MLA Commons | TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/bibliography-and-scholarly-editing/ Activity feed for the group, TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:58:33 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 780b3571c73a1093c1f9074911408333 Leigh A. Neithardt replied to the topic Seeking Nominations: Exec. Committee for TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing in the forum TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/bibliography-and-scholarly-editing/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for-the-2027-2032-executive-committee-for-tm-bibliography-an/#post-1040803 Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:31:22 -0500 Thanks, Professor Whitley!

If you want to nominate yourself for forum executive committee service, please fill out this form. It will go directly to the committee.

Be sure to take a look at our new FAQ about forum executive committees, too.

Thank you!

 

 

]]> 0 433654a684d941fa0b9913e8234db460 Edward Whitley started the topic Seeking Nominations: Exec. Committee for TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing in the forum TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/bibliography-and-scholarly-editing/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for-the-2027-2032-executive-committee-for-tm-bibliography-an/ Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:20:37 -0500 The MLA forum on Bibliography and Scholarly Editing is seeking nominations (including self-nominations) for a new member to join the Executive Committee for a term of service from January 2027 to January 2032.  If you would like to suggest yourself or another forum member for nomination, please send the following information by email…[Read more]

]]> 0 c816dd087431ac57291f9ad2eaca455d Gabrielle Dean started the topic Text Under Pressure: Society for Textual Scholarship 2024 Conference in the discussion TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/bibliography-and-scholarly-editing/forum/topic/text-under-pressure-society-for-textual-scholarship-2024-conference/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 23:07:52 -0500 The Society for Textual Scholarship is accepting proposals for our 2024 conference hosted by the University of Tulsa, June 6-8, on the theme Text Under Pressure. The deadline for proposals is Monday, March 18.

Texts manifest many varieties of creative, social, and political pressure in their expressive content and form. But text is also often a…[Read more]

]]> 0 55d5e17dc073e6e35670b8f205cce018 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/bibliography-and-scholarly-editing/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2024-forum-delegate-election-42/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 16:11:25 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 0 3b2482a67ae61d869f98f3e79174773c Laura Helton started the topic MLA 2024 CFP: Bibliography and Scholarly Editing in the discussion TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/bibliography-and-scholarly-editing/forum/topic/mla-2024-cfp-bibliography-and-scholarly-editing/ Tue, 07 Mar 2023 21:44:21 -0500 The Forum on Bibliography and Scholarly Editing invites proposals for two sessions:

Intention

Authorial intention has long been rejected as a viable constraint upon literary interpretation, but to what extent is it still operative in textual scholarship? Seeking 250-word abstracts on textual theory, collaboration, coercion, publishing, and…[Read more]

]]> 0 567c7881638bd488174723306ef107d1 Laura Helton started the topic MLA panels sponsored by the Bibliography and Scholarly Editing Forum in the discussion TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/bibliography-and-scholarly-editing/forum/topic/mla-panels-sponsored-by-the-bibliography-and-scholarly-editing-forum/ Thu, 22 Dec 2022 21:19:39 -0500 For those attending MLA in San Francisco in January, please join us for two sessions sponsored by the Bibliography and Scholarly Editing Forum:

Collaborative Work in Bibliography and Scholarly Editing

Friday, January 6, 10:15-11:30, Moscone West 3006

Marissa Nicosia, Presiding

Panelists: Filipa Calado, Daniela D’Eugenio, Kara Flynn, Juniper…[Read more]

]]> 0 24493262bb203bb0a5b7174cae8b3458 Laura Helton started the topic Nominations for Bibliography and Scholarly Editing Forum Exec Committee in the discussion TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/bibliography-and-scholarly-editing/forum/topic/nominations-for-bibliography-and-scholarly-editing-forum-exec-committee/ Thu, 22 Dec 2022 21:05:48 -0500 Dear colleagues,

The Bibliography & Scholarly Editing Forum is seeking self-nominations for a new member of the forum’s executive committee, to serve a five-year term starting in January 2024. The executive committee organizes at least one MLA conference session each year and nominates a representative to the MLA Delegate Assembly. If you’re int…[Read more]

