{"id":2054,"date":"2012-10-28T10:35:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T14:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahwerner.net\/blog\/?page_id=2054"},"modified":"2017-01-02T10:03:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T15:03:03","slug":"mla-2013-book-history-sessions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sarahwerner.net\/blog\/mla-2013-book-history-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"MLA 2013 book history sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Below is my compilation of session at the 2013 conference of the Modern Language Association that touch on book history. For my purposes here, book history includes the study of the bibliography, book trade, textual editing, and, in some cases, new media study. My method was to skim the titles of all sessions and to click on those that seemed like they might hit on one of these topics. The result is that the list is a bit idiosyncratic and quite likely incomplete. If I’ve missed something, let me know in the comments below and I’ll update it. You can also search the convention program<\/a> yourself.<\/p>\n

15. Transatlantic Book History in the Eighteenth Century<\/a><\/strong>
\nThursday, 3 January,\u00a012:00 noon\u20131:15 p.m., Beacon E, Sheraton<\/em>
\nA special session
\nPresiding<\/em>:\u00a0Sean D. Moore, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. “Toward an Imperial Book History of the Early United States,”\u00a0Edward J. Larkin, Univ. of Delaware, Newark<\/li>\n
  2. “To Encourage the Printing Business in This Kingdom: Robert Bell’s Irish Paine,”\u00a0Molly Hardy, Saint Bonaventure Univ.<\/li>\n
  3. “Black Printers and the History of the American Book,”\u00a0Christen Mucher, Univ. of Pennsylvania<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    18. Old Wine in New Wineskins: The Collected Works Project in the Digital Age<\/a><\/strong>
    \nThursday, 3 January,\u00a012:00 noon\u20131:15 p.m., Jefferson, Sheraton<\/em>
    \nProgram arranged by the Division on Methods of Literary Research
    \nPresiding:\u00a0<\/em>Jude V. Nixon, Salem State Univ.<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. “The Collected Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Print Editions, Digital Surrounds, and Preservation,”\u00a0Sandra M. Donaldson, Univ. of North Dakota;\u00a0Marjorie I. Stone, Dalhousie Univ.<\/li>\n
    2. “A Virtual Edition of William Morris’s Collected Works,”\u00a0Florence S. Boos, Univ. of Iowa<\/li>\n
    3. “The Novels of Sutton E. Griggs: A Critical Edition,”\u00a0Tess Chakkalakal, Bowdoin Coll.<\/li>\n
    4. “Editing Henry James in the Digital Age,”\u00a0Pierre A. Walker, Salem State Univ.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      52. Issued from Boston: The National Impact of a Local Print Culture on Slavery-Related Politics<\/a><\/strong>
      \nThursday, 3 January,\u00a01:45\u20133:00 p.m., Beacon A, Sheraton<\/em>
      \nA special session
      \nPresiding:\u00a0<\/em>Robert S. Levine, Univ. of Maryland, College Park<\/p>\n

        \n
      1. “David Walker’s Appeal and the Printers of Everyday Abolition,”\u00a0Benjamin Beck, Univ. of California, Los Angeles<\/li>\n
      2. “‘I Will Be Heard’: Print’s Amplification of Boston Voices in the Antislavery Movement,”\u00a0Marcy J. Dinius, DePaul Univ.<\/li>\n
      3. “Boston and Beyond: The Broader Circulation of Walker’s Appeal,”\u00a0Lori A. Leavell, Univ. of Central Arkansas<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        58. Intermediality in Modern and Contemporary Italy: Early Cinema and Print Culture<\/a><\/strong>
        \nThursday, 3 January,\u00a01:45\u20133:00 p.m., 205, Hynes<\/em>
        \nProgram arranged by the Division on Twentieth-Century Italian Literature and the American Association for Italian Studies
        \nPresiding:<\/em> John P. Welle, Univ. of Notre Dame<\/p>\n

