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Nancy Mason Bradbury is an Associate Professor of English at Smith College, where she specializes in the poetry of Chaucer, anonymous medieval romances and tales, and the writings of medieval women. She is author of Writing Aloud: Storytelling in Fourteenth-Century England (1998), a book which reflects her interests in medieval literacy and orality, in the interactions of elite and popular narrative forms, and in the folklore of medieval England. Charles F. Briggs is Associate Professor of History at Georgia Southern University and among the most promising young historians of later medieval scribal culture. He is author of Giles of Rome’s ‘De Regimine Principum’: Reading and Writing Politics at Court and Universtiy, c. 1275-c.1525 (Cambridge University Press, 1999), the result of decades-long study of the hundreds of surviving manuscripts of the works of Giles of Rome, a prolific student of Thomas Aquinas. He is also co-author (with David Fowler and Paul Remley) of The Governance of Kings and Princes: John Trevisa's Middle English Translation of the De Regimine Principum of Aegidius Romanus (vol. 1 published 1997). George Bornstein is C. A. Partrides Professor of Literature at he University of Michigan and a recipient of major fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is the leading scholar in the application of editorial theory to literary criticism of modernist poetics, and is the author and editor of 17 books, including his influential critical study Poetic Remakings: The Art of Browning, Pound, and Yeats (1988) and the two volume edition of Yeats’s early poetry in the prestigious Cornell Yeats Series (1994, 1995). Mildred O. Budny, of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Princeton University, is acknowledged as the single most prominent authority on the massive collection of medieval manuscripts housed in the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. She is the author of the monumental, two-volume Insular, Anglo-Saxon, and Early Anglo-Norman Manuscript Art at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge: An Illustrated Catalogue (1997). She was co-author (with Bernhard Bischoff et al.) of The Épinal, Erfurt, Werden, and Corpus glossaries (1988). She is founder and president of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence at Princeton. Paul Delany is Professor and Chair of the English Department, at Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, B.C.) and specializes in Modern British Literature and Cultural Studies, Literary Theory, and Computers and the Humanities. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Canada. He has published books on seventeenth-century autobiography, on D.H. Lawrence and Rupert Brooke, and on Vancouver as a Postmodern city. He has contributed articles co-edited (with George Landow) two important collections of essays on hypermedia and digital texts: Hypermedia and Literary Studies (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991) and The Digital Word: Text-based Computing in the Humanities (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993.) Anthony S. G. Edwards (Professor of English, University of Victoria) specializes in later medieval and early modern English manuscript culture and is author or editor of numerous books on Middle English Prose: Handlist of Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose (1981-present); Middle English Prose: A Critical Guide to Major Authors and Genres (1985); The Index of Printed Middle English Prose(1985). He is co-author of A Companion to Malory (1996; rev. 2000). His detailed knowledge the particulars of medieval English manuscripts has provided the foundation for numerous critical articles and papers about English literature from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries. Paul Eggert is Professor and current Chair of the English Department at the University of South Wales, Canberra (Australia), Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Director of the Australian Scholarly Editions Center in Canberra and founder of the Colonial Texts Series published by the New South Wales University Press. He published a full scale critical edition of D. H. Lawrence's The Boy in the Bush and Twilight in Italy and Other Essays (1990, 1994) for the Cambridge series of Lawrence's works, and co-edited Henry Kingsley's Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn for the Academy Editions of Australian Literature Series (1966—), of which he is the general editor. He also co-edited the collections D. H. Lawrence and Comedy (1996) and The Editorial Gaze (1998). The author of influential essays on editorial theory ("Document and Text: The 'Life' of the Literary Work and the Capacity of Editing"; "Textual Product