Society for Textual Scholarship

STS 2012: PROGRAM OF EVENTS

 

Thursday 31 May 2012

 

 

2:00-5:00 pm: Registration

Harry Ransom Center Lobby

 

2:30-4:30 pm: Workshops

Harry Ransom Center

 

Please sign up for one of the workshops through the STS 2012 registration site. Your email will be given to the workshop leader and you will be contacted regarding any recommended preparation. Space in the workshops is limited, so we recommend that you sign up as early as possible.

 

I. Zero to Archive in Sixty Seconds: An Omeka Workshop for Textual Scholars

Denius Seminar Room (Second floor)

Amanda Visconti, University of Maryland, Department of English and Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities

 

Description: What digital literary engagements might you dream up, if you could create a professional-looking online archive quickly, easily, and for no cost? This workshop will introduce participants to the basics of Omeka, a tool that offers all these benefits and is particularly suited to online archives created for textual-studies and editing purposes. Omeka (omeka.org) is an increasingly popular platform for telling complex narratives through digital collections of textual and visual items; this workshop will serve scholars with such diverse interests as

● digital editing engagements based on collections of textual items rather than on a single text

● digital tools for textual studies and archival research pedagogy

● self-publishing an online archive without prior web development experience

● creating online engagements with the discourse field around a literary work

Workshop Outcomes: Participants will walk through the steps of creating their own public, lightly customized Omeka site, plus gain experience

● adding at least one textual and one visual archival item to their online collections

● describing these items through the basic fifteen Dublin Core metadata fields

● implementing a different site “theme” (design)

● installing a useful plug-in such as the TEI display plug-in, which renders an uploaded TEI file

In addition to these hands-on tasks, the workshop will cover Omeka’s terminology, hosting options, editorial use cases appropriate to the platform, and where to go to for help further customizing Omeka sites. Depending on participants’ backgrounds and needs (to be assessed in a pre-conference survey), the workshop will budget the final twenty minutes of its time to either discuss broad editorial possibilities for Omeka or offer time for experimentation under the instructor’s supervision. Because of my web design background, I can help participants with questions about customized applications of Omeka, such as using the platform as for a more specific editorial engagements rather than for a more general-purpose online archive.

Pre-Conference Preparation: Potential participants will complete a pre-conference survey gauging their web experience, knowledge of online

archives, and needs; depending on participant input, I will craft the workshop to emphasize guided practice, more open yet mentored experimentation, or theoretical discussion of Omeka’s possibilities for textual studies (e.g. Omeka’s limitations for scholarly editorial use, the biases created by presenting texts through index-driven archival formats, etc.). Following the lead of 2011’s “Scholarly Editions” workshop, participants will also take part in a pre-conference wiki, which will provide links to a few basic readings on digital editions and online archives. The wiki will also provide a

place for participants to note topics they would like to discuss and projects they might like to turn into Omeka sites. As we will be using the free Omeka.net hosting service, all participants will need to bring a laptop computer that can connect to the wireless internet. No prior website creation experience is required.

 

II. Born-Digital Literary Materials at the Harry Ransom Center

Zarrow Seminar Room (Second floor)

Gabriela Redwine, University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center

 

Description: The Harry Ransom Center is a humanities research library, archives, and museum on the campus of the University of Texas. The Center has been receiving digital media in literary acquisitions since the early 1990s, and our collection now includes close to 2,000 items ranging from 8-inch floppy disks to hard drives and DVDs. Most recently, we have been experimenting with using forensic tools to capture and assess the born-digital materials on these media.

This workshop-seminar will provide a hands-on introduction to some of the theoretical and practical concerns that arise in working with born-digital literary materials. (Please note that the focus will be on born-digital, not digitized, materials.) Activities will be tailored somewhat to participants’ interests and areas of expertise. All necessary equipment and media will be provided, and I will circulate a small number of readings one month prior to our meeting.

By the end of the workshop-seminar, you will have a deeper understanding of challenges related to the preservation and delivery of born-digital literary materials, as well as ideas about how such materials might be incorporated into your teaching and research.

