Benjamin Albritton

[ Stanford University ]

Benjamin Albritton is the Associate Curator for Paleography and Digital Medieval Materials at Stanford University Libraries, and a product and service manager for the Stanford Digital Library Systems and Services. He oversees a number of digital manuscript projects, including Parker Library on the Web, Stanford University's digitized medieval manuscripts, and a number of projects devoted to interoperability and improving access to manuscript images for pedagogical and research purposes. His research interests include the intersection of words and music in the fourteenth century, primarily in the monophonic works of Guillaume de Machaut (the subject of his Ph.D. dissertation from the University of Washington); the uses of digital medieval resources in scholarly communication; and transmission models in the later Middle Ages.