or Textual Process: Procedures and Assumptions of Critical Editing"; "Editing Paintings/Conserving Literature: The Nature of Work"), Eggert is currently at work on a book on the restoration of historic houses and monuments ( The Golden Stain of Time). Laurie A. Finke is Professor of English at Kenyon College, where she specializes in medieval literary studies and is particularly interested in investigating how gender studies, feminist criticism, and contemporary critical theory bear on the study and understanding of medieval texts. She is author of Women’s Writing in English: The Middle Ages (1999) and Feminist Theory, Women’s Writing (1992). She has edited collections of essays on Medieval Texts and Contemporary Readers (1987) and on Sexual Economies of Arthurian Romance (1998). John Miles Foley is Curators' Professor of Classical Studies and English and W. H. Byler Endowed Chair in the Humanities at the University of Missouri-Columbia, where he is the founder and director of the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition. His principal research focuses on oral traditions, particularly in ancient Greek, South Slavic, and medieval English and he is internationally recognized for his groundbreaking studies of the relationship between the performative settings of orally composed or transmitted literature and the written forms underlying such performances or emerging from them. His major publications include Traditional Oral Epic: The Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Serbo-Croatian Return Song (1990); Immanent Art: From Structure to Meaning in Traditional Oral Epic (1991); The Singer of Tales in Performance (1995); Teaching Oral Traditions (1998); and Homer's Traditional Art (1999) and The Wedding of Becirbey (2001). Foley is the founding editor of the journal Oral Tradition, which has published continuously since 1986. David Greetham, Distinguished Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies at the City University of New York Graduate School, is founder and executive Director of the interdisciplinary Society for Textual Scholarship and co-editor of its journal Text. He has written the standard history and methodological survey of textual scholarship (Scholarly Editing: A Guide to Research [1995]), and is the author of Textual Scholarship : An Introduction (1992); of Theories of Text (1999), a book which represents a major reassessment of the conceptual grounds for textual study; and of Textual Transgressions (1998), which provides an articulate account of the disciplinary and cultural history of textual speculation over the past two decades. His work on both textual history of copyright and on hypermedia archive of intertextual citation place his research on the cutting edge of contemporary textual studies. Kaaren Grimstad is an Associate Professor in the Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch with particular interests in Swedish, Old Norse languages and literatures, Icelandic sagas, and Scandinavian mythology. She has edited two Old Norse texts, one a translation of a Latin textbook in theology (the Elucidarius ) and the other a popular medieval saga (Volsunga saga: The Saga of the Volsungs). Her current study of discourse analysis of dialogues in Icelandic sagas has been seen in articles such as "Text Editing as Dialogue" and "A Closer Look at Dialogues in Hrafnkels saga." Michael Groden is Professor of English at Western Ontario University, and co-editor (with Martin Kreiswirth) of The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994), which was a Readers' Subscription Main Selection in Spring 1994. Its Online version (1997) was named as the 1997 Winner: Best Electronic Product / Internet / Social Sciences / Humanities by Association of American Publishers, Inc., Professional / Scholarly Publishing Division. He is author of James Joyce's Manuscripts: An Index (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1980) and is general editor of the 63-volume The James Joyce Archive (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1977-79. (He edited eighteen of the volumes in the series himself.) Ralph Hanna is Professor of Paleography at Keble College, Oxford University. A specialist in Anglo-Saxon prose and poetry, he researches Piers Plowman and alliterative poetry, language contact in England, conceptions of regional community in later medieval England. Michael Harris is reader in Media History at Birkbeck College, University of London. Harris's main research interests are the book trade in London during the 17th and 18th centuries and the development of the newspaper press, on which he has published extensively, including London Newspapers in the Age of Walpole, the defining contemporary study. He is co-editor of a distinguished series on book history published