          \n
        1. “The Industrial Origins of Text-Image Intermediality: Sonzogno Periodicals in the 1860s\u201380s,”\u00a0Silvia Valisa, Florida State Univ.<\/li>\n
        2. “Metareferential Intermediality in the Cinema of the Early 1910s,”\u00a0Bernhard Kuhn, Bucknell Univ.<\/li>\n
        3. “The Polyphonic Language of Silent Cinema:\u00a0Rapsodia Satanica<\/em>, by Nino Oxilia, as a Multisensorial Experience,”\u00a0Danila Cannamela, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<\/li>\n
        4. “Screens to Take Home: Film and Illustrated Publishing in Italian Culture,”\u00a0Irene Lottini, Univ. of Iowa<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          84. Publishing Indigeneity: Future, Fact, and Fiction<\/a><\/strong>
          \nThursday, 3 January,\u00a03:30\u20134:45 p.m., The Fens, Sheraton<\/em>
          \nProgram arranged by the MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada
          \nPresiding:<\/em> Frederick H. White, Slippery Rock Univ.<\/p>\n

            \n
          1. “Why the Most Popular ‘Indigenous’ Writer in America Is Still Tony Hillerman,”\u00a0Susan Berry Brill de Ram\u00edrez, Bradley Univ.<\/li>\n
          2. “Back to the Indigenous Future: Publishing Bones and Wind,”\u00a0Rachela Permenter, Slippery Rock Univ.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            88. Age, Obsolescence, and New Media<\/a><\/strong>
            \nThursday, 3 January,\u00a03:30\u20134:45 p.m., Hampton, Sheraton<\/em>
            \nProgram arranged by the Discussion Group on Age Studies
            \nPresiding:\u00a0<\/em> Cynthia R. Port, Coastal Carolina Univ.<\/p>\n

              \n
            1. “Aging as Obsolescence: Remediating Old Narratives in a New Age,”\u00a0Erin Lamb, Hiram Coll.<\/li>\n
            2. “Typewriters to Tweeters: Women, Aging, and Technological Literacy,”\u00a0Lauren Marshall Bowen, Michigan Technological Univ.<\/li>\n
            3. “The New Obsolescence of New Media: Political Affect and Retrotechnologies,”\u00a0Jen Boyle, Coastal Carolina Univ.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              103. Native Literary Boston<\/a><\/strong>
              \nThursday, 3 January,\u00a03:30\u20134:45 p.m., Beacon A, Sheraton<\/em>
              \nProgram arranged by the Division on American Indian Literatures
              \nPresiding:\u00a0<\/em> Margaret Bruchac, Univ. of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n

                \n
              1. “Indigenous Writers of the Boston Children\u2019s Museum (1972\u20132011): A Digital Hub,”\u00a0Siobhan Senier, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham<\/li>\n
              2. “William Apess’s\u00a0Eulogy on King Philip<\/em>\u00a0and Cross-Ethnic Literary Boston,”\u00a0Emily Donaldson Field, Boston Univ.<\/li>\n
              3. “Shadow Printer: Red Ink and the Cambridge Press,”\u00a0Drew Lopenzina, Old Dominion Univ.<\/li>\n
              4. “‘To the Fireside of the Paleface’: Boston and Domesticity in Copway’s\u00a0Running Sketches of Men and Places<\/em>,”\u00a0Derek McGrath, Stony Brook Univ., State Univ. of New York<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                116. Art for Virtue’s Sake: New World Theories on Print and the Public Good <\/a><\/strong>
                \nThursday, 3 January,\u00a05:15\u20136:30 p.m., 307, Hynes<\/em>
                \nA special session
                \nPresiding:\u00a0<\/em> Ronald D. Briggs, Barnard Coll.<\/p>\n

                  \n
                1. “The Concept of ‘Public Instruction’ in the Periodical Press: Mexico, 1780\u20131830,”\u00a0Eugenia Rold\u00e1n Vera, Center for Research and Advanced Studies, Mexico City<\/li>\n
                2. “Readerly Pleasures and Civic Authority in the Writings of Jos\u00e9 Joaqu\u00edn Fern\u00e1ndez de Lizardi (1776\u20131827),”\u00a0Christopher Brian Conway, Univ. of Texas, Arlington<\/li>\n
                3. “Rome in the Postindependence Americas,”\u00a0Elise Bartosik-Velez, Dickinson Coll.<\/li>\n
                4. Responding:\u00a0<\/em> Ronald D. Briggs<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                  131. Inscribing the Self: Social Communication and the Materiality of Writing in East Asia<\/a><\/strong>
                  \nThursday, 3 January,\u00a05:15\u20136:30 p.m., 205, Hynes<\/em>
                  \nProgram arranged by the Division on East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900
                  \nPresiding:\u00a0<\/em> Joseph R. Allen, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities<\/p>\n

