of the Mind: Bibliography after Word Processing (The
Example of Updike).” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 108.4
(December 2014): 380-412. Approx. 12,000 words.
c. Monographs, Reports, and Extension Publications.
“Beyond the Desktop.” White paper for NINCH Community Report (2001).
Available online: http://www.ninch.org/programs/report/kirschenbaum.html.
Co-author, “Institutional Models for Humanities Computing.” With Willard
McCarty. Literary and Linguistic Computing 18.4 (November 2003): 465-489.
Co-author, “Tools for Data-Driven Scholarship: Past, Present, and Future.” With
Dan Cohen, Neil Fraistat, and Tom Scheinfeldt. Commissioned report for the NSF,
NEH, and IMLS (January 2009). Approx. 5000 words.
Lead author, “Approaches to Managing and Collecting Born-Digital Literary
Resources for Scholarly Use.” With Erika Farr, Kari Kraus, Naomi Nelson,
Catherine Stollar Peters, Gabriela Redwine, and Doug Reside. White paper for
NEH Office of Digital Humanities (May 2009). Approx. 12,000 words.
Contributing author, The Preserving Virtual Worlds Project: Final Report. With
Jerome McDonough, et al. Library of Congress (September 2010). Approx. 60,000
words. Available from the Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and
Scholarship.
Lead author, Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage
Collections. With Richard Ovenden and Gabriela Redwine. Council on Library and
Information Resources (December 2010). Approx. 30,000 words. Recognized with
a “special commendation” from the Society of American Archivists’ Preservation
Publication Award committee (August 2011).
“An Executable Past: The Case for a National Software Registry.” In
Preserving.exe: Toward a National Strategy for Preserving Software. Library of
Congress (2013). Approx. 6000 words.
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“From Bitstreams to Heritage: Putting Digital Forensics Into Practice in Collecting
Institutions.” With Cal Lee, Kam Woods, and Alexandra Chassanoff. The
BitCurator Project (November, 2013). Approx. 16,500 words.
d. Book Reviews, Other Articles, and Notes.
“The Cult of Print.” Review of Sven Birkerts’s The Gutenberg Elegies. Postmodern
Culture 6.1 (September 1995). Available online:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/v006/6.1r_kirschenbaum.html.
“Designing Our Disciplines in a Postmodern Age—and Academy.” Review of
Richard Coyne’s Designing Information Technologies in a Postmodern Age.
electronic book review 2 (Spring 1996). Republished in the American Book Review
17.6 (August-September 1996). Available online:
http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr2/r2kirsch.htm.
“Once Upon a Time in ENWR: The World-Wide Web as a Publication Medium for
Student Essays.” Teaching Concerns (Fall 1996). (Newsletter for the Teaching
Resource Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville.)
“Teaching ‘Literary Narrative in an Information Age.’” Kairos 2.2 (October 1997).
Available online:
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.2/response/kirschenbaum/wrapper.html.
“Machine Visions: Towards a Poetics of Artificial Intelligence.” With graphic
design by Michael Worthington. ebr 6 (November 1997). Available online:
http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr6/6kirschenbaum/6kirsch.htm.
“Managing the Blake Archive.” Invited column. Romantic Circles (March 1998).
Available online: http://www.rc.umd.edu/dispatches/column7/.
“Intellectual Property Online: The Case of Student Writing.” Kairos 3.1 (May
1998). Available online: http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/3.1/coverweb/mk.html.
“Documenting Digital Images: Textual Meta-Data at the Blake Archive.” The
Electronic Library 16.4 (August 1998): 239-41.
“Media, Genealogy, History.: Commissioned review of Jay David Bolter and
Richard Grusin’s Remediation: Understanding New Media. ebr 9 (Summer 1999).
Available online: http://www.altx.com/ebr/reviews/rev9/r9kir.htm.
“The Persistence of Vision: Images and Imaging at the William Blake Archive.”
Research Libraries Group DigiNews 4.1 (February 2000). With Morris Eaves,
Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi. Available online:
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews4-1.html#feature1.
“Unediting Dickinson.” Commissioned review of Marta Werner, Emily Dickinson's
Open Folios: Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writing. Resources for American
Literary Study 26.1 (2000): 122-4.
“Materiality and Matter and Stuff: What Electronic Texts Are Made Of.” ebr 12
(2002). Available online http://www.altx.com/ebr/riposte/rip12/rip12kir.htm.
“Archive.” Performance Research 7.1, special issue “On Editing” (March 2002): 6.
“A Little Closer to the Moon.” Commissioned review of Jerome McGann, Radiant
Textuality: Literature After the World Wide Web. Performance Research 7.1,
special issue “On Editing” (March 2002): 130-4.
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“A User's Guide to the New Millennium.” Commissioned review of Noah Wardrip-
Fruin and Nick Montfort, eds. The New Media Reader. American Book Review 24.3
(March/April 2003): 1, 6.
Review of John Bryant, The Fluid Text: A Theory of Revisioning and Editing for
Book and Screen; Loss Pequeño Glazier, Digital Poetics: The Making of E-
Poetries; N. Katherine Hayles, Writing Machines; Joseph Tabbi, Cognitive Fictions,
American Literature 77.4 (December 2005): 869-72.
“Hamlet.doc: Literature in the Digital Age.” The Chronicle of Higher Education
(August 17, 2007): B8-9 (cover story).
“How Reading is Being Reimagined.” The Chronicle of Higher Education
(December 7, 2007): B20. Reprinted in The Australian. Reprinted in Perspectives
on Argument, ed. Nancy V. Wood. 6th edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice
Hall, 2009. 572-4.
“Matthew G. Kirschenbaum,” interviewed by Michael Dieter, Neural 31 (Fall
2008): 7-10.
“Hello Worlds: Why Humanities Students Should Learn to Program.” The
Chronicle of Higher Education (January 23, 2009): B10-12.
“Proximate Knowledge, Online and Print.” Invited contribution to New York Times
Room for Debate forum, “Do School Libraries Need Books?” Feb. 10, 2010.
Approx. 325 words. http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/do-
school-libraries-need-books/.
“Vector Futures: Reimag(in)ing the Digital Humanities” Poetess Archive Journal,
special issue on Visualizing the Archive, ed. Larua Mandell. 2.1 (2010). Approx.
2600 words. http://paj.muohio.edu/paj/index.php/paj/index.
“Reading as Event.” In I Read Where I Am, eds. Mieke Gerritzen, Geert Lovink,
and Minke Kampman. Amsterdam: Graphic Design Museum, 2011. 91.
“BitCurator: Tools and Techniques for Digital Forensics in Collecting Institutions.”
With Cal Lee, et al. D-Lib Magazine 18.5/6 (May/June 2012). Approx. 3000 words.
“Choreographing the Dance of the Vampires: Red Storm Rising’s Game Plots.” In
Rough Cuts: Media and Design in Process, ed. Kari M. Kraus. MediaCommons
(August 2012). Approx. 1700 words.
“Electronic Poetry.” Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 4th edition.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. 394-6. Approx. 1500 words.
“‘A Life Lived as Information’: Data Mining the Future in Simulant Portrait.” In
Johanna Drucker, Druckworks, 1972-2012: 40 Years of Books and Projects.
Chicago: Epicenter, 2012. 76-7.
“The Book-Writing Machine.” Slate, March 1, 2013. Approx. 1500 words.
“Blogging” and “Twitter at Conferences.” In Hacking the Academy, eds. Daniel J.
Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013. 28,
139. Approx. 250 words apiece.
“History.exe.” Slate, July 30, 2013. Approx. 2000 words.
“The 10 Most Influential Software Programs Ever.” Slate, July 30, 2013. Appox.
900 words.
Kirschenbaum/CV 7
“What’s a Nice English Professor Like You Doing in a Place Like This?”
Interviewed by Trevor Owens, The Signal, Library of Congress (August 12, 2013).
Approx. 3000 words.
“Digital Preservation,” Johns Hopkins Encyclopedia of Digital Media, Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2014. Approx. 1500 words.
“What Is an @uthor?” Los Angeles Review of Books (February 6, 2015). Approx.
2800 words.
“.Txtual Forensics: For David Greetham,” Textual Cultures (forthcoming 2016).
e. Talks, Abstracts, and Other Professional Papers Presented.
i. Invited talks
Invited Lecture, “Escaping Flatland: Computer Modeling for Humanists.”
Sponsored by the Humanities Computing Group, the Academic Computing Facility,
and NEACH. New York University (April 1998).
Invited Lecture, “Small World, Wide Web: Building Bridges from Humanities
Computing to Digital Cultural Studies.” Computing in the Humanities Users Group
and Scholarly Technology Group, Brown University (October 1999).
