The University of Southern California?s Institute for Multimedia Literacy and the electronic journal Vectors are pleased to announce a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Program for summer 2009 designed to foster innovative multimedia research. Titled ?Broadening the Digital Humanities,? the Institute will offer scholars the opportunity to explore the benefits of interactive media for scholarly analysis and authorship, illustrating the possibilities of multimodal media for humanities investigation.

About the fellowships:

Up to ten fellowships will be awarded to individuals or teams of collaborators in the early- to mid-stages of development of a scholarly multimedia project. While scholars in all humanities disciplines are eligible to apply, we are especially interested in collaborating with those who are working with video or with photography, sound, graphics, interactivity or other rich-media formats.

During the institute, fellows will explore central issues in the digital humanities and in multimedia authorship, including such topics as database structures and information architectures, visualization and interactive design, and process-based collaborative research. Guest lecturers during the summer will include Tim Lenoir, Johanna Drucker, Anne Burdick, Sharon Daniel, Doug Thomas, Phil Ethington, and Marsha Kinder, among others. All fellowship recipients will participate in a four-week residency July 13-August 7, 2009 at USC?s Institute for Multimedia Literacy, where they will have access to state of the art production facilities. Fellows will work in collaboration with world-class designers and Vectors' technical support and programming team during the residency and should complete a draft of their multimedia project during the course of the summer.

Please explore the existing Vectors' site for rich examples of the types of projects we have supported and published in the past.

Electronic applications are preferred. Please submit to usc.vectors@gmail.com

Mailing address IML-Vectors Summer NEH Fellowships Institute for Multimedia Literacy 746 W. Adams Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90089-7727

Priority will be given to applications received by March 20, 2009. Fellowship recipients will be notified in early April.

Useful websites:

Vectors, http://www.vectorsjournal.net

IML, http://iml.usc.edu/

NEH Office of the Digital Humanities, http://www.neh.gov/odh/

Questions may be directed to Tara McPherson tmcphers@usc.edu or Holly Willis hwillis@usc.edu