This workshop-seminar will be limited to 10 participants.

 

 

5:30-6:30 pm: Reception                                           

Harry Ransom Center Atrium

 

 

6:30-8:00 pm: Keynote I

Harry Ransom Center Prothro Theater

Robert A. Gross, University of Connecticut

Introduction by John Young, Marshall University

 

 

Friday 1 June 2012

 

8:30-9:30 am: Business Meeting

The Carillon, AT&T Center

 

*All Friday and Saturday sessions take place in San Jacinto*

 

8:30 am-4:00 pm: Registration

San Jacinto Lobby

 

10:00-11:30 am: Session 1

 

1A.  Historical Perspectives on Digital Editing

San Jacinto 204

Chair: Amanda Gailey, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

 

Amy E. Earhart, Texas A&M University, “The Rationale of Holism: Textual Studies, the Edition, and the Legacy of the Text Entire”

 

Amanda Gailey, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, “Cold War Legacies in Digital Editing”

 

Brett Barney, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, “Digital Editing with the TEI Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow”

 

1B.

San Jacinto 206

Chair: Justin Tonra

 

Meghan Andrews, University of Texas at Austin, “Nicholas Ling and the Poets’ War”

 

Claire Bourne, University of Pennsylvania, “Jonson’s Breaches and the Typography of Action”

 

Matteo Pangallo, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “An Early Modern Edition of an Early Modern Play: Nicholas Leatt’s 1622 Fair Copy of Sir Francis Verney’s Tragedy of Antipo”

 

1C.

San Jacinto 208

Chair: Robert Bleil

 

Valerie E. Kasper, Saint Leo University, “The Residue of the First African American Press”

 

Olin Bjork, Santa Clara University, “Leafing Through Whitman’s Stanzas: The Verse Paragraph and Other Markup Challenges”

 

Robin Riehl, University of Texas at Austin, “Punctuation Revision in the New York Edition: An ‘Accidental’ Reading of Daisy Miller”

 

1D.

San Jacinto 210

Chair: Edward Burns

 

David Holdeman, University of North Texas, “W. B. Yeats, Magic, and Textual Production”

 

Chelsea Jennings, University of Washington, Seattle, “Pirating Pound: Drafts & Fragments in 1960s Mimeograph Culture”

 

 

1:00-2:30 pm: Keynote II

San Jacinto 207B

Jeffrey Masten, Northwestern University

Introduction by Douglas Bruster, University of Texas at Austin

 

 

2:45-4:15 pm: Session 2

 

2A.  Sounding it out

San Jacinto 204

Chair: Tanya Clement, University of Texas at Austin

 

Tanya Clement, University of Texas at Austin, “Using Predictive Modeling and Visual Analysis to Measure Prosody in Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives”

 

Laura Mandell, Texas A&M University, “The Catechresis of Printed Sound”

 

Eric J. Rettberg, University of Virginia, “The Variability of Sound, The Voice of the Amateur Reader, and The Digital Textual Condition”

 

2B.

San Jacinto 206

Chair: David Kornhaber

 

W. Scott Lancaster, Texas A&M University-Commerce, “A Critical Edition of the Original Performance: Finding the Performative Text of an Early Modern Dramatic Work”

 

David Kornhaber, University of Texas at Austin, “Whither the Playtext: Forced Entertainment, Multi-platform Texts, and the Postdramatic Theatre”

 

Corey Kwoka, Texas State University, San Marcos, “Merits of New Form in a Technological Age: The Ten-Minute Play”

 

2C.

San Jacinto 210

Chair: Peter Shillingsburg

 

Brian Bates, University of Denver, “Policing the Margins: The Pursuits of Literature & The Anti-Jacobin”

 

Molly Hardy, Southwestern University, “Typing Race and Nation: Mathew Carey’s Volunteers Journal”

 

Gary R. Dyer, Cleveland State University, “Reversing Censorship: The Case of Lord Byron”

 

 

4:30-6:00 pm: Session 3

 

3A.  Downsizing Shakespeare

San Jacinto 204

Chair: Jonathan P. Lamb, University of Kansas

 

Adam Hooks, University of Iowa, “The Least Important Book of the Year: The First Folio in 1622”

 

Jonathan P. Lamb, University of Kansas, “Shakespeare’s Giant Head”

 

Vimala Pasupathi, Hofstra University, “Shakespeare’s Labors Lost: Working Stages and Folio Pages after 1630”

 

3B.

