Volume 41

2024-06-21

DOI: 10.55520/5V92VK9A

§ Micro-editions

§ Voices and Perspectives: Interviews and Conversations

History UnErased: An Interview with Deb Fowler and Kathleen Barker

Jenifer Ishee and Robert Riter

This conversation by Scholarly Editing Co-Managing Editors, Robert Riter and Jenifer Ishee features a discussion with Debra Fowler and Kathleen Barker of History UnErased, the “nation's premier provider of K-12 LGBTQ-inclusive and intersectional US history curriculum.” In this conversation, Fowler and Barker detail the impetus behind the founding of the organization, some of the work they have already accomplished, and their goals for the future. They explain how they utilize primary source material culled from the archives to allow teachers to engage students in conversations aimed at including LGBTQ individuals in the historical narrative. They also hope to connect broader audiences with these primary source materials.

§ Uncovering and Sustaining the Cultural Record

Reparative Editing: Working with Ukrainian Authors in Wartime

Amy Levin

I edited a special issue of the British online journal Museum & Society on the status of museums in Ukraine since the full-scale Russian invasion of February 2022. The experience yielded many insights about the limitations of traditional scholarly editing practices; I developed a theory of reparative editing to describe the process. Compassion and a willingness to break from traditions of academic scholarship allowed me to produce an issue including the voices of Ukrainians facing power outages, explosions, language barriers, floods, exile, and lost careers. The authors brought to their articles concerns related to decolonization and de-Russification, revisionist history, and digitization, even as they demonstrated remarkable persistence and courage.

Moquis and Kastiilam: The Hopi History Project

Thomas E. Sheridan, Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa and Leigh Kuwanwisiwma

I edited a special issue of the British online journal Museum & Society on the status of museums in Ukraine since the full-scale Russian invasion of February 2022. The experience yielded many insights about the limitations of traditional scholarly editing practices; I developed a theory of reparative editing to describe the process. Compassion and a willingness to break from traditions of academic scholarship allowed me to produce an issue including the voices of Ukrainians facing power outages, explosions, language barriers, floods, exile, and lost careers. The authors brought to their articles concerns related to decolonization and de-Russification, revisionist history, and digitization, even as they demonstrated remarkable persistence and courage.

§ Essays

The Assembled Book as a Map of Relations

Whitney Trettien, Penny Bee and Zoe Braccia

By focusing on the material book rather than its textual content, digital editing can transforms what types of bookwork are visible and available to scholars for research. This essay describes two recent digital projects to remediate early modern womens’ manuscripts as material texts. In both projects, we have turned away from more traditional tools of textual studies and instead, in the spirit of going back to fundamental questions and working inventively with technologies that already exist, have adapted digital mapping technologies to our purpose. By sharing the motivations and methods behind our work—and placing it explicitly into conversation with digital editorial theory—we argue for an expansive approach to digital textual studies that can include the book as a map of networked material relations.

§ The College and University Classroom

Digital Editing and Pedagogy: Making Editions / Building Arguments

John Bryant, Mary Isbell, Christopher Ohge and Mary Erica Zimmer

These four accounts of experiential learning involving open documentary editing cover editorial design, digital annotation, network structuring, and transcription. By making editions, students at various levels and at differing teaching environments learn how to contextualize historical and literary works.

§ Reviews