Scholarly editing has grown in scope and diversified into many fields of practice in recent years, including many intellectual projects in a variety of settings outside the traditional domains of documentary editing. These digital humanities projects and other publications have changed the scope and context of editorial practices, sometimes without access to established models and best practices in the field of documentary editing. Such projects range from those repurposing already-edited materials to those doing editorial work on previously unedited materials. We are interested in discussions of how documentary editing can in the rigorous presentation of textual materials across a broad range of projects.

At the same time, this seismic shift in terrains is altering the field of documentary editing itself. This panel examines how documentary/scholarly editing interacts with and overlaps with other disciplines and roles—particularly in projects for which the preparation of documents may only play one part among many.

We invite proposals from

• Archivists
• Collectors
• Curators
• Digital Humanists
• Exhibit-builders
• Historians
• Independent Scholars
• Lawyers
• Librarians
• Linguists
• Literary Scholars
• Museums and other Cultural Institutions
• Providers of texts in variable Accessible and Alternative Formats
• Public Historians
• Publishers in Print and Online
• Special Collections
• Translators
• Web designers

DEADLINE: 20 March 2021. Send your one-page abstract, two-page CV with full contact information to Carol DeBoer-Langworthy (CDBL@Brown.edu), ADE’s Liaison to the MLA. Inquiries to Carol or Niklaus Wasmoen (nlwasmoe@buffalo.edu).