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The Digital NVS: Looking Ahead

Now that we’ve launched the digital editions of The Winter’s Tale and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the 11th World Shakespeare Congress, Singapore, we are looking forward to the next phase of the project, which involves making Corpora available to new NVS editors who wish to create NVS editions digitally–start to finish–using the web application’s many features. We are currently working on contracting with new volume editors in order to add sixteen additional NVS editions to the site!

Presenting the NVS at the WSB Mini-Symposium

The NVS team has had the pleasure of presenting the newly-launched digital NVS at the World Shakespeare Bibliography Mini-Symposium on September 22, 2021, and has plans to publicize the site at various conferences in the coming year. Stay tuned!

The Digital NVS Officially Launched

Virtual NVS Booth at the World Shakespeare Congress, Singapore 2021

We are happy to announce that we’ve just successfully launched the digital NVS featuring digital versions of The Winter’s Tale and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the 11th World Shakespeare Congress, Singapore. The conference runs from July 18 to July 24; however, our virtual exhibit which includes our logos, video, website, and a feedback webform will be on display at the virtual NVS booth through June 30, 2022 (feel free to look at the website, video, and web form at the above links).

Many thanks to the NVS Board, the General Editors, and the design team for making excellent progress on this project despite the many challenges we faced in 2020 and continue to face this year.  

Also, special thanks to Kayley Hart and Lindsey Jones, graduate students in the English Department at Texas A&M, for working with the NVS design team to prepare the digital NVS for publication!

Presenting the Digital NVS at DHSI and Day of DH

As the editorial and governance center of the New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare (NVS) series project, Texas A&M University’s Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoDHR) has plans to publish the first two digital editions of the New Variorum Shakespeare by July 2021 at the 11th World Shakespeare Congress in Singapore. Each edition will contain the complete text of each play along with a full collation of textual notes from the earliest editions to the present, including extensive previous commentary.

Working ahead of the official July launch, the NVS team has presented its work on the project at the Day of DH conference in April and at DHSI in June.  Please see the following video for more information about the digital NVS. Link video here Digital NVS

Building the Digital NVS

The NVS design team at CoDHR has made significant progress on improving the digital NVS’s functionality and performance. The site is now in alpha and can be accessed Here. The design team is on schedule to launch the digital NVS in July 2021 at the 11th World Shakespeare Congress, Singapore.

Also, special thanks to Dr. Julia Flanders (Professor of the Practice in English, Director of the Digital Scholarship Group in the Northeastern University Library, and NVS Board Member) for all of the work she has done to XML-encode the NVS edition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and to help prepare the volume for online publication.  

For a full list of contributors to this project, please visit the NVS Contributors page Here.

2021-2022 Hagler Institute for Advanced Study Graduate Student Fellow

CoDHR welcomes doctoral student Lindsey Jones as the the new 2021-2022 Hagler Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS) Graduate Student Fellow. She will conduct research with Dr. Lena Cowen Orlin, a 2020-2021 HIAS Fellow (see announcement about the 2020-2021 Class of Hagler Fellows), by assisting Dr. Orlin with research projects on the authorial voice in historical documents such as witness depositions in law courts, wills, probate inventories, and other genres of “pragmatic” writing. Additionally, Lindsey will collaborate with the Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoDHR) on its New Variorum Edition Shakespeare (NVS) project.

Lena Cowen Orlin named 2020-21 Hagler Fellow at TAMU

The Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M University announces Lena Cowen Orlin, Professor of English, Georgetown University, as one of its ten Hagler Fellows for its Class of 2020-21.  Fellows are selected from among top scholars who have distinguished themselves through outstanding professional accomplishments or significant recognition.

Dr. Orlin is a highly cited expert on private domestic life during the Renaissance and specializes in the works of Shakespeare. Orlin serves on the editorial boards for the journals Shakespeare Studies and Shakespeare Survey and for the publication series Oxford Shakespeare Topics and Arden Shakespeare State of Play.

During the fellowship, Dr. Orlin will be conducting research with the help of two graduate students from the College of Liberal Arts.  Additionally, she will collaborate with faculty and students from the College of Liberal Arts and University Libraries as well as the Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoDHR) on its New Variorum Edition Shakespeare (NVS) project to whom the Modern Language Association (MLA) awarded publishing rights, see the MLA announcement.  As chair of the NVS Board, Dr. Orlin will work with CoDHR on the transition from previously published in print editions to new digital editions in the NVS series.

The Hagler Institute for Advanced Study was established in December 2010 by The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents to build on the growing academic reputation of Texas A&M and to provide a framework to attract top scholars from throughout the nation and abroad for appointments of up to a year. The selection of Hagler Fellows initiates with faculty nominations of National Academies and Nobel Prize-caliber scholars who align with existing strengths and ambitions of the University.

Go to Texas A&M Hagler Institute Announces 2020-21 Hagler Fellows, Distinguished Lecturer for the complete list of fellows and lecturers.