Society for Textual Scholarship
International Interdisciplinary Conference: “Textual Ecologies”
14-16 April 2016
Carleton University
Conference Location: Lord Elgin Hotel, Ottawa
President: Robin Schulze (U of Delaware)
Executive Director: John Young (Marshall U.)
Program Co-Chairs: Sarah Brouillette and Travis DeCook (Carleton U)
Thursday, 14 April 2016
1:00-5:00: Registration (main lobby of the Lord Elgin Hotel)
2.30-4:00: Session 1
1a.
Workshop (St Laurent): “Introduction to Digital Forensics: Hard Drive Philology,” hosted by Thorsten Ries (U of Ghent)
1b.
Science-Fiction Textual Ecologies (Laurier)
Chair: Brian Johnson (Carleton U)
Guy Risko (Bard Early College): “Trilogic Ecologies: Consumption and Closure in the MaddAddam Trilogy”
Veronika Kratz (Carleton U): “Terraforming the Genre: The Birth of Ecological Sci-Fi through Frank Herbert’s Dune”
1c. (Pearson)
Race and Media
Chair: Janice Schroeder (Carleton U)
John Young (Marshall U): “Publishing Whiteness”
Valerie Kasper (Saint Leo U): “The Resonance and Residue of the First African American Newspaper: How Freedom’s Journal Created Space in the Early 19th Century”
4:15-5:15: Keynote 1 (Pearson)
Chair: Travis DeCook (Carleton U)
Yung-Hsing Wu (U of Louisiana): “Amazon in the Service of Reading”
5:15-6:30: Opening reception (Pearson foyer)
Friday, 15 April 2016
8:15-1:00 Registration (main lobby of Lord Elgin)
8:30-10:00: Session 2
2a. (Pearson)
Developments in Editing
Chair: Donald Beecher (Carleton U)
George Bornstein (U of Michigan): Title TBA
Alan Galey (U of Toronto): “Textual Scholarship in the Wild: the Digital Curation of Bootleg Concert Recordings”
Paul Eggert (Loyola U Chicago): “Version Editing of a Romantic Poet”
2b. (St Laurent)
Early Modern Women’s Textual Ecologies
Chair: Victoria Burke (U of Ottawa)
Cordelia Zukerman (U of Michigan): “Labor, Service, and the Early Modern Personal Letter”
Sharon Engbrecht (McGill U): “Early Modern Sermon Culture: the ‘Monstrous Marriage’ in Thomas Middleton’s A Chaste Maid in Cheapside”
Elisa Tersigni (U of Toronto): “The Textual Lives of Anne Askew”
10:00-10:15: Coffee Break (Pearson)
10:15-11:45: Session 3
3a. (Laurier)
Indigenous and Settler Textuality
Chair: Steve McLeod (Carleton U)
Germaine Warkentin (U of Toronto): “Thinking Inside the Book: the case of the Cheyenne Letter”
Renée Jackson-Harper (York U): “Lyrics of Settling or Staying: Nancy Holmes and Ethics of Writing Place”
3b. (Pearson)
Roundtable on the Role of the Scholarly Edition in the Digital Age
Chair: John Young (Marshall U)
Barbara Bordalejo, U of Leuven
Susan Brown, U of Guelph
John Bryant, Hofstra U
Alan Galey, U of Toronto
Peter Robinson, U of Saskatchewan
11:45 am-1:00: Lunch break; STS Board Meeting (Pearson)
1:00-2:30 pm: Session 4
4a. (Pearson)
Defining Textual Scholarship and Textual Criticism
Chair: TBA
Ronald Broude (The Broude Trust): “The Second Oldest Profession: A Critical History of Textual Criticism”
David Greetham (CUNY Graduate Center): “Boundaries Within and Without Textual Scholarship
4b. (Laurier)
The Possibilities and Limitations of Digital Editions
Chair: TBA
Barbara Bordalejo (U of Leuven): “Scholarly Editing and Digital Scholarly Editing”
April Witt (Indiana U): “Novel Histories: Digital Editions’ Challenges for Theories of Period and Genre”
Peter Robinson (U of Saskatchewan): “Is a crowd-sourced edition a ‘social edition’? Is a ‘social edition’ an edition?”
