Paul Hammond

Paul D. Hammond is the Director of Digital Initiatives at the Rutgers University English Department. He has a Ph.D. in German Literature and a forthcoming book on Thomas Bernhard, A Private Life as Public Discourse, but he is primarily interested in developing participatory, collaborative curricula for new media research and teaching across the humanities disciplines, which includes designing next generation teaching and learning spaces. This year, with Richard Miller, he planned, and oversaw the construction of, the Rutgers Writers House, a center for creative expression that includes three “smart” seminar rooms and a state-of-the-art “Collaboratory,” an interactive, multimedia classroom. He is currently designing the next phase of the project, which will include 24-hour multimedia editing suites, screening rooms, and a broadcast and recording studio, to enable students and teachers to develop new media fluency and to distribute their multimedia compositions beyond the traditional boundaries of the academy.