The Elements of Style class taught in the Literature program aims to research how the daily quest for style has affected an understanding of the term’s connotations, and the idea of literary style. In the class, students will explore representations of style, both in fashion and in 20th-century literature. This archive intends to be growing archive of visual materials related to style collected by the students, which will result in the creation of a documented look book. more

The Asian Game Village project is an education project for Chinese language study at MIT. It aims at building an archive that presents students with video clips about the life in the Beijing Asian Game Village, through which students can encounter real spoken Chinese, get trained in listening comprehension, learn new vocabulary and phrases, and understand various facets of the current Chinese society and culture through these multi-media materials. more

Visualizing the complete records of the registers of the Comédie-Française Theatre Group (1680-1800), the Comédie-Française Performance Archive allows researchers to dig deeper into seventeenth and eighteenth-century French theatre practices. The archive will complement the CESAR (Calendrier électronique des spectacles sous l’Ancien Régime et sous la Révolution) website, one of the most valuable web-based resources for scholars and theater professionals interested in seventeenth and eighteenth-century French theater. more

The Reviving World Literatures project aims to create a collection of student materials around the course materials of the World Literatures class. The goal is to develop a continuously growing archive of resource, while enhancing literary study for students at MIT by emphasizing cross-cultural understanding and exchange. more

The Film Experience project presents the student with some 100 video clips related to the history of narrative film. The primary focus of the archive is on American cinema, but secondary attention is paid to works drawn from other great national traditions, such as France, Italy, and Japan. more

The heart of Europe: Belgium unveiled by its contemporary artists is a multimedia archive that features the personal stories of established and less established Belgian contemporary artists and introduces students of French to Belgian culture and history through Belgian contemporary arts. This online teaching resource increases learning about this trilingual country as it is used as an engine for self-discovery and self-teaching activities by beginning to advanced-level students. more

The Serial Experience project aims to investigate serial publication in the Victorian era through flexible visualizations centered on a timeline view and tools for annotating, tagging and collaborating on documents. more

The Tories, Timid, or True Blue project creates an online educational environment that allows greater public access to the Old North's archival collection, with a specific focus on the history of the Church and its congregants during the American Revolutionary period. more

The Global Shakespeare project allows students and researchers to explore dozens of Asian theatrical adaptations of Shakespeare plays by addressing the processes of cultural production and East-West interaction on a global and local scale. more

The US-Iran Relations project develops an innovative research platform that allows US and Iranian scholars to collaborate on the investigation and interpretation of hundreds of English and Farsi documents to answer the question why improvements in US-Iran relations did not occur despite numerous opportunities. more

The German Short Film project offers students a rich repository of contemporary German short film productions, video art, and relevant critical texts. more

The Beijing Film Academy Project aims at providing students with a perspective on the teaching methods of and artworks produced at the Animation School of the Beijing Film Academy. more

The German Radio Art archive allows students to investigate numerous examples of historical and contemporary German radio plays, sound art, and texts about this highly productive German radio genre. more

This archive investigates the history and cultural significance of revolving doors, amongst others through its representation in popular media forms. more

Contempor@rt is a project on the creation and interpretation of contemporary art by young artists from Quebec and Paris. more

This archive provides access to the music and words of Japanese hip-hop artists, as well as some contrasting examples from the worlds of Japanese pop, folk, rock, _enka_ and childrens music. more

The Eurasian History and Memory Visual Archive presents a range of historical documents that explore issues such as Eurasian identity, migration, and social life. more

The Internationalist project is a project documenting and supporting the production of the theatre play "the Internationalist" by playwright Anne Washburn. The Internationalist explores what it means to be an American. more

The Surviving the Holocaust project presents the student with an archive of original audiotaped interviews with German Holocaust survivors, who have become well-known writers, (excerpts of) their published works, i.e. memoirs, novels, and chronicles; historical texts, audiovisual material, photographs, maps. more

The Declarations of Independence Project explores an unprecedented range of documents on the Declaration of Independence, focusing on the period between 1776 and 1826. more

The Digital Dance Archive provides students with a digital workspace to collect and juxtapose critical video clips, dance silhouettes, musical forms, and texts from several contemporary dance works. more

The digital media repository Gedenken und Gedächtnis is an extensive collection of interviews with authors and their various approaches to the representation of memory and commemoration in the works of literature. more

The Comics and Popular Culture archive presents students with a representative sample of early North American comics. This project presents comics as a fascinating and beautiful art form that merges the popular with “high art” and allows students and researches to explore how comics have evolved in form and function from their early beginnings. more

The British Authors archive compiles some 150 texts, images and photographs, related to famous UK writers such as Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf and Mary Shelley. more

The Arab Oral Epic archive presents the student with over sixty image and text documents related to Arab Oral Epic Performance. more

España de cerca is a Web-based project on Spanish life and culture centered on a collection of video interviews cross-referenced by topic and annotated with vocabulary glosses and links to relevant materials on the World Wide Web. Through these personal testimonials students explore issues such as education, work, family life, youth, women's roles, tradition and change in contemporary Spain. more

The American Authors Project provides students with media documents that provide a rich background to the works of American authors such as Herman Melville, Toni Morrison, and others. more

Au-delà du regard: rencontres multiethniques is a Web-based module that contains original video interviews, live music and video footage of sites gathered in and around Paris during the summers of 1999, 2000 and 2001. The core material draws from interviews with more than thirty young people from various ethnic and cultural backgrounds. more

The Marais Museum project presents students and researchers with an archive of more than 550 visual documents and 800+ text documents related to the history of the Marais neighborhood in Paris. more

Cultura is a Web-based, intercultural project situated in a language class that connects American students with other students in different countries in order to explore cultural notions form more than one perspective. more

Berliner sehen is a hypermedia documentary for German Studies that relies on an extensive collection of shared archives and the Internet to form a collaborative learning environment for beginning to advanced-level students. more