4c. (St Laurent)
The Material Text
Chair: Bridgette Brown (Carleton U)
Mateusz Antoniuk (Jagiellonian U): “The Draft in an Environment: Towards a ‘Worldly Genetic Criticism’”
Randall McLeod (U of Toronto): “The Invisible Book”
Michelangelo Zaccarello (U of Verona): “‘Emendatio’ in the Digital Age: OCR-based errors in some e-texts of early Italian authors”
2:45-4.15: Session 5
5a. (Laurier)
Social Media and Cultural Production
Chair: Sarah Brouillette (Carleton U)
Christopher Doody (Carleton U): “‘Was This Review Helpful to You?’:Towards a Methodology for Using Amazon Reviews”
Allie Watson (Carleton U): “Macho-Nerdom and Other By-Products: Coaxed and Selected Expression Online”
Scott Cleland (Carleton U): “Go-Go Gadgets: the Development of Personal Empire – Instagram as Branding Tool”
5b. (St Laurent)
New Forms of Cultural Production in the Digital Realm
Chair: Adrien Robertson (Carleton U)
Patricia O’Neill (Hamilton College): “Poetry and Computers: Questions of Making and Meaning”
Elyse Graham (SUNY Stony Brook): “Gamification and Textual Environments”
Thorsten Ries (Ghent U): “Textual Genetic Philology and Digital Forensics: Reconstructing and Analyzing the Hybrid Analog-Digital Dossier Génétique of Thomas Kling’s Bacchic Epiphanies – Project ‘Prehistory Stimulation’”
4.30-5:30: Keynote II (Pearson)
Chair: Sarah Brouillette (Carleton U)
Rashmi Sadana (George Mason U): “Reading Delhi, Writing Delhi: Towards an Ethnography of Literature”
6:30-9:00: Banquet (Macdonald)
Saturday, 16 April 2016
8:15-1:00: Registration (main lobby of Lord Elgin)
8:30-10:00 Session 6
6a. (Pearson)
Publishing and the Literary Field
Chair: John Young (Marshall U)
Melissa Dinverno (Indiana U): “Textual Ecologies: Lorca, Publication, and the Little Presses in Spain (1920-1936)”
Andrew Connolly (Carleton U): “Spiritual Readers”
Zeynep Seviner (Bilkent U): “The Economics of Literature in the Ottoman Capital: Journalistic Entrepreneurialism and the Many Facets of Authorship in Istanbul during the late 19th century”
6b. (St Laurent)
Editorial Interventions
Chair: Alan Galey (U of Toronto)
Wojciech Kruszewski (John Paul II Catholic U of Lublin / U of Ottawa): “The Intentionality of the Medium: on the Margins of ‘Introduction to the History of Lithuania’ by Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski
Tatevik Nersisyan (Queen’s U): “Quest for an Elusive Text: The Bibliographic Shakespeare”
6c. (Laurier)
Spatial Ecologies of Fashion
Chair: Susan Ingram (York U)
Jennifer Sweeney (Binghamton U): “Anzia Yezierska’s Sweatshop Socialism: Ready-to-Wear Fashion and the Industrialization of Sartorial Style”
Joshua Trichilo (York U): “Studs, Sweat, and Tears: The Body Politics of Indonesia Punk Fashion and Its International Coverage”
Elena Siemens (U of Alberta): “The Catwalk and the Sidewalk: Textual Ecologies of the Fashion Exhibition”
10:15-11:45: Session 7
7a. (Pearson)
Unpredictable Pieties of the Text: Three Early Modern Christian Practices
Chair: Travis DeCook (Carleton U)
Michael Driedger (Brock U): “Half-fulfilling Prophecies of the Radical Reformation: From Confessional Polemic to Academic Meme”
Paul Nelles (Carleton U): “The Writing on the Wall: Scribal Viruosity in Sistine Rome”
Johannes Wolfart (Carleton U): “The Enchantment of the Hand: Calligraphy of the Sacred and Social Ritual Among Early German Protestants”
7b. (St Laurent)
Visual and Textual Interactions
Chair: David Thomas (Carleton U)
Gabrielle Dean (Johns Hopkins U): “Poe Not Poe: Spurious Portraits and the Image of the Author”
Dessa Bayrock (Carleton U): “An environment of word and image: The Value of Theory in Visual Vignettes”
7c. (Laurier)
Workshop: “An Introduction to Version Control with Git,” hosted by Jonathan Reeve (Columbia U)
11:45 am-1:00: Lunch break
1:00-2:30 pm: Session 8
8a. (Pearson)
Producing Digital Editions
Chair: Adam Benn (Carleton U)
Robin Schulze (U of Delaware): “What’s in a Notebook?: Toward a Digital Edition of Marianne Moore’s Creative Process”
Jonathan Reeve (Columbia U): “Applications of Distributed Version Control Technology to the Creation of Digital Scholarly Editions”
Gene Lyman (Independent Scholar): “W[h]ither Reliability? Scholarly Editions in a Digital Landscape”
8b. (Laurier)
Workshop: “Mapping a Digital Archive of Big Science,” hosted by Elyse Graham (SUNY Stony Brook) and Robert Crease (SUNY Stony Brook)
2:45-4.15: Session 9
9a. (St Laurent)
Cultural Capital and the Literary Field
Chair: Chris Doody (Carleton U)
John Coleman (Carleton U): “Meritocracy and Contemporary Literary Economies in the UK”
Robert Hutton (Carleton U): “Blood and Thunder: The Comics Journal and ‘Literary’ Comics”
Jody Mason (Carleton U): “The Giller Complex and Literacy’s Freedom”
4:30-5:30: Keynote III (Pearson)
Chair: Julie Murray (Carleton U)
Deidre Lynch (Harvard U): “Beauties and Scraps”
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