Futures of Digital Scholarly Editing

by Matt Cohen (Editor), Kenneth M. Price (Editor), Caterina Bernardini (Editor)

Overview

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

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 From addressing outdated technical infrastructures to fostering new collaborations, this volume serves as a beacon guiding scholars and institutions through the complexities of digital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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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781517916688
Publisher:	University of Minnesota Press
Publication date:	01/07/2025
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Matt Cohen, Kenneth M. Price, and Caterina Bernardini

Part I. Transformations of Textual Scholarship

1. Distant Editing: The Challenges of Computational Methods to the Theory and Practice of Textual Scholarship

Elena Pierazzo

2. Beyond Social Editing: Peer-to-Peer Systems for Digital Editions

Julia Flanders

3. Creative Ecologies: The Complete Works Edition in a Digital Paradigm

Dirk Van Hulle

4. Charles W. Chesnutt and the Generous Edition: Collations, Annotations, and Genetic Histories

Stephanie P. Browner

5. Computational Literary Studies and Scholarly Editing

Fotis Jannidis

6. The Walt Whitman Archive at a Quarter of a Century

Ed Folsom

Part II. The Convergence of Digital Archiving and Scholarly Editing

7. Digital Archival Ethics: Representation, Access, and Care in Digital Environments

K.J. Rawson

8. Categories of Freedom: Colored Conventions, End-Movement Discourse, and the Nineteenth-Century Black Protest Tradition

Sarah Lynn Patterson

9. Not Reading the Edition

Cassidy Holahan, Aylin Malcolm, and Whitney Trettien

10. Indigenous Publishing, Scholarly Editing, and the Digital Future

Robert Warrior

11. Preserving the Walt Whitman Archive

Nicole Gray

12. Unsilent Springs: Dearchivizing the Data Choirs of Dickinson’s Time-Shifted Birds

Marta L. Werner

Afterword

John Unsworth

Contributors

Index