Updated: 20 December 2002
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Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
Curriculum Vitae
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Education
- Ph.D., English, University of Virginia, August 1999
- M.A., English, University of Virginia, 1994
- Concentration: American Literature
- B.A., English and History, State University of New York at
Albany, Summa Cum Laude, 1992
- Honors Thesis: Postmodern Rhythms: Myth, Ritual and Language in an Information Age
Employment
Teaching and Research Interests
- Digital studies, cyberculture, and applied humanities computing
- Visual studies and visual culture
- Postmodernism and the twentieth-century avant garde
- The book arts, textual studies, and William Blake
- American literature and American studies
- Public policy and the humanities
Major Projects
Grants Received
Publications
Editing:
- Guest Editor and Introduction, Computers
and the Humanities 36.1 (2002), special issue on Image-Based
Humanities Computing. Mary Keeler, Kevin Kiernan, Eric Lecolinet, Jerome
McGann, Bethany Nowviskie, and Joseph Viscomi
contributing. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Articles and
Chapters:
- "Interface, Aesthetics, and Usability." Forthcoming in the
Blackwell
Companion to Digital
Humanities, eds. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth
(2003).
- "The Word as Image in an Age of Digital Reproduction: Lessons Learned
from Humanities Computing."
Forthcoming in Eloquent Images: Word and Image in the Age of New
Media,
eds. Mary E. Hocks and Michelle R. Kendricks, MIT Press, 2003.
- "Editing the Interface: Textual Studies and First Generation
Electronic Objects." TEXT: An Interdisciplinary Annual
of Textual Studies 14 (2002): 15-51.
- "Hypertext." Unspun: Key Concepts for Understanding the
World Wide Web. Ed. Thomas Swiss. New York: New York University Press,
2000. 120-37.
- "Standards, Methods, and Objectives in the William Blake Archive."
With Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi. The
Wordsworth Circle [special Blake issue] 30.3 (Summer 1999): 135-144.
- "Lucid Mapping: Information Landscaping and Three-Dimensional Writing Spaces."
Leonardo 32.4 (August 1999): 261-8.
- "`Through
Light and the Alphabet': An Interview with Johanna
Drucker."
Postmodern Culture 7.3 (May 1997 [special hypertext issue]).
(A text-only
version for non-Project Muse subscribers is also available.) [Republished in
Drucker's Figuring the Word: Essays on Books, Writing, and Visual Poetics. New York: Granary Books, 1998. 9 - 52.]
Shorter Articles, Review Essays, and Reviews:
- "A User's Guide to the New Millennium." Commissioned review of
The New Media Reader, edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick
Montfort, forthcoming in the American Book Review 2003.
- "A Little Closer to the Moon." Commissioned review of Jerome McGann's
Radiant Textuality: Literature After the World Wide Web.
Performance Research 7.1, special issue "On
Editing" (March 2002), 130-4.
- "Archive." Keyword entry. Performance Research 7.1,
special issue "On
Editing" (March 2002), 6.
- "
Materiality and Matter and Stuff: What Electronic Texts Are Made Of."
ebr 12 (2002).
- "Beyond
the Desktop." Solicited for NINCH Community Report (2001).
- "Unediting Dickinson." Commissioned review of Marta Werner's Emily
Dickinson's Open Folios: Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writing.
Resources for American Literary Study 26.1 (2000): 122-4.
- "The Persistence of Vision: Images and Imaging at the William Blake Archive."
Research Libraries Group DigiNews 4.1 (February 2000).
- "Media, Genealogy, History." Commissioned review of Jay David Bolter
and Richard Grusin's Remediation: Understanding New Media.
ebr 9 (Summer 1999).
- "Documenting Digital Images: Textual Meta-Data at the Blake Archive."
The Electronic Library 16.4
(August 1998): 239-41.
- "Intellectual Property Online: The Case of Student Writing."
Invited column.
Kairos 3.1 (May 1998).
- "Managing the Blake Archive." Invited column. Romantic Circles (March 1998).
