Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities

Maryland Institute For Technology In The Humanities
Established 1999
Director Neil Fraistat
Administrative staff
20
Location College Park, Maryland, USA
Website mith.umd.edu

The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is an internationally recognized, rapidly growing research center that is helping to transform the humanities in an era of new media and global information. It counts among the "most visible"[1] in the field. A collaboration among the University of Maryland College of Arts and Humanities, Libraries, and Office of Information Technology, MITH cultivates innovative research agendas clustered around digital tools, text mining and visualization, and the creation and preservation of electronic literature, digital games, virtual worlds.

History

Made possible by a challenge grant in late 1998 by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), MITH began operations during the fall semester of 1999, under Martha Nell Smith, Professor of English at the University of Maryland. Smith left the directorship in 2005 and was replaced by Neil Fraistat, who assumed the role first in a one-year "acting" capacity and then, permanently, in 2006.

Projects

MITH is involved in several on-going projects, including the following:

Resources

MITH is the host of the Deena Larsen Collection, a personal collection of early-era personal computers and software.[14]

Digital Dialogues

MITH hosts the Digital Dialogues series, which invites prominent scholars from the digital humanities, new media, and information technology fields to give a presentation on their current research. Recent talks include Siva Vaidhyanathan Ph.D. on The Googlization of Surveillance (May 3, 2011) and Seth Denbo Ph.D., and Director Neil Fraistat Ph.D., on Diggable Data, Scalable Reading, and New Humanities Scholarship (April 26, 2011).

Affiliations

MITH is affiliated with the Dickinson Electronic Archives, Romantic Circles, and Electronic Literature Organization.[15][16][17]

Notes

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