Proposal: Special Issue DHQ

“Digital Textual Studies: Past, Present and Future”

Editors: Amy Earhart and Maura Ives

We believe that the work originally presented at the October 2006 Digital Textual Studies: Past, Present and Future Symposium (Texas A&M University) will, upon revision, generate an excellent special issue of DHQ titled “Digital Textual Studies: Past, Present and Future.” The symposium assessed the current state and future prospects of digital textual studies, with an underlying emphasis on how digital media might change our ways of knowing or experiencing textuality. We propose that the special edition include revised articles from the invited speakers and a selection of the best posters from the poster session, a combination that offers both a historical perspective upon the development of the field (surveying both some key projects and continuing issues) and a more future-oriented snapshot of various works in progress. The edition will be anchored by the contributions of the invited speakers, as these essays represent the perspectives of pioneers and continuing leaders in digital textual studies and address important practical, methodological and theoretical issues in the field. Kenneth Price and Peter Shillingsburg both consider the ways in which digital projects do or do not move away from traditional conceptions of “edition” and text, while Morris Eaves addresses the particular challenges of image based editing. Martha Nell Smith and Julia Flanders turn their attention to the potential of electronic scholarship to reshape intellectual paradigms. Finally, Matt Kirschembaum’s contribution focuses upon the treatment of born-digital and mixed archival materials in the electronic environment. In addition, we propose to include a selection of contributions from the symposium’s poster sessions, thus providing access to a broad range of in-progress projects and offering a survey of current and emerging tools and practices in digital humanities.

Anticipated submission date for articles: June 1, 2007

The name(s) of the guest editor(s)

Amy Earhart, Maura Ives

The number and nature of materials to be submitted (e.g. articles, editorials, IM submissions, etc.)

Introduction by Amy Earhart and Maura Ives

Articles: 6 articles confirmed (all talks will be revised and turned into formal articles)

• Kenneth Price, “Edition, Archive, Project, Thematic Research Collection: What's in a Name?”

• Morris Eaves, “The Picture Problem: X-Editing Images 1992-2010”

• Peter Shillingsburg, "The Work Implied, the Work Represented, and the Work Interpreted"

• Martha Nell Smith, “Software of the Highest Order: Intellectual & Social Networks (the Human Touch)”

• Julia Flanders, "The Productive Unease of 21st-Century Digital Scholarship"

• Matthew Kirschenbaum, “TechnoBibliography: Software, Hard Drives, and Born-Digital Literature.”

Posters: 8 Selected Posters (posters are selected from the poster session and will be revised)

• Olin Bjork, “Reinventing the Classroom Edition: The Paradise Lost Digital Audiotext”

• Rick Furuta and Eduardo Urbina, “Re-imag(en)ing Cervantes’ Don Quixote; The Digital Textual Iconography Collection”

• Gary Stringer and Carlos Monroy, “Donne Digital: Augmenting XVII Century English Literature”

• Eugene Lyman, “‘May the Text Rise up to meet you’ New Ways of Reading Old Manuscripts”

• Aimee Kendall Roundtree , “Simulated Visuals: Some Ethical and Rhetorical Implications”

• Wesley Raabe, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Digital Newspaper Version”

• Amy Earhart, “Mapping 19th-Century Concord: Google Maps and the Concord Archive”

• Laura Mandell, “The Poetess Archive Database, Literary Annuals, and Visualization”

• Matthew Kirschenbaum, “Nora: Web-Based Text Mining and Visualization for the Humanities”

There are no constraints that would make publication on or by a certain date essential.

-- JuliaFlanders - 09 Apr 2007