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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 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> www.marshall.edu/english<http://www.marshall.edu/english>