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Administration

Co-Directors

  • Archie Burnett Professor of English, College of Arts & Sciences. MA, University of Edinburgh (Scotland); DPhil, University of Oxford (England)
  • Christopher Ricks William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities, College of Arts & Sciences. BLitt, MA, DLitt (Hon.), University of Oxford (England); Hon. Fellow, Balliol College, Hon. Fellow, Worcester College, University of Oxford (England); Hon. Fellow, Christ’s College, University of Cambridge (England)

Research Professor

  • Marilyn Gaull Founding editor of The Wordsworth Circle, Editor’s News for the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, and Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letter.

Advisory Committee

  • Clifford Backman Associate Professor of History, College of Arts & Sciences. BA, MA, University of Minnesota; MA, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Victor Coelho Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education; Professor of Music, Musicology, and Ethnomusicology, College of Fine Arts. BA, University of California, Berkeley; PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Bonnie Costello Professor of English, College of Arts & Sciences. BA, Bennington College; PhD, Cornell University
  • Juliet Floyd Professor of Philosophy, College of Arts & Sciences. BA, Wellesley College; PhD, Harvard University
  • Wolfgang Haase Professor of Classical Studies, College of Arts & Sciences; Director, Institute for the Classical Tradition; Director, ANRW Research Center. PhD, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (Germany)
  • Susan Jackson Senior Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences; Associate Professor of French, College of Arts & Sciences. BA, Wellesley College; MA, Middlebury College; PhD, Ohio State University
  • Robert Levine Professor of English, College of Arts & Sciences. BA, City University of New York, City College; MA, Columbia University; PhD, University of California, Berkeley
  • Sean D. Noel Associate Director, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Mugar Library. BA, MA, Boston University
  • Anita Patterson Associate Professor of English, College of Arts & Sciences. BA, Harvard College; MA, PhD, Harvard University
  • Michael Prince Associate Professor of English, College of Arts & Sciences. BA, Stanford University; PhD, University of Virginia
  • Bruce Redford University Professor; Professor of Art History and English, College of Arts & Sciences. BA, Brown University; BA, University of Cambridge (England); PhD, Princeton University
  • Jonathan P. Ribner Associate Professor of Art History, College of Arts & Sciences. BA, Middlebury College; MA, PhD, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
  • Dana Robert Professor of International Mission, School of Theology. BA, Louisiana State University; PhD, Yale University
  • James W. Schmidt University Professor; Professor of History and Political Science, College of Arts & Sciences. BA, Rutgers University; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Graduate Program

The Editorial Institute was formed with the conviction that the textually sound, contextually annotated edition is central to the intellectual life of many disciplines. Its primary aims are the promotion of critical awareness of editorial issues and practices, and the provision of training in editorial methods. The institute offers advanced degrees to students who successfully prepare either editions of important writings, with textual apparatus and annotation, or monographs concerned with editing or textual bibliography. Guidance to students is provided through courses devoted to editorial work. Current technologies for storing, disseminating, or editing information, legal considerations concerning copyright and intellectual property, historical changes in the concept of authorship, the practice of annotation, and recent theorizing about texts all play a substantial role in editing, and the Editorial Institute seeks both to foster and to scrutinize these developments.

Admissions

Applicants are required to submit scores of the Graduate Record Examination (General and, where relevant, Advanced), along with three letters of recommendation, at least one of which must be academic, and a thesis or dissertation proposal. Those applicants who do not have English as their first language are required to submit results of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). Admission is not simply a matter of a proposal accepted, but of consultation, suggestion, and concurrence between faculty and student. Applicants are encouraged to contact the institute for guidance in preparing the thesis or dissertation proposal.

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