About Matthew Kirschenbaum

I’m a professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland, just outside of Washington DC. I research the history of writing and computers and the wondrous and messy interactions between them. My first book, Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination (MIT Press, 2008), was written mostly for academic readers.

Track Changes is aimed at a broader audience. It began, as many books do, with a question I couldn’t answer: What was the first novel written with a word processor? A lifelong interest in gaming and simulation led to another recently published book , Zones of Control (also MIT Press), a big compendium of essays about the oldest kind of gaming on record: wargaming.

You can find out more about my past and current work here.