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  • The Editing Modernism in Canada (EMiC) project, funded by a Strategic Knowledge Cluster grant (2008-15) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, invites applications to its 2010 competition for master's and doctoral stipends. Current EMiC graduate fellows are working on projects such as the print editions and digital archive in the Collected Works of P.K. Page, critical editions of works by Marius Barbeau, Martha Ostenso, F.R. Scott, Hugh MacLennan, Ernest Buckler and Miriam Waddington, and the collaboratively written play Eight Men Speak.

    EMiC offers one-year stipends of $12,000 (MA) or $15,000 (PhD) to graduate students who are registered in, or entering, an MA or PhD program at one of the EMiC partner universities and who are engaged in research relevant to the project's mandate: to produce critically edited texts by modernist Canadian authors. Successful applicants are strongly encouraged to seek matching funds from their universities and external funding from granting agencies.

    In offering these stipends, EMiC interprets its mandate in the broadest possible terms: that is, the stipends are not limited to masters and doctoral students involved in work on an EMiC print or electronic edition; on the contrary, they are open to any student engaged in masters or doctoral research relevant to one or more of the three components of this project: literary modernism, scholarly editing, and the digital humanities. While EMiC interprets its mandate in the broadest possible terms, preference will be given to research projects most directly relevant to the task of producing critically edited texts by modernist Canadian authors.

    Although the stipends are for a single year, doctoral students can reapply for a second award. Such re-applications by doctoral students are not automatic renewals; requests for renewals will be adjudicated in the same manner as, and in competition with, new applications. EMiC will neither entertain applications for a third doctoral stipend nor award funding to students beyond the fifth year of their program.

    EMiC will provide an allocation of $12,000 (MA) or $15,000 (PhD) to the partner universities at which successful applicants are registered. EMiC co-applicants and collaborators will be responsible for ensuring that those funds are administered in keeping with the guidelines established by their respective universities.

    MA and PhD students must be supervised by an EMiC co-applicant or collaborator and enrolled at or applying to an EMiC partner institution. Before submitting an application for funding, incoming students must secure commitments in principle from prospective supervisors and students already enrolled in a graduate program at an EMiC partner institution must obtain a supervisor. EMiC cannot fund students supervised by faculty members who are not themselves project participants.

    Applications should be submitted via the online form available the project website: http://editingmodernism.ca/ma_phd_funding.html

    Application deadline: 1 March 2010

  • The Editing Modernism in Canada project, funded by a Strategic Knowledge Cluster grant (2008-15) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, invites applications to its 2010 competition for a postdoctoral fellowship. Our current EMiC postdoctoral fellow, Meagan Timney, is working under the supervision of Ray Siemens at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria, and in collaboration with Martin Holmes at UVic's Humanities Computing and Media Centre, on the development of the Image Markup Tool and publication engine for the production of the project's digital editions and archives.

    EMiC offers two-year postdoctoral fellowships valued at $31,500 per year to PhD students in the final year of their program and recent graduates who are engaged in research relevant to the project's mandate: to produce critically edited texts by modernist Canadian authors. The awards are tenable at any of the EMiC partner universities and are supervised by, or undertaken in collaboration with, co-applicants or collaborators.

    Although preference will be given to research projects most directly relevant to the task of producing critically edited texts by modernist Canadian authors, these awards are open to recently graduated postdoctoral scholars engaged in research projects relevant to one or more of the three components of this project: literary modernism, scholarly editing, and the digital humanities.

    Applicants must not hold a tenure or tenure-track position or other full-time employment. Fellows are expected to engage in full-time postdoctoral research during the term of the award.

    Preference will be given to recent graduates, that is, to graduates applying within five years of receiving their doctoral degree.

    The awards are not renewable beyond the second year.

    EMiC will provide an allocation of $31,500 per year to the partner universities at which successful applicants propose to engage in their research. EMiC co-applicants or collaborators will be responsible for ensuring that those funds are administered in keeping with the guidelines established by their respective universities. In a sponsorship letter the postdoctoral supervisor should clearly indicate the university's willingness to host the EMiC postdoctoral fellow and the arrangements made regarding office space, library access, supplies and teaching that will be made available.

    Applications must be submitted via the online form available at the project website: http://editingmodernism.ca/postdoc_funding.html

    Application deadline: 1 March 2010

  • The Federal government's Grant Policy Committee (GPC), on which the NHPRC serves, is gathering information from applicants and grantees about the timeliness of Grants.gov applications. More details about this outreach effort are available via the Federal Register announcement.

    We invite grant applicants to identify any significant challenges that impact their ability to submit federal grant applications in a timely fashion, and to suggest ways in which Grants.gov could be improved.

    Please take a minute today to submit your comments and thoughts on the GPC's Policy Comments page (http://www.cfoc.gov/index.cfm?function=policy_comments). Comments are due by January 31, 2010.

  • Camp Edit: The NHPRC's Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents

    An intensive seminar in all aspects of modern documentary editing techniques, the Institute includes lectures and presentations by various experts on various topics relating to documentary editing. This year's topics will include: starting an editing project in the electronic era, document selection and annotation; transcription; indexing, publishing in both book and electronic formats; fundraising, and promoting the edition. While at the Institute, interns will be able to consult with the three resident advisors.

    More specific information about this year's Institute, which will be conducted from July 19th through July 24th, may be obtained from the NHPRC staff. Application forms may be printed out from the NHPRC Web site:

    http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/partners/editing-institute.html

    For more information, see the Wisconsin Historical Society's Web page:

    http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/about/campedit/index.asp

    The application deadline is March 15th.

Events

CALL FOR PAPERS ON MARK TWAIN/LEO TOLSTOY
THE EDITORIAL INSTITUTE AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY
ASSOCIATION OF LITERARY SCHOLARS, CRITICS AND WRITERS
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
AUGUST 20-22, 2010

The Editorial Institute at Boston University--in coordination with the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers--invites academic faculty, independent researchers, editors, conservators, and graduate students working on Mark Twain and Leo Tolstoy to submit abstracts for a conference analyzing the parallel lives and legacies of both authors on the centennial of their passing.

The following themes are to be considered for panel topics. Submissions can concentrate on one or both of the authors, and on any of their works:

The International National Epic
The Veneration of Location (in Print or in Mortar)
Between the Lines: Libraries and Marginalia
Editing Literary Executorship
Twain, Tolstoy, and the Testaments
Imperial Rejection, Political Reception
Lost in Translation: Tolstoy in English, Twain in Russian
Censorship Uncensored
Twain and Tolstoy in the Twenty-First Century

For questions, please contact Alex Effgen at the Editorial Institute (abeffgen@bu.edu). To contribute, please send a short curriculum vitae and 300-word abstract to the above email by Friday, 5 March 2010.