In Progress
(as of July 2024)
The Bow in the Cloud: A Digital Edition and Network Analysis of Antislavery Literature
Started in March 2018 with the support of a digital humanities start-up grant from the John Rylands Research Institute (University of Manchester), this project is a digital edition of Mary Anne Rawson’s 1834 anti-slavery anthology. In 2023 it received an NEH-Mellon Fellowship for Digital Publication to complete the edition. The edition is based on all the surviving manuscripts of the submissions (with their covering letters) that were sent to the anthology editor, Mary Anne Rawson. It also offers, for the first time, a textual history of the anthology and its role within the networks of abolitionism and anthologies in the early nineteenth century. In addition to creating an edition, the project is modelling all the anthology-related material in the OCHRE graph database, in partnership with the University of Chicago’s Forum for Digital Cultures.
Digital Humanities Climate Coalition Toolkit
The Toolkit is a guide to making your research practices more environmentally responsible. It is geared towards digital practices, but also touches on general areas such as travel and advocacy. It is the result of a collaboration among climate activists in the DH community in the UK and Europe that began in November 2021 and continues to be updated.
Herman Melville Electronic Library
I completed the fluid text edition of Billy Budd, Sailor. I am now adding revision narratives to early chapters. I am also working on the manuscript of Melville’s review essay “Hawthorne and His Mosses.” I am also planning to begin work on the Melville family correspondence project.
Melville’s Marginalia Online
XML markup of digital surrogates of Melville’s books; digital text analysis of marginalia in works of philosophy.
Completed Projects
The Innocents Abroad, by Mark Twain (as associate editor): (Forthcoming) I worked extensively on this scholarly edition as an associate editor with a team of editors at the Mark Twain Project from 2014–2017, performing various textual collations, writing contextual annotations for several chapters, and researching various historical and biographical information for the general editor of the volume. Since I am no longer at MTP, I have stopped working on the book, but it is expected to be completed soon.
Electronic text of UC Press Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain (summer 2017). Post-processed TEI-XML, prepared illustrations.
“Mark Twain: April Fool, 1884” (co-edited with Leslie Myrick), published in Scholarly Editing Vol. 38 (2017). (see also the nifty network graph!)
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3, as associate editor (University of California Press, 2015).
“Journal. 1839,” by Christopher Cranch. Scholarly Editing 35 (2014).
“Melville’s Marginalia in Arthur Schopenhauer’s Studies in Pessimism.” Melville’s Marginalia Online (2012).