                    \n
                  1. “Women and Manuscript Culture in the Late Choson Period (Seventeenth\u2013Nineteenth Centuries),” Sookja Cho, Arizona State Univ.<\/li>\n
                  2. “Between Writing and Publishing Letters in Seventeenth-Century China,”\u00a0Suyoung Son, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder<\/li>\n
                  3. “Signatures of the Self: The (In)Visibility of Writing in Early-Twentieth-Century Japanese Letters,”\u00a0Hoyt Long, Univ. of Chicago<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                    For abstracts, visit\u00a0all.umn.edu\/people\/profile.php?UID=jrallen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

                    133. Reading the Invisible and Unwanted in Old and New Media <\/a><\/strong>
                    \nThursday, 3 January,\u00a05:15\u20136:30 p.m., The Fens, Sheraton<\/em>
                    \nA special session
                    \nPresiding:\u00a0<\/em> Lori A. Emerson, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder<\/p>\n

                      \n
                    1. “Apple Macintosh and the Ideology of the User-Friendly,”\u00a0Lori A. Emerson<\/li>\n
                    2. “OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and the Vestigial Aesthetics of Machine Vision,”\u00a0Zach Whalen, Univ. of Mary Washington<\/li>\n
                    3. “Lost in Plain Sight: Microdot Technology and the Compression of Reading,”\u00a0Paul Benzon, Temple Univ., Philadelphia<\/li>\n
                    4. “An Account of Randomness in Literary Computing,”\u00a0Mark Sample, George Mason Univ.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                      For abstracts, visit\u00a0loriemerson.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n

                      137. Printing Science<\/a><\/strong>
                      \nThursday, 3 January,\u00a05:15\u20136:30 p.m., Beacon F, Sheraton<\/em>
                      \nProgram arranged by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
                      \nPresiding:\u00a0<\/em> Greg Barnhisel, Duquesne Univ.<\/p>\n

                        \n
                      1. “Printing the Third Dimension in the Renaissance,”\u00a0Travis D. Williams, Univ. of Rhode Island<\/li>\n
                      2. “Mediating Power in American Editions of Verne’s\u00a0Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea<\/em>,” Matthew Lavin, Univ. of Iowa<\/li>\n
                      3. “Printed Books, Digital Poetics, and the Aesthetic of Bookishness,”\u00a0Jessica Pressman, Yale Univ.<\/li>\n
                      4. Responding:\u00a0<\/em> Stephanie Ann Smith, Univ. of Florida<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                        For copies of abstracts, visit\u00a0www.sharpweb.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

                        165. Beyond the PDF: Experiments in Open-Access Scholarly Publishing <\/a><\/strong>
                        \nThursday, 3 January,\u00a07:00\u20138:15 p.m., Hampton, Sheraton<\/em>
                        \nA special session<\/p>\n

                        Speakers:<\/em>\u00a0Douglas M. Armato, Univ. of Minnesota Press;\u00a0Jamie Skye Bianco, Univ. of Pittsburgh; Matthew K. Gold, New York City Coll. of Tech., City Univ. of New York;\u00a0 Jennifer Laherty, Indiana Univ., Bloomington;\u00a0 Monica McCormick, New York Univ.;\u00a0 Katie Rawson, Emory Univ.<\/p>\n

                        Session Description:<\/em> As open-access scholarly publishing matures and movements such as the Elsevier boycott continue to grow, open-access publications have begun to move beyond the simple (but crucial) principle of openness toward an ideal of interactivity. This session will explore innovative examples of open-access scholarly publishing that showcase new types of social, interactive, mixed-media texts.<\/p>\n

                        For abstracts and discussion, visit\u00a0beyondthepdf.wordpress.com\/<\/a>\u00a0after 1 Nov.<\/p>\n

                        186. Fraud and Forgery in Literary Texts\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>
                        \nFriday, 4 January,\u00a08:30\u20139:45 a.m., Liberty A, Sheraton<\/em>
                        \nProgram arranged by the Association for Documentary Editing
                        \nPresiding:\u00a0<\/em> Carol DeBoer-Langworthy, Brown Univ.<\/p>\n