by the Oak Knoll Press and editor of the journal Media History. He is currently completing a full-scale study of London newspapers at the end of the 17th century. Michael Joyce is Professor of English and Media Studies at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. The New York Times called Michael Joyce’s afternoon “the granddaddy of hypertext fictions, while The Toronto Globe and Mail said that it “is to the hypertext interactive novel what the Gutenberg bible is to publishing,” and Der TAZ in Berlin once called him “Der Homer der Hypertexte.” His hyperfiction, “On the Birthday of the Stranger” was featured as the inaugural work for the Evergreen Experimental Site of the online version of the Evergreen Review. Two longer hyperfictions, Twilight, A Symphony (on CD ROM) and Twelve Blue (on the world wide web), were both published in 1996 by Eastgate. Another web fiction, the collaborative work The Sonatas of Saint Francis, was published by Supertart.com in 2000. His most recent print novel, Liam’s Going, was published by McPherson and Company in September 2002. Another linear novel, Going the Distance, is published on the web by NightKitchen. A 1982 print novel, The War Outside Ireland, won the Great Lakes New Writers Award. His collection of short fictions and prose pieces, Moral Tales and Meditations: Technological Parables and Refractions, was published by the State University of New York Press in 2001. Two collections of essays, Othermindedness: the emergence of network culture (2000) and Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics (1995) were published by the University of Michigan Press. Richard Karpen is Director of the Digital Arts and Experimental Media Program (DXARTS) and Professor of Composition and Computer Music at the University of Washington. Karpen’s works are widely performed internationally. He received numerous grants and prizes, including those from the National Endowment for the Arts, ASCAP, Bourges in France, a Fullbright to Italy, a Leverhulme Fellowship to the UK and a residency at IRCAM in Paris. Karpen is a foremost international figure in Computer Music, known for his pioneering compositions and for his computer applications for music and sound design. His works have been set to dance by the Royal Danish Ballet, the Guandong Dance Company of China, and others. Karpen’s compositions are recorded by Le Chant du Monde, Wergo, Centaur, Neuma, and DIFFUSION i MeDIA. Jill Mann is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost scholars of Medieval English literature. She is an Honorary Fellow at St. Anne's College, Oxford, and a Life Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge, where she held the Chair of English Studies for more than twenty years. Since 1999 she became the Notre Dame Professor of English,. Her research also includes work in Medieval Latin literature, particularly Goliardic poetry and Medieval Latin beast literature. She is the author of Chaucer and Medieval Estates Satire (Cambridge, 1973) and Ysengrimus: Text with Introduction, Translation and Commentary (Leiden, 1987). She is co-editor, with Piero Boitani, of the Cambridge Chaucer Companion and is currently editing the Canterbury Tales for Penguin Books. Randall McLeod, Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto, is one of the most influential and provocative contemporary critics of the editorial enterprise, devoted to the job of "unediting" canonical writers such as Shakespeare, Herbert and Donne. See, for example, his two essays on Herbert: "FIAT fLUX" in Randall M Leod, ed., Crisis in Editing (1994) and "Enter Reader," in The Editorial Gaze, ed. Eggert and Sankey (1988). In 1999, he gave the distinguished Rosenbach Lectures at the University of Pennsylvania on work by two continental printers: Castiglione's Il libro del Cortigiano, printed at the Aldine Press (1528); and the first Hebrew Bible printed in France, at the press of Robertus Stephanus (1539--44). The lectures are forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Press, with two already published separately: "Where Angels Fear to read" (in Marking the Text, ed. Bray, Handley and Henry [2000]) and "ALTVM SAPERE: Parole d'homme et Verbe divin. Les chronologies de la Bible hébraïque in quarto de Robert Estienne" (in La Bible imprimée dans l'Europe moderne [1999]). Recently his editing of a facsimile of the censored “Queene Elisbeth” portion of the 1587 Shakespeare edition of Hollinshed’s Chronicles came out from the Huntington Library Press. He received the 2005 Fredson Bowers Award for best essay in Textual Studies by the Society of Textual Scholarship. The so called essay covers 120 pages in print in the volume Voice, Text, Hypertext published in 2004 by the Center for the Humanities and the University of Washington Press. He is