Technologies of Reading: Theorizing Manuscript Study after the Digital Turn (A Roundtable)
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Exemplaria: Medieval / Early Modern / Theory
Organizer Name
Sylvia Federico
Organizer Affiliation
Bates College
Presider Name
Sylvia Federico
Paper Title 1
Discussant
Presenter 1 Name
Benjamin L. Albritton
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Stanford Univ.
Paper Title 2
Discussant
Presenter 2 Name
Stewart J. Brookes
Presenter 2 Affiliation
King's College London
Paper Title 3
Discussant
Presenter 3 Name
Johanna M. E. Green
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. of Glasgow
Paper Title 4
Discussant
Presenter 4 Name
Andrew Prescott
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Univ. of Glasgow
Paper Title 5
Discussant
Presenter 5 Name
Elizabeth Robertson
Presenter 5 Affiliation
Univ. of Glasgow
Paper Title 6
Discussant
Presenter 6 Name
Robin Sutherland-Harris
Presenter 6 Affiliation
Univ. of Toronto
Paper Title 7
Response
Presenter 7 Name
Dorothy Kim
Presenter 7 Affiliation
Vassar College
Start Date
13-5-2016 1:30 PM
Session Location
Fetzer 1045
Description
How might we analyze and understand, especially through theoretical engagement, the possibilities and challenges afforded by computational approaches to manuscript study?
This roundtable provides an occasion to think critically about the paradigm shift (from manuscript to digital) often hailed as simply innovative as a set of changes in our reading and writing. At a meta-critical level, how should this shift be theorized? How should we best understand acts of reading of manuscripts and their digital surrogates by humans and / or machines in specific textual, institutional, or archival environments? How do those acts of reading relate to composition, compilation, editing, or disseminatation? How might literary and cultural theories (feminist, deconstructive, queer, disability, Marxist, historicist), or theories of reading and writing (including those drawn from cognitive, behavioral, social and computer sciences), be brought to bear on this situation? How might it change our narratives of literary production and the textual productions (i.e. editions) that we make?
Technologies of Reading: Theorizing Manuscript Study after the Digital Turn (A Roundtable)
Fetzer 1045
How might we analyze and understand, especially through theoretical engagement, the possibilities and challenges afforded by computational approaches to manuscript study?
This roundtable provides an occasion to think critically about the paradigm shift (from manuscript to digital) often hailed as simply innovative as a set of changes in our reading and writing. At a meta-critical level, how should this shift be theorized? How should we best understand acts of reading of manuscripts and their digital surrogates by humans and / or machines in specific textual, institutional, or archival environments? How do those acts of reading relate to composition, compilation, editing, or disseminatation? How might literary and cultural theories (feminist, deconstructive, queer, disability, Marxist, historicist), or theories of reading and writing (including those drawn from cognitive, behavioral, social and computer sciences), be brought to bear on this situation? How might it change our narratives of literary production and the textual productions (i.e. editions) that we make?