                          \n
                        1. “Editing Forgery, Scripting an Author: The Case of Emily Dickinson,”\u00a0Martha Nell Smith, Univ. of Maryland, College Park<\/li>\n
                        2. “Authorial Deceit in Literary Texts,”\u00a0David L. Vander Meulen, Univ. of Virginia<\/li>\n
                        3. “‘Shan’t Tell’: Sex, Lies, and the Unspeakable in the Fiction of Jerzy Kosinki,”\u00a0Carolyn A. Sofia, Stony Brook Univ., State Univ. of New York<\/li>\n
                        4. “‘It Couldn’t Be Robbery to Steal That’: Plagiarism and Twain’s ‘Jumping Frog,'”\u00a0Andrew Newman, Stony Brook Univ., State Univ. of New York;\u00a0 Brandi So, Stony Brook Univ., State Univ. of New York<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                          198. Convergent Histories of the Book: From Manuscript to Digital <\/a><\/strong>
                          \nFriday, 4 January,\u00a08:30\u20139:45 a.m., Hampton, Sheraton<\/em>
                          \nA special session
                          \nPresiding:\u00a0<\/em> Alex Mueller, Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston<\/p>\n

                          Speakers:<\/em>\u00a0Kathleen Fitzpatrick, MLA;\u00a0Martin Foys, Drew Univ.;\u00a0Matthew Kirschenbaum, Univ. of Maryland, College Park;\u00a0Stephen G. Nichols, Johns Hopkins Univ., MD;\u00a0Kathleen A. Tonry, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs;\u00a0Sarah Werner, Folger Shakespeare Library<\/p>\n

                          Session Description:<\/em> In this roundtable, scholars of manuscripts, print, and digital media will discuss how contemporary forms of textuality intersect with, duplicate, extend, or draw on manuscript technologies. Panelists seek to push the discussion beyond traditional notions of supersession or remediation to consider the relevance of past textual practices in our analyses of emergent ones.<\/p>\n

                          285. How Many Copies Is Enough? Too Many? Libraries and Shared Monograph Archives<\/a><\/strong>
                          \nFriday, 4 January,\u00a012:00 noon\u20131:15 p.m., Riverway, Sheraton<\/em>
                          \nProgram arranged by the Discussion Group on Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures
                          \nPresiding:\u00a0<\/em> David Oberhelman, Oklahoma State Univ. Library<\/p>\n

                          Speakers:<\/em>\u00a0Deanna Marcum, Ithaka S+R;\u00a0Jay Schafer, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, Libraries; Andrew M. Stauffer, Univ. of Virginia<\/p>\n

                          Session Description:<\/em> As libraries rely increasingly on digitized texts and on partnerships for archiving print volumes, how do libraries and scholars cooperate to ensure preservation of copies with artifactual value for scholarly purposes?<\/p>\n

                          For session description and bibliography, visit\u00a0mlalibraries.wordpress.com\/mla-2013\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

                          294. The Work of Editing: A Workshop for New and Old Scholarly Editors<\/a><\/strong>
                          \nFriday, 4 January,\u00a012:00 noon\u20131:15 p.m., Jefferson, Sheraton<\/em>
                          \nA special session
                          \nPresiding:\u00a0<\/em> Alan Rauch, Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte;\u00a0 Masoud Yazdani, Intellect, Ltd.<\/p>\n

                          Session Description:<\/em> Editors of scholarly journals face new challenges. These include new technologies of access and distribution and fiscal management. We will explore general issues facing journals and consider the demands of workload and support in home institutions. This is a rare opportunity for editors to collaborate in the improvement of journals and the precarious state of scholarly publishing.<\/p>\n

                          321. Digital and Analogue Critical Editions of Continental Literature? Pros, Cons, Discussion<\/a><\/strong>
                          \nFriday, 4 January,\u00a01:45\u20133:00 p.m., Fairfax A, Sheraton<\/em>
                          \nProgram arranged by the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions
                          \nPresiding:\u00a0<\/em> Stephen G. Nichols, Johns Hopkins Univ., MD<\/p>\n

                          Speakers:<\/em>\u00a0 Karen L. Fresco, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana;\u00a0 Albert Lloret, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst; Jacques Neefs, Johns Hopkins Univ., MD;\u00a0Responding:\u00a0<\/em> Timothy L. Stinson, North Carolina State Univ.<\/p>\n