- "Machine
Visions: Towards a Poetics of Artificial Intelligence." With graphic
design and typographic animations by Michael Worthington.
ebr 6 (November 1997 [special
image + narrative issue]).
- "
Teaching 'Literary Narrative in an Information Age.'" Essay for Kairos's
inaugural Classroom Spotlight feature, written to accompany eleven student
hypertext projects -- published by the journal in their
entirety -- from my course "Literary Narrative in an Information Age."
Kairos 2.2 (October 1997).
- "Once Upon a Time in ENWR: The World-Wide Web as a Publication Medium for
Student Essays." Teaching Concerns (Fall 1996). (Newsletter of the Teaching Resource
Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville.)
- "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).]
- "The
Cult of Print." Review of Sven Birkerts's
The Gutenberg Elegies. Postmodern Culture 6.1 (September 1995).
(A text-only
version for non-Project Muse subscribers is also available.)
Multimedia:
Freelance:
- "The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities." ArtByte 2.3 (Sept.-Oct. 1999): 75 (approx. 500 words).
- "Remediating Blake." ArtByte 2.2 (Summer 1999): 100-1 (approx. 1000 words).
Lectures, Conference Papers, and Presentations
Upcoming:
- Panelist, e(X)Literature: Archiving, Preserving and
Disseminating Electronic Literature. University of California,
Santa Barbara (April 2003).
- "Text Messaging: Textual Criticism and Early Information Theory,
1946-1953." Society for Textual Scholarship, New York
University (March 2003).
- "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).
Delivered:
- "Illuminating Books: The William Blake Archive." Workshop on
Designing the
Digital Book. Human-Computer Interaction Lab,
University of Maryland, College Park (May 2002).
- "Reading Software." Critical Cyberculture Studies: Mapping an
Evolving Discipline. University of Maryland, College Park (April
2002). Also invited plenary panelist, "Cyberculture@University."
- 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).
- "The Virtual Lightbox." Coalition for Networked Information,
Sprng Task Force Meeting,
Washington D.C.
(April 2002).
- Guest speaker, Digital Humanities
Curriculum Seminar, University of Virginia (March 2002).
- Invited speaker, "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).
- "'Enough! Or too much': The Discourse of Digital Media." Annual
Convention of the Modern Language Association, New Orleans (December
2001).
- Respondent, "Defining Digital Scholarship." Annual
Convention of the Modern Language Association, New Orleans (December
2001).
- "www.mcgann.net." Invited contribution to 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, Cyrena N. Pondrom (Chair) and Peter L. Shillingsburg.
- "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).
- 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).
- "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).
- Invited panelist, "New Directions for Digital Textuality." Plenary
session, Eleventh International Interdisciplinary Conference of the Society for Textual Scholarship,
New York, NY (April 2001). With Neil Fraistat, Steve Jones, Robert
Kolker, Kari Kraus, and John Unsworth.
- "The Virtual Lightbox." With Jerzy W. Jaromczyk and Amit
Kumar. Center for Computational Sciences, University of Kentucky (March
2001).
- "Literary Studies in a Wired World." Multi-part colloquium for the
Department of English, University of Rochester (Fall 2000 - Spring 2001).
- Organizer and Respondent, "Digital Media and Graduate Students in the
Modern Languages." Sponsored by the Committee on Computers and Emerging
Technologies. Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association,
Washington, D.C. (December 2000).
- "Outside the Archive." With Kari
Kraus. Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association,
Washington, D.C. (December 2000).
- "The Virtual Lightbox." Building Blocks Workshop, National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage,
Washington, D.C. (September 2000).
- "New Media, New Historicisms." Digital Arts and Culture 2000. University of Bergen, Norway (August 2000).
- "Electronic Archives and Their Discontents." With Kari Kraus. Material
Cultures: The Book, the Text, and the Archive. University of Edinburgh, Scotland (July 2000).
- Panelist, "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).
- Invited Speaker, "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).
- "Information in the Information Age." Social Theory 2000:
Inaugural Conference of The International Consortium of Social Theory.
University of Kentucky (May 2000).