Invited Lecture and Colloquium, “Understanding Information.” Department of
English and Transcriptions Project, University of California, Santa Barbara
(February 2000).
Invited Lecture, “Graphics, Visualization, and the Aesthetics of Display.”
Distinguished Speakers Series, Maryland Institute for Technology in the
Humanities. Also roundtable participant, “Visual Culture on the Web.” University
of Maryland (March 2000).
"Small World, Wide Web: The Charlottesville Remix.” For Is Humanities
Computing an Academic Discipline? University of Virginia (March 2000).
Invited Lecture, “‘If You Read Books, Justify It’: Literary Studies in a Wired
World.” Berea College (April 2000). Also presented for the Department of English
Faculty Seminar Series, University of Kentucky (February 2000).
Invited Lecture, “Which Content for the Digital Library?” 3rd International
Conference on Digital Libraries, sponsored by the Bibliothèque nationale de France
and the New York Public Library. Paris, France (June 2000).
Invited Lecture, “The Virtual Lightbox.” Building Blocks Workshop, National
Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage, Washington, D.C. (September 2000).
“Literary Studies in a Wired World.” Three-part colloquium for the Department of
English, University of Rochester (Fall 2000-Spring 2001).
Invited speaker, “New Directions for Digital Textuality.” Plenary session, Eleventh
International Interdisciplinary Conference of the Society for Textual Scholarship,
New York, NY (April 2001).
Invited Speaker, Digital Humanities Curriculum Seminar, University of Virginia
(March 2002).
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Invited Lecture, “The Light Fantastic: Visual Information Systems for the Arts and
the Humanities.” Colloquium on Visualization in the Humanities. Centre for
Computing in the Humanities, King's College London (March 2002).
Invited Speaker, “Opposable Thumbs: Tool Use in the Humanities.” IATH 10th
Anniversary Symposium, University of Virginia (September 2003).
Invited Lecture, “Extreme Inscription: New Media, Magnetic Media, and the Limits
of Writing.” Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies, Library of Congress
(March 2004).
Invited Lecture, “Hacking ‘Agrippa’: The Secret History of an Electronic Poem.”
Department of English, George Mason University (April 2004).
Invited Lecture, “Hacking ‘Agrippa’: The Secret History of an Electronic Poem.”
Department of English, University of Minnesota (April 2004).
Invited Lecture, “CTRL-D, CTRL-Z: Electronic Literature Lost and Found.”
Department of English, Miami University, Ohio (October 2004).
Invited Lecture, “‘Every Contact Leaves a Trace’: Computer Forensics and
Electronic Textuality.” History of Material Texts, University of Pennsylvania (April
2005).
Invited Lecture, “‘An Old House with Many Rooms’: The Textual Forensics of
Mystery_House.dsk,” School of Information, University of Texas at Austin
(February 2006).
Invited Lecture, “TechnoBibliography: The Challenges of Born-Digital Literature.”
Symposium on The Past, Present, and Future of Digital and Textual Studies, Texas
A&M University (October 2006).
Invited Lecture, “Formal Materiality: Notes on Mediacy and Computation.”
Symposium on The Mediacy of New Media, Dartmouth College (October 2006).
Keynote Lecture, “The Remaking of Reading.” 2nd Annual Chicago Colloquium on
Digital Humanities and Computer Science (October 2007). Also presented as an
invited lecture at the University of South Carolina (October 2007), Northern
Virginia Community College (November 2007), Duke University (November
2007), Catholic University of America (March 2008), and University of Maryland
Baltimore County (April 2008).
Invited Panelist, “Fables and Formulas: The Sciences and the Arts and Humanities
Look at Each Other.” Worldwise: The Arts and Humanities in the 21st Century,
College of Arts and Humanities, University of Maryland (November 2007).
Invited Lecture, “What is an Electronic Book?” History of Material Texts series,
University of Pennsylvania (January 2008).
Invited Lecture, “Shakespeare’s Hard Drive.” Symposium on New Covenants in
Special Collections, Manuscript and Rare Books Library, Emory University
(January 2008).
Keynote Speaker, Text and Techne: Technology, Literature, and Culture.
University of Maryland Graduate English Organization conference (March 2008).
Invited Lecture, “Symptoms of the Digital Text.” The Way We Read Now:
Symptomatic Reading and its Aftermath. NYU and Columbia University (May
2008).
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Invited Speaker, “Preservation as Software Studies.” Softwhere Studies Workshop.
UC San Diego (May 2008).
Invited Seminar Speaker, “New Media Literacies: Gutenberg to Google,” Rutgers
Center for Cultural Analysis (October 2008).
Plenary Speaker, “New Textualties,” Biannual Thomas R. Watson Conference,
University of Louisville (October 2008).
Invited Panelist, 7th Flair Symposium on Creating a Usable Past: Writers, Archives,
and Institutions. Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at
Austin (November 2008).
Plenary Speaker, “Stephen King’s Wang,” Society for Textual Scholarship (March
2009).
Invited Lecture, “Approaches to Managing and Collecting Born-Digital Literary
Papers for Scholarly Use,” Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale
University (April 2009).
Keynote, “Digital Preservation and/as Digital Humanities,” 4th Annual Nebraska
Digital Workshop (October 2009).
Keynote, “Our Born-Digital Literary Heritage.” History of Reading/Reading
Processes, Columbia University (October 2009).
Svaglic Lecture, “What is Digital Humanities, and Why Are They Saying Such
Terrible Things About It?” Loyola University, Chicago (April 2010).
Invited Lecture, “Digital Humanities Now,” University of Rochester (April 2010).
Invited Lecture, “Librarians as Enemies of Bits,” 21st Century Digital Curatorship
Lecture, British Library (July 2010).
Invited Plenary, “Computer Forensics and Cultural Heritage,” NDIIPP Partners
Meeting, Washington DC , July 2010).
Invited Plenary, “The .txtual Condition,” Why Books? Radcliffe Institute, Harvard
University (October 2010).
The Breslauer Lecture, “Born-Digital Humanities: Toward a Research Agenda,”
UCLA (April 2011).
Invited Talk, “Digital Humanities as/is a Tactical Term,” The Digital and the
Human(ities), Texas Institute for Literary and Textual Studies” (May 2011).
Keynote, “Digital Humanities Archive Fever,” Digital Humanities Summer
Institute, University of Victoria (June 2011).
Invited plenary panel, “The Future of the History of the Book,” SHARP 2011
(Washington DC, July 2011).
Invited lecture, “Stephen King’s Wang: The Literary History of Word Processing,”
New York Public Library (December 2011).
Invited lecture, “Track Changes: The Literary History of Word Processing,”
University of Toronto and University of Western Ontario (March 2012).
Invited lecture, “Stephen King’s Wang: The Literary History of Computing,”
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington (March 2012).
Plenary, “Bit by Bit: Born-Digital Humanities and Special Collections,” 53rd
Annual Preconference of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the
Association of College and Research Libraries, San Diego (June 2012).
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Invited lecture, “How is Technology Changing Literature and Writing?” University
of Colorado at Boulder (October 2012).
Invited lecture, “Track Changes: The Literary History of Word Processing,”
University of Gent (October 2012).
Invited lecture, “Bit by Bit: Teaching Electronic Book History,” Teaching the
History of the Book conference, Folger Shakespeare Library (December 2012).
Invited talk, “Distant Mirrors and the LAMP,” Presidential Forum, Modern
Language Association (January 2013).
Invited seminar, “8-Bit DH: Locating the Literary History of Word Processing,”
New York University (March 2013).
Invited lecture, “Plucking Fluxes: The Archaeography of Floppy Media,” New
York University (March 2013).
Invited lecture, “Plucking Fluxes: Doing Media Archaeology in the Present,”
Concordia University (March 2013).
Invited lecture, “Track Changes: The Literary History of Word Processing,” McGill
University (March 2013).
Invited speaker, “Electronic Literature as Cultural Heritage,” Electronic Literature
Showcase, Library of Congress (April 2013).
Plenary speaker, “Bit by Bit” (Dis)Realities and the Literary and Cultural
Imagination, University of Maryland (April 2013).
Invited seminar, “Track Changes: The Literary History of Word Processing,” Yale
History of the Book seminar (April 2013).
Invited speaker, “The Afterlives of AGRIPPA,” Beyond the Text: Literary Archives
in the 21st Century, Beinecke Library (April 2013).
Invited speaker, “Born Digital: Conservation in the Computer Age,” The New
Museum, Manhattan (September 2013).
Invited lecture, “Track Changes: The Literary History of Word Processing,” CUNY
Graduate Center (October 2013).