                          Session Description:<\/em> This panel explores the resistance of editors to explore digital editions. Questions posed: Do scholarly protocols deliberately resist computational methodologies? Or are we still in a liminal period where print predominates for lack of training in the new technology? Does the problem lie with a failure to encourage digital research by younger scholars?<\/p>\n

                          For abstracts, visit\u00a0johnshopkins.academia.edu\/StephenGNichols .<\/a><\/p>\n

                          328. African American Print Culture Studies<\/a><\/strong>
                          \nFriday, 4 January,\u00a01:45\u20133:00 p.m., Back Bay B, Sheraton<\/em>
                          \nProgram arranged by the American Literature Section<\/p>\n

                          Speakers:<\/em>\u00a0 Elizabeth Cali, Univ. of Texas, San Antonio;\u00a0 Erin Ranft, Univ. of Texas, San Antonio; Vincent Schleitwiler, Williams Coll.; Responding:\u00a0<\/em> Carla L. Peterson, Univ. of Maryland, College Park<\/p>\n

                          Session Description:<\/em> This roundtable demonstrates the advantages of open access by presenting multiple approaches to studies in United States black print culture, drawn on digital and material archives. Topics include representations of Haitian independence in early African American serials, late-nineteenth-century medical and entertainment displays of postmortem black bodies, and mid-twentieth-century comparative black Pacific print culture studies.<\/p>\n

                          For abstracts, write to\u00a0joycelyn.moody@utsa.edu<\/a>\u00a0after 3 Dec.<\/p>\n

                          350. Puerto Rican Print Cultures\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>
                          \nFriday, 4 January,\u00a03:30\u20134:45 p.m., 208, Hynes<\/em>
                          \nProgram arranged by the Discussion Group on Puerto Rican Literature and Culture
                          \nPresiding:\u00a0<\/em> Tom\u00e1s Urayo\u00e1n Noel, Univ. at Albany, State Univ. of New York<\/p>\n

                            \n
                          1. “Letters of Bondage: Blackface and the Merengue Craze in\u00a0El Ponce\u00f1o<\/em>, 1852\u201354,”\u00a0 Kahlil Chaar-P\u00e9rez, Harvard Univ.<\/li>\n
                          2. “The Linguistic Politics of Piri Thomas: African American Vernacular English and Racial Discourse inDown These Mean Streets<\/em>,”\u00a0 Anne Garland Mahler, Emory Univ.<\/li>\n
                          3. “Poes\u00eda, imagen y tecnolog\u00eda en\u00a0Rizoma<\/em>\u00a0de \u00c1urea Mar\u00eda Sotomayor,”\u00a0 Juan Rodriguez, Georgia Inst. of Tech.<\/li>\n
                          4. Responding:\u00a0<\/em> Rub\u00e9n R\u00edos \u00c1vila, Univ. of Puerto Rico, R\u00edo Piedras<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                            353. Avenues of Access: Digital Humanities and the Future of Scholarly Communication<\/a><\/strong>
                            \nFriday, 4 January,\u00a03:30\u20134:45 p.m., Republic Ballroom, Sheraton<\/em>
                            \nA linked session arranged in conjunction with\u00a0                            The Presidential Forum: Avenues of Access<\/a>
                            \nPresiding:\u00a0<\/em> Michael B\u00e9rub\u00e9, Penn State Univ., University Park<\/p>\n

                              \n
                            1. “The Mirror and the LAMP,”\u00a0 Matthew Kirschenbaum, Univ. of Maryland, College Park<\/li>\n
                            2. “Access Demands a Paradigm Shift,”\u00a0 Cathy N. Davidson, Duke Univ.<\/li>\n
                            3. “Resistance in the Materials,”\u00a0 Bethany Nowviskie, Univ. of Virginia<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                              Session Description:<\/em> The news that digital humanities are the next big thing must come as a pleasant surprise to people who have been working in the field for decades. Yet only recently has the scholarly community at large realized that developments in new media have implications not only for the form but also for the content of scholarly communication. This session will explore some of those implications\u2014for scholars, for libraries, for journals, and for the idea of intellectual property.<\/p>\n

                              384. What Is a Journal? Toward a Theory of Periodical Studies <\/a><\/strong>
                              \nFriday, 4 January,\u00a05:15\u20136:30 p.m., Public Garden, Sheraton<\/em>
                              \nA special session<\/p>\n

