Society for Textual Scholarship 2001 International Interdisciplinary Conference Information

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• April 2001 Conference Program
• Sessions for Thursday, April 19
• Sessions for Friday, April 20
• Sessions for Saturday, April 21
• List of Conference Participants
• Registration Information
• Hotel Accommodations
• How to Join STS

Program of the Eleventh International Interdisciplinary Conference of The Society for Textual Scholarship
April 18, 19, 20, 21, 2001, New York City
Sponsored by the Graduate School and University Center
The City University of New York

The hospitality reception on the evening of Wednesday, April 18 and all sessions on Thursday, April 19 and Friday, April 20 will be held at the new CUNY Graduate Center at 365 5th Avenue (at 34th Street, the old B. Altman Building). The Friday evening banquet will be held at the Harvard Club of New York (27 W. 44th Street). Saturday's sessions will be held in the Trustee's Room of the New York Public Library on 5th Avenue and 42nd Street . The post-conference party will be held at the Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street (between Madison and Park).

Wednesday, April 18 Graduate Center of the City University of New York

5:00-8:00pm: Hospitality Reception and Registration
Room: Fourth Floor English Lounge

Thursday, April 19 Graduate Center of the City University of New York

8:00-8:30am: Registration
Room: Fourth Floor English Lounge

Welcome by Richard J. Finneran, Executive Director, Society for Textual Scholarship and OPENING PLENARY SESSION: 8:30-11:30

NEW DIRECTIONS FOR DIGITAL TEXTUALITY

Room: Auditorium (concourse level)
Moderator: Neil Fraistat, U of Maryland
1. "Rethinking the MLA Guidelines for Scholarly Editions"
John Unsworth, U of Virginia
2. "Outside the Archive"
Matthew Kirschenbaum, U of Maryland
Kari Kraus, U of Rochester
3. "Casablanca: A Digital Critical Edition"
Robert Kolker, Georgia Tech
Janet Murray, Georgia Tech
4. "Immersive Textuality: The Editing of Virtual Spaces"
Neil Fraistat, U of Maryland
Steven E. Jones, Loyola U, Chicago

Tech needs: Two computer projectors and two screens.

A SESSIONS: 12:30-2:00

A1: Modernist Fiction and Hypertext: Woolf and Joyce

Room: Auditorium (concourse level)
Moderator: Michael Groden , U of Western Ontario
1. "The Hypertextual Virginia Woolf"
Brenda Silver, Dartmouth College
2. "Joyce, Books, and Hypertext"
Mark Feltham, U of Western Ontario
3. "'James Joyce's Ulysses in Hypermedia': Problems of Annotation."
Michael Groden, U of Western Ontario

Tech needs: Computer projector and screen

A2: American Authors and Publishers

Room: 8402
Moderator: Joel Myerson, U of South Carolina
1. "Author or Poetess?: The Public and Private Record of Sarah Helen Whitman"
Noelle Baker, U of Wisconsin at Oshkosh
2. "The Forlorn Hope: Charles W. Chesnutt's Search for a Readership, 1906-1932"
Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., Florida State U
3. "Rollo Learns to Write--And Gets Paid: Jacob Abbott and the Profession of Authorship for Children" Chris Nesmith, U of South Carolina

Tech needs: None specified

A3: Textual Studies and the New Generation: The University of Washington's Textual Studies Program

Room: 8400
Moderator: Peter L. Shillingsburg, U of North Texas
"Emily Dickinson's 'Poetry of the Portfolio'"
Gabrielle Dean
"Editing Edgar Allan Poe"
John Caruso
"A Parallel Diplomatic Edition of the Roman War Episode of Malory's Le Morte Darthur"
Meg Roland
"The Map as Text: Webster's A Grammatical Institute of the English Language (1781)"
Rene Murphy Keep
"Ben Jonson's Contributions of Ralegh's The History of the World (1614)"
Brandon Centerwall
"The Dynamic Work: Readers, Authors, and the Unruly Forces of Time"
Cara Giacomini