Invited lecture, “Track Changes: The Literary History of Word Processing,”
Harvard University (October 2013).
Annual address, “Operating Systems of the Mind,” Bibliographical Society of
America, New York (January 2014).
Invited lecture, “Track Changes: The Literary History of Word Processing,”
Georgetown University (February 2014).
Invited lecture, “Track Changes: Locating the Literary History of Word
Processing,” York College (March 2014). Also presented via remote technology at
the University of North Dakota (April 2014).
The Mann Lecture in Book Arts, “INVALID.KEYSTROKE: Recovering a Literary
History of Word Processing,” Pennsylvania State University (March 2014).
Invited lecture, “INVALID.KEYSTROKE: John Updike and the Bibliography of
Word Processing,” Rare Book School, University of Virginia (June 2014).
Opening plenary, “Software, It’s a Thing,” Digital Preservation 2014, Library of
Congress (July 2014).
Invited lecture, “Track Changes: The Literary History of Word Processing,”
Washington University St. Louis (October 2014).
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Invited lecture, “Sand Tables: A Genealogy of Speculative Surfaces,” Center for
21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (April 2015).
Plenary speaker, Digital Literary Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal (May
2015).
Keynote speaker, Digital Materialities, National University of Ireland, Galway,
Ireland (May 2015).
Upcoming, Plenary speaker, Archival Education and Research Institute, College
Park, MD (July 2015).
ii. Refereed papers
“Poesis Ex Machina,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature and Science,
Atlanta, GA. (October 1996).
“Working the Web: Lessons in Practical Networking,” Attending to Technology:
New Directions for Humanities Teaching and Research, University of Maryland
(November 1996).
“Electronic Publishing and Doctoral Dissertations in the Humanities,” Annual
Convention of the Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C. (December
1996).
“The Poetics of Artificial Intelligence,” Annual Convention of the Modern
Language Association, Washington D.C. (December 1996).
“Electronic Theses and Dissertations in the Humanities,” (with Edward A. Fox,
Virginia Tech). Joint Annual Conference of the Association for Computers and the
Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Kingston,
Ontario (June 1997).
“Truth, Beauty, and the User Interface: Notes on the Aesthetics of Information.”
Mixed Messages: Image, Text, and Technology. University of North Carolina at
Charlotte (October 1997). Also served as a panelist at “Words and Images”
roundtable discussion.
“The Unbearable Lightness of Material Information.” Annual Meeting of the Society
for Literature and Science, Pittsburgh, PA (November 1997). Also panel organizer
and chair.
“Hypertext Theory Post-Postructuralism.” Annual Convention of the Modern
Language Association, Toronto, Ontario (December 1997).
“Applied Virtual Reality: Mapping Texts in Three Dimensions with VRML.”
Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, Toronto, Ontario
(December 1997).
“Three-Dimensional Writing Spaces: or, What Good’s a Text That Makes You
Walk to the End of Every Line?” State of the Arts: Production, Reception, and
Teaching in the Digital World, University of Maryland (October 1998).
“Academic Reality/Virtual Realpolitik: Recent Hiring Trends in New Media
Studies.” Learning On-Line '98, Roanoke, VA (June 1998).
Closing Plenary Speaker, “Looking Backward: Visual Culture and Virtual
Aesthetics, 1984-1998.” Digital Arts and Culture 98, University of Bergen, Norway
(November 1998).
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“afternoon / WAX / Case Studies in (Hyper)Textual Materialism.” Annual
Convention of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA (December
1998).
“Editing the Interface: Textual Criticism and First-Generation Electronic Objects.”
Tenth International Interdisciplinary Conference of the Society for Textual
Scholarship, New York, NY (April 1999). A version of this paper was also
presented at the annual meeting of the Bibliographical Society of the University of
Virginia (March 1999).
“The Other End of Print: David Carson, Graphic Design, and the Aesthetics of
Media.” Media in Transition, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (October
1999).
“Information in the Information Age.” Social Theory 2000: Inaugural Conference
of The International Consortium of Social Theory. University of Kentucky (May
2000).
“Electronic Archives and Their Discontents.” With Kari Kraus. Material Cultures:
The Book, the Text, and the Archive. University of Edinburgh, Scotland (July 2000).
“New Media, New Historicisms.” Digital Arts and Culture 2000. University of
Bergen, Norway (August 2000).
“Outside the Archive.” With Kari Kraus. Annual Convention of the Modern
Language Association, Washington, D.C. (December 2000).
“The Virtual Lightbox and the Promise of Peer-to-Peer Humanities Computing.”
With Jerzy W. Jaromczyk and Amit Kumar. Joint international conference of the
Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for
Computing and the Humanities. New York University (June 2001).
“‘Enough! Or too much’: The Discourse of Digital Media.” Annual Convention of
the Modern Language Association, New Orleans (December 2001).
"Reading Software.” Critical Cyberculture Studies: Mapping an Evolving
Discipline. University of Maryland, College Park (April 2002). Also invited plenary
panelist, Cyberculture@University.
"Vector Futures: New Paradigms for Imag(in)ing the Humanities.” Modern
Language Association, New York, NY (December 2002).
“Doing What (Should) Come Naturally: Collaboration and Digital Scholarship.”
Modern Language Association, New York, NY (December 2002).
“Text Messaging: Textual Criticism and Early Information Theory, 1946-1953.”
Society for Textual Scholarship, New York University (March 2003).
“The Bottom Drawer: Writers and Their Work.” With Deena Larsen and Rob
Swigart. Association of Writers and Writing Programs (March 2004).
“From A to 01011010: ASCII and the Alphabetization of Electronic Space.”
Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA
(December 2004).
“Getting Out of the Toolbox: Text and Data Mining for the Humanities.” Annual
Convention of the Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA (December
2004).
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“Introducing Nora: Poetry, Pattern Recognition, and Provocation.” Elective
Affinities, IAWIS/AIERTI 7th International Conference on Word and Image Studies,
Philadelphia, PA (September 2005).
“New Media and the Forensic Imagination.” Annual Convention of the Modern
Language Association, Washington, DC (December 2005).
“Exploring Erotics in Emily Dickinson’s Correspondence with Text Mining and
Visual Interfaces.” With Catherine Plaisant, Bei Yu, et al. Joint Conference on
Digital Libraries, Chapel Hill (June 2006). Proceedings of 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint
Conference on Digital Libraries (New York: ACM, 2006): 141-150.
“‘Undiscovered Public Knowledge’: Mining for Patterns of Erotic Language in
Emily Dickinson's Correspondence with Susan Huntington (Gilbert) Dickinson.”
Senior author, with Catherine Plaisant, et al. Digital Humanities 2006, the
Sorbonne, Paris (July 2006).
“Save As: Textual Studies and the Challenge of the Born Digital Literature.”
Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA
(December 2006).
“Shall These Bits Live?” Society for Textual Scholarship (March 2007).
“On <Digital> Scholarship.” Annual Convention of the Modern Language
Association, Chicago, IL (December 2007). Forum session.
“This Afternoon.” Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association,
Chicago, IL (December 2007).
Forum Speaker, “The Future of Scholarly Editing.” Annual Convention of the
Modern Language Association (upcoming, December 2008).
“Shakespeare’s Hard Drive,” O’Reilly Tools of Change Publishing Conference ’09
(February 2009).
“Twisty Little Passages Almost All Alike: Applying the FRBR Model to a Classic
Computer Game.” With Jerome McDonough, et al. Digital Humanities 2009 (June
2009).
“Digital Materiality: Preserving Access to Computers as Complete Environments.”
With Erika Farr, et al. iPres 2009 ( October 2009).
“E-Ject: On the Ephemeral Nature, Genres, and Criticism of Electronic Objects.”
With Joseph Tabbi, Dene Grigar, Michael Angelo Tata, Davin Heckman, Anna
Gibbs, and Maria Angel. Digital Arts and Culture 2009 (December 2009).
“Kriegspiel as Tool for Thought,” Digital Humanities 2010 (July 2010).
“Checksums: Digital Materiality in the Archive,” Digital Humanities 2011 (June
2011).
“Digital Curation and Conflict Simulation: Harpoon as Case Study,” Connections
Annual Interdisciplinary Wargaming Conference, National Defense University
(July 2012).
“Bitstreams Beyond Borders: The Value of Digital Forensics to Archivists,” 76th
Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists, San Diego (August 2012).
“Software MSS,” Modern Language Association (January 2013).
Panelist, “All Your Bits Aren’t Belong To Us: Opportunities and Challenges of
Personally Revealing Information in Digital Collections,” Personal Digital
Archiving 2013, University of Maryland (February 2013).
