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NVS Team Update

The 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

As 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

Dr. 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.

Bringing The New Variorum Shakespeare Online

DH 2023, Graz

Katayoun Torabi presented a short paper titled “Bringing The New Variorum Shakespeare Online” on the front- and backend features of the Digital NVS at this year’s Digital Humanities conference, in the Literary Challenges session on July 14th. The paper was co-authored by Laura Mandell and Bryan Tarpley and published in the Book of Abstracts.

Announcing Interim Director for CoDHR: Dr. Maura Ives

The College of Arts & Sciences has announced the appointment of Dr. Maura Ives as Interim Director of the Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoDHR).

Dr. Ives has been an advocate for Digital Humanities (DH) at Texas A&M for nearly two decades. In 2009, she assembled and led the interdisciplinary team that identified DH as a “landmark research area” for Texas A&M and secured initial funding for the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture (IDHMC).  A specialist in Victorian literature, critical bibliography and textual scholarship, Dr. Ives is the author or editor of four books and numerous articles in her research fields and has received research fellowships from the Princeton University Library, the Bibliographical Society of America, and the Bibliographical Society of the United Kingdom. For the past seven years, she has served as the Department Head of English.

She will begin her new position in CoDHR on August 1, 2023.

The Digital NVS Presented at ACH 2023 in Virtual World

Katayoun Torabi presented the New Variorum Shakespeare project in a virtual poster session hosted by Work Adventure at the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) on July 1, 2023. The poster presentation included the NVS promotional video and the NVS website.

The Digital New Variorum Shakespeare to be Presented at ACH 2023

We are happy to announce that the New Variorum Shakespeare project will be presented in a poster session at the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) in July 2023! This year’s virtual ACH conference emphasizes “social justice in multiple contexts: anti-racist work, Indigenous studies, cultural and critical ethnic studies, intersectional feminism, postcolonial and decolonial studies, disability studies, and queer studies,” and prioritizes multilingualism in the Digital Humanities.