Tech needs: Overhead projector and screen

A4: Editing and Unediting Shakespeare

Room: Segal Theater
Moderator: W. Speed Hill, Graduate Center, CUNY
1. "Seducing Shakespeare"
Margaret Jane Kidnie, South Bank U, London
2. "Sonnet 129: Unediting Shakespeare's Meditation on Lust"
Randy McLeod, U of Toronto
3. "Shakespeare in Love, Part III"
Thomas L. Berger, St. Lawrence U

Tech needs: 35mm slide projector with remote control and screen, overhead projector and screen

A5: Confronting Textual Instability: The Romantics and Beyond

Room: 3212
Moderator: Doucet Devin Fischer, New York Public Library
1. "Fain Feign, False Fiend: Byron, Caroline Lamb, and Textual Instability"
Andrew M. Stauffer, California State U, LA
2. "'Fierce Song and Manic Dance': Maenadic Inspiration and Textual Instability in Percy Shelley's 'Notes on Sculpture' and The Triumph of Life"
Nancy Goslee, U of Tennessee
3. "Shelley and the Matter of the Text"
Andrew Franta, U of Denver

Tech needs: None specified

B SESSIONS: 2:15-4:00

B1: Working with Nineteenth-Century American Texts

Room: 8402
Moderator: George Bornstein, U of Michigan
1. "Ideal Texts and Working Texts: Toward a Fluid Text Edition of Melville"
John Bryant, Hofstra U
2. "Editing Dreiser's Russian Diary"
James L. W. West, III, Penn State U
3. "A Case for the Earlier Published Version of Emerson's 'Quotation and Originality'"
Stephen Rippon, United States Air Force Academy

Tech needs: Overhead projector and screen

B2: Questions of Medium in Textual Production

Room: Auditorium, concourse level
Moderator: Edward Burns, William Paterson
1. "The Typewritten Self: Media Technology and Identity in Wilde's De Profundis"
Nicholas Frankel, Virginia Commonwealth U
2. "Booth Led Boldly": Thoughts Toward a Rhetoric of Textual Media
Tim Hunt, Washington State U, Vancouver
3. "The James Joyce Text Machine: A Case History and Hypertext Primer"
Heyward Ehrlich, Rutgers U

Tech needs: Computer projector and screen, overhead projector and screen, tape player and speakers

B3: Issues in Early Modern Textuality

Room: Segal Theater
Moderator: Wayne Storey, U of Indiana
1. "Hunting the Author in the Rebus: A Recently Noticed Manuscript Commendation (1588) on The Faerie Queene"
D. Allen Carroll, U of Tennessee
2."Where is Figaro?: Opera as Work and Text"
Dexter Edge, Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music
3. Critical and Marketing Strategies in Prefatory Material of Early Modern Playtexts"
Roger Apfelbaum, Seton Hall U

Tech needs: CD player and speakers, tape player, overhead projector and screen

B4: More Material Modernisms

Room: 8400
Moderator: Richard J. Finneran, U of Tennessee
1. "Textual Places: Yeats, Sligo, and the Material Text"
William Hogan, U of Michigan
2. "'These Fragments I Have Shorn Against My Ruins': Editing The Waste Land"
Erin Templeton, UCLA
3. "The Case of William Carlos Williams' Selected Essays"
Christopher MacGowan, William and Mary

Tech needs: Overhead projector and screen

B5: Image Writing Text: Part I: Phenomenologies Before Theories

Room: 3212
Moderator: Hans Walter Gabler, Graduiertenkolleg "Textkritik," Universitat Munchen
Workshop session including discussion of projects by:
Stephan Kammer, Roger Ludeke, Cristina Urchueguia, Graduiertenkolleg "Textkritik"

Tech needs: None specified

C SESSIONS: 4:15-6:15

C1: Texts Across Cultures, Texts Through Time

Room: Segal Theater
Moderator:
1. "The Americanization of Harry Potter"
William H. Hardesty, III, Miami U of Ohio
David D. Mann, Miami U of Ohio
2. "What the First Two American Editions of Donne's Poems Contributed to the Grierson Edition of 1912"
Dayton Haskin, Boston College
3. "The Introduction of Emily Dickinson in Holland as an Editorial Problem"
H. T. M. Van Vliet, Constantijn Huygens Institute