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“‘Shall These Bits Live?’ Towards a Digital Forensics Research Agenda for the
Digital Humanities with the BitCurator Project.” With Alex Chasanoff. Digital
Humanities 2013, Lincoln, Nebraska (July 2013).
“Floppy.” National Communication Association, Washington DC (November
2013).
“This Is Not a Typewriter,” Modern Language Association, Vancouver, BC
(January 2015).
“Sand]-----[Tables,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Montreal, Quebec
(March 2015).
iii. Other talks and papers
Panelist, the Southeastern Universities Research Association’s Workshop on
Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Charlotte, NC (August 1996).
Organizer and Chair, “Post-Alphabetic Texts and Textualities.” With Sean Cohen,
Virginia Eubanks, Chris Funkhouser, Pamela Margerm, Stuart Moulthrop, and
David Porush. 1998 Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association,
Baltimore, MD (April 1998).
Organizer and Chair, “The Content-Provider as Colleague: Creating Institutional
Spaces for New Media Teaching and Research.” With Neil Fraistat, David Gants,
Diane Krejsa, Esq., and Joseph Tabbi. Annual Convention of the Modern Language
Association, San Francisco, CA (December 1998).
"Humanities Computing and the Rise of New Media Studies: Synergy or
Disjunction?” ACH Executive panel. Joint Annual Conference of the Association
for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic
Computing, Charlottesville, VA (June 1999).
Organizer and Chair, “Refining Our Notions of What (Digital) Images Really Are.”
With Johanna Drucker, Worthy Martin, Jerome McGann, and Joseph Viscomi.
Joint Annual Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and
the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Charlottesville, VA (June
1999).
“The William Blake Archive: An Overview.” Center for Computational Sciences,
University of Kentucky (September 1999).
“The Persistence of Vision: Digital Images in Digital Libraries.” University of
Kentucky Chapter of the American Society for Information Science (April 2000).
“The Humanities Computing Job Market.” ACH Executive panel. Joint
international conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing
and the Association for Computing and the Humanities. University of Glasgow,
Scotland (July 2000).
“LOOKSEE: Resources for Image-Based Humanities Computing.” Poster
presentation. Joint international conference of the Association for Literary and
Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computing and the Humanities.
University of Glasgow, Scotland (July 2000).
Organizer and Respondent, “Digital Media and Graduate Students in the Modern
Languages.” Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, Washington,
D.C. (December 2000).
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“The Virtual Lightbox.” With Jerzy W. Jaromczyk and Amit Kumar. Center for
Computational Sciences, University of Kentucky (March 2001).
“Literature in a Wired World.” Lecture representing College of Arts and
Humanities at Maryland Day, University of Maryland (May 2001).
Invited participant, “Archive Cultures: Database Design for On-line Collaboration.”
Summer Institute sponsored by the Digital Cultures project, University of
California, Santa Barbara (June 2001).
“Humanities Computing and Cyberculture Studies: Exploring the Difference.” With
Martha Nell Smith and Donald Snyder. Digital Dialogues roundtable, sponsored by
the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (October 2001).
“www.mcgann.net.” Invited speaker at a special session on “The Work of Jerome
McGann: Impacts and Arguments.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association,
Atlanta (November 2001). With James Chandler, Marjorie Levinson, and Peter L.
Shillingsburg.
Respondent, “Defining Digital Scholarship.” Annual Convention of the Modern
Language Association, New Orleans (December 2001).
"The Virtual Lightbox.” Coalition for Networked Information, Spring Task Force
Meeting, Washington D.C. (April 2002).
Moderator, “Beyond the Web: The Arts and Humanities in the Twenty-First
Century.” A forum with Julia Flanders, Nancy Kaplan, John Lavagnino, Stuart
Moulthrop, Allen Renear, and John Unsworth. University of Maryland, College
Park (April 2002).
“Illuminating Books: The William Blake Archive.” Workshop on Designing the
Digital Book. Human-Computer Interaction Lab, University of Maryland, College
Park (May 2002).
“The Anatomy of a Digital Object.” e(X)Literature: Archiving, Preserving and
Disseminating Electronic Literature. University of California, Santa Barbara (April
2003).
Organizer, “Rewiring Frankenstein: Cyborgs and Cybertexts in the Undergraduate
Classroom.” Five undergraduates presented their online projects. Undergraduate
Research Day, University of Maryland (April 2003).
“To Blog or Not to Blog?” Digital Dialogues brownbag, sponsored by the Maryland
Institute for Technology in the Humanities (May 2003).
Organizer, “Jason Nelson: An Evening of Flash Poetry,” co-sponsored by MITH
and the Writers’ House, University of Maryland (October 2003).
Moderator, “Virtual Ireland.” American Conference for Irish Studies, University of
Maryland (November 2003).
“Is There a Blog in this Class?” Annual Teaching with Technology conference,
University of Maryland (April 2004).
Organizer and Chair, “Reading at Risk?” Panel discussion sponsored by the
Department of English and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
(November 2004). With Mark Bauerlein, Michael Collier, Lisa Gitelman, Shirly
Logan, Clifford Lynch, and Nick Montfort.
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Special Session Leader, “Inscribing Media: New American Discourse Networks,”
Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA
(December 2004).
Guest Lecture, Bruce Jacobs’ HON218V: Digital Sound & Fury On Mac OSX,
University of Maryland (May 2005).
Chair, Closing Panel (“Trends, Forecasts, and Fragments of a Future”), The Library
in Bits and Bytes, University of Maryland (September 2005).
Poster, “Nora: Web-based Text Mining and Visualization for Digital Libraries,”
with Catherine Plaisant, The Library in Bits and Bytes, University of Maryland
(September 2005).
Panelist, Roundtable on Scholarly Electronic Publishing, Maryland Institute for
Technology in the Humanities (March 2006).
Guest Lecture, Susan Schreibman’s LBSC 708Y: Creating Digital Repositories,
University of Maryland (April 2006).
Co-organizer, “New Media Storytelling,” Petrou Lecture Series, Department of
English and Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (April-May
2006).
Poster and Paper, “Exploring Erotics in Emily Dickinson’s Correspondence with
Text Mining.” With Catherine Plaisant, et al. Human Computer Interaction Lab 23rd
Annual Symposium, University of Maryland (May 2006).
Panelist, “Beyond Life: A Discussion of the Value of Literary Studies,” English
Undergraduate Association (April 2007).
Invited Speaker, “Blogs as Course Management Tools.” Center for Teaching
Excellence Summer Institute (May 2007).
Chair, “The Nora Project: Text Mining and Literary Interpretation.” Paper panel at
Digital Humanities 2006, the Sorbonne, Paris (July 2006).
Organizer and Chair, “Done: Finished Projects in the Digital Humanities.” Paper
panel at Digital Humanities 2007, University of Illinois (June 2007).
“Data Mining and the Digital Humanities,” National Science Foundation
Symposium on Next Generation of Data Mining and Cyber-Enabled Discovery for
Innovation (October 2007).
“Digital Humanities Quarterly: Somewhere Nearby is an Electronic Journal.” With
DHQ editorial collective. National Endowment for the Humanities (November
2007).
“Save As: The Deena Larsen Collection.” With John Murray, Maryland Institute for
Technology in the Humanities and Human-Computer Interaction Lab (December
2007).
“The Simulations Seminar Did Not Take Place.” Innovations in Teaching and
Learning conference, University of Maryland (April 2008).
“Bookscapes: Modeling Books in Electronic Space.” Human-Computer Interaction
Lab 25th Annual Symposium, University of Maryland (May 2008).
Co-Tutorial Leader, “Using Virtual Worlds.” Human-Computer Interaction Lab 25th
Annual Symposium, University of Maryland (May 2008).
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Facilitator, “War (and) Games,” Digital Dialogue, Maryland Institute for
Technology in the Humanities, October 2008 (for the ARHU semester on War and
Representations of War).
Organizer and Chair, “Second Lives: Reading and Writing Virtual Worlds.” Annual
Convention of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA (December
2008).
“Digital Humanities (is!) @ Maryland.” Invited talk for ENGL 600, Department of
English, University of Maryland (September 2009).
“The Digital Humanist in the (Digital) Archive.” Invited talk for symposium on
Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Today and Tomorrow, iSchool, University of
Maryland (October 2009).
Invited speaker, video multicast roundtable on “Beyond the Literary” for The
Future of Digital Studies conference, University of Florida (February 2010).
Invited respondent, The Shape of Things to Come: The Future of Online
Scholarship, a Mellon-sponsored conference (University of Virginia, March 2010).
Seminar leader, “Digital Materiality,” Department of Cinema and Media Studies,
University of Chicago (April 2010).
Workshop leader (with Kari Kraus), “Breaking and Entering: Hacking
Mystery House,” University of Rochester (April 2010).