also the inventor and manufacturer of the McLeod Portable Collator, a high-speed device for comparing texts as images, and is currently at work on a photo facsimile edition of all extant manuscript versions of Donne's poem "To his Mistress Going to Bed." Malcolm B. Parkes (Professor, Keble College, Oxford) is one of the best-known specialists in later medieval paleography and codicology. He is author of Pause and Effect: An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West (1993), Scribes, Scripts, and Readers: Studies in the Communication, Presentation, and Dissemination of Medieval Texts (1991), English Cursive Book Hands, 1250-1500 (1969; rev. 1979), and editor of a number of collections of essays and of facsimile editions. He has held a fellowship at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies, and was selected to deliver the 1998-99 James P. R. Lyell Lectures in Bibliography at Oxford University. Alan Richardson, Professor of English at Boston College, is a historicist critic of extraordinary range and originality. He has won prestigious awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is a member of the advisory boards of a number of journals, (Romanticism, European Romantic Review, Nineteenth-Century Studies), websites and professional organizations. He is the author of over 50 articles and reviews and several books: A Mental Theatre: Poetic Drama and Consciousness in the Romantic Age (1988); Literature, Education and Romanticism (1994), winner of the American Conference on Romanticism prize; British Romanticism and the Science of Mind (2001) and the edition Three Oriental Tales (2002). Richardson is general editor for the Houghton Mifflin British New Riverside Series. Meg Roland is the first graduate of the Textual Studies Program at the University of Washington (2002) and currently chair of the English Department at Marylhurst University. Her research and publications have focused on Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur and the material production of his work via the printer William Caxton. Her recent essay "Arthur and the Turks" won the James Randall Leader Prize for best essay in 2006 in the journal Arthuriana. Dr. Roland was a participant in an NEH seminar on early printed books at Oxford University and will be Huntington Library Fellow this spring, completing a book on the literature and maps of the late medieval and early modern periods. She serves on the Board of the Society for Textual Scholarship. Peter Sabor is Director of the Burney Centre and Canada Research Chair in Eighteenth-Century Studies at McGill University, Montreal. He is a former President of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and an elected member of the International Association of University Professors of English. His recent work includes Pamela in the Marketplace: Literary Controversy and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland, co-authored with Thomas Keymer, to be published by Cambridge University Press this year, and the Juvenilia volume in the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen (CUP, 2005-6). He is General Editor, with Keymer, of the Cambridge Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Samuel Richardson (CUP, in progress) and General Editor of the Court Journals of Frances Burney, 1786-91 (Oxford University Press, in progress). Peter Shillingsburg, formerly the William L. Giles professor of English at Mississippi State University, is Professor of English at the University of North Texas. He is the former chair of the MLA’s Committee on Scholarly Editions. Shillingsburg specializes in nineteenth-century publishing and the history of book production, he has written influentially on the theory and practice of textual criticism and scholarly editing, on communication theory, on computer applications to editing and publishing, and on the electronic book. He is the author of numerous essays and two books on editorial theory, the influential Scholarly Editing in the Computer Age (1984; third edition, 1996), and Resisting Texts: Authority and Submission in Constructions of Meaning (1997). He is also author of Pegasus in Harness: Victorian Publishing and W. M. Thackeray (1992), which explores the cultural forces at work in the production of Victorian literature and Thackeray's development as a professional writer; general editor of The Works of W. M. Thackeray, a monumental scholarly edition in progress from the University of Michigan Press; and editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Vanity Fair. George Shuffleton is Assistant Professor of English at Carleton College, Minnesota. A medievalist interested in Chaucer, Langland, and Gower, Shuffelton is the editor of a forthcoming edition of an important fifteenth-century collection of English