Kirschenbaum Receives NEH Start-up Award

Please join us in congratulating Professor Matt Kirschenbaum for receiving an NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Award for archival work that he will be doing on born-digital literary materials.

From the MITH Web site:

"The University of Maryland is pleased to announce the receipt of an NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up award, "Approaches to Managing and Collecting Born-Digital Literary Materials for Scholarly Use." The project, directed by Matthew Kirschenbaum, Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, will involve a series of site visits and planning meetings among personnel working with the born-digital components of three significant collections of literary material: the Salman Rushdie Papers at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (which includes Rushdie's laptops), the Michael Joyce Papers at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and the Deena Larsen Collection at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland. The meetings and site visits will facilitate the preparation of a larger collaborative grant proposal among the three institutions aimed at developing archival tools and best practices for preserving and curating the born-digital documents and records of contemporary literary authorship."