Dr. Matthew Kirschenbaum,

Matthew Kirschenbaum has been a grognard since buying his first copy of Squad Leader in the early 1980s. He is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland and Associate Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH, an applied thinktank for the digital humanities). He is also an affiliated faculty member with the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at Maryland, and a member of the teaching faculty at the University of Virginia’s Rare Book School. Kirschenbaum speaks and writes often on topics in the digital humanities, gaming, and new media; his work has received coverage in the Atlantic, New York Times, The Guardian, National Public Radio, Wired, Boing Boing, Slashdot, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. His current book project is entitled Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing, and is under contract to Harvard University Press. He is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow. See http://www.mkirschenbaum.net for more.

(Last Updated 29 June 2012.)

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