Pathfinders: Documenting the Experience of Early Digital Literature

“Pathfinders: Documenting the Experience of Early Digital Literature,” led by Dene Grigar (Washington State University Vancouver) and Stuart Moulthrop (University of Wisconsin––Milwaukee), is a digital preservation project that captures an important moment in literary history: the development of early digital literature. As such, it aims to enrich our understanding of key texts from that moment and pioneer methods that can be used to preserve and explore other examples of participatory media. It is funded by a Digital Humanities Start Up Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Works preserved include: Judy Malloy's "Uncle Roger: The Blue Notebook," John McDaid's "Uncle Buddy Phantom Funhouse," Stuart Moulthrop's "Victory Garden," Bill Bly's "We Descend," and Shelley Jackson's "Patchwork Girl."