- Invited Speaker, "The Persistence of Vision: Digital Images in Digital Libraries." University of Kentucky Chapter of the American Society for Information Science (April 2000).
- Invited Lecture, "`If You Read Books, Justify It': Literary Studies in a Wired World."
Berea College (April 2000). Version also presented for the Department of English Faculty Seminar Series, University of Kentucky
(February 2000).
- Invited Panelist, "Small World, Wide Web [Charlottesville remix]." Panel on Research and Digital Media for Is Humanities Computing an Academic Discipline? With John Dobbins and John Unsworth. University of Virginia (March 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, College
Park (March 2000).
- Inivted Lecture and Colloquium, "Understanding Information." Department of English
and Transcriptions Project, University of
California, Santa Barbara (February 2000).
- "The Other End of Print: David Carson, Graphic Design, and the
Aesthetics of Media." Media in Transition,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (October 1999).
- "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).
- "The William Blake Archive: An Overview." Center for Computational Sciences,
University of Kentucky (September 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).
- Invited Panelist, "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).
- "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 Univeristy of Virginia (March 1999).
- 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. Sponsored by the Association for Computers and the
Humanities. Annual Convention of the Modern Language
Association, San Francisco, CA (December 1998).
- "afternoon / WAX / Case Studies in (Hyper)Textual Materialism." Contribution to a session on Digital Rhetorics,
organized by the MLA Committee on Computers and Emerging
Technologies in Teaching and Learning. Annual Convention of the
Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA (December 1998).
- Closing Plenary Speaker, "Looking Backward: Visual Culture and Virtual Aesthetics, 1984-1998."
Digital Arts and Culture 98,
University of Bergen, Norway (November 1998).
- Plenary Speaker, "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 at College Park
(October 1998).
- "Academic Reality/Virtual Realpolitik: Recent Hiring Trends in New Media Studies."
Learning On-Line '98,
Roanoke, VA (June 1998).
- 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).
- 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).
- "Applied Virtual Reality: Mapping Texts in Three Dimensions
with VRML." Annual Convention of the
Modern Language Association, Toronto, Ontario (December 1997).
- "Hypertext Theory Post-Postructuralism." Annual Convention of the
Modern Language Association, Toronto, Ontario (December 1997).
- Organizer and Chair, "Illuminated
Information:
Developing Interface and Visualization Technologies for the Humanities." With
Michele Ierardi and Drew VandeCreek. Annual Meeting of
the Society for Literature and Science, Pittsburgh, PA (November 1997).
- Paper, "The Unbearable Lightness of Material Information."
- "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.]
- "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).
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"The Poetics of Artificial Intelligence," Annual Convention of
the Modern Language Association, Washington D.C. (December 1996).
- "Electronic
Publishing and Doctoral Dissertations in the Humanities,"
Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association,
Washington, D.C. (December 1996).
- Workshop Leader, "Working the Web: Lessons in Practical Networking," Attending to
Technology: New Directions for Humanities Teaching and Research, University of
Maryland at College Park (November 1996).
- "Poesis Ex Machina," Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature and
Science, Atlanta, GA. (October 1996). [Prolegomena
to "The Poetics of Artificial Intelligence."]
- Panelist, the Southeastern Universities Research Association's
Workshop on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Charlotte, NC (August 1996).
- Numerous semi-formal talks, presentations, and demonstrations on various aspects of teaching with technology and humanities computing, for local audiences which have included:
- Visiting teachers and adminsitrators from secondary and professional schools in
Japan, hosted by the University of Virginia Library (July 1998);
- Visiting faculty and graduate students from the University of Maryland, College Park, hosted by the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (June 1998);
- Visiting faculty from Washington University, St. Louis, hosted by the Department of History (March 1998);
- The general public, hosted by the New Media Center (September 1997);
- Visiting textbook and trade publishers, hosted by the Electronic Text Center (May 1997);
- The Department of English as part of a Technology/Pedagogy roundtable (May 1996).
- Papers on electronic media and American studies at graduate student
conferences at the University of Virginia (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997) and the
University of Missouri at Columbia (1994).
