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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 7 months agoHow 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 9 months, 3 weeks agoI 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 1 year, 1 month agoThe 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 1 year, 5 months agoPanelists 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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Ryan Cordell started the topic MLA 2017 Panel: What Is Critical Bibliography? in the discussion
Bibliography and Textual Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months agoWe are excited to announce our first panel for MLA 2017 in Philadephia and provide the abstracts. Be sure to add this session to your convention schedule!
Chair: Ryan Cordell
Respondent: Michael F. Suarez, S.J. (University of Virginia and Director, Rare Book School)
Barbara Heritage (University of Virginia), “Literature as Artifact: Critical…[Read more] -
Caroline Edwards deposited The New Open Access Environment: Innovation in Research, Editing and Publishing in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoThis panel was designed to address the convention’s featured issues of the academic profession, publishing & editing, open access, and new technologies. Using a roundtable format, the panel discussed how open access publications are transforming the kind of research that is possible and necessitating new editorial practices. The session hosted an…[Read more]
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Ryan Cordell started the topic CFPs for MLA17 in Philadelphia in the discussion
Bibliography and Textual Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoOur CFPs for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia are now posted. Please consider applying and share widely!
“What Is Critical Bibliography?”
Seeking short position papers exploring the intellectual reach and possibilities for bibliography beyond textual criticism. What is the function of bibliography at the present time? 300 word abstracts by…[Read more] -
Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited Operating Systems of the Mind: Bibliography After Word Processing (the Example of Updike) in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months agoPublished in PBSA 108.4. Began as the annual address to the Bibliographical Society of America in 2014; also given as the Mann Lecture at Penn State and at RBS in Charlottesville. Inspired, of course, by D. F. McKenzie’s great paper, “Printers of the Mind.”
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Alexander Gil deposited Migrant Textuality: On the fields of Aimé Césaire’s Et les chiens se taisaient in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoWith the discovery of the earliest known manuscript version of Et les chiens se taisaient, we learn that Césaire had started thinking about the theater earlier than had been assumed, and most important, that he had originally envisioned this work as a historical drama based on the Haitian Revolution. “Migrant Textuality” explores the several vers…[Read more]
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Matt Cohen posted an update in the group
Bibliography and Textual Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoCFP for MLA 2015: Bibliography for the twenty-first century.
A collaborative session proposal by the discussion groups for Bibliography and Textual Studies and Libraries and Research.
Seeking discussions of projects, research, issues, controversies, trends, and other topics. 250-word abstracts by 15 March 2014 to Dawn Childress (dawn@psu.edu) and…[Read more]-
Call for Papers
WORLDS and WORDS
29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities
Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities
Carrollton, Georgia
October 30-November 1, 2014Deadline Extended until July 22nd
We welcome submissions from across…[Read more]
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