Tech needs: Computer projector and screen, overhead projector and screen

C2: Textual Issues Related to the Stage and the Page

Room: C201
Moderator: David Holdeman, U of North Texas
1. "Presenting the Rough Beasts: Publishing Challenges of the New Stage Direction Texts"
Elizabeth D. Lyman, U of Virginia
2. "'That Missing Word': Beckett's Transtextual Nominalism"
Dirk Van Hulle, U of Antwerp
3. "Fingers in the Text: Compiling and Editing Theatre History"
Richard Fotheringham, U of Queensland

Tech needs: Overhead projector and screen, computer projector and screen

C3: Addressing 17th and 18th-Century Texts

Room: C202
Moderator: John Gouws, Rhodes U
1. "Ephelia's Popish Plot Broadside to Charles II (1678,1679,1679): The Evolution of a Sensitive Political Text in Three Different States of Publication (with exhibits)"
Maureen E. Mulvihill, Princeton Research Forum
2. "'Lawrels for the Conquered': Abraham Cowley's Poems (1656) and 'The Book' in Seventeenth-Century England"
Randall Ingram, Davidson College
3. "Editing a New Spenserian Poem: M.L.'s Envies Scourge, and Vertues Honour"
Richard S. Peterson, U of Connecticut
4. "Offset Evidence as a Tool for Relating Disjunct Cancellantia: The Case of Edward Young's The Centaur Not Fabulous"
James E. May, Penn State U, Dubois

Tech needs: Table for exhibits, overhead projector and screen

C4: More Thoughts on Questions of Gender and Text

Room: Auditorium, concourse level
Moderator: Marta Werner, D'Youville College
1. "Who's Afraid of Susan Dickinson?: Feminism, Textual Theory, and a Hypertextual Critical Edition"
Martha Nell Smith, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, U of Maryland
Lara Vetter, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, U of Maryland
2. "Pretty in Pink: Feminist Criticism and Editorial Theory"
Robin Schulze, Penn State U
3. "Gender, Musical Modernism, and the Politics of Authorship: Schoenberg and Pappenheim's Erwartung, op. 17"
Elizabeth Keathley, U of Tennessee
4. "Is There Such a Thing as a Feminist Editorial Theory?"
Betty Bennett, American U

Tech needs: Computer projector and screen, CD player with speakers, tape player, overhead projector and screen

C5: Image Writing Text: Part II : Implications in Theory, Interpretation, and Practice

Room: C203
Moderator: Hans Walter Gabler, Graduiertenkolleg "Textkritik," Universitat Munchen
Continuation of workshop session including discussion of projects by:
Stephan Kammer, Roger Ludeke, Cristina Urchueguia, Graduiertenkolleg "Textkritik"

Tech needs: None specified

6:30-7:30: CASH BAR

Room: TBA

Friday, April 20
Graduate Center of the City University of New York

8:00-8:30am: Registration
Room: Segal Theater entrance

FRIDAY PLENARY SESSION: 8:30-11:15
EDITING MINORITY AND ETHNIC TEXTS

Room: Segal Theater
Moderator: John Whittier-Ferguson, U of Michigan
1. "Ethnicity, Editing, and Ethics: Constructing Minority Identity in Modernist Texts"
George Bornstein, U of Michigan
2. "Racing the Text"
George Hutchinson, U of Indiana
3. "Ancestors' Voices on Acid-Free Pages: Observations on Contemporary African and Other Diasporic Poetry"
Margaret Mills Harper, George State U

Tech needs: Computer Projector and screen, overhead projector and screen, slide projector and screen

11:15-12:30 Lunch

D SESSIONS: 12:30-2:00

D1 Philosophies of Editing

Room: Recital Hall
Moderator: TBA
1. "The Editor as Artist"
David Holdeman, U of North Texas
2. "The Best of Three Worlds: Eclecticism in Editorial Theory"
Edward Vanhoutte, Centre for Textual Criticism and Document Studies, Ghent
Marcel De Smedt, U of Louvain
3. "Goethe as Editor"
Bodo Plachta, Vrije Universiteit

