Matt Kirschenbaum Awarded a Guggenheim

Associate Professor Matthew Kirschenbaum has just been announced as a winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship for 2011.

Matt's project is a monograph tentatively entitled "Track Changes: Authorship, Archives, and Literary Culture after Word Processing." Here is how he describes it: "As the title suggests, I will be exploring the impact of digital media on literary production and reception broadly construed, from new technologies of authorship on computers and laptops to literary reception and reputation online (in blogs and other social media), and finally the challenges associated with preserving the digital legacies of today's writers for future generations."

Matt is one of only six Guggenheim recipients in English literary history and theory. It is also gratifying to note that Matt is the department's second Guggenheim winner in three years (Vin Carretta having held the award last year).

The Department extends its warmest congratulations to Matt on this significant achievement!