Editing Early Texts: Practice and Protocol
15-16 June 2012
Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
This symposium is for scholars and postgraduate students involved in the editing of early literary and non-literary texts. ‘Early’ is being interpreted quite broadly, c. 1500-1800, and speakers so far have editing interests in Shakespeare and early modern drama, early modern poetry and prose, eighteenth-century fiction, early modern women’s writing and early modern historical texts. Papers on the digital humanities and online editing are also strongly encouraged.
The symposium ties in with a number of editing projects with a Massey connection. One is Sarah Ross’s edition of Women Poets of the English Civil War (with Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, University of Oxford). Sarah is also working on Australian Research Council discovery project, The Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing: Editing, Reception and Mediation, run by Rosalind Smith at the University of Newcastle, creating an online archive of selected early modern women’s texts. Other current Massey editing projects are Ingrid Horrocks’ edition of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, and Karen Jillings’ edition of the medical tracts of Scottish physician Gilbert Skene.
Keynote Speaker:
Professor Salzman, La Trobe University, is a Chief Investigator on The Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing: Editing, Reception, Mediation. He is the editor of the innovative online edition of Lady Mary Wroth (http://wroth.latrobe.edu.au/); and of two Oxford World’s Classics editions, Early Modern Women’s Writing, and An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction.
Speakers include:
- Tom Bishop (Auckland, Internet Shakespeare)
- Karen Jillings (Massey, editing Gilbert Skene)
- Ingrid Horrocks (Massey, editing Wollstonecraft’s A Short Residence)
- Brett Hirsch (UWA, Digital Renaissance Editions)
- Mark Houlahan (Waikato, Internet Shakespeare)
- Patricia Pender (Newcastle, Australia, The Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing)
- Sarah Ross (Massey, Women Poets of the English Civil War and The Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing)
- Paul Salzman (La Trobe, The Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing)
- Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (Oxford, Women Poets of the English Civil War)
- Rosalind Smith (Newcastle, Australia, The Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing)
Paper Submissions:
Contact Sarah Ross (S.C.Ross@massey.ac.nz) with paper proposals and abstracts (150-200 words), before 30 April 2012.