Editorial Studies at Boston University
www.bu.edu/editinst
The Editorial Institute at Boston University welcomes
applications for the (one-year) MA or the Ph.D.
Subject materials may be chosen from many disciplines: philosophy,
literature, history, journals and letters, children's books and
illustrations, hymns, screen-plays, legal documents, publishing records,
and much more. Successful degree work has recently included the
1812-1815 letters and journals of the diplomat James Bayard; the
correspondence between the poet Donald Justice and novelist Richard
Stern; Elizabeth Barrett Browning's translations of Prometheus; the
com-prehensive rewriting by Wyndham Lewis of his modernist novel, Tarr;
and the critical essays of William Stanley Braithwaite. Forays into
other media are en-couraged: examples are the first transcription from
audio-tape of Robert Frost's Dartmouth lectures, and a discography of
the Harvard Vocarium series of recordings made by mid-twentieth-century
poets. Boston University's holdings in its Howard Gotlieb Archival
Research Center are a rich source of material.
The Institute is directed by Archie Burnett (currently editing the poems
of Philip Larkin) and Christopher Ricks (editing the poems of T. S.
Eliot; general-editing the selected writings of the Victorian judge and
controversialist, J. F. Stephen), assisted by Frances Whistler
(co-general editor of the Stephen edition). Marilyn Gaull (editor of The
Wordsworth Circle) joined in 2007 as Research Professor. The Stephen
edition, and other editorial work within BU, has benefited greatly from
a generous award from the Mellon Foundation. Students have
opportun-ities to work on this and the other major editions housed at
the Institute.
Editorial Studies students have established a fine record of completing
the doc-torate within three years, and of moving into successful careers
in publishing, teaching, archival work, and within the world of cultural
Foundations. Publica-tions of Editorial Studies work, both MA and Ph.D,
include Elected Friends: Robert Frost and Edward Thomas to One Another
(Handsel Press, 2004); and "A Discography of the Harvard Vocarium"
(Harvard Library Bulletin, Fall-Winter 2004); other single volumes and
contributions to large editions are under con-tract with major
publishers.
Applications should be accompanied by a proposal for the MA thesis or
Ph.D dissertation. While these commonly involve preparing an edition, we
will also consider proposals that have a marked editorial dimension
without actually comprising an edition. For more information, please
visit www.bu.edu/editinst.
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