The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) has awarded a grant of $105,002 to the University of Iowa to support the Walt Whitman Archive’s project, “Fame and Infamy: Walt Whitman’s Correspondence, 1888-1892.” The correspondence project aims to collect, transcribe, edit, and publish letters that the nineteenth-century American poet sent and received during the final yearsContinue reading “Walt Whitman Archive Awarded NHPRC Grant!”
Category Archives: Publishing
LitCity is Live!
For nearly a century, promising writers, many of whom have gone on to be well-known for their work around the world, have called Iowa City their home at some point in their life. It should come as no surprise that in 2008, this beacon for the written word was designated as a City of LiteratureContinue reading “LitCity is Live!”
Announcing the Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio Fellows for Summer 2018
Following the success of last year’s pilot program, The University of Iowa Graduate College and the UI Libraries Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio are excited to announce that 13 graduate students have been selected for the 2018 Studio Summer Fellowship program. These individuals will soon take part in an 8-week course that provides mentored digital scholarship experience,Continue reading “Announcing the Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio Fellows for Summer 2018”
The Studio Pilots Summer Fellowship Program
This summer the Studio will pilot a new fellowship program with the help of the University of Iowa Graduate College and the Studio Steering Committee. Nine current graduate students have been named Summer Studio Fellows. The students will soon take part in an 8-week course that provides mentored digital scholarship experience, as well as training inContinue reading “The Studio Pilots Summer Fellowship Program”
Saving Endangered Data: What Can Digital Humanists and Libraries Do?
In a blog post last week, I addressed Endangered Data Week and the history of political parties hiding, removing, or altogether abolishing public access to government documents. However, my post wasn’t alone in trying to shed light on this serious issue. In schools, universities, libraries, and classrooms across the world, hundreds of concerned people came together to bring awareness to the issueContinue reading “Saving Endangered Data: What Can Digital Humanists and Libraries Do?”
Co-Editing a Digital Edition of Walt Whitman’s Short Fiction
The Walt Whitman Archive recently published a new digital edition of Whitman’s short fiction. Most people know Whitman as America’s poet and the author of Leaves of Grass, but in the early 1840s, he was a journalist, a newspaper editor, and the author of numerous short stories. Whitman wrote at least twenty-six (and likely more)Continue reading “Co-Editing a Digital Edition of Walt Whitman’s Short Fiction”
What Amanda Visconti and Infinite Ulysses Get about James Joyce
With Professor Amanda Visconti in town this week as part of the University of Iowa’s NEH Next Generation Humanities Ph.D. Planning Grant, I wanted to reflect on the importance of her Infinite Ulysses project for literary study in general and Joyce studies in particular. In 2015, Amanda Visconti did something that many Joyceans had often consideredContinue reading “What Amanda Visconti and Infinite Ulysses Get about James Joyce”
When content goes viral: looking at the first 3 days of “Manly Health and Training”
On Friday, the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review (WWQR) published a previously unknown book-length work “Manly Health and Training,” by Walt Whitman, recently discovered by Zachary Turpin. (Read more about it in a previous post.) Minutes after it was published, The New York Times broke the story. (We couldn’t say anything until their story launched at aboutContinue reading “When content goes viral: looking at the first 3 days of “Manly Health and Training””
Whitman, Iowa Review and Dada in Romania
One of the things we do in the Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio is support locally published journals. The journals which we publish/host are part of Iowa Research Online. During Open Access Week in October, there were several noteworthy additions/changes. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review became fully open access. We have published the journal in partnership with theContinue reading “Whitman, Iowa Review and Dada in Romania”