Matthew G. Kirschenbaum

Matthew G. Kirschenbaum

Matthew G. Kirschenbaum is Distinguished University Professor of English and Digital Studies at the University of Maryland, where he is also an affiliated faculty member with the College of Information Studies. He is a longtime RBS faculty member, having previously co-taught the course in born-digital materials. A practicing letterpress printer, he co-founded and co-directs BookLab and the Plaintxt Press at the University of Maryland. His most recent book is Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021). He has delivered the annual Rosenbach, Breslaur, Brownell, Fales, and McKenzie lectures, among others. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, The Atlantic, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Slate, the Los Angeles Review of Books, LitHub, the Paris Review Daily, War on the Rocks, The Conversation, and Public Books. He has been both a National Endowment for the Humanities and a Guggenheim Fellow.

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