BAMS Postgraduate Training Day

FRIDAY 12^th JANUARY, 2024

‘Modernist Editing’

SCHEDULE

Sign up here – https://forms.office.com/e/zdK19ASdYd

There will be preparatory tasks to complete. We will send these by the 5^th January.

10.30-11.00

Welcome and Introduction

Rebecca Bowler and Claire Drewery

(Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Works of May Sinclair)

11.00-12.00

Session ONE

Wyndham Lewis, Collected Works

Rebecca Beasley and Nathan Waddell

Rebecca and Nathan are both editing volumes for the Lewis Collected Works, forthcoming from Oxford University Press. We’re interested to hear your views on some of the issues that we’ve been discussing on the editorial board, and to that end we’re providing you with extracts from the Editorial Handbook, mainly written by the General Editor, Paul Edwards. (Please note that this Handbook must not be shared or quoted: its content is copyright protected.) We’re also providing a paragraph from one of our volumes, for which we invite you to provide explanatory notes.

12.00-13.00 LUNCH

13.00-14.30

Session TWO

Ford Madox Ford and Evelyn Waugh

Lucinda Borkett-Jones, Barbara Cooke, Sara Haslam and Max Saunders

Ford Madox Ford – Managing and supporting an editorial team with general editors Max Saunders and Sara Haslam, and research associate Lucinda Borkett-Jones. Max and Sara will talk about managing support staff for the edition while Lucinda will talk about her editing work to date, related training and experience, and her applications for postdoctoral work.

Evelyn Waugh – Too Much Information. A practical exercise in dating and organising multiple drafts of a published work with Barbara Cooke. Prior to the session Barbara will provide scans of every surviving witness to the opening of a chapter in Waugh’s autobiography, and talk through the process of a) determining the likely order of composition and b) communicating that order.

14.30-15.00 BREAK

15.00-16.30

Session THREE

The Amy Lowell Letters Project:Editing a Digital Critical Edition

Melissa Bradshaw and Danielle Nasenbeny

In this session we’ll be talking about our work on the Amy Lowell Letters Project, an open-access digital critical edition of the American modernist poet’s never-before collected letters. Melissa is the Director and primary editor, and Danielle is the Project Manager. We’ll give an overview of Lowell and her poetic networks; a tour of the infrastructure we’re building to turn a selection of approximately 1800 letters into a searchable and indexable dataset; and discuss the challenges (and joys!) of supervising a fluctuating stream of volunteers, credit earning students, and graduate assistants who are helping us transcribe and encode the letters. Additionally, Danielle will talk about working on the project during her postgraduate studies: why she got involved in this project, how she imagines it will inform her career, and how she balances her responsibilities on this and other digital projects with her own research.