San Jacinto 206

Chair: David Holdeman

 

Frederick Coye Heard, University of Texas at Austin, “Photographic Text as Triumphant Technology in Alexander Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the War”

 

Colbey Reid, York College of Pennsylvania, “The Point of Light: Towards a Photogenic Criticism (or How Machines See Art)”

 

Andrew Johnston, Amherst College, “The Codec Condition: The Life and Noise of Video Processing”

 

3C.

San Jacinto 208

Chair: Phillip Round

 

Dario Del Puppo, Trinity College, “The Blood of the Vine: Francesco Redi’s Bacco in Toscana between Right Pleasure and the New Science.”

 

Dan Mills, Clayton State University, “Lady Mary Wroth and the Alienated and Alienating Composition and Publication of The Countess of Montgomeries Urania”

 

T. B. Ward, United States Military Academy, “Notes On British Editions of Paine’s Common Sense”

 

3D.

San Jacinto 210

Chair: Brett Barney

 

Wesley Raabe, Kent State University, “A Rationale for Encoding Some Typographical Spacing in Nineteenth-Century Prose”

 

Mandy Gagel, Loyola University of Chicago and National Association of Olmsted Parks, “The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted: Editing a Literary Figure in a Documentary Edition”

 

Shawn Thomson, University of Texas-Pan American, “Fictional Fictions of Antebellum New York: Recovering John S. Sauzade’s The Spuytenduyvel Chronicle (1856)”

 

Agatha Beins, Texas Woman’s University, “The Beginning and End of a Text: Using Feminist Periodicals to Rethink the Communications Circuit”

 

 

6:15-7:30 pm: Open Forum

San Jacinto 207B

Issues and Implications of Open Access

Moderated by Wayne Storey, Indiana University

 

 

Saturday 2 June 2012

 

9:30-12:00 pm: Registration

San Jacinto Lobby

 

10:00-11:30 am: Session 4

 

4A.  Think Like an Editor: Five Disciplinary Approaches to Editing Pedagogy

San Jacinto 204

Chair: Amanda Visconti, University of Maryland

 

Amanda Visconti, University of Maryland

Andrew Blasenak, The Ohio State University

Susan C. Comilang, Washington Adventist University

Cass Morris, American Shakespeare Center

Dagmar A. Riedel, Columbia University

 

4B.

San Jacinto 206

Chair: Laura Mandell

 

Lauren Grewe, University of Texas at Austin, and Nicole Gray, University of Texas at Austin, “Editing Walt Whitman’s Annotations and Marginalia”

 

Wayne Storey, Indiana University, “Definitions and Matrices of Scholarly Editing”

 

Alex Gil, University of Virginia, “Négritude’s Legos: Transposition, Iteration and the Migrant Text”

 

4C.

San Jacinto 208

Chair: Dario Del Puppo

 

Timothy L. Stinson, North Carolina State University, “Medieval Textuality and Translatio in the Digital Age”

 

Dan O’Sullivan, The University of Mississippi, “Harmonizing Li prisons d’Amours within its Manuscript Context”

 

Katrina Brown, Sarah Lawrence College, “Negotiating Between Now and Then: A Comparison of Four Classical Chinese to English Translations of the Han Dynasty Text ‘Mencius’ Mother’”

 

4D.

