We note with sadness the passing of Professor Emeritus Sir Geoffrey Hill on 30 June 2016. Professor Hill was a founding Co-Director of the Institute, serving until his retirement in 2006. The Guardian obituary of 1 July 2016 can be found here. Tributes, including one from Christopher Ricks, are here.
Congratulations to Mary Erica Zimmer, PhD Candidate at The Editorial Institute, for her funded participation in two recent scholarly programs at the Folger Shakespeare Library: the Spring Symposium on "Shakespeare's Language," organized by Lynne Magnusson, and the National Endowment for the Humanities "Early Modern Digital Agendas: Advanced Topics" Summer Institute, More
The third and final volume of The Autobiography of Mark Twain will be published by the University of California Press on 15 October. It features two Editorial Institute alumni as associate editors — Christopher Ohge and Amanda Gagel. More information on the project may be found here: http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520279940#
Congratulations to Mary Erica Zimmer, PhD Candidate in The Editorial Institute at Boston University, for having received a travel scholarship to participate in the 2015 Digital Pedagogy Institute in Toronto, Canada. The SSHRC-funded Institute will explore the potential impact of digital pedagogies on students' experiences. It will be co-hosted by... More
Congratulations to Mary Erica Zimmer, PhD Candidate in The Editorial Institute at Boston University, for having received a Sponsored Student Scholarship to attend the Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching Institute (HILT) this July in Indianapolis, IN. This scholarship will support her work with the "Humanities Data Curation Praxis" course convened... More
Jeffrey Gutierrez, PhD candidate at the Editorial Institute at Boston University, presented a paper entitled "Punctuation from Manuscript to Print: Editors and Letters" at Punctuation in Practice: An International Workshop at the Freie Universität Berlin.