“What is Digital Humanities and What is it Doing in English Departments?”
Plenary for Association of Departments of English Meeting, College Park,
Maryland (June 2010).
Plenary panelist, “Before It’s Too Late,” with Henry Lowood and John Romero,
Foundations of Digital Games, Monterey, CA (June 2010).
Respondent, “Born Digital: The 21st Century Archive in Practice and Theory,”
Digital Humanities 2010 (July 2010).
Project Briefing, “Digital Forensics and Cultural Heritage Collections,” Coalition
for Networked Information Fall Members Meeting (December 2010).
Respondent, “Close Reading the Digital,” Modern Language Association (January
2011).
Organizer and chair, “E-books as Bibliographical Objects,” Modern Language
Association (January 2011).
Panelist, “Mobile Learning: Faculty and Student Stories,” EDUCAUSE Learning
Initiative (February 2011).
“What is a Story?” With Kari Kraus. STORyNET: Stories, Neuroscience, and
Experimental Technologies Workshop. Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (February 2011).
Invited panelist, “What is 21st Century Textual Scholarship?” Society for Textual
Scholarship (March 2011).
Chair, “Questioning Agency and Structure Online,” Theorizing the Web, University
of Maryland (April 2011).
Invited guest, Online conversation with CLIR Post-doctoral Fellows program (June
2011).
“More Than Words: The History of Word Processing,” CurateGear, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill (January 2012).
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Workshop Leader, “War, What is it Good For?” THATCamp Games, University of
Maryland (January 2012).
Invited panelist, “From Stone Age to the Digital Age,” DC Read-In, Waltha T.
Daniel/Shaw Library (March 2012).
Work in progress lecture, “Track Changes: The Literary History of Word
Processing,” Center for Literary and Comparative Studies, University of Maryland
(September 2012).
Brownbag talk, “What is MLA Commons, and Why You Should Care,” Center for
Literary and Comparative Studies, University of Maryland (February 2013).
Invited speaker, “The Case for a National Software Registry,” NDIIPP Briefing,
Library of Congress (December 2013).
Invited panelist, “Connections: The Future of Print and Book Form,” The Corcoran,
Washington DC (December 2013).
Invited speaker, “Preserving a Disappearing Digital Text,” Conservation of
Software-Based Art, Smithsonian Museum of American Art/National Portrait
Gallery (January 2014).
Organizer and chair, “Reading, Rereading, and Recovering Electronic Literature: A
Panel Discussion.” Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (January
2014).
Panelist, “Curating Your Online Presence,” GEO Professionalization Workshop,
Department of English, University of Maryland (February 2014).
Panelist, “What is a 21st Century Dissertation?” Department of English, University
of Maryland (April 2014).
Panelist, “Digital Strategies for Public and Non-Profit Institutions,” Emerging
Trends in Digital Stewardship, National Library of Medicine (April 2014).
Invited paper, “.Txtual Forensics,” A Symposium in Honor of David Greetham,
CUNY Graduate Center (April 2014).
“Digital Forensics in Special Collections,” Harvard University Libraries (May
2014). With Porter Olsen.
Panelist, “Approaching The Peripheral,” Modern Language Association,
Vancouver, BC (January 2015).
f. Scholarly Web Sites [Films, Tapes, Photographs, etc.]
The Germ: Thoughts Towards Nature in Poetry, Literature, and Art [Number One]:
A Hypermedia Critical Edition. Ed. with Melissa Kennedy et al. (1995). Available
online:
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/courses/ennc986/class/germ1.text.html/germ1.ht
ml. Prepared as part of British Poetry 1780-1910: A Hypertext Archive of Scholarly
Editions. Gen. Eds. Jerome J. McGann and David Seaman. Editing, text markup,
and graphic design.
Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro. A Hypermedia Edition of the March 1925
Survey Graphic Harlem Number. Ed. with Catherine Tousignant (November 1996).
Available online: http://www.etext.virginia.edu/harlem. Editing, text markup,
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digital imaging, graphic design. Widely cross-linked from American and African
American studies sites. Web awards from the Los Angeles Times and others.
Electronic Theses and Dissertations in the Humanities: A Directory of Online
References and Resources (1996-1999) Available online:
http://www.etext.virginia.edu/ETD/. Conception, site design, maintenance, and
administration. Notices in the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly
Publishing (2nd ed.), the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Internet Scout Project,
and cross-linked from numerous university libraries, UMI, and other higher
education sites.
Technical Editor, The William Blake Archive (1999-2003). With Morris Eaves,
Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, eds. Available online:
http://www.blakearchive.org/. Consultation on all aspects of text and image
encoding. Previously Project Manager, 1997-99. Reviews and notices in the New
York Times, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Choice, TEXT, the National
Endowment for the Humanities’ EDSITEment project, and others. Prize for a
Distinguished Scholarly Edition, Modern Language Association (2003). Approved
Edition, Committee on Scholarly Editions, Modern Language Association (2005).
LOOKSEE: Resources for Image-Based Humanities Computing (2000-2001).
Available online: http://www.glue.umd.edu/~mgk/looksee. Conception, site design,
maintenance, and administration.
“Humanities Computing: Institutional Models.” With Willard McCarty (2000-
2005). Available online: http://www.allc.org/archive/hcim/.
“MGK.” Professionally-oriented blog, February 2003 to present. Over 600 entries
and over 1200 comments from readers to date. Available online:
http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/.
Project Director, “The Deena Larsen Collection.” Web site presenting highlights
from a unique collection of hardware and software from an electronic literature
pioneer (December 2009): http://mith.umd.edu/larsen/. With Amanda Visconti.
Project Director, “MITH’s Vintage Computers.” Web site demonstrating a
considered metadata and modeling approach to computing hardware (September
2010): http://mith.umd.edu/vintage-computers/. With Walker Sampson.
g. Exhibits, Performances, Demonstrations, and other Creative Activities.
spirit_trouts (December 1995). Available online:
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/spirit_trouts. Participant in a collaborative
creative hypermedia ensemble.
Lucid Mapping and Codex Transformissions in the Z-Buffer. VRML installation
exploring textual and narrative possibilities in three-dimensional space. In The Little
Magazine Volume 22 (“Gravitational Intrigue: An Anthology of Emergent
Hypermedia”), CD-ROM, April 1999. All design and implementation.
h. Original Designs, Plans, Inventions, Software, and/or Patents.
The Virtual Lightbox: An Image-Based Whiteboard for the Web. Software. With
Amit Kumar. Center for Computational Sciences, University of Kentucky (July
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2000 to June 2001); Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
(December 2002 to present). Available online:
http://www.mith2.umd.edu/products/lightbox. Open source GNU GPL distribution.
Conception, documentation and site design, usability testing. Version 2.0 released
February 2004.
i. Contracts and Grants.
Co-Principal Investigator, “The William Blake Archive.” Preservation and Access
Division, the National Endowment for the Humanities. $234,000. July 2000-June
2002. With Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, John Unsworth, and Joseph Viscomi.
Principal Investigator, The Virtual Lightbox: An Image-Based Whiteboard for the
Web. Center for Computational Sciences, University of Kentucky. $16,000. July
2000-June 2001.
Co-Principal Investigator, Research Experiences for Undergraduate Students.
National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure. $6000. November
2000. With Jerzy W. Jaromczyk.
Graduate Research Board Summer Research Award, University of Maryland,
College Park. $8750. Summer 2003.
Co-Principal Investigator, “Nora: Web-based Text-Mining and Visualization for
Humanities Digital Libraries.” Maryland sub-contract to University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, project directed by John M. Unsworth. $598,000, Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation, 2004-2006.
Principal Investigator, “MONK: Metadata Offer New Knowledge.” Maryland sub-
contract to University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, project directed by John M.
Unsworth and Martin Mueller (Northwestern University). $1,000,000, Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation, 2007-2009.
Co-Principal Investigator, “Preserving Virtual Worlds.” Maryland sub-contract to
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, project directed by Jerome McDonough.
$590,000 (approx. $148,000 to Maryland), Library of Congress National Digital
Information and Infrastructure Preservation Program (Preserving Creative
America), 2008-2010. Shortlisted finalist for 2010 Digital Preservation Award.
Principal Investigator, “Approaches to Managing and Collecting Born-Digital
Literary Materials for Scholarly Use.” $11,700, National Endowment for the
Humanities Digital Humanities Start-Up (September 2008-March 2009).
Co-Principal Investigator, “Design and Evaluation of the Next Generation of eBook
Readers,” with François Guimbretière and Maneesh Agrawala. $374,000, National
Science Foundation (2008-2011).
