Executive Committee:
Amanda Golden, Jan. 2020
Ryan Cordell, Jan. 2021 (2019–Jan. 2020 Ch.)
Dawn Childress, Jan. 2022 (2019–Jan. 2020 Sec.)
Megan Peiser, Jan. 2023
Laura E. Helton, Jan. 2024
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Sarah Werner deposited Books and Early Modern Culture in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 16 hours, 9 minutes ago
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the history of books by focusing on books and early modern culture. By learning about how books were made and how books were used, students will gain a clearer appreciation of how early modern culture was shaped by and was a shaping force in the development of print culture. The archival…[Read more]
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited Books.Files: Preservation of Digital Assets in the Contemporary Publishing Industry (A Report) in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 9 months, 4 weeks ago
The book publishing industry is an important social, cultural, and economic institution whose records deserve to be preserved for the public good. Books.Files was an exploratory project funded in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation aimed at assessing the archival value of digital assets in the contemporary publishing industry for stakeholders…[Read more]
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Enrique Fernandez deposited Database of titles of presentations in the annual conferences of the Canadian Association of Hispanists 1998-2018 in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 1 year ago
Database in Excel format with all the titles and authors of the papers presented during the last 21 years in the annual conferences of the Canadian Association of Hispanists – Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited ENGL 479P: BookLab in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
Syllabus for ENGL 479P: BookLab, an upper-division undergraduate course at the University of Maryland. Taught with the resources and facilities of the Department of English’s BookLab, the course is a historical, imaginative, and experiential introduction to the multitudinous forms of what is not the oldest but is surely among the most enduring of…[Read more]
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Elaine Treharne deposited Tristis Amor: An unpublished verse love letter from Lady Elizabeth Dacre Howard to Sir Anthony Cooke in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
This article edits and discusses a Latin love poem written by a previously unknown woman writer, Lady Elizabeth Dacre, in the 1550s.
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited ENGL 759C BookLab: How to Do Things with Books in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
Graduate-level syllabus for a seminar in the Department of English. Neither “history of the book” nor “media studies,” this course sits somewhere in-between combining the ethos of a makerspace with the hands-on resources of a letterpress and book arts studio.
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Ryan Cordell posted an update in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
Hello all, I’m posting this CFP at the request of Leland Spencer, the editor of *Women & Language*. It can also be found online at: http://osclg.org/women-language/call-for-papers-women-language
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Tom White deposited Dust and the Digital Archive in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months ago
This paper links the medieval and early modern production of parchment and paper with modern electronics manufacturing, in order to examine some of the occluded ecological and political dimensions of archival study.
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Laura Helton deposited The Question of Recovery: An Introduction in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months ago
This special issue of Social Text takes as its starting point the generative tension between recovery as an imperative that is fundamental to historical writing and research, and the impossibility of recovery when engaged with archives whose very assembly and organization occlude certain historical subjects. Responding to recent debates among…[Read more]
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Laura Helton posted an update in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months ago
Since I’m on the ballot as a candidate for the Bibliography & Scholarly Editing Forum Exec Committee, I’d like to take a moment to introduce myself.
I am an Assistant Professor of Print and Material Culture Studies in the Department of English at the University of Delaware, where I teach African American print culture and public humanities. My…[Read more]
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Paul Fyfe deposited Radiant Virtuality in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months ago
This chapter situates the Victoria’s Lost Pavilion project (https://pavilion.chass.ncsu.edu/) amid related work in virtual modeling and their interpretive problematics. Drawing from a tradition in textual criticism, the chapter renovates Jerome McGann’s notion of “radiant textuality” to extended virtual objects and built environments in digital…[Read more]
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Nora Benedict posted an update in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
Hi All –
Since you will see my name on your ballot for our forum’s executive committee elections this Fall, I wanted to introduce myself. (You can also check out my MLA commons profile for more details!)
I am a Latin American literary scholar, bibliographer, and digital humanist, currently working as a postdoc in the Center for Digital H…[Read more]
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Tom White deposited Paper and Digital Ecologies in the Glastonbury Miscellany (Cambridge, Trinity College MS O.9.38) in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
One of a number of leaves in the manuscript to have been badly damaged in the sixteenth century, folio 89 of the Glastonbury Miscellany reminds its modern readers of the fragmentary nature of the medieval textual record. Work began on this paper manuscript in the middle of the fifteenth century at Glastonbury Abbey. Transported to London in the…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Vibrant Material Textuality: New Materialism, Book History, and the Archive in Paper in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
I look to the ways material text studies might be prompted by, and improve upon, thinking in new materialism. The result is that paper could be read for how histories and narratives seep into the paper record and require accounts of agentic materiality lest they be lost or muted. In what follows, I use stories about rag paper as points of…[Read more]
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Ryan Cordell deposited “Q i-jtb the Raven”: Taking Dirty OCR Seriously in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 3 years ago
This article argues that scholars must understand mass digitized texts as assemblages of new editions, subsidiary editions, and impressions of their historical sources, and that these various parts require sustained bibliographic analysis and description. To adequately theorize any research conducted in large-scale text archives—including r…[Read more]
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Megan Peiser posted an update in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months ago
Hello, All,
I wanted to introduce myself, as you’ll see my name on your ballot for our forum’s executive committee elections this Fall. I encourage you to wander over to my profile and check out more details there, or follow me on Twitter at @MeganPeiser.I am a digital bibliographer and book historian focused on eighteenth-century literature,…[Read more]
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John Young deposited How to Revise a True War Story: Tim O’Brien’s Processes of Textual Production in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago
How to Revise a True War Story is the first book-length study of O’Brien’s archival papers at the University of Texas’s Harry Ransom Center. Drawing on extensive study of drafts and other prepublication materials, as well as the multiple published versions of O’Brien’s works, John K. Young tells the untold stories behind the production of such k…[Read more]
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Enrique Fernandez started the topic Thoroughness vs Intuitive navigation for an online database in the discussion
Bibliography and Textual Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month ago
I am developing an online database of the visual culture of the Spanish masterpiece Celestina (1499). At the moment, everything is in Spanish, but a programmer is helping me to develop the English version (we are using Omeka). I am trying to strike a balance between scholarly thoroughness and accessibility for the average users since ther…[Read more]
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Whitney Trettien deposited “Digital Editing and Curation” (Spring 2016) graduate seminar syllabus in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months ago
The attached syllabus was written for my graduate seminar “Digital Editing and Curation,” taught to 8 PhD students/candidates at UNC Chapel Hill in Spring 2016. The course description is as follows:
“This course introduces students to book history and scholarly editing through the frameworks of media studies and digital humanities. In this…[Read more]
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Patricia M. Hswe deposited Data Envy in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months ago
Panelists explore the research impact of digital scholarship. How is it enabling novel yet critical questions and discoveries otherwise unimaginable? What new paradigms for authorship, attribution, scholarly work, audience, and value are emerging? If research and teaching inform each other, how does their give-and-take play out for humanists…[Read more]
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