Matthew Thomas Miller Matthew Thomas Miller | Assistant Professor of Persian Literature and Digital Humanities at Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, University of Maryland; Director, Roshan Initiative in Persian Digital Humanities (PersDig@UMD); and affiliate faculty of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) & the Religious Studies and Comparative Literature Programs
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Matthew Thomas Miller

Assistant Professor of Persian Literature and Digital Humanities at Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, University of Maryland; Director, Roshan Initiative in Persian Digital Humanities (PersDig@UMD); and affiliate faculty of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) & the Religious Studies and Comparative Literature Programs

  1. New Course: Sufism: History, Literature, and Politics of Islamic Mysticism

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    • on Sufism, Literature, Mysticism, Affect, Emotion, Body, Embodiment, Orientalism, Sensory History, Sexuality, Gender

  2. NSF Awards $600K Grant to Fund Innovative Machine Learning Approaches to Automatic Transcriptions of Islamic Manuscripts

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    • on Digital Humanities, OCR, HTR

  3. $1.75 Million Mellon Grant Funds Phase II of the OpenITI AOCP Project

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    • on Digital Humanities, OCR, HTR

  4. $100K Mellon Grant Funds Continuation of OpenITI Persian & Arabic Digitization Project

    The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $100,000 grant to support the continued development of user-friendly, open-source software capable of creating digital texts from Persian and Arabic books…Read more here. …

    • on Arabic, Persian, OCR, Arabic OCR, Persian OCR, natural language processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, digital humanities, Persian digital humanities, Arabic digital humanities, manuscripts, HTR

  5. NEH Awards $282,905 Grant for Advancing Persian and Arabic Manuscript HTR to Roshan Institute at UMD

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    • on Arabic, Persian, OCR, Arabic OCR, Persian OCR, natural language processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, digital humanities, Persian digital humanities, Arabic digital humanities, manuscripts, HTR

  6. OpenITI AOCP Team Receives a HathiTrust Research Center Advanced Collaborative Support Award

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    • on Arabic, Persian, OCR, Arabic OCR, Persian OCR, natural language processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, digital humanities, Persian digital humanities, Arabic digital humanities

  7. OpenITI Receives $800,000 Grant from the Mellon Foundation for Persian and Arabic OCR

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    • on Arabic, Persian, OCR, Arabic OCR, Persian OCR, natural language processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, digital humanities, Persian digital humanities, Arabic digital humanities

  8. Course: Sex, Love, and Desire in Persian Poetry

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    • on Persian Literature, Course, Sex, Gender, Sexuality, Poetry, Shah-Nameh, Vis and Ramin, Rumi, 'Eraqi, Sana'i, Qabus-Nameh, Forugh Farrokhzad, Simin Behbahani, Fatemeh Shams

  9. Course: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in the Islamic World

    [Note: First taught in Spring 2017, revised Fall 2018] …

    • on Islamic Studies, Course, Sex, Gender, Sexuality

  10. Course: The Islamicate World 2.0: Studying Islamic Cultures through Computational Textual Analysis

    2021 Iteration of the Course …

    • on Digital Humanities, Course