Tech needs: Overhead projector and screen, computer projector and screen

D2: The Materiality of Minority Literatures

Room: Segal Theater
Moderator: John Young, Marshall U
1. "African American Fiction: Bibliographic and Textual Challenges in the New Century"
Richard Yarborough, UCLA
2. "Let the World Be a Black Poem: Some Problems of Recollecting and Editing Black Arts Texts"
James Smethurst, U of North Florida
3. "Baraka and Editing the Anti-Semitic"
William Harris, Penn State U

Tech needs: Overhead projector and screen, VCR, CD player and speakers

D3: The Politics of Editing: Text and Nation

Room: 8203
Moderator: TBA
1. "The History of Editing National Shibboleth Texts"
Marita Mathijsen, Universiteit van Amsterdam
2. "Lorca and the Politics of Editing: Constructing a Cultural Icon in Spain's Transition to Democracy"
Melissa Diverno, Indiana U
3. "Making History: Rebecca West's Composition of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon"
John Whittier-Ferguson, U of Michigan

Tech needs: Overhead projector and screen

D4: "The Burlington Agenda": Artificial Intelligence and the Challenge of Finding Information in Online Texts or Finding Documents that Don't Say What They're Saying

Room: 3309
Moderator: David R. Chesnutt, U of South Carolina
Presentations and Roundtable Discussion by:
Robert Rosenberg, Rutgers U
Elizabeth Dow, Louisiana State U
William E. Underwood, Georgia Tech Research Institute
Tech needs: Computer projector and screen, overhead projector and screen

D5: "Romantic Era Texts and Poets"

Room: 5383
Moderator: Nancy Goslee, U of Tennessee
1. "Poetry Volumes by Romantic-Era Women: Anonymity and the Evidence"
Paula R. Feldman, U of South Carolina
2. "Editing the Editor: Anna Letitia Barbauld and the 'British Novelists'"
Elizabeth Kraft, U of Georgia
3. "Typography, Detection, and Authorial Control: The Case of Edgar Allan Poe"
Leon Jackson, U of South Carolina

E2: Inner Voices, Fragmented Texts

Room: C203
Moderator: Nicholas Frankel, Virginia Commonwealth U
1. "Genetic Editing and Authorial 'Inner' Voice: Evidence from Joyce's Autographs"
Jim Sullivan, Saginaw Valley State U
2. "'Gather Up the Fragments That Remain': Editing Incomplete Text"
Archie Burnett, Boston U Editorial Institute
3. "Ruskin's Praeteritaand the Dark Waters of Childhood"
David C. Hanson, Southeastern Louisiana U

Tech needs: Overhead projector and screen

E3: European Perspectives on Electronic Scholarly Editions

Room: Recital Hall
Moderator: H. T. M. van Vliet, Constantijn Huygens Institute
"Statics and Dynamics in the Electronic Medium: Towards Computer Representation of Manuscript Writing"
Hans Walter Gabler, Graduiertenkolleg "Textkritik," Universitat Munchen
"Finding a Typology of Electronic Scholarly Editions"
Edward Vanhoutte, Centre for Textual Criticism and Document Studies, Ghent
"Finding a Paradigm for Electronic Scholarly Editions"
Peter Robinson, Center for Technology and the Arts, De Montfort U, Leicester

Tech needs: 2 computer projectors and two screens, overhead projector and screen

E4: Medieval Texts and Contexts: Editorial Issues, Archival Sources

Room: 3309
Moderator: TBA
1. "Graphetic Transcription: Its Problems and a Solution"
Barbara Bordalejo, De Montfort U
2. "Swa cwaeth eardstapa; Punctuating Direct Speech in Medieval Texts"
Colette Moore, U of Michigan
3. "John of Garland's Commentarius: Words for the Wealthy"
John Scott Campbell, U of South Florida