                              Speakers:<\/em>\u00a0 Ann Ardis, Univ. of Delaware, Newark;\u00a0 Sean Latham, Univ. of Tulsa;\u00a0 Dallas H. Liddle, Augsburg Coll.;\u00a0 James Mussell, Univ. of Birmingham;\u00a0 Matthew Philpotts, Univ. of Manchester<\/p>\n

                              Session Description:<\/em> Research in periodical studies continues to flourish, yielding numerous projects that take the periodical as an object of inquiry in its own right. Yet the theoretical development of the field remains elusive. This session tackles this weakness, bringing together periodical scholars from different disciplines to address the fundamental conceptual issues raised by this vibrant new field.<\/p>\n

                              For position papers, visit\u00a0www.ru.nl\/esprit\/<\/a>\u00a0after 1 Nov.<\/p>\n

                              432. Aural Literature and Close Listening<\/a><\/strong>
                              \nSaturday, 5 January, 8:30\u20139:45 a.m., Beacon H, Sheraton<\/em>
                              \nA special session
                              \nPresiding<\/em>: Michelle Nancy Levy, Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby<\/p>\n

                                \n
                              1. “The Case against Audiobooks,” Matthew Rubery, Univ. of London, Queen Mary Coll.<\/li>\n
                              2. “Aural Literacy in a Visual Era: Is Anyone Listening?” Cornelius Collins, Fordham Univ., Bronx<\/li>\n
                              3. “Novel Sound Tracks and the Future of Hybridized Reading,” Justin St. Clair, Univ. of South Alabama<\/li>\n
                              4. “Poetry as MP3: PennSound, Poetry Recording, and the New Digital Archive,” Lisa A. Hollenbach, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                                For abstracts, write to mnl@sfu.ca.<\/p>\n

                                445. Mobile Texts to Performative Adaptations: Fresh Looks at Editing Medieval and Renaissance Poetry and Music\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>
                                \nSaturday, 5 January,\u00a08:30\u20139:45 a.m., Beacon A, Sheraton<\/em>
                                \nProgram arranged by the Society for Textual Scholarship
                                \nPresiding:\u00a0<\/em> Dario Del Puppo, Trinity Coll., CT<\/p>\n

                                  \n
                                1. “Mobile Texts and Local Options: Geography and Editing,”\u00a0 H. Wayne Storey, Indiana Univ., Bloomington<\/li>\n
                                2. “You Can Say That Again: The Transmission of Old French Refrains,”\u00a0 Daniel E. O’Sullivan, Univ. of Mississippi<\/li>\n
                                3. “Renaissance Instrumentalists as Translators,”\u00a0 Victor Coehlo, Boston Univ.;\u00a0 Keith Polk, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                                  For abstracts, write to\u00a0dario.delpuppo@trincoll.edu<\/a>\u00a0after 10 Dec.<\/p>\n

                                  451. Scholarly Journals: New Challenges and Opportunities <\/a><\/strong>
                                  \nSaturday, 5 January,\u00a08:30\u20139:45 a.m., Public Garden, Sheraton<\/em>
                                  \nProgram arranged by the MLA Delegate Assembly
                                  \nPresiding:\u00a0<\/em> Ana-Maria Medina, Metropolitan State Coll. of Denver<\/p>\n

                                  Speakers:<\/em>\u00a0 Lois Bacon, EBSCO;\u00a0 Marshall J. Brown, Univ. of Washington, Seattle;\u00a0 Stuart Alexander Day, Univ. of Kansas;\u00a0 Judy Luther, Informed Strategies;\u00a0 Dana D. Nelson, Vanderbilt Univ.;\u00a0 Joseph Paul Tabbi, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago;\u00a0 Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist Univ.<\/p>\n

                                  Session Description:<\/em> Changes are happening to the scholarly journal, a fundamental institution of our professional life. New modes of communication open promising possibilities, even as financial challenges to print media and education make this time difficult. A panel of editors, publishers, and librarians will address these topics, carrying forward a discussion begun at the 2012 Delegate Assembly meeting.<\/p>\n

                                  485. Inventing New Journals: The Pressures for and against New Scholarly Publications <\/a><\/strong>
                                  \nSaturday, 5 January,\u00a010:15\u201311:30 a.m., Riverway, Sheraton<\/em>
                                  \nProgram arranged by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals
                                  \nPresiding:\u00a0<\/em> Alan Rauch, Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte<\/p>\n

