ADE session at MLA – January 11th

ADE has organized a session,  “Editing the I /First-Person Narrative,” for the international Modern Language Association convention in Seattle this week. See below for extended abstracts and presenters’ bios for session 588 at 3:30 p.m. Saturday [January 11th] in the Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA. If you’re in town, […]

CFP: The Age of Revolutions in the Digital Age

Institute for Thomas Paine Studies

Information landscapes are changing profoundly. In order to absorb, circulate, and share knowledge, we all must balance “old” and “new” media. This is as true for academics as it is for anyone else, and how scholars negotiate these paradigms shapes our research, our teaching, and our attempts to reach broader […]

CFP for “Editing the ‘I’” session at MLA 2020

Jerome McGann famously said, “When you edit, you change.” The Association for Documentary Editing invites proposals for a guaranteed session on editing first-person nonfiction narratives for MLA 2020 in Seattle. How might McGann’s statement pertain to preparing first-person documents (other than correspondence) for public consumption in print or other media? […]

Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents Welcomes Applications for 2019

The Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications to the 48th Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents (IEHD) to be held on the campus of Princeton University, June 16–20, 2019. Click here to apply by the February 1, 2019 deadline, or […]

Call for Papers – ADE 2019: Evidence! and the Editing of Historical Documents

The Association for Documentary Editing invites proposals for sessions at the organization’s annual meeting in Princeton, N.J., June 20–22, 2019. At this year’s meeting, we are eager to discover and discuss the ways in which documentary editors interact with evidence—unearthing it, stumbling over it, negotiating how best to represent it, […]

Confronting the Complexities of Digital Publication: A Glimpse into the ADE Seminar on Critical Issues

By: Katie Blizzard, Communications Specialist at the Papers of George Washington and the respondent for this year’s Seminar on Critical Issues at the ADE Annual Meeting in Olympia, WA.  In late June, numerous textual-editing scholars will travel to Olympia, Washington, to attend the Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) Annual Meeting. […]