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 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 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 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 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 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 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

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