Principal Investigator, “Computer Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural
Heritage Collections,” with Richard Ovenden and Gabriela Redwine. $81,000,
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2009-2010).
Co-Principal Investigator, “Preserving Virtual Worlds II: Methods for Evaluating
and Preserving Significant Properties of Educational Games and Complex
Interactive Environments,” with Jerome McDonough (PI), et al. $785,000 (approx..
$165,000 to Maryland), Institute of Museum and Library Services (2010-2012).
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Co-Principal Investigator, “BitCurator: Tools for Digital Forensics Methods and
Workflows in Real-World Collecting Institutions,” with Cal Lee (PI), $600,000
(approx. $180,000 to Maryland), Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2011-13).
Co-Principal Investigator, “BitCurator Phase 2: Tools for Digital Forensics
Methods and Workflows in Real-World Collecting Institutions,” with Cal Lee (PI),
$490,000 (approx. $214,000 to Maryland), Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2013-
14).
j. Fellowships, Prizes, and Awards.
Phi Beta Kappa, State University of New York at Albany, 1991.
Clifton Waller Barrett and DuPont Fellow, University of Virginia, 1992-94.
Stovall Dissertation Fellowship, University of Virginia, Fall 1997.
Student Award for Book Collecting, Bibliographical Society of the University of
Virginia, 1998.
Fredson Bowers Memorial Prize for Outstanding Essay on Textual Scholarship
(“Editing the Interface: Textual Studies and First-Generation Electronic Objects”),
Society for Textual Scholarship, 2002-2003.
Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities (January 2005-June 2005).
Biannual Richard J. Finneran Book or Edition Prize (for Mechanisms), Society for
Textual Scholarship, 2009.
Annual George A. and Jean S. DeLong Book History Book Prize (for Mechanisms),
Society for the History of Authorship, Publishing, and Reading, 2009.
16th Annual Prize for a First Book (for Mechanisms), Modern Language
Association of America, 2009.
Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2011.
k. Editorships, Editorial Boards, and Reviewing Activities for Journals and Other Learned
Publications.
i. Editorships and Boards
o Associate Editor for Electronic Editions, Romantic Circles, 1996-2004.
o Advisory Board, Dickinson Electronic Archives, 1996 to present.
o Editorial Board, Text Technology: The Journal of Computer Text
Processing, 1999 to present.
o Editorial Board, Postmodern Culture, 2000-2011.
o Commissioning Editor, Computers and the Humanities, 2001-2004.
o Advisory Board, Romantic Circles, 2004 to present.
o Articles Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly, 2005 to 2009.
o Editorial Board, Textual Cultures, 2006 to 2010.
o Advisory Board, Computational Linguistics for MetaData Building
(CLiMB), University of Maryland, 2006-2008.
o Advisory Board, MediaCommons, 2007-2009.
o Advisory Board, futureArch (Bodleian Library), 2009-2011.
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o Literary Advisory Board, Electronic Literature Organization, 2011 to
present.
o Advisory Board, Media Archaeology Lab, University of Colorado at
Boulder, 2012 to present.
o Advisory Board, The Book of Disquiet Archive (University of Coimbra),
2014-2015.
ii. Reviewing
o Reader, Digital Humanities Conference, formerly Joint Annual Conference
of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association
for Literary and Linguistic Computing, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2007,
2008, 2011, 2012.
o Reader, Literary and Linguistic Computing, 2002.
o Reader, Performance Research, 2003.
o Reader, Proposal [title and author withheld for confidentiality], MIT Press
(Fall 2004).
o Reader, Book-length Manuscript [title and author withheld for
confidentiality], University of Toronto Press (Fall 2004).
o Reader, Book-length Manuscript [title and author withheld for
confidentiality], MIT Press (September 2006).
o Reader, Book-length Manuscript [title and author withheld for
confidentiality], MIT Press (February 2008).
o Reader, Book-length Manuscript [title and author withheld for
confidentiality], MIT Press (January 2009).
o Reader, Postmodern Culture (February 2009).
o Reader, Book Proposal, MIT Press (May 2010).
o Reader, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (September 2010).
o Reader, Book Chapter, Oxford University Press (September 2012).
o Reader, Book Manuscript, University of Minnesota Press (May 2013).
l. Other (selected media coverage and expert appearances)
Quoted in “‘Fearful Symmetry’ Now in Pixels Bright,” New York Times, July 22,
1999. E8.
Quoted in “They'll Always Have Paris (And a Scholarly Web Site),” New York
Times, March 18, 2002. E2.
Featured in TechKnow: the Information Technology Newsletter for University of
Maryland Students, “Technology and the Humanities: Not an Oxymoron” (Spring
2004).
Quoted in Washington Post, Friday, March 11, 2005; Page B01, “Blogging Clicks
With Colleges.”
Quoted in Washington Post, Wednesday, October 12, 2005, A01, “Cyber-Catharsis:
Bloggers Use Web Sites as Therapy.”
On-air Guest, Open Source |internet radio show|, November 28th, 2005 on Google
Print.
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Quoted in the Diamondback, April 19, 2006, “Life in a Mouse-Click.”
Quoted in Washington Post, November 19, 2007, “A Troubling Case of Readers’
Block”: C01.
On-air Guest, MIT Press Podcast, January 2008.
On-air Guest, Digital Campus Podcast, February 2008.
“Gibson’s Self-Destructing Poem Agrippa: Screen Movie,” Boing Boing December
9, 2008: http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/09/gibsons-selfdetructi.html
“William Gibson’s Agrippa Recovered and Revealed,” Slashdot, December 10,
2008:
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F10%2F0226239&fro
m=rss
Numerous quotations, “Saved Games: Preserving the New TV,” Crispy Gamer,
April 8, 2009: http://www-2.crispygamer.com/features/2009-04-08/saved-games-
preserving-the-new-tv.aspx
Numerous quotations, photo, and coverage of research in “Archiving Writers’ Work
in an Age of Email,” Chronicle of Higher Education, April 10, 2009:
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i31/31a00102.htm. Lead story.
Featured guest, “The Book and the User,” What’s the Word? syndicated National
Public Radio, April 29, 2009.
Multiple quotations and mentions in “Pac Rat,” The Atlantic (March 2010). Article
describes ongoing work on the Preserving Virtual Worlds project.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/201003/archiving-video-games
Studio guest, The Kojo Nnamdi Show, WAMU (March 30, 2010) to discuss the
Preserving Virtual Worlds project.
Quoted in “iPad: The New Big Gadget on Campus,” Baltimore Sun (Aug. 22,
2010), front page.
Research subject of a feature story, “The Muses of Insert, Delete and Execute,”
New York Times, December 26, 2011, C1, C6. Syndicated.
Research subject of discussion on Slate Magazine’s weekly “Culture Gabfest”
Podcast, December 28, 2011.
Research subject of “Who Word Processed First? Professor’s History Has Writers
Staking Their Claims,” New York Times, January 10, 2012.
Interviewed for Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast, WYPR, January 10, 2012
(approx. 10 minutes).
Quoted twice in Stanley Fish, “The Digital Humanities and the Transcending of
Mortality,” New York Times, January 10, 2012.
Research subject of “The Contenders for the First Novel Written with a Word
Processor,” AtlanticWire, January 11, 2012.
Research subject of “Has Microsoft Word Affected the Way We Work?” The
Guardian, January 12, 2012.
Interviewed for The King Cast, a Stephen King fan-produced podcast, January 15,
2012 (approx. 25 minutes).
Interviewed for CBC Radio’s “Spark,” January 22, 2012 (approx. 15 minutes).
Expert quotations in “Memoria y chaos en la era digital,” Clarin, Feb. 11, 2012, p. 1
(leading Argentinian news weekly).
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Expert quotations in “Encyclopaedia Britannica to End Print Edition after 244
Years,” Chicago Tribune (March 14, 2012).
Research subject of a feature story, “Der Schriftsteller und sein Computer” in
Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany’s largest daily newspaper), March 15, 2012.
Quoted in “The MLA’s Big (Digital) Tent,” Inside Higher Ed, January 7, 2013.
Digital Collections at MITH featured in “The New Age: Leaving Behind
Everything, or Nothing at All.” All Things Considered, NPR, April 9, 2014:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/04/09/300614977/the-new-age-
leaving-behind-everything-or-nothing-at-all.
Segment on computer games and digital preservation with Al Jazeera America
(correspondent Tom Ackerman), aired June 26, 2015.
3. Teaching and Advising
a. Courses taught in the last five years
i. General (all enrollment numbers approximate)
ENGL 301, Critical Methods for the Study of Literature, Spring
2007 (25 enrollments).
