About MITH

Made possible by a major Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is a collaboration among the University of Maryland’s College of Arts and Humanities, Libraries, and Office of Information Technology. Since its founding in 1999, MITH has become internationally recognized as one of the leading centers of its kind, distinguished by the cultural diversity so central to its identity. 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 reading 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 digital tools, text mining and visualization, and the creation and preservation of electronic literature, digital games, virtual worlds. 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, themed Coffeehouse Conversations, courses taught in our seminar room, and ongoing interaction among fellows, students, and staff. Many of our events are open to the public.

MITH’s fellowships, grant partnerships, client relationships, and its Administrative Council, allow it to collaborate with a wide interdisciplinary range of campus units, including:

  • Human Computer Interaction Lab
  • University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS)
  • The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora
  • Center for Teaching Excellence
  • Committee on East Asian Studies
  • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program
  • Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity
  • College of Information Studies
  • The Gordon W. Prange Collection
  • Comparative Literature Program
  • Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies
  • Clarice Smith Center for the Performing Arts
  • Robert H. Smith School of Business
  • The Departments of English, History, American Studies, Women’s Studies, Asian and East European Languages and Cultures, Spanish and Portuguese, Dance, Theater, and Philosophy.

Ultimately, MITH is a destination, a place to drop in, log on, create, think, write, and above all, connect. We invite you to explore the rest of this Web site to learn more about our work.