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Current MITH Fellow Angel David Nieves presented a paper at the Third Biennial Urban History Association Conference on ASU's Tempe/Phoenix campus. The paper entitled, "The [...]

College Park, Maryland, October 26, 2006 -- The Electronic Literature Organization today released the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One. The Collection, edited by N. Katherine [...]

We are pleased to report that the Electronic Literature Organization is now comfortably settled at MITH, completing the physical and virtual move of its office and Web presence. helen Devinney, a doctoral candidate in English, joins MITH's staff as ELO's Managing Director. We look forward to much fruitful collaboration together; indeed, planning for a spring readings festival and conference (May 2-3; save the dates!) is already underway. Below please find our official press release, which we would be happy to see linked and redistributed.

From: Neil Fraistat, Director To: MITH Community Re: New Staff at MITH I'm delighted to announce the addition of two key full-time staff members, who [...]

MITH is very pleased to pass along word of a series of new programs and initiatives from NEH designed to support research and scholarship in [...]

To: All current and former members of MITH From: Neil Fraistat, Director MITH Acting Associate Director Carl Stahmer has returned for family reasons to the [...]

To: All current and former members of MITH From: Neil Fraistat, Director I am delighted to share the good news that Matt Kirschenbaum, Assistant Professor [...]

Following a very successful day of discussion on the digital humanities MITH hosted earlier this semester with Johanna Drucker and Jerome McGann, please join us on Friday, April 28th in the McKelding Special Events room (#6137) for a morning of discussion on electronic literature. In preparation for the Electronic Literature Organization's impending move to MITH (www.eliterature.org), two of the ELO's directors, ALAN LIU (Professor of English, University of California Santa Barbara) and JOE TABBI (Professor of English, University of Illinois Chicago) will visit to present talks on the preservation and collecting of electronic literature, as well as a new curriculum (at Santa Barbara) to support its teaching.

The John and Bebe Petrou Foundation, the Department of English, and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) are very pleased to announce the 2006 Bebe Koch Petrou Lectures on NEW MEDIA STORYTELLING at the University of Maryland, College Park. There will be two speakers associated with this event, coming to campus on separate days. All events are free and open to the public. The first will be on Monday, April 17th. SHELLEY JACKSON will present "Shelley Jackson's Interstitial Library" at 3:30 in Susquehanna Hall 1120. There will also be a more casual colloquium discussion at MITH (McKeldin Library, B0131) earlier in the day at 11:00, which all are welcome to attend. Jackson is an internationally recognized writer, electronic artist, and theorist and practitioner of new performance media.