ENGL 301, Critical Methods for the Study of Literature, Fall 2007
(27 enrollments).
ENGL 301, Critical Methods for the Study of Literature, Fall 2009
(15 enrollments).
ii. Specialized (all enrollment numbers approximate)
ENGL 467, The Computer and the Text, Spring 2003 (35
enrollments).
ENGL 668K, Readings in Digital Studies, Spring 2003 (12
enrollments).
ENGL 467, The Computer and the Text, Spring 2004 (15
enrollments).
ENGL 668K, Readings in Digital Studies, Spring 2004 (12
enrollments).
ENGL 467, Computer and Text, Fall 2004 (35 enrollments).
ENGL 475, Postmodern Literature, Fall 2004(40 enrollments).
ENGL 399Y, Technologies of Literature, Fall 2005 (12
enrollments).
ENGL 758A, Inscribing Media, Spring 2006 (8 enrollments).
ENGL 758C, Simulations, Spring 2008 (13 enrollments).
ENGL 758C, Simulations, Spring 2010 (11 enrollments).
HDCC 105, Introduction to Digital Cultures and Creativity, Fall
2010 (55 enrollments).
ENGL 475, Postmodern Literature, Fall 2012 (22 enrollments).
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ENGL 668K, Introduction to Digital Humanities, Spring 2013
(13 enrollments).
ENGL 475, Postmodern Literature, Fall 2013 (24 enrollments).
ENGL 631, Spring 2014, Literature of September 11th (16
enrollments).
iii. University Honors, College Park Scholars, and other special programs.
HON 209L, Technologies of Literature, Fall 2002 (12
enrollments).
Seminar on Digital Humanities, SMU-in-Taos (week-long
intensive doctoral seminar for Southern Methodist University
English graduate program, July 2009). With Kari Kraus.
HDCC 105, Introduction to Digital Cultures and Creativity, Fall
2010 (approximately 55 enrollments).
iv. Independent Study, Tutorials, Internship Supervision.
Debbie Chen, Independent Study, Spring 2003.
Kewanna Hayward, Independent Study, Spring 2003.
Adam Rice, MITH Internship, Spring 2003.
Emily Adamo, Independent Study (“Graphical Narrative”), Fall
2004.
Jess Henig, Graduate Independent Study (“Emergent
Narratives”), Fall 2005.
Brooke Bull, Graduate Independent Study (“Artist’s Books”),
Fall 2007.
Nathan Kelber, Graduate Independent Study (“Digital
Humanities”), Fall 2009.
Amanda Visconti, Graduate Independent Study (“Designing
Electronic Text”), Spring 2011.
Alexa Walczak, Undergraduate Independent Study (“Queer
Gaming”), Spring 2014.
Co-Supervisor, Margo Padilla, Library of Congress National Digital
Stewardship Resident Fellow, Maryland Institute for Technology in the
Humanities and University Libraries (September 2013-May 2014).
b. Course or Curriculum Development.
ENGL 278W, Literature in a Wired World. Designed complete
course and curriculum; permanent CORE approval granted
Spring 2002.
ENGL 467, designed completely new curriculum for an existing
course (Spring 2002).
ENGL 668K, designed new curriculum for Digital Studies
(Spring 2003).
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ENGL 475, Postmodern Literature. Designed complete course
and curriculum with Brian Richardson, approved for Catalog Fall
2004.
HDCC 105, 106, 208, and 209.
ENGL 668K, Introduction to Digital Humanities. Designed new
curriculum (Spring 2013).
c. Manuals, Notes, Software, Webpages, and other Contributions to Teaching.
Most courses have supporting Web sites or blogs available at
http://www.glue.umd.edu/~mgk/courses/ (Fall 2001-Fall 2002),
http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/courses/ (Spring 2003-Fall
2005), and
http://www.mith2.umd.edu/teaching/courses/s06/engl758a/
(Spring 2006).
d. Teaching Awards and Other Special Recognition.
e. Advising Other than Research Direction.
Faculty Mentor, ENGL 278: Literature in a Wired World, 2002 to present.
Faculty Mentor, Media Studies Working Group, 2004-5.
f. Advising: Research Direction.
i. Undergraduate.
Organized and advised panel of five students to present
“Rewiring Frankenstein: Cyborgs and Cybertexts in the
Undergraduate Literature Classroom” at Undergraduate Research
Day (April 2003).
Supervisor, Independent Studies Major (“Digital Narrative”),
Anastasia Salter, graduated May 2005.
Supervisor, Senior Summer Scholars Program, Matt Bowen,
“Communal Fiction of the Internet” (Summer 2004).
Reader, Matt Lillienfeld, Departmental Honors Thesis, “The
Strange Case of the Paranoids” (2005- 2006).
Evaluator, Independent Studies Major Final Project, Daniel
Adler (“Coactive”), graduated May 2006.
Co-Supervisor, Independent Studies Major (“Digital Narrative”),
John Murray, 2007 to 2010. Graduated May 2010.
Supervisor, Senior Summer Scholars Program, John Murray,
“Storysigns” (Summer 2008).
ii. Master’s.
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Chair, MA Writing Project, Kimberly McColl (English),
defended October 2002.
Reader, MA Writing Project, Robert Ford (English), defended
spring 2004.
Reader, MA Writing Project, Alenda Chang (English), defended
spring 2004.
Reader, MA Writing Project, Roopa Sukumaren (English),
defended December 2004.
Reader, MA Writing Project, Jess Henig, defended October
2005.
Reader, MA Writing Project, Michael Posten, defended April
2006.
Chair, MA Writing Project, Adriene Gesell-Dickerson, defended
December 2006.
Chair, MA Writing Project, Kyle Garton, defended April 2009.
Reader, MA Thesis, Leighton Christansen, University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, April 2012.
iii. Doctoral.
Chair, Ph.D. Qualifying Exams committee, Jason Rhody
(English), Fall 2003.
Chair, Dissertation Committee, Jason Rhody (English), defended
November 2010. Senior Program Officer, National Endowment
for the Humanities.
Chair, Dissertation Committee, Donald Snyder (American
Studies), defended July 2009.
Co-Chair (with Martha Nell Smith), Dissertation Committee,
Leonardo Flores (English), defended May 2010. Associate
Professor of English and Associate Dean, University of Puerto
Rico.
First Reader, Dissertation Committee, Jennifer Welch Solomon
(English), defended October 2004.
Member, Dissertation and Exam Committee, Silvia Mejia
(Comparative Literature), defended May 2007. Tenure-track,
College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY.
Chair, Ph.D. Qualifying Exams committee, Marc Ruppel,
November 2005.
Chair, Ph.D. Qualifying Exams committee, Tanya Clement,
November 2005.
Chair, Dissertation Committee, Marc Ruppel (defended May
2012).
Chair, Dissertation Committee, Tanya Clement (defended March
2009). Associate Director, Digital Cultures and Creativity,
University of Maryland.
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Co-Chair, Exam Committee, Mirona Magearu (Comparative
Literature), November 2008.
Member, Dissertation Committee, Mirona Magearu
(Comparative Literature), defended April 2011.
Member, Dissertation Committee, Chunyuan Liao (Computer
Science), defended August 2008.
Member, Dissertation Committee, Nicholas Chen (Computer
Science), defended March 2012.
Member, Dissertation and Exam Committee, Rewa Burnham
(English), in progress.
Member, Dissertation Committee, Sheri Massey (College of
Information Studies), defended April 2009.
Member, Doctoral Committee, Rachel Donahue (College of
Information Studies), 2009 to present.
Co-Chair, Ph.D. Qualifying Exam Committee, Nathan Kelber,
November 2010.
Member, Qualifying Exam Committee, Porter Olsen, February
2010.
Co-Chair, Dissertation Committee, Nathan Kelber (November
2010 to present).
Co-Chair, Dissertation Committee, Porter Olsen (February 2010
to present).
Chair, Ph.D. Qualifying Exams Committee, Amanda Visconti,
September 2012.
Chair, Dissertation Committee, Amanda Visconti, October 2012
to present.
Member, Dissertation Committee, Lisa Rhody (defended
November 2012).
Reader, MA Capstone Project, Clifford Hichar (defended April
2013).
Reader, MA Capstone Project, Nigel Lepianka (defended April
2013).
Member, Ph.D. Qualifying Exams Committee, Nick Slaughter
(Nov. 2013).
Member, Ph.D. Qualifying Exams Committee, Audrey Farley
(September 2014).
Member, Ph.D. Qualifying Exams Committee, Daniel Kason
(October 2014).
g. Extension Activities.
4. Service
a. Professional.
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i. Offices and committee memberships held in professional
organizations.