San Jacinto 210

Chair: Molly Hardy

 

Amanda K. Allen, Eastern Michigan University, and Matt Schneider, University of Toronto, “The Paratext of Pottermore: URLs and the Harry Potter ‘Moments’”

 

Sydney Bufkin, University of Texas at Austin, “Google Books as Hybrid Technology: Theory and Practice of the Digital Archive”

 

Yves T’Sjoen, Ghent University, “Text and Peritext: Suggestions for a Broader Concept of the Literary Work for Textual Scholarship”

 

 

12:45-2:15 pm: Keynote III

San Jacinto 207B

Phillip H. Round, University of Iowa

Introduction by James H. Cox, University of Texas at Austin

 

 

2:30-4:00 pm: Session 5

 

5A.  Fame, Gender and the Text:  Women’s Literary Celebrity in the 19th Century

San Jacinto 204

Chair: Maura Ives, Texas A&M University
Ann R. Hawkins, Texas Tech University, “‘A living book of beauty’: Editing the Celebrity Body”

 

Catherine Blackwell, Texas Tech University, “‘A place among its more successful sisters’: Testing the Limits of Celebrity in Louisa May Alcott’s Moods”

 

Maura Ives, Texas A&M University, “‘A New Mode of Serving Up Authors’: Gender, Genre and the Celebrity Text”

 

5B.

San Jacinto 206

Chair: Rachel Schneider

 

Judy K. Deuling, Victoria University of Wellington, “Historiated Capitals: Text or Subtext in the Grande Heures and the Tres Riches Heures of Jean, Duc de Berry”

 

Eduardo Urbina, Texas A&M University, “Beyond Words: a Visual Bilingual Variorum Edition of the Quixote”

 

Douglas Bruster, University of Texas at Austin, “Shakespeare’s Brand”

 

5C.

San Jacinto 208

Chair: Lauren Grewe

 

Anjali Nerlekar, Rutgers University, “O…Where is it?: Material Textuality of Indian Poetry in its Local and Global Contexts”

 

Kasey Bass Baker, University of Houston, “Victorian Women Poets and the Literary Marketplace: The Literary Partnership of Mary Coleridge and Robert Bridges”

 

Herman Brinkman, University of Amsterdam, “Beyond Boundaries: Visualizing Textual Networks in Late Medieval Poetry”

 

5D.

San Jacinto 210

Chair: John Young

 

Gabriel Anderson Hankins, University of Virginia, “Mapping Digital Correspondence Archives: Theory and Practice”

 

Nicholas Hayward, Loyola University of Chicago, “Visualising Woolf: Pathways and Histories in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse”

 

Patrick Collier, Ball State University, “Reactionary Materialism: Anti-modernism, Connoisseurship, and the Reading Life in the London Mercury”

 

 

4:15-6:00 pm: Session 6

 

6A. Editing Forgeries: Dickinson Documents and Implications for Editorial and Literary Histories

San Jacinto 204

Moderator: Marilee Lindemann, University of Maryland

 

Roundtable:

Jessica Beard, University of California, Santa Cruz

Julie Enszer, University of Maryland

Ellen Louise Hart, University of California, Santa Cruz and Portland State University

Alexandra Socarides, University of Missouri

Martha Nell Smith, University of Maryland

Marta Werner, D’Youville College

 

6B.

San Jacinto 206

Chair: Michael Winship

 

Peter Shillingsbug, Loyola University Chicago, “D F. McKenzie Editing Congreve”

 

Alan Galey, University of Toronto, “The New Media Prototype as Scholarly Genre: Past, Present, and Future”

 

David Greetham, CUNY Graduate Center, “What Do We Do with an Unfinished Text?”

 

Hanno Biber, Institute for Corpus Linguistics and Text Technology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, “Text Studies by Means of Text Corpora: Example Cases from a Text Perspective”

 

6C.

San Jacinto 208

Chair: Robert Gross

 

J. Mira Seo, University of Michigan, “Identifying Authority: Juan Latino as African Ex-Slave, Professor and Poet of Latin in 16^th-Century Granada”

 

Janel Cayer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, “‘Americans protect your blood’: Representations of Race and Violence in the Lyrics of the U.S. War with Mexico”

 

John K. Young, Marshall University, “Reading Song of Solomon in Redbook”

 

 

7:30-11:00 pm: Banquet

The University of Texas Club, Darrell K. Royal Texas Memorial Stadium