                                  Speakers:<\/em>\u00a0 Myra Seaman, Coll. of Charleston;\u00a0 Masoud Yazdani, Intellect, Ltd.<\/p>\n

                                  Session Description:<\/em> New journals are consistently needed to respond to critical trends and increasing pressures to publish. But fiscal pressures militate against journals and the editorial work needed to sustain them. How do we, as academics, editors, publishers, and administrators, negotiate this?<\/p>\n

                                  For position descriptions, visit\u00a0webpages.uncc.edu\/~arauch\/Inventing-New-Journals.html<\/a>\u00a0after 1 Jan.<\/p>\n

                                  488. Answering the Challenge: The New Variorum Shakespeare in the Digital Age <\/a><\/strong>
                                  \nSaturday, 5 January,\u00a010:15\u201311:30 a.m., Beacon F, Sheraton<\/em>
                                  \nProgram arranged by the MLA Committee on the New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare
                                  \nPresiding:\u00a0<\/em> Paul Werstine, Univ. of Western Ontario<\/p>\n

                                    \n
                                  1. “Having Your Semantics and Formatting It Too: XML and the NVS,”\u00a0 Julia H. Flanders, Brown Univ.<\/li>\n
                                  2. “Variant Stories: Digital Visualization and the Secret Lives of Shakespeare’s Texts,”\u00a0 Alan Galey, Univ. of Toronto<\/li>\n
                                  3. “Digital Alchemy: Transmuting the Electronic\u00a0Comedy of Errors<\/em>,”\u00a0 Jon Bath, Univ. of Saskatchewan<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                                    504. New England DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Comics <\/a><\/strong>
                                    \nSaturday, 5 January,\u00a012:00 noon\u20131:15 p.m., The Fens, Sheraton<\/em>
                                    \nProgram arranged by the Discussion Group on Comics and Graphic Narratives
                                    \nPresiding:\u00a0<\/em> Martha B. Kuhlman, Bryant Univ.<\/p>\n

                                      \n
                                    1. “Minicomics and the Graphic Nonnovel,”\u00a0 Isaac Cates, Univ. of Vermont<\/li>\n
                                    2. “Comics Culture and Community: Providence,”\u00a0 Martha B. Kuhlman<\/li>\n
                                    3. “‘Like Us Be Free and Bold’: Innovation, Rebellion, and Self-Reliance in Boston Minicomics,”\u00a0 Susan E. Kirtley, Portland State Univ.<\/li>\n
                                    4. “The Illegitimate Sons of Superman: DIY Publishing and the Rutland Halloween Parade,”\u00a0 Craig Fischer, Appalachian State Univ.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                                      522. Crossed Codes: Print’s Dream of the Digital Age, Digital’s Memory of the Age of Print <\/a><\/strong>
                                      \nSaturday, 5 January,\u00a012:00 noon\u20131:15 p.m., Liberty C, Sheraton<\/em>
                                      \nProgram arranged by the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions
                                      \nPresiding:\u00a0<\/em> Marta L. Werner, D’Youville Coll.<\/p>\n

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                                      1. “‘Every Man His Own Publisher’: Extraillustration and the Dream of the Universal Library,”\u00a0 Gabrielle Dean, Johns Hopkins Univ., MD<\/li>\n
                                      2. “Interactivity and Randomization Processes in Printed and Electronic Experimental Poetry,” Jonathan Baillehache, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick<\/li>\n
                                      3. “Mirror World, Minus World: Glitching Nabokov’s\u00a0Pale Fire<\/em>,”\u00a0 Andrew Ferguson, Univ. of Virginia<\/li>\n
                                      4. “Designed Futures of the Book,”\u00a0 Kari M. Kraus, Univ. of Maryland, College Park<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                                        525. Materialities of Translation <\/a><\/strong>
                                        \nSaturday, 5 January,\u00a012:00 noon\u20131:15 p.m., 207, Hynes<\/em>
                                        \nProgram arranged by the Discussion Group on Translation
                                        \nPresiding:\u00a0<\/em> Christi Merrill, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor<\/p>\n