]]> 0 a187ea0be5bdf58c884a8fbf03108d70 Gabrielle Dean started the topic Society for Textual Scholarship 2023 Conference: Design and Text in the discussion TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/bibliography-and-scholarly-editing/forum/topic/society-for-textual-scholarship-2023-conference-design-and-text-7/ Tue, 06 Dec 2022 02:36:21 -0500 The Society for Textual Scholarship welcomes proposals from textual scholars, editors, designers, curators, and digital humanists across the disciplines for its upcoming in-person conference on the theme of Design and Text, June 1-3 2023, hosted by The New School, New York, NY. For CFP guidelines, please see the attached or visit the STS website…[Read more]

]]> 0 9927d36760ed59509afa02a335b7e4c8 Sarah Werner deposited Feminist Bibliographical Praxis in the group TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1793910/ Mon, 12 Sep 2022 02:23:45 -0400 What follows is a talk I gave (over zoom) on June 29, 2022, for the London Rare Book School and the Institute of English Studies, University of London, and mildly revised in the transcript I posted on my blog on September 7, 2022. It was an opportunity for me to talk about the work I’ve been doing on feminist bibliography over the past couple of…[Read more]

]]> 0 a31d527e4e1bf37b5959cd2859792d6e Megan Peiser deposited Syllabus: ENG 4980 Studies in Major Authors: Anonymous in the group TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1771068/ Wed, 09 Feb 2022 02:38:02 -0500 This syllabus for Major Authors: Anonymous serves as one of the capstone seminar options for our English Majors and Minors. In overhauling our curriculum to make the English BA represent more literature, we removed Single-Author-Named courses & replaced them with Major Authors. Each faculty who teach this course make an argument for the various…[Read more]

]]> 0 a68d356b8c7c21530943ba6f184010e7 Michael Hancher deposited Making magazines and newspapers in the nineteenth century: Twenty-one reports in the group TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1768603/ Fri, 21 Jan 2022 02:26:13 -0500 The reports listed here and then reproduced in facsimile were published in British and American journals during the nineteenth century. They describe contemporary aspects, both editorial and mechanical, of the production processes that made such publications possible. Leading topics include the relative efficiency of steam-powered printing, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 9fc101202c94f5eefaba31191bd90117 Laura Helton started the topic Nominations for Bibliography & Scholarly Editing Forum Executive Committee in the discussion TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/bibliography-and-scholarly-editing/forum/topic/nominations-for-bibliography-scholarly-editing-forum-executive-committee/ Tue, 18 Jan 2022 21:03:58 -0500 Dear colleagues,

The Bibliography & Scholarly Editing Forum is seeking self-nominations for a new member of the forum’s executive committee, to serve a five-year term starting in January 2023.

The executive committee organizes at least one MLA conference session each year and nominates a representative to the MLA Delegate Assembly. If you’re int…[Read more]

]]> 0 0c44c4cbea99df52e1f02989e46cb4b5 Bonnie Mak deposited In Wood and Word, or, A Gloss on Documents and Documentation in the Humanities in the group TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1733707/ Sat, 03 Apr 2021 02:28:09 -0400 Attention in the humanities has lately turned to the re-thinking of traditional modes of publishing. But is the academy prepared to assess work that deviates from the recognised forms and formats associated with ‘digging down and standing back’ (Felski 2015, p. 52)? This chapter investigates whether humanistic research, usually expressed in wor…[Read more]

]]> 0 858b9f63b72433d3570e68344fe2dd56 Erin McGuirl started the topic BSA Seeks a New Editor for PBSA in the discussion TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/bibliography-and-scholarly-editing/forum/topic/bsa-seeks-a-new-editor-for-pbsa-7/ Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:24:52 -0500 The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) seeks a new Editor or co-Editors of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (PBSA).

The Editor is responsible for the editorial direction of the journal, which serves to fulfill the mission of the BSA to foster the study of the material text.PBSA is the Society’s distinguished quarte…[Read more]

]]> 0 a11bbf68e99d5db41239a6be07963a60 Erin McGuirl started the topic BSA Seeks a New Editor for PBSA in the discussion TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/bibliography-and-scholarly-editing/forum/topic/bsa-seeks-a-new-editor-for-pbsa-2/ Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:22:17 -0500 The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) seeks a new Editor or co-Editors of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (PBSA).

