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- Associate Technical Editor Dr. Scott Kleinman To Visit NVS
- NVS Director Runner-Up for SAA Award
- NVS to lead 'Variorum Shakespeare' seminar at SAA conference
- Prof. Sonia Massai appointed General Editor of the NVS
- Dr. Heidi Craig appointed Associate General Editor of the NVS
- The Marvin Hunt Exhibition of the History of the NVS, opening 2 March
- NVS conference: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and 'The Winter's Tale', 10-11 Feb 2026
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Associate Technical Editor Dr. Scott Kleinman To Visit NVS
April 6, 2026In collaboration with the NVS, the Texas A&M University Libraries are hosting our Associate Technical Editor Dr. Scott Kleinman (Director of the CSUN Digital Humanities Center) for a campus visit on 9 April. He will be giving a lecture titled 'Modelling Premodern and Early Modern Languages and Literatures', which will also be streamed on Zoom, from 2-3pm CT in LAAH 453. Registration for streaming the lecture is required, here: https://tamu.zoom.us/meeting/register/7KvsAe87QpCRtYre22Dbew#/registration
Dr. Kleinman's talk will address the special problems that medieval and early modern texts pose for the digital humanities: variant spellings, unstable textual witnesses, and data that is difficult to standardize at scale. His talk will explore the prospects of overcoming these challenges both in teaching and research settings through the lens of the 'Lexos' text analysis tool. The methods and lessons of his talk will extend beyond historical materials to literature in underserved languages today and will raise broader questions about what digital humanities tools should look like in an era of chatbots and AI-assisted workflows. We hope to see you on 9 April.
NVS Director Runner-Up for SAA Award
April 4, 2026Congratulations to our Director Dr. Robert Stagg whose article 'Shakespeare's Arabic Sonnets' (published in 'Shakespeare Survey' in 2024) has been named runner-up for the Shakespeare Association of America's Innovative Article Award. The article can be read here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/shakespeare-survey-77/shakespeares-arabic-sonnets/E9F63019738AC8DC01099B356530EFA0
Dr. Stagg's scholarship has been shortlisted for several previous awards including the University English Book Prize, the Society for Renaissance Studies Book Prize, and the London Renaissance Seminar Contribution Award, as well as winning the University of Oxford's longstanding Charles Oldham Shakespeare Prize. He joined Texas A&M University as Director of the New Variorum Shakespeare in 2024.
NVS to lead 'Variorum Shakespeare' seminar at SAA conference
March 31, 2026The New Variorum Shakespeare led a seminar titled 'Variorum Shakespeare' at this year's Shakespeare Association of America conference in Denver, Colorado, on Thursday 2 April. Chaired by Dr. Dorothy Todd (NVS Digital Editor) and Dr. Robert Stagg (NVS Director), the seminar featured circulated papers by and discussion among Dr. Joshua Held (Southeastern Oklahoma State University), Dr. Erik McCarthy (Gordon State College), Dr. Alicia Meyer (Curator of Research Services at UPenn Libraries), and two further members of the NVS, our Associate General Editor Dr. Heidi Craig and our Richard III volume editor Dr. Mark Farnsworth. Responses to the papers were provided by two of our General Editors, Prof. Eric Rasmussen and Prof. Paul Werstine. Conversation ranged widely, with topics including: teaching with the NVS, eighteenth-century Shakespeare editing, the scholarly contributions of Kate Furness, and textual variants in plays such as Hamlet and Love's Labour's Lost. We were particularly pleased to see a large number of conference attendees come to the seminar as "auditors".
Prof. Sonia Massai appointed General Editor of the NVS
March 18, 2026We are delighted to announce that Prof. Sonia Massai has been appointed as a General Editor of the New Variorum Shakespeare, joining our general-editorial team of Eric Rasmussen, Paul Werstine and (more recently) Heidi Craig. Prof. Massai is Professore Ordinario in Shakespeare Studies at Sapienza University of Rome and Visiting Professor of Shakespeare Studies at King's College London. She also serves as General Editor of the New Cambridge Shakespeare. Other current/recent projects include an Arden edition of Richard III (forthcoming this year) and the co-curatorship of an exhibition about 'Shakespeare and War' at the National Army Museum in London, UK. Prof. Massai has published widely. She has written two major monographs, Shakespeare's Accents (CUP 2020) and Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor (CUP 2007), and edited a plethora of essay collections such as The First Folio at 400 (IASEMS 2023) and Shakespeare and Textual Studies (CUP 2015). Previous critical editions include The Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642 (CUP 2014) and John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (Arden Early Modern Drama, 2011). We are honored to appoint such a distinguished figure in Shakespeare studies to the NVS and welcome Prof. Massai to the project.
Dr. Heidi Craig appointed Associate General Editor of the NVS
March 17, 2026We are pleased to announce that Dr. Heidi Craig has been appointed Associate General Editor of the New Variorum Shakespeare. Dr. Craig is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto. She is editor of two major digital projects, the World Shakespeare Bibliography and Early Modern Dramatic Paratexts. She is the author of Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars (CUP 2023), co-author of Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography (CUP Elements 2026), and has written articles and chapters on dramatic culture during the interregnum, on the cultural signficance of rag paper and rag pickers, and on pedagogy in the digital age. Dr. Craig has previously served on the Board of the New Variorum Shakespeare and as an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M -- so we hope that her appointment will feel like a double homecoming. Many congratulations to Dr. Craig on this new role.
The Marvin Hunt Exhibition of the History of the NVS, opening 2 March
Feb. 1, 2026The exhibition, which celebrates the craft of NVS variorum editing before the advent of digital tools, will run from March 2nd through April 23rd. Drawing on archival materials such as collation sheets, handwritten commentary notes, edited manuscript pages, budget proposals, calls for volume editors published in Shakespeare journals, and various analogue editorial ephemera, the display reveals the collaborative, labor-intensive process through which variorum editions were assembled. By foregrounding these working documents, the exhibition highlights the intellectual craftsmanship, institutional coordination, and material history that shaped variorum scholarship in the pre-digital era.
A reception with food and drinks will follow the launch at LAAH 453 from 5 to 7 pm on March 2nd.
The reception event will also include the launch of Going Viral with Shakespeare and Other Essays by Professor Eric Rasmussen, NVS General Editor.
NVS conference: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and 'The Winter's Tale', 10-11 Feb 2026
Jan. 29, 2026On 10-11 February the New Variorum Shakespeare hosted a conference about A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Winter's Tale, the two texts we have recently published in variorum format on our website. The conference was held at the Glasscock Center, Texas A&M University. We heard from distinguished scholars across Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States, and had important discussions about both plays and about the future of the variorum. The schedule was as follows: