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Dear members of the STS community,
At this year’s MLA, STS is sponsoring session #604, “Texts Divided: Textual Scholarship and the American Civil War” on Saturday, Jan. 11 from 3:30-4:45 in the Missouri room of the Sheraton Chicago, an interactive roundtable moderated by
Coleman Hutchison and featuring Kathleen Diffley, Michael LeMahieu, Jennie Lightweis-Goff, Cody Marrs, Jane E. Schultz, and Julia Ann Stern. STS is also co-sponsoring, with the Committee on Scholarly Editions, session #171, “From Magazine to Book: Editorial
Implications,” on Thursday, Jan. 9, from 7-8:15 p.m. in the Michigan-Michigan State room at the Chicago Marriott. This panel will feature talks by George Bornstein, Jennifer Sorensen Emery-Peck, and Kinohi Nishikawa.
In addition, the following sessions may be of interest to our membership (numbers refer to listings in the MLA program). Please let me know if there are additional sessions of interest you would like me to forward.
I hope to see you in Chicago,
John
Thursday, Jan. 9
8:30-11:30
3. Get Started in the Digital Humanities with Help from DH Commons
12:00-1:15
15. How to Do Things with New Media in Medieval Studies
25. Manuscript Studies and Cultural History
31. Radical Curators, Vulnerable Genres: Lost Histories of Collecting, Editing, Bibliography
38. Digital Practice: Literary Remediations
1:45-3:00
56. Variorum Editing
78. Russian Periodical Studies
3:30-4:45
98. Vulnerable Texts in Digital Literary Studies
5:15-6:30
133. Imagining Modern Cities through Periodicals
7:00-8:15
187. Teaching outside the Classroom through Digital Humanities: Alt-Academic Feminism
Friday, Jan. 9
8:30-9:45
194. Typography and Paratext in Early Modern Lexicography
197. Learned Society Journals: Challenges and Opportunities in the Twenty-First Century
229. Close Reading the African American Archive
10:15-11:30
239. Vulnerable Times in the Archive: Forgotten Modernist Literary Magazines
247. Reading Class in Nineteenth-Century American Popular Publishing
12:00-1:15
272. Building a Book History of Criticism
284. Digital Humanities and French Renaissance Culture
299. What Is Data in Literary Studies?
1:45-3:00
331. Slavery and the Book Trade
335. Mass versus Coterie: The Rare Book
337. New Digital Vanguards in Spanish Literature
3:30-4:45
350. Open Access: Editing Online Scholarly Journals
357. Medieval England and the History of the Book
377. Making Sense of Big Data
378. Destruction and Revitalization
5:15-6:30
398. Virginia Woolf and Book History
402. Beyond the Digital: Pattern Recognition and Interpretation
403. Words, Works, and New Archives: Studying African American Literature in the Twenty-First Century
409. Innovative Interventions in Scholarly Editing
Saturday, Jan. 11
8:30-9:45
446. Early African American Print Cultures: Reflections and Directions
10:15-11:30
501. Books and the Law
12:00-1:15
526. Scholarly Journals: Academic and Commercial and Independent Perspectives
528. Digital Humanities from the Ground Up
1:45-3:00
550. A Look at the Newberry’s Collection: Maps and Manuscripts in Colonial Studies
577. Evaluating Digital Scholarship: Candidate Success Stories
3:30-4:45
586. Early Modern Media Ecologies
615. Literary Works in Multiple Versions
618. FrostBytes: Archival Scholarship in the Digital Age
5:15-6:30
634. Early American Networks of Writing
646. The Politics of Poetry in Performance
Sunday, Jan. 12
8:30-9:45
677. Discoverability: New Methods (and Experiences) of Scholarly “Wild Surmise”
679. Decolonizing DH: Theories and Practices of Postcolonial Digital Humanities
692. Encoding and Decoding William Blake
10:15-11:30
708. Critical Making in Digital Humanities
723. American, British, and Transnational Serials
724. The Data Is the Scholarship
738. Book History and Digital Humanities
1:45-3:00
792. Old Materials, New Materialisms
Dr. John Young
Professor, Department of English
Marshall University
(304) 696-2349