Metamedia Team Faculty

		Faculty Biographies
		Peter Donaldson Peter Donaldson is head of the Literature Faculty, a Shakespearean scholar, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and Director of the Shakespeare Electronic Archive. Since 1992 the Archive has pioneered the use of computers to develop new ways of studying the text, image and film records of Shakespearean publication and production. A focus of this project has been the installation of an ambitious multimedia research and teaching archive at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Henry E. Huntington Library and MIT, with a version of the archive available on the World Wide Web. With funding from the NEH and the Mellon Foundation, the Archive is being extended to sites around the United States and Great Britain.
		Kurt Fendt Kurt Fendt is Research Associate in Foreign Languages and Literatures and in the Comparative Media Studies Graduate Program (CMS) at MIT. He is a Research Director in the CMS program and heads the HyperStudio, a development laboratory for educational media projects in the humanities at MIT. He is also co-Principal Investigator and Manager of the Metamedia project. His work includes the conceptualization and implementation of multimedia applications for the humanities, with a special focus on foreign-language and culture education, and research on hypertext theory. Fendt also teaches several courses in the CMS Graduate Program, in Foreign Languages and Literatures, and the Literature Section. He is co-Director of Berliner sehen, a collaborative hypermedia learning environment for German Studies and the on-line collaboration space for educators using Berliner sehen, Berliner sehen Exchange. Fendt frequently gives talks, seminars, and workshops in Europe and the U.S. on the integration of new media into humanities and foreign-language education, as well as corporate contexts. Formerly an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics at the University of Bern in Switzerland, Fendt received his Ph.D. in modern German literature with a thesis on hypertext and text theory in 1993.
		Henry Jenkins Henry Jenkins is the Director of the new Comparative Media Studies graduate program. His books include Science Fiction Audiences: Watching Doctor Who and Star Trek; Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture; From Barbie to Mortal Kombat, a study of gender, narrative and video games; The Children's Culture Reader; and Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture. His current research interests center around digital aesthetics, media convergence, transmedia storytelling, computer games, and youth culture. He discusses these and many other topics relating to the intersection of culture and technology through his column, "The Digital Renaissance" featured each month in Technology Review.
		William Uricchio William Uricchio focuses on the emergence of new media forms (including old media when they were new), the transition from technological possibility to cultural practice, and the changing fates of certain textual forms and cultural hierarchies. His textual interests range from Shakespeare to the Batman, and his books include Reframing Culture (Princeton); Die Anfange des deutschen Fernsehens (Niemeyer); The Many Lives of the Batman (Routlege); and The Nickel Madness (forthcoming, California. He currently heads the media and identity research team within the European Science Foundation Changing Media, Changing Europe project.