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This website showcases projects created by students at MIT for classes in the Literature section. These projects currently include digital editions of short stories as well as projects exploring digital approaches to storytelling. We encourage you to browse and appreciate the students’ work!


The Birth of the Global Short Story

Instructor: Milan Terlunen

For this class, students read short stories from around the world covering the period 1800-1920. They also explored archives of 19th-century periodicals, and created their own digital editions of a forgotten or never-before-translated story they uncovered there. These editions include explanatory notes, interpretive and historical essays, public outreach strategies and creative responses (e.g. visual art, interactive fiction).


Digital Approaches to Storytelling

Instructor: Milan Terlunen

Students in this class conceived and realized a series of projects exploring methods for analyzing stories using digital tools, telling stories using digital (and analog) media and forming (digital and in-person) communities around stories. Each student revised and expanded their favorite project at the end of the semester, and these projects are presented here.