Appointed Member, Program Committee, Joint International
Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic
Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities,
University of Glasgow, Scotland, 2000.
Appointed Member, Program Committee, Joint International
Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities
and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, New
York University, 2001.
Appointed Member, MLA Committee on Information Technology,
1999-2002.
Elected Member, Executive Council, Association for Computers
and the Humanities, 2000-2004. Chair, ACH Nominations Sub-
Committee, Fall 2002; Co-Chair ACH Jobs Seekers’ Sub-
Committee, 2000-2002.
Appointed Chair, Academic Dissemination Committee, and
Member, Central Organizing Committee, Electronic Literature
Organization, Preservation/Archiving/Dissemination project, 2002
-2003.
Member, Bowers Prize Committee, Society for Textual
Scholarship, 2004 to present. Chair 2006.
Member, Executive Committee, Media and Literature Discussion
Group, Modern Language Association, 2005-2009. President 2008.
Member, Program Committee, 6th Creativity and Cognition
Conference, Washington DC (July 2007).
Member, Digital Arts and Culture 2007, Advisory Panel, 2006.
Member, Executive Committee, Bibliography and Textual Studies
Discussion Group, Modern Language Association, 2007-2011.
Elected Member, Executive Council, Association for Computers
and the Humanities, 2009-2012.
ii. Reviewing activities for agencies.
Canada Foundation for Innovation (Spring 2000).
National Endowment for the Humanities, Preservation and Access
Division (Fall 2000).
National Endowment for the Humanities, Preservation and Access
Division (Fall 2002).
iii. Other unpaid services to local, State, and federal agencies.
Member, Content Committee, National Digital Stewardship
Alliance, Library of Congress (2010-2011).
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iv. Other non-University committees, commissions, panels, etc.
Appointed Member, Literature Field Committee, Building Blocks:
Computer Science and the Humanities workshops, National
Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage, 2000.
Appointed Member, National Information Standards Organization
Technical Committee on Metadata for Digital Still Images 2000-
2002.
External Reviewer, Graduate course proposal on “Media and
Culture,” Loyola University of Chicago (September 2003).
Board of Directors, Electronic Literature Organization, 2003-2011.
Vice President 2007-2011.
Elected Member, Steering Committee, centerNet: A Network of
Digital Humanities Centers, 2007-10.
Organizer, Symposium on the Future of Electronic Literature, co-
sponsored by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the
Humanities and the Electronic Literature Organization, College
Park, Maryland (May 2007). Approximately 135 attendees.
Discussant, The Really Modern Library, Institute for the Future of
the Book, New York, NY (October 2007).
External Referee, Promotion to Librarian II, Woodruff Library,
Emory University (April 2008).
External Referee, Promotion to Untenured Associate Professor,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (September 2008).
Co-Organizer, Tools for Data-Driven Scholarship Workshop,
National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the
Humanities, and Institute for Museum and Library Services
(October 2008). Approximately 50 attendees.
Member, Committee, Doctoral Qualifying Exams (January 2009)
and Thesis (Defended May 2010), Anastasia Salter, University of
Baltimore.
Co-Local Organizer (with Neil Fraistat), Digital Humanities 2009,
College Park, Maryland, June 2009. International professional
conference, 315+ attendees.
Program Chair, Society for Textual Scholarship, 2011.
External Evaluator, Promotion to Associate Professor with tenure,
Department of English, George Mason University (2011).
Faculty Advisory Committee, Rare Book School (2012-present).
Academic Co-Chair, Connections Annual Interdisciplinary
Wargaming Conference, National Defense University (2012).
Advisory Board, Media Archaeology Lab, University of Colorado
Boulder (2012 to present).
External Referee, Promotion to Librarian with Continuing
Appointment, Perkins Library, Duke University (September 2012).
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External Referee, Promotion to Associate Professor with tenure,
Department of English, University of Maryland Baltimore County
(November 2012).
Advisor, SWAT Pilot, OCLC, Fall 2012-Spring 2013.
Advisor, Demystifying Born Digital, OCLC, Fall 2012 to present.
External Referee, Promotion to Associate Project Scientist I,
University of California Santa Barbara (May 2013).
External Evaluator, Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure,
Department of English, Texas A&M University (August 2013).
External Evaluator, Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure,
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of
Illinois Urbana-Champaign (November 2013).
Member, Committee, Doctoral Qualifying Exams, Alexandra
Chassanoff, School of Information and Library Science, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (January 2014).
External Referee, Promotion to Associate Professor with tenure,
Department of English, University of Colorado at Boulder (August
2014).
v. International activities not listed above.
External Referee, Promotion to Lecturer, Griffith University,
Australia (September 2006).
Faculty, Rare Book School, University of Virginia, Born-Digital
Materials: Theory and Practice, with Naomi Nelson (June 2010,
July 2011, July 2012, June 2013, June 2014).
Exhibition Consultant, “Digital Writing,” Russian Polytechnic
Science Museum, Spring 2013.
Sponsor, Dylan Mulvin, Foreign Study Supplement, McGill
University (May-August 2013).
vi. Paid consultancies.
Advisory Board, Chadwyck-Healey, Literature Online (April 2006
to 2012).
b. Campus.
i. Departmental.
Elected Member, Personnel Committee, Department of
English, University of Maryland, College Park, 2002-
2004.
Advisor, English Department Web site design revisions.
With Shawn Saremi and Charles Caramello (Spring
2002).
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Designed and Maintained Web site for Department of
English’s Textual and Digital Studies Area Group, 2002-
2004.
Appointed Member, New Media Classroom Committee,
Department of English, University of Maryland, College
Park, 2002-2004.
Member, Graduate Admissions Committee (MA),
Department of English, University of Maryland, 2003 and
2004.
Co-coordinator, Faculty Working Papers Series, Spring
2004.
Member, Placement Committee, Department of English,
University of Maryland, 2005 and 2006.
Member, Honors Review Committee, Department of
English, University of Maryland, 2005 and 2006.
Departmental Representative, Electronic Faculty Activity
Review test program, December 2005.
Project Director, English Department Web site, 2006-
2007.
Chair, Ad Hoc Web committee, 2006-7.
Elected Member, Personnel Committee, Department of
English, University of Maryland, College Park, 2008-
2010.
Co-organizer, Digital Diasporas: Digital Humanities and
African-American Diaspora Studies, University of
Maryland (upcoming, May 2008).
Elected Member, Coordinating Committee, Department
of English, University of Maryland, 2010 to 2011.
Elected Member, Center for Literary and Comparative
Studies Coordinating Committee, 2013-14.
Member, 3rd Year Review Committee, Lee Konstantinou
(2014-15).
ii. College.
Appointed Member, Internal Advisory Board, Maryland
Institute for Technology in the Humanities, 2001-2005.
(Formerly Member of External Advisory Board, 2000-
2001.)
Co-Chair (with Susan Schreibman), Exploratory
Committee for Degree Programs, Maryland Institute for
Technology in the Humanities, 2002.
Appointed Member, Committee on New Technologies,
College of Arts and Humanities, University of Maryland,
College Park, 2002-2004.
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Chair, Search Committee, Assistant Director for the
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
July-August 2006.
Member, Search Committee, Chair of English, 2006-
2007.
Member, Search Committee, Assistant Director for the
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
(2009).
Member, Search Committee, Digital Humanities Cluster
Hires, College of Arts and Humanities (2009-2010).
Coordinator, Digital Dialogues Series, Maryland Institute
for Technology in the Humanities, 2005 to spring 2010.
Over 100 talks arranged.
Chair, Search Committee, Associate Director for the
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities and
Assistant Dean of Digital Humanities for the Libraries
(2011).
Chair, Search Committee, Assistant Director for the
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
(2011).
iii. University.
Member, Visual Culture Center planning committee,
2006.
Member, Future of Information Committee, Office of
Vice President for Research (2010-2011).
Reader and Interviewer, Banneker-Key Applications,
2011.
Judging Committee, OIT Mobility Contest (2010-2011).
Member, Ad Hoc Born-Digital Working Group,
University of Maryland Library, Fall 2012 to present.
Member, Ad Hoc Digital Media Design Major planning
committee (2014-2015).
iv. Special administrative assignments.
Appointed, Director, Digital Cultures and Creativity (a
living/learning program in the Honors College), August
2009-May 2011.
Appointed, Associate Director, Maryland Institute for
Technology in the Humanities, 2006-present.
Appointed, Acting Associate Director, Maryland Institute
for Technology in the Humanities, August 2005-May
2006.
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v. Other
Founder and Administrator DIGISTUD, a listserv for
Washington DC-area researchers in digital studies, Spring
2002-2010.
c. Communal, State, National.
d. Service Awards and Honors.
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