Tag: Carol DeBoer Langworthy
Call for Nominations: ADE President & Councilor-at-Large
ADE Publications Committee
The Nominating Committee invites the submission of names for two important offices of the Association for Documentary Editing: President and Councilor-at-Large. Names of potential candidates and rationales for their nomination should be submitted to the committee chair, Carol DeBoer-Langworthy, by 30 March. The President serves for one year as President-Elect, […]
CFP for ADE Session at MLA 2016 in Austin, Texas
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Not for Your Eyes: Editing Private Documents for Publication The editing of documents not originally intended for publication poses special challenges. Such documents often are difficult to locate in the first place, and their presentation can be complicated by idiosyncratic features that are essential to their nature but that are […]
Sharon Ritenour Stevens Fund
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The ADE has established a fund to honor the memory of Sharon Ritenour Stevens. To make a contribution, go to the Donate to the ADE page or send a check to ADE Secretary Darrell Meadows at Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, Kentucky Historical Society, 100 W. Broadway, Frankfort, KY 40601. The initiators of the fund, recent […]
Publication of Scholarly Editing, Vol. 34
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We are pleased to announce the publication of Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing (vol. 34, 2013), now in its second issue as an online publication at www.scholarlyediting.org. Scholarly Editing publishes peer-reviewed editions of primary source materials of cultural significance while continuing the decades-long tradition of publishing articles and reviews […]
Call for Papers for an ADE Session at the 2014 MLA Meeting
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Literary Works in Multiple Versions Most literary scholars can think of instances in which an author’s idea has been expressed in several versions, a process that G. Thomas Tanselle has called “vertical revision.” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Trimalchio,” for example, became The Great Gatsby. Eudora Welty transformed a short story for […]
ADE at the Modern Language Association Meeting
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The ADE sponsored a panel at the annual MLA meeting in Boston, on 4 January 2013. Carol DeBoer-Langworthy chaired the panel, “Fraud and Forgery in Literary Texts,” which featured the following papers: “Editing Forgery, Scripting an Author: The Case of Emily Dickinson,” Martha Nell Smith, Univ. of Maryland, College Park; […]