24 November 2009: Annie Gauger, editor of Norton's The Annotated Wind in the Willows
and former student of the Editorial Institute, inaugurates our Conversations with Alumni Series with a lecture at
5:15 pm in the Editorial Institute Library entitled Speech... by Toad: Tapping Collections, Lost, Private and
Archival in Annotating The Wind in the Willows for WW Norton. The event is free and open to the public. For
more information please contact the Administrative Assistant.
18 November 2009: The Editorial Institute is pleased to host a local meeting of the
Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC). On 18 November, at 5:00 pm, ALSC members and their friends
are invited to a discussion led by Martin Greenup (Harvard University) entitled, Inventing a Demotic Language:
the American English of Wallace Stevens' Harmonium. The meeting will be held
in Room 106 of 143 Bay State Road. For questions, please contact either
Alex Effgen or the ALSC.
Please RSVP no later than 16 November.
3 November 2009: Ruth Perry, Professor of Literature at MIT, will give a lecture at 5:30 pm
in the Editorial Institute Library entitled The Print Record of an Oral Tradition: Anna Brown's Ballads.
Part of the Conversations with Scholars Series. The event is free and open to the public. For
more information please contact the Administrative Assistant.
28 October 2009: The Editorial Institute is pleased to host a local meeting of the
Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC). On 28 October, at 5:00 pm, ALSC members and their friends
are invited to a discussion led by Davida Pines (Boston University) entitled, Confronting September 11th through
Comics: Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Shadows and Alissa Torres's American Widow. The meeting will be held
in Room 106 of 143 Bay State Road. For questions, please contact either
Alex Effgen or the ALSC.
Please RSVP no later than 26 October.
19-22 October 2009: At British Academy (UK). Professor Christopher Ricks will participate in the British Academy's Literature Week. For more information please consult the
British Academy website.
Fall 2007: The Editorial Institute and Boston University welcome
Professor Marilyn Gaull. She
will be Research Professor in the Institute, from which she will edit her journal,
The Wordsworth Circle.
May 2007: T. S. Eliot Comes Home to Boston
The Editorial Institute is pleased to announce that one of its Directors, Professor Christopher Ricks, has been
invited to prepare a full critical edition of the Poems of T. S. Eliot. The undertaking will complement
publication of Eliot’s very extensive critical writings and of his letters, which are already
being edited elsewhere.
24 May 2005: The Delegates of Oxford University Press have accepted for
publication the 11-volume Selected
Edition of the Works of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen.
8-10 April 2005: The Editorial Institute is pleased
to announce "A Massive and Rugged Intellectual Sanity," a conference on
the life and work of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen. This conference
inaugurates a Selected Edition of Stephen's major works and is made
possible by the generosity of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (see below).
For information on this conference:
2005 Stephen Conference Flyer and 2005 Conference Report
For information on the Sir James Fitzjames Stephen edition:
Proposal Summary
15 December 2003: Co-director
Christopher Ricks is one of four recipients of the 2003 Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Awards. Professor
Ricks intends to use the award to support an edition of the works
of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, and to further the Editorial Institute's
mission to train students in the theory and practice of literary
editing. For further information:
Boston
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