ENGL 676 Digital Editing and Curation

This course introduces students to book history and scholarly editing through the frameworks of media studies and digital humanities. In this course, we will:

• learn basic bibliography;
• study literary texts as material documents, examining the relationship between form and meaning;
• trace the development of textual studies;
• challenge our expectations of both print and digital media;
• critically analyze a variety of digital humanities projects;
• explore remediation and other key concepts in media studies;
• and, of course, edit and curate literary texts!

Class sessions will consist of discussions of the assigned readings, collaborative analysis of sample projects, and workshops on various tools and technologies used to remediate literary texts in digital spaces.