Tech needs: none specified

F SESSIONS: 4:15-6:15

F1. Issues in Archival Research And Editorial Practice

Room: C204
Moderator: Alessandro Vettori, Rutgers University
1. "Hard Choices or Critical Fallacies? Modern Editing and Anthologies of Medieval Italian Poetry"
Dario Del Puppo, Trinity College
2. "The Private Archive of Neera (Anna Radius Zuccari) and Guido Marinelli: History, Organization, and Editorial Projects"
Antonia Arslan, U of Padua
3. "'The Dating Game: On Editing the Correspondence of Neera and Alberto Sormani (1890-1893)"
Francesca Parmeggiani, Fordham U

Tech needs: 35mm slide projector with carousel and screen, overhead projector and screen

F2. Victorians, Moderns, and Popular Periodicals

Room: C203
Moderator: Elizabeth Loizeaux, U of Maryland
1. "Letitia Landon: The Poetess, the Female Body, and the Drama of Empire"
Mary Ellis Gibson, U of North Carolina--Greensboro
2. "The Ethics of Formalism: James Agee and Fortune Magazine"
Steve Spence, Clayton College
3. "The Utter Hopelessness of Popular Culture Studies"
Jonathan Rose, Drew U

Tech needs: Overhead projector and screen, slide projector and screen

F3. The Ivanhoe Game

Room: Recital Hall
Moderator: Patricia Willis, Yale U
Jerome McGann, U of Virginia
Johanna Drucker, U of Virginia

Tech needs: Computer projector and screen

F4. Editing Ethnicity: approaches to Jewish and Yiddish Texts

Room: 3309
Moderator: TBA
1. "'Strange Daring': Adele Wiseman's Crackpot"
Ruth Panofsky, Ryerson Polytechnic U
2. "Editing a Pre-Modern Yiddish Text: The Practice of Ideology and the Scholarly Enterprise"
Shlomo Berger, U of Amsterdam
3. "Editing Correspondences of Emigre Writers, Illustrated with Newly Found Thomas Mann Documents"
Jeffrey Berlin, Holy Family College

Tech needs: Overhead projector and screen

F5. Issues in Early Modern Textuality II

Room: Segal Theater
Moderator: TBA
1. "Sidney's Arcadia and the Assumption of Monolithic Manuscript Transmission"
John Gouws, Rhodes U, South Africa
2. "Doublets, Multiforms, and the Work-concept in 15th-century Song Repertories"
Sean Gallagher, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
3. "Early Modern Middle English"
Tim William Machan, Marquette U
4. "Henry Chettle, 'Your old Compositor'"
John Jowett, The Shakespeare Institute, U of Birmingham

Tech needs: CD player and speakers, overhead projector and screen, computer projector and screen

SOCIETY FOR TEXTUAL SCHOLARSHIP BANQUET: 7:00-9:30, The Harvard Club of New York, 27 West 44th Street
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Barbara Oberg, Princeton University
"decoding an American Icon: The Textuality of Thomas Jefferson"

The banquet will begin with a cash bar from 7:00 to 8:00pm. All those attending the banquet are required to wear proper attire. Gentlemen are asked to wear jackets and ties.

Saturday, April 21
New York Public Library, Trustees' Room

SATURDAY PLENARY SESSION ONE: 9:15-12:00
TEXT AS FRAGMENT/ FRAGMENT AS TEXT

1. "Incompletes"
David Greetham, Graduate Center, CUNY
2. "Living and Posthumous Fragments: Questions of Tradition in Medieval France and Italy"
Wayne Storey, Indiana U
3. "Unfinished Schubert: Toward an Epistemology of Fragment"
Richard Kramer, Graduate Center, CUNY
4. "Musil's Man Without Qualities: Unfinished or Without End?"
Burton Pike, Graduate Center, CUNY

12:00-1:45 Lunch

SATURDAY PLENARY SESSION TWO: 1:45-4:15
THEORIES OF THE TEXT: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

W. Speed Hill
Peter L. Shillingsburg
Hans Walter Gabler
Jerome McGann
Respondent: David C. Greetham

4:30-6:30 Post-conference Party

The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street
(between Madison and Park)
All those attending the banquet are required to wear proper attire. Gentlemen are asked to wear jackets and ties.

CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS

Roger Apfelbaum, B3
Antonia Arslan, F1
Noelle Baker, A2
Betty Bennett, C4
Schlomo Berger, F4
Thomas L. Berger, A4
Jeffrey B. Berlin, F4
Barbara Bordalejo, E4
George Bornstein, Friday Plenary
Ron Broude
John Bryant, B1
Archie Burnett, E2
Edward Burns, A1
John Scott Campbell, E4
D. Allen Carroll, B3
John Caruso, A3
Brandon Centerwall, A3
David R. Chesnutt,D4
Gabrielle Dean, A3
Dario Del Puppo, F1
Marcel De Smedt, D1
Melissa Dinverno, D3
Elizabeth Dow, D4
Johanna Drucker, F3
Dexter Edge, B3
Heyward Ehrlich, B2
Paula R. Feldman, D5
Mark Feltham, A1
Richard J. Finneran, B4
Doucet Devin Fischer, A5
Richard Fotheringham, C2
Neil Fraistat, Thursday Plenary
Nicholas Frankel, B2
Andrew Franta,A5
Hans Walter Gabler, B5, C5, E3, Saturday Plenary Two
Sean Gallagher, F5
Mary Ellis Gibson, F2
Nancy Goslee, A5
John Gouws, F5
D. C. Greetham, Saturday Plenary One, Saturday Plenary Two
Michael Groden, A1
David C. Hanson, E2
William H. Hardesty, C1
Margaret Mills Harper, Friday Plenary
William Harris, D2
Dayton Haskin, C1
W. Speed Hill, Saturday Plenary Two
William Hogan, B4
David Holdeman, D1
George Hutchinson, Friday Plenary
Tim Hunt, B2
Randall Ingram, C3
Leon Jackson, D5
Steven E. Jones, Thursday Plenary
John Jowett, F5
Stephan Kammer, B5, C5
Elizabeth Keathley, C4
Rene Murphy Keep, A3
Margaret J. Kidnie, A4
Matthew Kirschenbaum, Thursday Plenary
Robert Kolker, Thursday Plenary
Elizabeth Kraft,D5
Richard Kramer, Saturday Plenary One
Kari Kraus, Thursday Plenary
Cara Lane, A3
Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux, F2
Roger Ludeke, B5, C5
Elizabeth D. Lyman, C2
David D. Mann, C1
Christopher MacGowan, B4
Tim William Machan, F5
Marita Mathijsen, D3
Jim May, C3
Joseph R. McElrath, A2
Jerome McGann, F3
Randy McLeod, A4
David D. McWilliams, E1
Raimonda Modiano, A3
Colette Moore, E4
Maureen E. Mulvihill, C3
Janet Murray, Thursday Plenary
Joel Myerson, A2
Chris Nesmith, A2
Barbara Oberg, Presidential Address
Ruth Panofsky, F4
Francesca Parmeggiani, F1
Richard S. Peterson, C3
Burton Pike, Saturday Plenary One
Bodo Plachta, D1
Donald H. Reiman, A5
Howard Rambsy, E1
Stephen Rippon, B1
Peter Robinson, E3
Meg Roland, A3
Jonathan Rose, F2
Robert Rosenberg, D4
Robin Schulze, C4
Peter L. Shillingsburg, Saturday Plenary Two
Brenda R. Silver, A1
James Smethurst, D2
Martha Nell Smith, C4
Steve Spence, F2
Andrew M. Stauffer, A5
Scott Stevens, E1
Wayne Storey, Saturday Plenary One
Jim Sullivan, E2
Kathryn Sutherland, Saturday Plenary Two
Erin Templeton, B4
William E. Underwood, D4
John Unsworth, Thursday Plenary
Cristina Urchueguia, B5 , C5
Edward Vanhoutte, D1
Dirk Van Hulle, C2
H. T. M. van Vliet, C1 , E3
Lara Vetter, C4
Allesandro Vettori, F1
Jim West, B1
John Whittier-Ferguson, D3
Patricia Willis, F3
Richard Yarborough, D2
John Young, E1