Matthew G. Kirschenbaum is Distinguished University Professor of English and Digital Studies and Director of the Graduate Certificate in Digital Studies at the University of Maryland. He is also an affiliated faculty member with the College of Information Studies at Maryland, and a member of the teaching faculty at the University of Virginia’s Rare Book School. He served previously as an Associate Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) for over a decade. He has been a Guggenheim and NEH Fellow.
Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing was published by Harvard University Press’s Belknap Press in 2016; with Pat Harrigan, Kirschenbaum also co-edited the collection Zones of Control: Perspectives on Wargaming from the MIT Press (2016). His first book, Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination (MIT Press, 2008) won best First Book from the Modern Language Association. He was also the lead author on the Council on Library and Information Resources report Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content for Cultural Heritage Collections (2010).
Matthew’s public-facing writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Chronicle of Higher Education, Slate, LA Review of Books, Paris Review Daily, War on the Rocks, The Conversation, and Public Books. His research has been covered by the New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Guardian, National Public Radio, Boing Boing, and WIRED, among other outlets.
Currently he works as a printer’s devil at the Department of English’s BookLab, a hands-on space for exploring the arts and futures of the book that he co-facilitates. Kirschenbaum’s other interests include the history of writing and authorship, textual and bibliographical studies, serious games, and military media and technologies. He is currently completing a book on AI entitled Textpocalypse.
Reception to follow. Cosponsored by the Libraries and the Teaching and Learning Commons.
There will also be a workshop at 11am with a catered lunch in the LibLab at McCabe library. Spaces are limited. Register at https://forms.gle/aeAuEho9ejeWx7Gd8