Invited MOO Appearances:
Teaching Experience
- Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, Department of English,
2001 to present.
- ENGL 379M
Cybertexts and Cybermedia,
Fall 2002.
- HON 209L, Technologies of
Literature, Fall 2002.
- ENGL 467, The
Computer and the Text, Spring 2002.
- ENGL 759K, Word
and Image, Spring 2002.
- ENGL 467, The
Computer and the Text, Fall 2001.
- ENGL 479K, Postmodern
Fiction, Fall 2001.
- Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky, Department of English,
1999-2001.
- ENG 378, Cybermedia, Spring 2001.
- ENG 364, Postmodern Fiction, Spring 2001.
- ENG 570, Electronic Texts and Images [graduate level], Fall 2000.
- ENG 363, Visual Textuality, Fall 2000.
- ENG 771, Special Topics in Humanities Computing [graduate level], Spring 2000.
- ENG 378, Cybermedia, Spring 2000.
- ENG 320, Introduction to Literary Studies, Fall 1999.
- ENG 252, American Literature 1865 to Present, Fall 1999.
- Graduate Instructor, University of Virginia, Department of English, 1994 to 1999.
- ENLT 248, Literary Narrative in an Information Age, Spring 1997.
- ENAM 311, American Literature to 1865, Teaching Assistant, Fall 1995.
- ENWR 101, Computer-Assisted Introductory Composition, Fall 1995.
- ENWR 101, Introductory Composition, Fall and Spring 1994-95.
- ENAM 388, Literature of the South, Grader, Fall 1993.
Related Work Experience
- Project Manager, The William Blake
Archive (Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, eds.),
Institute for Advanced
Technology in the Humanities, June 1997 to August 1999.
- Collaborate with the Archive's editors and the Institute's staff on a daily basis to
coordinate development of the project;
- Oversee encoding and final parsing for all of the Archive's SGML, participate
in DTD development and DynaWeb stylesheet programming;
- Oversee digital imaging of Blake's illuminated books and artwork
from first-generation transparencies and slides of the originals;
- Data management for the Archive's (several thousand) electronic files;
- Oversee upkeep and expansion of the Archive's public Web site and private testing site, prepare
progress reports for funders and sponsors, assist with grant writing and development, handle general correspondence.
- Programmer/Analyst, Electronic Text
Center, University of Virginia Library, May 1995 to May 1997.
- User support and project consulting for a broad-based humanities community;
- TEI-conformant SGML encoding, archival-quality electronic text and image preparation in a UNIX environment;
- Extensive content-oriented World-Wide Web site design and
development [an example], and VRML authoring.
- World-Wide Web site design and development, Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR), Summer 1995.
- Technologies Research Assistant, American Studies @ The University of
Virginia, Summer 1994.
Selected Academic Web Projects
Academic Service and Activities
Editorial and Advisory Boards:
- Commissioning Editor, Computers
and the Humanities, 2001 to present.
- External Advisory Board, Maryland
Institute for Technology in the Humanities, 2000-2001.
- Editorial Board, Postmodern
Culture, 2000 to present.
- Editorial Board, Text Technology: The Journal of Computer Text Processing, 1999 to present.
- Advisory Board, Dickinson Electronic
Archives (General
Editors Martha Nell Smith, Ellen Louise Hart, and Marta Werner, in conjunction with the
Emily Dickinson Editing Collective), 1996 to present.
- Associate Editor for Electronic
Editions, Romantic
Circles (General Editors Neil Fraistat, Steven E. Jones, and Carl Stahmer), 1996 to present.
Committee Work:
Fellowships and Honors Received
- Student Award for Book Collecting, Bibliographical Society of the University of
Virginia, 1998.
- Stovall Dissertation Fellowship, University of Virginia, Fall 1997.
- Nominated, Seven Society Graduate Teaching Award, University of Virginia, Spring 1997.
- Clifton Waller Barrett and DuPont Fellow, University of Virginia,
1992-94.
- Phi Beta Kappa, State University of New York at Albany, 1991.
Memberships
Current:
Past:
Current Projects
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