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                                        1. “Scattered Strokes: Yoko Tawada’s Letters in Visual Transformation,”\u00a0 Gizem Arslan, Cornell Univ.<\/li>\n
                                        2. “‘Englishing’ Utopia in London: Translation and Print in the Sixteenth Century,”\u00a0 Alice Waters, Boston Coll.<\/li>\n
                                        3. “The ‘Right’ to Translate? Ingeborg Bachmann and Gendered Translation,”\u00a0 Erin Riddle, Binghamton Univ., State Univ. of New York<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                                          575. Figurations of Media: The Novel after Media Studies <\/a><\/strong>
                                          \nSaturday, 5 January,\u00a03:30\u20134:45 p.m., Berkeley, Sheraton<\/em>
                                          \nA special session
                                          \nPresiding:\u00a0<\/em> Kate Marshall, Univ. of Notre Dame<\/p>\n

                                            \n
                                          1. “Literary Form and the Book Trade: Cooper’s Transatlantic Additions,”\u00a0 Joseph Rezek, Boston Univ.<\/li>\n
                                          2. “Jane Austen’s Novels as Actors in a History of Media(tion),”\u00a0 William Beatty Warner, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara<\/li>\n
                                          3. “Materials and Mediality: On Steinbeck’s\u00a0The Wayward Bus<\/em>,”\u00a0 Kate Marshall<\/li>\n
                                          4. Responding:\u00a0<\/em> Lara Langer Cohen, Wayne State Univ.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                                            689. New Media in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spain <\/a><\/strong>
                                            \nSunday, 6 January,\u00a08:30\u20139:45 a.m., 313, Hynes<\/em>
                                            \nProgram arranged by the Division on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature
                                            \nPresiding:\u00a0<\/em> Daniel Frost, Coll. of the Holy Cross<\/p>\n

                                              \n
                                            1. “The Original, the Copy, and the Counterfeit: Sexual and Mechanical Reproduction in\u00a0Fortunata y Jacinta<\/em>,”\u00a0 Laura Connor, Harvard Univ.<\/li>\n
                                            2. “Pablo Minguet’s\u00a0Enga\u00f1os a ojos vistas<\/em>: Trick Games and the Rise of Madrid’s Magical Printing Market,”\u00a0 Marta Ferrer G\u00f3mez, Universidad de Salamanca<\/li>\n
                                            3. “Print Technologies and Public Describing: Image, Presence, and Trace,”\u00a0 Rebecca Haidt, Ohio State Univ., Columbus<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                                              760. Bibliography in the Digital Age <\/a><\/strong>
                                              \nSunday, 6 January,\u00a012:00 noon\u20131:15 p.m., Public Garden, Sheraton<\/em>
                                              \nProgram arranged by the Division on Methods of Literary Research and the Discussion Group on Bibliography and Textual Studies
                                              \nPresiding:\u00a0<\/em> Maura Carey Ives, Texas A&M Univ., College Station<\/p>\n

                                                \n
                                              1. “Analyzing Large Bibliographical Data Sets: A Case Study,”\u00a0 David Lee Gants, Florida State Univ.<\/li>\n
                                              2. “Descriptive Bibliography’s ‘Ideal Copy’ and the Encoding of a Born-Digital Scholarly Edition,” Wesley Raabe, Kent State Univ., Kent<\/li>\n
                                              3. “From the Archive to the Browser: Best Practices and Google Books,”\u00a0 Sydney Bufkin, Univ. of Texas, Austin<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                                                Below is my compilation of session at the 2013 conference of the Modern Language Association that touch on book history. For my purposes here, book history includes the study of the bibliography, book trade, textual editing, and, in some cases, new media study. My method was to skim the titles of all sessions and to click on those that seemed like they might hit on one of these topics. The result is that the list is a bit idiosyncratic and quite likely incomplete. If I’ve missed something, let me know in the comments below and I’ll update it. You can also search the convention program yourself. 15. Transatlantic Book History in the Eighteenth Century Thursday, 3 January,\u00a012:00 noon\u20131:15 p.m., Beacon E, Sheraton A special session Presiding:\u00a0Sean D. Moore, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham “Toward an Imperial Book History of the Early United States,”\u00a0Edward J. Larkin, Univ. of Delaware, Newark “To…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2054","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahwerner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahwerner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahwerner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahwerner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahwerner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarahwerner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahwerner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}