This Saturday from 2:00-4:00PM, Matthew Kirschenbaum, MITH Associate Director and professor of English, will be participating in “From the Stone Age to the Digital Age,” a panel discussion about the history of reading — past, present and future. The event will be hosted by the Watha T. Daniel-Shaw Library. Matt will be joined by panelists Erik Delfino, professor of history at Catholic University and Kari Kraus, professor of information science at University of Maryland. . . . Continue Reading
Tuesday, March 13, 2:00-3:15PM
1111 School of Architecture (Building 145)
“A Conversation about Compulsion, the World’s Columbia Exposition of 1893, and Virtual Reality” by LISA M. SNYDER
Is there a place for virtual reality in the digital humanities toolkit? For all of the early hype surrounding the use virtual reality for teaching and learning and the ubiquity of online options for exploring three-dimensional worlds, the challenges inherent in developing and sustaining large-scale academic reconstruction projects limit their viability and likelihood for success. . . . Continue Reading
MITH is excited to announce the release of the newest iteration of our website. As you browse through the site, you will see revised content and a fresh design that we hope will make it easier for you to navigate through our projects, staff pages, and blog posts. We’ve added in new sections highlighting DH culture and resources, our partners and affiliates, and generally just freshened up our web presence. . . . Continue Reading
Wednesday, March 7th at 4:30pm Carla Peterson, Ph.D, professor of English, MITH Faculty Fellow, and director of the Black Gotham Archive, will be giving a talk as part of the University of Maryland Libraries’ Speaking of Books… Conversations with Campus Authors series. Carla will be speaking on her recently published book, Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City (Yale UP, 2011). . . . Continue Reading
The “editor-narrator” of an electronic text “must also become an editor-narrator-librarian of the fluid text ‘reading room’ wherein all full texts of all versions of a work are stored…Editors need to create a text lab [that]…would allow users to search texts, collate versions, assemble variants, craft concordances, and make editions.”
–John Bryant, The Fluid Text: A Theory of Revision and Editing for Book and Screen, 161
This spring, I am delighted to have the opportunity to explore the many roles of the editor-narrator-librarian in this visionary digital “reading room.” Under the guidance of MITH Associate Director Trevor Muñoz, University of Maryland Libraries’ Manager of Digital Stewardship Jennie Anne Levine Knies, Curator of Literary Manuscripts Emerita Beth Alvarez, and University of Texas at Austin iSchool Assistant Professor (and former MITH Program Associate) Tanya Clement, I am researching best practices and emerging trends in the creation of digital scholarly editions of manuscripts and the roles that the scholar and the host institution—the library, archive, or digital humanities center—play in the creation of such editions. . . . Continue Reading
The first thing you hear, or at least that you should hear, when you present an idea for a digital humanities project to someone already familiar with the field is this: “That’s great! [pause] What does your data set look like?” Actually, that’s the reaction you’ll get if whoever you’re talking to is taking you seriously, so the reaction is a mixed blessing. . . . Continue Reading
Tuesday, March 6, 12:30-1:45PM
6137 McKeldin Library, Special Events
Co-sponsored by Digital Cultures & Creativity and University Libraries
“The Archive’s Shadow” by LYNN CAZABON
Lynn Cazabon is a visual artist whose work poses questions about human progress by focusing on what gets left behind in its wake. Cazabon will discuss her project Discard, which consists of several discrete series of large-scale photographic prints featuring movie films discarded by public institutions (libraries, schools, archives). . . . Continue Reading
Wednesday, February 29, 4:00-5:30PM*
6137 McKeldin Library, Special Events
Co-sponsored by University Libraries
“Digital Humanities at Scale: the HathiTrust Research Center” by BETH PLALE
The recently formed HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is dedicated to the provision of computational access to the HathiTrust repository.The center’s mission is to provide a persistent and sustainable structure to enable original and cutting edge research in tools to enable new discoveries on the text corpus of the HathiTrust repository. . . . Continue Reading
Our own Neil Fraistat, MITH Director, is featured in today’s The Chronicle of Higher Education Daily Read column. While Neil finds food for thought in The New Yorker’s investigative profiles, and brilliant digital humanities scholarship in Kathleen Fitzgerald’s Planned Obsolescence, he still manages to keep his sense of humor by reading The Onion and his son and daughter’s joint blog, Sibling & Charybdis: Two Siblings Who Love the Funny. . . . Continue Reading
In celebration of Black History Month, this week the University of Maryland is profiling Carla Peterson, professor of English and MITH Faculty Fellow, on her research project, Black Gotham Archive. In “Online Archive to Share Stories of 19th Century Free Blacks,” Karen Shih, University Editor, interviews Peterson on her family history, 19th century black New Yorkers, and the origins of her digital archive. . . . Continue Reading
Tuesday, February 28, 12:30-1:45PM
MITH Conference Room, McKeldin Library B0135
Co-sponsored by the School of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies
“Vocal Visions” by LEIGH WILSON SMILEY
The Visual Accent Dialect Archive (VADA) was created as a central resource for performers seeking authentic dialects and accents of the English language in which they could see the speakers as well as hear them. . . . Continue Reading
Tuesday, February 21, 12:30-1:45PM
2115 Tawes Hall
Co-sponsored by the Department of English
“Shakespeare from the Waist Down” by MICHAEL WITMORE
Using the analogy of a dancer to think about the ways in which poetic and theatrical effects are produced, Michael Witmore will explore the ways in which high-level theatrical effects — what literary critics call “plot” — might be visible in low-level activity at the level of the sentence. . . . Continue Reading
