The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, at the University of Maryland, is a collaboration among the University of Maryland’s College of Arts and Humanities, Libraries, and Office of Information Technology. Located in McKeldin Library at the heart of the campus, MITH is the University’s primary intellectual hub for scholars and practitioners of digital humanities, electronic literature, and cyberculture, as well as the home of the Electronic Literature Organization, the most prominent international group devoted to the writing, publishing, and preservation of electronic literature.

On a day to day basis, MITH functions as an applied think tank for the digital humanities, both in furthering the excellence of its Fellows’ research and in cultivating its own innovative research agendas–-currently clustering around funded projects for digital tools, text mining and text analysis, visualization, social software, interactive virtual worlds, and digital preservation. Our work unfolds in a generous physical space, complemented by programs and events that include team-consultations for faculty digital projects, weekly Digital Dialogues (brown bags), frequent visiting speakers, courses taught in our seminar room, and ongoing interaction among fellows, students, and staff. Many of our events are open to the public.

Interns could choose from a wealth of research projects, including the Shakespeare Quartos Archive; Musical Theatre Online, a multimedia archive of material related to world-wide musical theatre; TILE, a set of tools for creating image-based electronic editions; and Preserving Virtual Worlds. These projects involve such grant partners as the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Bodleian Library, the British Library, Stanford University, and Linden Lab, the creators of Second Life. A list of all current research projects can be found at http://mith.umd.edu/mithresearch/.

Just nine miles outside of Washington D.C., MITH maintains close relations with several major cultural institutions in the D.C. area, including the Library of Congress and the National Archives. For more information, contact Neil Fraistat, Director, fraistat@umd.edu, or 301-405-5896.