The Editor is responsible for the editorial direction of the journal, which serves to fulfill the mission of the BSA to foster the study of the material text.PBSA is the Society’s distinguished quarte…[Read more]

]]> 0 b27c39877d1f847edcca33a6e389db8f Erin McGuirl started the topic BSA Seeks a New Editor for PBSA in the discussion TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/bibliography-and-scholarly-editing/forum/topic/bsa-seeks-a-new-editor-for-pbsa/ Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:21:42 -0500 The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) seeks a new Editor or co-Editors of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (PBSA).

The Editor is responsible for the editorial direction of the journal, which serves to fulfill the mission of the BSA to foster the study of the material text.PBSA is the Society’s distinguished quarte…[Read more]

]]> 0 a1ddc9c1ff2f61b52ab43881a9d9ece0 Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited ENGL 759C Approaches to the Material Text in the group TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1725249/ Thu, 28 Jan 2021 02:29:28 -0500 Syllabus for spring 2021 graduate seminar, “Approaches to the Material Text.” Readings survey in history of the book and related fields. Includes prose introductions synthesizing each week’s readings.

]]> 0 f015feb3c4be34a23379dc04aac75d8d Sarah Werner deposited Books and Early Modern Culture in the group TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1723735/ Tue, 19 Jan 2021 02:27:43 -0500 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]

]]> 0 d65d731ba30e7acdd161849e43e42c52 Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited Books.Files: Preservation of Digital Assets in the Contemporary Publishing Industry (A Report) in the group TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1682252/ Fri, 27 Mar 2020 16:37:10 -0400 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]

]]> 0 aa49fb46ea7fbe768835542b4481fe8c 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1673402/ Wed, 25 Dec 2019 16:26:03 -0500 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

]]> 0 af1ab34fcb9bb8a5621860ecbefbbe4a Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited ENGL 479P: BookLab in the group TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1661521/ Tue, 27 Aug 2019 16:35:15 -0400 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]

]]> 0 41eab1d1767b95e5ad7a6d4c87210536 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1658013/ Thu, 18 Jul 2019 16:27:00 -0400 This article edits and discusses a Latin love poem written by a previously unknown woman writer, Lady Elizabeth Dacre, in the 1550s.

]]> 0 26ffd4ccfd0427e926fcbbe2c8cadc37 Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited ENGL 759C BookLab: How to Do Things with Books in the group TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1630620/ Tue, 29 Jan 2019 16:32:43 -0500 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.

]]> 0 4a3fc777b32497cea8414c67ad08cded Ryan Cordell posted an update in the group TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing: Hello all, I'm posting this CFP at the request of Leland […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1625575/ Tue, 11 Dec 2018 19:33:31 -0500 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

]]> 0 3246faceb898b35146aee4f1fe130d97 Tom White deposited Dust and the Digital Archive in the group TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1623705/ Wed, 14 Nov 2018 03:51:07 -0500 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.

]]> 0 734477d782d274558ec74d0a77e20592 Laura Helton deposited The Question of Recovery: An Introduction in the group TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1622742/ Fri, 02 Nov 2018 03:54:25 -0400 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]

]]> 0 2290a46aadbfe7236532f89995ba974a Laura Helton posted an update in the group TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing: Since I’m on the ballot as a candidate for the B […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1622303/ Sat, 27 Oct 2018 21:54:41 -0400 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]

]]> 0 6e578e57fbe9ea1237107e8938b120e1 Paul Fyfe deposited Radiant Virtuality in the group TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1621881/ Tue, 23 Oct 2018 16:31:37 -0400 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]

]]> 0 08bd05c3e559611f772e24e6a5dcbc2d Nora Benedict posted an update in the group TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing: Hi All - Since you will see my name on your ballot for our […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1620962/ Sat, 13 Oct 2018 14:32:44 -0400 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]

]]> 0 070478de7f294c28e6996e119dd54ec0 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1619311/ Thu, 27 Sep 2018 03:50:46 -0400 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]

]]> 0 2ae8422ba2c5eb1c14abcbc968862d7c Jonathan Senchyne deposited Vibrant Material Textuality: New Materialism, Book History, and the Archive in Paper in the group TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1615104/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:06:54 -0400 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]

]]> 0 6fda12bd2e1accb7797901530c7b05c3 Ryan Cordell deposited "Q i-jtb the Raven": Taking Dirty OCR Seriously in the group TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1595273/ Sun, 07 Jan 2018 05:47:04 -0500 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]

