Kamrath is a member of the Charles Brockden Brown Society,[3] and served as a board member from its foundation in 2000 until 2008.[4] He is the General Editor of the Charles Brockden Brown Electronic Archive and Scholarly Edition project, which provides access to the letters, novels, poems, political pamphlets, and periodical writings of Charles Brockden Brown.[5] With Kamrath as director, this project was awarded National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants in 2009 and 2012.[6][7] The project has produced an XML-TEI encoded searchable archive of 991 primary texts, with secondary bibliography,[8] and will publish a scholarly edition, Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown, in a total of seven print volumes.[9] Kamrath is the general editor of the series, and was also volume editor for two individual volumes, Letters and Early Epistolary Writings[10] and Political Pamphlets.[11][12] All published volumes in the series have received the MLA CSE seal.[13] This collected edition is the first to collect all of Brown's known writing, including unedited letters and his extensive body of non-fiction, much of which was last published in his magazines in the eighteenth century.[5]
Kamrath is co-director of the Center for Humanities and Digital Research (CHDR) at the University of Central Florida.[14] He is the project director for an NEH Challenge Grant received by the Center in 2020 in order to expand its infrastructure, research, and programming.[15] He is also an executive member of the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH), and the administrator of the FLDH's website.[16]
Kamrath has been an inspector for the Modern Language Association (MLA) Committee on Scholarly Editions (CSE) and a grant review panelist for the NEH.[1]
Selected publications
Kamrath, Mark (2010). The historicism of Charles Brockden Brown : radical history and the early republic. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press. ISBN978-1-61277-549-4. OCLC746880433.[17]
Kamrath, Mark; Harris, Sharon M., eds. (2005). Periodical literature in eighteenth-century America. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN1-57233-319-7. OCLC55801028.[18]
Barnard, Philip; Kamrath, Mark; Shapiro, Stephen, eds. (2004). Revising Charles Brockden Brown : culture, politics, and sexuality in the early republic. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN1-57233-244-1. OCLC53398152.[19]
^Kamrath, Mark (1996). The "novel" historicism of Charles Brockden Brown (PhD thesis). The University of Nebraska. ProQuest304273819
^"Member Directory". Charles Brockden Brown Society Website. Archived from the original on 2022-06-19. Retrieved 2022-06-22.
^"The Society". Charles Brockden Brown Society Website. Archived from the original on 2022-06-16. Retrieved 2022-06-17.
^ ab"About the Project". The Charles Brockden Brown Electronic Archive and Scholarly Archive. Archived from the original on 2022-06-22. Retrieved 2022-06-21.
^Brown, Charles Brockden (2013). Barnard, Philip; Hewitt, Elizabeth; Kamrath, Mark L. (eds.). Collected writings of Charles Brockden Brown. Volume 1, Letters and early epistolary writings. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press. ISBN978-1-61148-445-8. OCLC837335104.
^Brown, Charles Brockden (2020). Kamrath, Mark L.; Shapiro, Stephen; Tuthill, Maureen (eds.). Collected writings of Charles Brockden Brown. Volume 4, Political Pamphlets. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press. ISBN978-1-61148-444-1. OCLC823860663.