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This page focuses on resources and news related to literary and cultural studies, though drawing the boundaries of same is most challenging. The next step will be to update this space often with links to individual projects. Your suggestions are welcome!
Quick Links
- Electronic Literature Organization"To facilitate and promote the writing, publishing, and reading of literature in electronic media."
Texts
Literary Studies in the Digital Age: An Evolving Anthology. MLACommons. Kenneth M. Price, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Ray Siemens, University of Victoria, eds.
Reading Moving Letters: Digital Literature in Research and Teaching: A Handbook. Roberto Simanowski, Jörgen Schäfer, Peter Gendolla, eds. Bielefeld: Transcript, c2010. WID-HD PN43.7 .R423 2010
A Companion to Digital Literary Studies. Ray Siemens and Susan Schriebman, eds. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. WID-LC PN56.I65 C66 2007
MLA Annual Convention 2012
The Modern Language Association (MLA)'s 2012 annual convention included a session on "Getting Started in the Digital Humanities with DHCommons." (January 5, 2012) Agenda
Sample reality post, "Digital Humanities Sessions at the 2012 MLA Annual Conference in Seattle."
Centers and Associations
Featured Site
NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship)
A "scholarly organization devoted to forging links between the material
archive of the nineteenth century and the digital research environment
of the twenty-first."
Review Article:
Wheeles, Dana, "Testing NINES," Literary & Linguistic Computing 25:4 (2010), p. 393-403.
Project Spotlight
Approaches to Managing and Collecting Born-Digital Literary Materials for Scholarly Use
White Paper to the NEH Office of Digital Humanities
Level 1 Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant, May 2009
Authors: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (Project Director), Erika Farr, Kari M. Kraus, Naomi L. Nelson, Catherine Stollar Peters, Gabriela Redwine, Doug Reside
Projects described:
Salman Rushdie Papers (Emory)
Deena Larsen Collection (MITH)