Editorial Studies

• CAS EI 503: Textual Scholarship
  Fundamentals of textual scholarship: bibliography, paleography, typography, textual criticism, and annotation.
• CAS EI 507: Publishing Procedures
  The history, principles, theory and practices of book publication, focusing on scholarly and serious trade monographs and text books. Students acquire skills in proposals and contracts, copyediting, design, copyright and permissions, production, marketing, dissemination and reviews. Workshop setting.
• CAS EI 508: Editing Across the Disciplines
  An introduction to editorial work in several disciplines, highlighting the practices, problems, and solutions encountered in each and identifying common principles where found. Editorial case histories in English literature, the Bible, classical texts, philosophical works, and music are considered.
• CAS EI 509: History of the Book
  The history of the book from Gutenberg to Google. Consideration is given to: parallels between the print and electronic revolutions; libraries and archives, authorship and copyright, publishing processes and reading practices, and the future of the book.
• GRS EI 699: Teachng Coll Ei
  
• GRS EI 701: The Theory and Practice of Literary Editing
  An introduction to the theory, practice, and principles of editorial decisions, such as questions of modernization, revision, and annotation. Featuring a dozen visiting speakers and attending to notable editorial achievements.
• GRS EI 703: Annotation
  Studies in allusions, sources, dating, topical contexts, annotation as a part of the work itself, and marginal glosses, among other topics.
• GRS EI 704: Editions
  Seminar on advanced editorial considerations raised by the works of one or more authors.
• GRS EI 901: Dir Stdy
  
• GRS EI 902: Directed Study
  

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