romances (MS Ashmole 61) often identified as a minstrel's collection. Barbara Earl Thomas, a noted painter residing in Seattle, has exhibited artwork at the Seattle Art Museum, the Bellevue Art Museum, the Whatcom County Museum and in museums throughout the U.S. Her work is included in a number of prestigious private and public collections, such as the Safeco Corporate Collection, the Microsoft Corporate Collection, The City of Seattle Percent for Art and the Seattle Art Museum permanent collection. In 1988 and 2000, she received the Seattle Arts Commission award for new non-fiction. Her essays have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies, including Raven Chronicles , Aorta, Gathering Ground, A Single Mother's Companion , Calyx, Intimate Nature: The Bonds Between Women and Animals , The Gift of Birds: True Encounters with Avian Spirits and Down the River: Into the Heart of the Grand Canyon. Storm Watch, a book of her painting and writing, was published in 1998 by the University of Washington Press. David Vander Meulen is Professor of English at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and editor of Studies in Bibliography. His long term project(the first parts of which are completed) is a descriptive bibliography and publishing history of Pope's works for which he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. He has also edited Samuel Johnson's previously unpublished translation of Sallust, as well as the manuscript of Faulkner's early novel, Mosquitoes. He has delivered the Englehard Lecture on the book at the Library of Congress. Dick van Vliet is Visiting Professor of textual scholarship at the Free University in The Hague (Holland), and Director since 1992 of the Constantijn Huygens Institute for text editions of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the editorial board of editio, the international yearbook of scholarly editing; a member of the Executive Committee of the Society of Germanistic editions; and chair of the recently founded European Society for Textual Scholarship. For at least twenty years, Van Vliet has been at the center of the most important editorial enterprizes in Holland. He is the editor of the completed 50 volume historical critical edition of the works of Louis Couperus, of 10 editions of the works of J. H. Leopold, famous Dutch poet of the end of the 19th century, of several editions of the 20th century Dutch poet J. C. Bloem, and of an edition of the complete poems of Hendrick Marsman, first modernist poet after World War 1. He is leading now some long-term editing projects, including a scholarly edition of the letters of Vincent van Gogh in collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Marta Werner is Assistant Professor of English at D’Youville College, Buffalo. A specialist in American Literature and Textual Studies, Werner is the author of Emily Dickinson’s Open Folios: Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writing (U of Michigan P, 1995), editor of Radical Scatters: An Electronic Archive of Emily Dickinson’s Late Fragments and Related Texts (U of Michigan P, 1999) and co-author (with Nicholas Lawrence) of Ordinary Mysteries: The Common Journal of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne (The American Philosophical Society, forthcoming). She was a keynote speaker at the 1997 Conference Voice, Text and Hypertext at the Millennium which inaugurated the Textual Studies Program at the UW and is the winner of the 1999 Fredson Bowers Prize for best essay in Textual Studies from the Society of Textual Scholarship and of the 2001 Jo Ann Boydson Essay Prize from the Association for Documentary Editing.
Lecture Series in Textual Studies, 2001-2002 November
27, 2001 : David Levy, UW Professor (Information School) January
30, 2002 : Dick van Vliet (Visiting Professor at the Free University
of Amsterdam, Director of the Constantijn Huygens Institute of the Royal
Dutch Academy of Sciences) February
11, 2002: Paul Eggert (Chair of English, University of South Wales,
Canberra and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities) February
20, 2002: Professor Randall McLeod (Associate Professor, Department
of English, University of Toronto) February
25, 2002: Christine Goettler (Assistant Professor, UW Art History) February
27, 2002: Barbara Thomas, noted painter and writer (Seattle) March 6,
2002: Jennifer Bean (Assistant Professor, UW Cinema Studies) April 25,
2002: Jill L. Mann (Chair of English, Notre Dame University) April 26,
2002: Michael Eberle-Sinatra (Assistant Professor of English, University
of Montreal) May 9,
2002: Laurie A. Finke (Professor of Women and Gender Studies, Kenyon
College) May 17,
2002: Stuart Sillars (Visiting UW Professor of English, University of
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