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- Lena Cowen Orlin’s The Private Life of William Shakespeare wins the Roland Bainton Prize for Literature
- Eminent Scholar Lecture: The Private Life of William Shakespeare
- Speaking with Shakespeare interviews CoDHR's Dr. Laura Mandell
- New Team Members
- Turning the Page
- The Digital NVS Featured in The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface
- The Digital NVS at ISC
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Lena Cowen Orlin’s The Private Life of William Shakespeare wins the Roland Bainton Prize for Literature
Dec. 1, 2022
The Private Life of William Shakespeare, by Lena Cowen Orlin, was awarded the Roland Bainton Prize for Literature by the Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference. The book, which “sets a new standard for literary biography,” presents a new understanding of Shakespeare underpinned by detailed archival research into Warwickshire life and offers a rich account of everyday life in early modern Stratford. The book is available Here in hardcover and ebook formats.
Eminent Scholar Lecture: The Private Life of William Shakespeare
Nov. 9, 2022
Dr. Lena Cowen Orlin, Professor of English at Georgetown University and NVS Board Chair, will give a talk on “The Private Life of William Shakespeare,” as part of the 2022 Eminent Scholar Lecture series hosted by The Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M. Dr. Orlin is one of ten Hagler Fellows selected from among top scholars who have distinguished themselves through outstanding professional accomplishments or significant recognition. Her lecture will take place at the MSC Bethancourt Ballroom on Monday, November 7th at 4:30 pm.
Speaking with Shakespeare interviews CoDHR's Dr. Laura Mandell
Oct. 1, 2022
Thomas Dabbs, host of “Speaking with Shakespeare,” interviews Dr. Laura Mandell, Director of Texas A&M University’s Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoDHR) and PI for the New Variorum Shakespeare (NVS) project. Watch the full interview here.
New Team Members
Oct. 1, 2022The New Variorum Shakespeare project welcomes two new student researchers to the team for this academic semester: Shyam Prasad Nagulavancha (CS, Graduate) and Jade Gooden (Anthropology, Undergraduate).
Turning the Page
Sept. 1, 2022
The NVS team is now assisting volume editors build NVS editions digitally–start to finish–using the back-end tools that Dr. Bryan Tarpley developed for the project. One of the tools, featured above, is a transcription tool that will help editors create plain text transcriptions of all witnesses (all of the important editions of any given play) for each NVS volume. Editions now in production include Richard III, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Antony and Cleopatra (updates). With 12 additional editions in the production queue, the NVS team has a full agenda. More updates to come!
The Digital NVS Featured in The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface
Aug. 1, 2022
CoDHR is delighted to announce the publication of The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface, edited By Clifford Werier and Paul Budra, which includes a book chapter authored by Drs. Mandell, Burdick, Tarpley, and Torabi, titled “Using Data and Design to Bring the New Variorum Shakespeare Online.” The book is available Here beginning August 24, 2022.
The Digital NVS at ISC
July 1, 2022
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Laura Mandell was invited to present the digital NVS at the prestigious International Shakespeare Conference this summer. This is an international gathering of leading Shakespeare scholars who meet every two years to present their research and to participate in seminars. Attendance is by invitation only.
