Matthew Kirschenbaum: The US of AI

Matt Kirschenbaum is Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Maryland, with appoints in the Department of English and an Affiliate Appointment in the College of Information Studies. He is the author of three books, most recently Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage  (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021). He works in topics across media history and media theory with a particular focus on writing technologies. Recent academic articles have appeared in PMLA, Critical Inquiry, and ELH; he also writes for popular media outlets including the Atlantic, the Washington Post, Slate, Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, among others. With Kari Kraus he founded and directs BookLab, a makerspace that is a working letterpress printing shop and studio for the book arts.

Meredith Martin (Faculty Director, CDH; Professor, English) will be the respondent for this event. Her book, The Rise and Fall of Meter, Poetry and English National Culture, 1860-1930 (Princeton UP, 2012), was the winner of the MLA Prize for a First Book, the Warren Brooks Prize for Literary Criticism, and co-winner of the Sonya Rudikoff Prize for the Best First Book in Victorian Studies.

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Program in Media and Modernity, The Center for Digital Humanities, and the Princeton Humanities Initiative. 

M+M strives to make everyone feel welcome. If you are concerned that Betts Auditorium will not provide adequate physical accommodation for you, please contact M+M in advance to discuss it.