Futures of Digital Scholarly Editing

2024

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Matt Cohen, Kenneth M. Price, and Caterina Bernardini, Editors

Exploring technology, ethics, and culture to unlock digital scholarship’s potential

In this indispensable collection, digital humanities practitioners and scholars work with a wide range of archival materials to confront key challenges surrounding the adaptation and sustainability of digital editorial projects and their societal impact. From addressing outdated technical infrastructures to fostering new collaborations, Futures of Digital Scholarly Editing serves as a guide through the complexities of digital editing in an era of profound technological and societal transformation.

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Film and Media, Literature, Digital Culture, Literary Criticism

Futures of Digital Scholarly Editing navigates the ever-shifting terrain of digital academia, examining practical and ethical considerations as technology continues to evolve. In this indispensable collection, digital humanities practitioners and scholars work with a wide range of archival materials to confront key challenges surrounding the adaptation and sustainability of digital editorial projects as well as their societal impact.

Broaching essential questions at the nexus of technology and culture, Futures of Digital Scholarly Editing is organized around three principal frameworks: access, sustainability, and interoperability; ethics and community involvement; and the evolution of textual scholarship. From addressing outdated technical infrastructures to fostering new collaborations, this volume serves as a beacon guiding scholars and institutions through the complexities of digital editing in an era of profound technological and societal transformation.

Contributors: Stephanie P. Browner, The New School; Julia Flanders, Northeastern U; Ed Folsom, U of Iowa; Nicole Gray, U of Nebraska–Lincoln; Cassidy Holahan, U of Nevada, Las Vegas; Fotis Jannidis, U of Würzburg; Aylin Malcolm, U of Guelph; Sarah Lynn Patterson, U of Massachusetts Amherst; Elena Pierazzo, U of Tours; K.J. Rawson, Northeastern U; Whitney Trettien, U of Pennsylvania; John Unsworth, U of Virginia; Dirk Van Hulle, U of Oxford; Robert Warrior, U of Kansas; Marta L. Werner, Loyola U Chicago.

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Matt Cohen is professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and codirector of the Walt Whitman Archive. He is editor of The New Walt Whitman Studies and author of The Silence of the Miskito Prince: How Cultural Dialogue Was Colonized (Minnesota, 2022).

Kenneth M. Price is professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and codirector of the Walt Whitman Archive. He is author and editor of several books, including Whitman in Washington: Becoming the National Poet in the Federal City and The Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman.

Caterina Bernardini is lecturer in the English department at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and contributing editor for the Walt Whitman Archive. She is author of Transnational Modernity and the Italian Reinvention of Walt Whitman, 1870–1945.