Publication of Scholarly Editing, Vol. 34

We are pleased to announce the publication of Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing (vol. 34, 2013), now in its second issue as an online publication at www.scholarlyediting.org. Scholarly Editing publishes peer-reviewed editions of primary source materials of cultural significance while continuing the decades-long tradition of publishing articles and reviews […]

Job Listing: Production Assistant at the George Washington Papers

The Papers of George Washington documentary editing project at the University of Virginia is seeking to hire a full-time Production Assistant to prepare each letterpress volume index in collaboration with that volume’s editor. This work involves careful reading of each volume as it is prepared; identification and indexing of people, […]

Digital Humanities 2013 Conference to be held in July in Lincoln, Nebraska

 Mark your calendars!  Digital Humanities 2013 will be held on 16-19 July 2013. DH2013 is the annual international conference of the following organizations: ALLC: The European Association for Digital Humanities (ALLC) Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Société canadienne des humanités numériques (CSDH/SCHN) centerNet Australasian Association for […]

NHPRC News

The February issue of the NHPRC News is now online at http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/newsletter/2013/february/ — with stories on our recent grants, new Commission members, and grant opportunities, as well as news from the Stanton-Anthony Papers, the St. George Tucker Papers, Digital Stewardship at Simmons, and the Environmental Design Archives. Annotation, the annual report of the […]

Call for Articles: Appositions: Studies in Renaissance /Early Modern Literature and Culture

We are currently reading submissions (articles) for Volume Six (2013), Editions & Editing, of APPOSITIONS: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature and Culture, an electronic, international, peer-reviewed, MLA-indexed, EBSCO-distributed journal for studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature and Culture. Perspectives that could be addressed include, for example: print […]

Call for Papers for an ADE Session at the 2014 MLA Meeting

Literary Works in Multiple Versions Most literary scholars can think of instances in which an author’s idea has been expressed in several versions, a process that G. Thomas Tanselle has called “vertical revision.”  F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Trimalchio,” for example, became The Great Gatsby.  Eudora Welty transformed a short story for […]

Society for Textual Scholarship’s 17th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference

The Society for Textual Scholarship’s Seventeenth Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference will be held on March 6-8, 2013 at Loyola University Chicago. The program, put together by chairs Steven Jones and Peter Shillingsburg, is entitled “The Objects of Textual Scholarship.” KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: DIRK VAN HULLE, University of Antwerp PAULIUS SUBACIUS, Vilnius […]

Taking TEI Further Institutes at Brown University

The deadline is approaching for applications to the introductory TEI customization workshop in the NEH-funded “Taking TEI Further” institutes. Please note that the dates for the “Publishing and Transforming TEI Data” seminar have been changed. Taking TEI Further: TEI Customization Brown University, May 8-10, 2013 Guest instructor: Trevor Muñoz, University […]

Text as Designed Object Seminar at the upcoming STS meeting

Matthew James Vechinski, Ph.D. in English and Textual Studies, University of Washington, is organizing a seminar “THE TEXT AS DESIGNED OBJECT” at the  Seventeenth Biennial Conference of the Society for Textual Scholarship, to be held at Loyola University Chicago, Water Tower Campus,  on Wednesday, March 6, 2013, from 4:30 – […]