was completed and published in 1957. This has been described as "possibly the first literary concordance to use machine methods"; it was published seventeen years before the first volume of Roberto Busa's Index Thomisticus, a work widely credited with this first. Her innovative computational approach to literary analysis has resulted in her being considered a pioneer of the field of digital humanities. In 1964, Miles was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She remained in Berkeley for the rest of her life, receiving multiple fellowships and awards until her death in May 1985. She was the first woman to receive tenure in the English Department at Berkeley and, at the time of her death, held the position of University Professor. Miles was fascinated with Beat poetry, and was both a host and critic to many Beat poets from her chair at Berkeley. Most notably, she helped Allen Ginsberg publish Howl, recommending it to Richard Eberhart who published an article in the New York Times praising the poem. In 1974, she founded the internationally distributed Berkeley Poetry Review on the U.C. Berkeley campus. She mentored many young poets, including Jack Spicer, Robin Blaser, Diane Wakoski, Diana O'Hehir, William Stafford, and A. R. Ammons. Legacy Miles bequeathed her Berkeley home to the University of California, which offers the house for use by the visiting Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry. The PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award was established in her honor to recognize achievement in multicultural literature. References External links PEN Oakland The Josephine Miles Papers at Washington University in St. Louis Guide to the Josephine Miles Papers at The Bancroft Library University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty American women poets Beat Generation poets Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1911 births 1985 deaths Writers from the San Francisco Bay Area American magazine publishers (people) American magazine founders 20th-century American poets 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American businesspeople 20th-century American businesswomen PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award winners People in digital humanities Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters