Category: #BUDSC16
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Folie à plusieurs: Actual, Aspirational, and Abstracted Digital Scholarship
Jacob Heil (College of Wooster) For the last three years the libraries of the Ohio Five Colleges of Ohio have been collaborating under the auspices of a digital scholarship grant from the Mellon Foundation. At its core, the grant is designed to help faculty build digital pedagogical projects; to-date we have developed upwards of thirty…
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The Problem of the Transnational in Digital Scholarship
Emily McGinn (University of Georgia) My current research project looks at networks of transnational exchange in literary periodicals in the modernist era (1890-1930). Using data from the Modernist Journals Project as well as data from continental European and Latin American magazines, I am looking specifically for translators, those who are not necessarily reflected in the…
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Circulation and Use of Indigenous Language Texts in New England
N. C. Christopher Couch (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Religious materials in New England created by John Eliot and his informants are believed to have played a role in extending secular literacy in indigenous languages in Massachusetts and beyond. Printed and manuscript materials are studied as preserved materials in repositories, but they circulated in various spheres…