Women Writers Online + Women’s History Month

Posted on February 23, 2012 by ulman.1

Julia Flanders, Director of the Women Writers Project at Brown University (and the facilitator of THATCamp OSU!) recently announced that Women Writers Online will be free and open to the public for the month of March, in celebration of Women’s History Month. She also notes that WWO will be offering a sneak preview of a new WWO interface. Consider sharing your discoveries with other THATCamp OSU participants through a comment.

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H. Lewis Ulman teaches digital media, textual editing, rhetoric, literacy studies, and environmental humanities at The Ohio State University in Columbus. Professor Ulman has published a critical edition of The Minutes of the Aberdeen Philosophical Society, 1758–1773 (Aberdeen UP, 1990), and, with Dennis Quon, an edition of manuscript essays from the same archive, “Semiotics in Eighteenth-century Aberdeen: Thomas Gordon’s Contributions to the Aberdeen Philosophical Society” (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth-Century 317 (1994): 57—115). Since 2005, he has worked with undergraduate and graduate students in textual editing courses to create a series of electronic textual editions of nineteenth-century American manuscripts in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Ohio State. An example of that work can be viewed online at http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/ulman1/SSCoxJournal/. Beginning with an NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant awarded in 2008, he has collaborated with Melanie Schlosser, metadata librarian at Ohio State University Libraries, to build a model of preservation for distributed, multimodal digital humanities projects.

1 Response to Women Writers Online + Women’s History Month

  1. Melanie Schlosser says:
    March 1, 2012 at 6:00 pm

    As someone interested in new and alternative forms of publication, I am intrigued by the WWP’s call for ‘exhibits’ as scholarly publications: www.wwp.brown.edu/research/publications/exhibits/. It seems like a very reasonable way to create scholarship on a digital collection like WWO, and I like how tightly coupled the exhibits will be with the objects themselves. (Unlike in traditional scholarly publishing, where you can interact with a book or image until the cows come home without knowing that there are books and articles written about it.)

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