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- The NVS Receives Funding for Undergraduate Professional and Research Experience Program (UPREP)
- NVS General Editor Dr. Eric Rasmussen Featured in First Folio PBS Documentary
- The Christian Science Monitor Interviews NVS General Editor Dr. Eric Rasmussen
- Dr. Scott Kleinman Joins the NVS Team as Associate Technical Editor
- NVS Team Update
- 2023-24 English Department Tenure Track Search to Include Position for New NVS PI
- NVS Board of Directors: Dr. Laura Mandell
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The NVS Receives Funding for Undergraduate Professional and Research Experience Program (UPREP)
Jan. 15, 2024Each semester, the Department of English selects 5-7 faculty projects for the UPREP program, which pairs undergraduate English majors with faculty members on selected projects outside of the classroom. Student involvement can range from working as an editorial or research assistant to aiding in the preparation for an academic conference. The Undergraduate Studies Committee voted on and approved funding for the NVS research proposal titled “Building Digital Editions of the New Variorum Shakespeare.” Grace Hoelscher will be working with Dr. Kris May, Dr. Katayoun Torabi, and Dr. Dorothy Todd on all aspects of digital editing for the NVS project during the Spring 2024 semester.
NVS General Editor Dr. Eric Rasmussen Featured in First Folio PBS Documentary
Nov. 7, 2023
NVS General Editor, NVS Hamlet Volume Editor, and Regents Teaching Professor and Foundation Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno Dr. Eric Rasmussen appears in the PBS documentary "Great Performances - Making Shakespeare: The First Folio,” which airs in College Station on November 17, 2023. Click on the above image to watch the trailer and access the episode Here.
The Christian Science Monitor Interviews NVS General Editor Dr. Eric Rasmussen
Nov. 1, 2023
To celebrate the 400th anniversary of the printing of Shakespeare's First Folio, the Christan Science Monitor interviewed NVS General Editor Dr. Eric Rasmussen, in an article titled "Uncovering Shakespeare’s rare First Folios – paw prints and all." Eric Rasmussen who has been called "the Robert Langdon of the Shakespearean world" by the Washington Post "has traveled the globe to investigate and authenticate Shakespeare First Folios." His work has been featured the New York Times, USA Today, The Guardian, NPR, CNN, the BBC, and will be showcased in an upcoming PBS Great Performances documentary later this month. To learn more about some of Eric's most interesting finds, read the article Here.
Dr. Scott Kleinman Joins the NVS Team as Associate Technical Editor
Oct. 1, 2023
Scott Kleinman, Professor of English at California State University, Northridge joins the NVS team as Associate Technical Editor in order develop visualization tools for the NVS. Scott specializes in Old and Middle English literature and the Digital Humanities. His Digital Humanities work includes the NEH-Funded Lexomics Project, which studies literature using digital methods and produces the computational text analysis tool Lexos. Scott will work with NVS Technical Editor Bryan Tarpley to integrate Lexos so that users can produce word clouds, bubble graphs, word counts, dendrograms, and similarity queries within and across NVS plays. Click Here to read learn more about the Lexomics project.
NVS Team Update
Sept. 15, 2023The New Variorum Shakespeare project welcomes two new student researchers to the team for this academic year, Andrew Hoyt (Applied Mathematics with a Computer Science emphasis, Undergraduate) and Fernando Gonzalez Torres (Industrial Engineering, Undergraduate), and welcomes back Jade Gooden (Anthropology, Undergraduate). The NVS team wishes to thank outgoing student researchers, Mounika Balivada (CS, Graduate) and Shyam Prasad Nagulavancha (CS, Graduate), who will be starting new positions in their department as graduate research assistants.
2023-24 English Department Tenure Track Search to Include Position for New NVS PI
Sept. 1, 2023As part of the English Department’s effort to build a strong early modern program at A&M, two assistant professors in early modern studies will be hired for tenure track positions that begin next fall. One of the two positions requires specialization in early modern drama studies with particular interests in Shakespeare and/or digital humanities in order to serve as the New Variorum Shakespeare project’s Principal Investigator (PI). The new PI will publicize and build a scholarly community around the NVS and its development of both open-access texts and open-source digital tools and will work closely with the Digital Editor of the NVS to raise visibility and increase the scholarly impact of the project. Read more about the positions Here.
NVS Board of Directors: Dr. Laura Mandell
Aug. 1, 2023Dr. Laura Mandell, who was instrumental in bringing the New Variorum Shakespeare project to Texas A&M will continue as a member of the NVS Board of Directors where she will guide the project as the team publishes NVS volumes online and directs new editors in building born-digital volumes. The NVS team is fortunate to have Dr. Mandell on the Board of Directors and will benefit from her expertise in the Digital Humanities and her experience as a prominent scholar and professor of English. She is the author of Breaking the Book: Print Humanities in the Digital Age (2015), Misogynous Economies: The Business of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain (1999), and, recently, “Gendering Digital Literary History: What Counts for Digital Humanities,” in the New Companion to Digital Humanities (Blackwell 2016). She is Project Director of the Poetess Archive, an online scholarly edition and database of women poets, 1750-1900 (http://www.poetessarchive.org), Acquisitions Editor of 18thConnect (http://www.18thConnect.org), and Director of ARC (http://www.ar-c.org), the Advanced Research Consortium overseeing NINES, 18thConnect, and MESA. She spearheaded the Early Modern OCR project or “eMOP” (http://emop.tamu.edu), a project concerned with improving OCR for early modern and 18th-c. texts via high performance and cluster computing and is currently at work on a text-mining project to discover emergent genders in essays and novels comprising the Feminist Controversy debates in England, 1788-1810. If you wish to learn more about the NVS Board of Directors, please see our NVS Contributors Page.
