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.
Poets' Punctuation: Thomas Hardy, Ezra Pound and the technology of accidentals Editorial Institute, Boston University 3 March 2015 Starts: 5:30 pm on Tuesday, March 3, 2015 Location: 143 Bay State Road, Room 106 Punctuation matters always, but it takes on a new force and significance in early twentieth-century verse. Ezra Pound's devotion to Hardy may be understood... More
Congratulations to current Editorial Institute PhD student, Nicole Depolo, who was elected to the Board of Directors of the Norman Mailer Society in 2014. She was also acknowledged as a contributor to TASCHEN's 2014 edition of Mailer's "Superman Comes to the Supermarket" and J. Michael Lennon's Norman Mailer: A Double... More
Editorial Institute PhD candidate, Stetson Robinson attended the The Charles S. Peirce International Centennial Congress, July 16-19 at UMass Lowell. Stetson's dissertation work incorporates digitizing Pierce's manuscripts via STEP (Scholarly Text-Editing Platform) in conjunction with the efforts of the Pierce Edition Project at Indiana University. As a result, Stetson was... More
Jeffrey Gutierrez, a current PhD student at the Editorial Institute has been awarded a scholarship from the Southern California Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America to attend course at the California Rare Book School. He will attend Daniel Lewis' seminar on archives this August at the California Rare Book School, UCLA.
Christopher Ohge, an Editorial Institute alumni, recently had A Digital Edition of Christopher Pearse Cranch's 'Journal. 1839.' published in the Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing. Christopher received his PhD in Editorial Studies at the Institute in 2012 and this publication is an electronic edition of a travel journal written... More