Members
Peter Shillingsburg, Centre Director (pshillingsburg@dmu.ac.uk)
Professor of English. Previously William L. Giles Distinguished Professor of English at Mississippi State University and later Professor of English at the University North Texas. He was Visiting Professor at the University of New South Wales, Canberra. He is General and Textual Editor of The Works of W. M. Thackeray (originally Garland; now, University of Michigan Press), seven volumes completed; editor of The Thackeray Newsletter (1975-2003), and is currently Associate Editor of The Oxford Companion to the Book. Honours include John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, Conaroe Lecture (Lafayette College), Robert W. Harrison, Jr., Faculty Excellence (Mississippi St. U.).
Research interests include textual scholarship, history of the book, editorial theory; and Victorian literature, especially W. M. Thackeray.
Publications include: From Gutenberg to Google: Electronic Representations of Literary Texts (2006); Scholarly Editing in the Computer Age (1984, 1986, 1996); Resisting Texts (1997); Pegasus in Harness: Victorian Publishing and W. M. Thakceray (1992); The Works of W M Thackeray (a scholarly edition); A Literary Life of W M Thackeray (2001).
Shillingsburg's Personal Page: http://peter.shillingsburg.net
Julia Briggs (jbriggs@dmu.ac.uk)
Professor of English Literature and Women's Studies; Emeritus Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford; O. B. E.
Research interests include Shakespeare and renaissance drama (especially Middleton and Marlowe); modernism; women's writing in early modern England and late nineteenth and early twentieth century literature; Virginia Woolf; children's literature.
Publications include Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life (2005); Reading Virginia Woolf (2006); This Stage-Play World: Texts and Contexts, 1580-1625 (1983, revised edition, 1997); A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit (1987); Night Visitors: a history of the English ghost story (1978); she acted as general editor for the Penguin Classics edition of Virginia Woolf, and has edited Woolf's Night and Day (1992) and Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (2005) for Penguin.
A.S.G. Edwards (edwar04@dmu.ac.uk)
Professor of Textual Studies. Formerly Professor of English at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada, and the University of Glamorgan. He has also been: Visiting Professor, University of Washington, 1988, University of Colorado, 1998; Helen Cam Fellow, Girton College, Cambridge, 1998-99; Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor, University of Bristol, 1999; Visiting Professor, AHRC Summer Institutes, University of Colorado, 1995, Folger Library, 2005. He is a Guggenheim Fellow. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Chaucer Variorum; Yale Edition of the Works of St. Thomas More; Review; and Text. Formerly Advisory Editor, Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography; General Editor, Index of Middle English Prose; Co-Editor, English Manuscript Studies. Currently Associate Editor of The Oxford Companion to the Book.
Research interests include medieval and early modern literature, manuscript study, palaeography and textual criticism.
Paul Eggert (p.eggert@adfa.edu.au)
Visiting Professor, May-July 2006. Professor of English, University of New South Wales, Canberra and director of its Australian Scholarly Editions Centre 1992-2005. Founding general editor of the Academy Editions of Australian Literature (nine scholarly editions since 1996, in progress) and responsible for the Colonial Texts Series (8 titles, 1988-2004). He is President of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand and chair of the AustLit Board.
Research interests include aspects of Imperial and Australian print culture, editorial theories of the text, and the restoration of historic buildings and paintings. He is co-editing Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes for the Cambridge Works series.
Publications include scholarly editions for the Cambridge Works of D. H. Lawrence (The Boy in the Bush, 1990, and Twilight in Italy and Other Essays, 1994), and another two in 1996 and 2006 for the Academy Editions series (Henry Kingsley's The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn and Rolf Boldrewood's Robbery Under Arms); Penguin editions of the Lawrence titles in 1996 and 1997; and edited collections Lawrence and Comedy (Cambridge, 1996) and (Garland, 1998).
Website: www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/ASEC; www.austlit.edu.au
Nicholas Hayward (nhayward@dmu.ac.uk)
Technical Development Officer, CTS.
Research interests include the development of digital pedagogical tools; palaeography; Open Source methods and associated software development; text encoding; digital archiving and preservation; Near Eastern and Middle Egyptian literature and art; Virginia Woolf; modernism.
Publications include: 'Ancient Near East.com: The development of an interactive academic and education resource.' (in BAR International Series 1075, 2002)
Takako Kato (TakakoKato123@gmail.com)
Research Fellow, CTS.
Research interests include medieval literature, manuscripts and early printed books, textual criticism, Malory and Caxton.
Publications include: 'Towards the Digital Winchester: Editing the Winchester Manuscript of Malory's Morte Darthur' (in International Journal of English Studies 2006); 'Corrected Mistakes in the Winchester Manuscript' (in Re-viewing 'Le Morte Darthur' 2005); Caxton's 'Morte Darthur': The Printing Process and the Authenticity of the Text (2002)
Federico Meschini (fmeschini@tin.it)
Research Technician, CTS.
Mark Bland
Research interests: Textual Scholarship; History of the Book; Renaissance Literature; Ben Jonson
Jane Dowson
Research interests: Twentieth century Women Poets
Scott Lewis
Research interests: The Brownings' Correspondence Project
Joe Phelan
Research interests: The Brownings' Correspondence Project; Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Literature; Nineteenth-Century American Literature; and Colonial Writing
Andrew Thacker
Research interests: Modernist Magazines
Imelda Whelehan
Research interests: Underground publishing in the 1970s Women's Movement
The CTS has formal and informal links with other research centres and graduate programs for textual study. Our common goals are the investigation of primary literary documents from manuscripts through print to develop understandings of written texts informed by knowledge of their histories. These associations include:
The Institute for Textual Study and Electronic Editing at the University of Birmingham under the direction of David Parker and the CTS's own previous Director, Peter Robinson.
The Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies in the Institute of English Studies, University of London, through its director Warwick Gould and his assistant Wim Van Mierlo
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College, London, through Marilyn Deegan, John Lavagnino, Willard McCarty and Harold Short
The Australian Scholarly Editions Centre
The HyperNietzsche Project, directed by Paolo d'Orio and Hans Walter Gabler in Munich, Paris and Pisa
Institut des Textes et Manuscrits modernes ITEM including Daniel Ferrer.
The School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, Calcutta
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