]]> 0 2053a2ec1dfd051d90bb5059124c2114 Megan Peiser posted an update in the group TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing: Hello, All, I wanted to introduce myself, as you'll see my […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1584929/ Wed, 18 Oct 2017 18:17:13 -0400 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]

]]> 0 9103af045aeded1d1f812b17a552ec9f 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1562799/ Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:23:30 -0500 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]

]]> 0 1d1c388e3474e3b8915f31dee1566dac Enrique Fernandez started the topic Thoroughness vs Intuitive navigation for an online database in the discussion Bibliography and Textual Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/bibliography-and-scholarly-editing/forum/topic/thoroughness-vs-intuitive-navigation-for-an-online-database/ Thu, 01 Dec 2016 18:04:29 -0500  

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]

]]> 0 562c4211ce56e6b45ba066bc59daa77f Whitney Trettien deposited "Digital Editing and Curation" (Spring 2016) graduate seminar syllabus in the group TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549709/ Mon, 08 Aug 2016 17:50:48 -0400 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]

]]> 0 fb6c5092896814edd9be5f68ee4c0b0a Patricia M. Hswe deposited Data Envy in the group TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/546891/ Thu, 07 Apr 2016 13:35:20 -0400 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]

]]> 0 39577a05f5eadaa9306fb3a61b7df6ce Ryan Cordell started the topic MLA 2017 Panel: What Is Critical Bibliography? in the discussion Bibliography and Textual Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/bibliography-and-scholarly-editing/forum/topic/mla-2017-panel-what-is-critical-bibliography/ Wed, 06 Apr 2016 21:16:10 -0400 We 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]

]]> 0 0bb22dcfac68df53b2a26c8d77d5920d Caroline Edwards deposited The New Open Access Environment: Innovation in Research, Editing and Publishing in the group TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/544953/ Mon, 29 Feb 2016 13:12:11 -0500 This 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]

]]> 0 d452f789558b6001bc7e83b09ae93405 Ryan Cordell started the topic CFPs for MLA17 in Philadelphia in the discussion Bibliography and Textual Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/bibliography-and-scholarly-editing/forum/topic/cfps-for-mla17-in-philadelphia/ Sun, 28 Feb 2016 14:46:53 -0500 Our 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]

]]> 0 23412209e49d62504673526f5c44d056 Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited Operating Systems of the Mind: Bibliography After Word Processing (the Example of Updike) in the group TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/534188/ Thu, 05 Nov 2015 16:48:12 -0500 Published 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.”

]]> 0 957e8a6b327d2b12a82ac835518c30f1 Alexander Gil deposited Migrant Textuality: On the fields of Aimé Césaire's Et les chiens se taisaient in the group Bibliography and Textual Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/168692/ Fri, 05 Jun 2015 17:31:35 -0400 With 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]

]]> 0 05a38456616a1351305c5e13057719c1 Matt Cohen posted an update in the group TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing: CFP for MLA 2015: Bibliography for the twenty-first […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/58889/ Sat, 22 Feb 2014 17:41:37 -0500 CFP 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]

]]> 1 43e3201b5d7625dfd7c471d15fefb64b Alan Galey created the doc Alan Galey, "Networks of Deep Impression: Shakespeare and the History of Information" in the group Bibliography and Textual Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/58123/ Fri, 07 Feb 2014 16:49:45 -0500 0 07c58c7f4f6d61bb236693bee8d370f9 Alan Galey edited the doc Alan Galey, “The Human Presence in Digital Artifacts” in the group Bibliography and Textual Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/58122/ Fri, 07 Feb 2014 16:46:12 -0500 0 ad34b5c580889832afb1185ef16cddaf Alan Galey edited the doc Alan Galey, “Mechanick Exercises: The Question of Technical Competence in Digital Scholarly Editing” in the group Bibliography and Textual Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/58121/ Fri, 07 Feb 2014 16:43:21 -0500 0 b3f874f3e79de6516ba67435ed14c99c Alan Galey created the doc Alan Galey, "Mechanick Exercises: The Question of Technical Competence in Digital Scholarly Editing" in the group Bibliography and Textual Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/58120/ Fri, 07 Feb 2014 16:41:35 -0500 0 82c478f124f9968bc8a6001dc171bc88 Alan Galey created the doc Alan Galey, "The Human Presence in Digital Artifacts" in the group Bibliography and Textual Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/58113/ Fri, 07 Feb 2014 16:17:35 -0500 0