MITH Posts Digital Humanities 2009 Call For Papers

MITH has posted a call for papers for Digital Humanities 2009, the most prestigious international conference in the field of digital humanities. It will be held at the University of Maryland in June 2009.

Neil Fraistat, Professor of English and Director of MITH, and Matthew Kirschenbaum, Associate Professor of English and Associate Director of MITH, have announced that UMD was selected to host Digital Humanities 2009.  This honor is recognition of Maryland's leadership in this groundbreaking field. This is the leading international conference in the field of Digital Humanities and several international organizations (the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, and the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs) will be on campus for their annual meetings.    

Fraistat and Kirschenbaum will serve as the local organizers of the conference, working with the program chair, Claire Warwick, Senior Lecturer and Program Director of Electronic Communication and Publishing at University College London. Several English faculty and students involved with MITH (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities) will play a vital role in the conference.

"Hosting DH 2009 will help MITH fulfill its mission of being an intellectual hub for the digital humanities both on campus and in the field at large," Fraistat said on the MITH blog. Fraistat also said that the conference will give the University of Maryland an opportunity to showcase its Romantic Circles research website and the Dickinson Electronic Archives to an international audience.

For more information please visit the MITH website and the conference website.