This summer, Lily Nilipour and Khuyen Le, Stanford undergraduates working in English, Comparative Literature, and Symbolic Systems, worked remotely for Stanford's Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) to help the MAPP team think about a redesign of the website. They did a fantastic job, and here is their blog post on the process of reenvisioning a site to help our viewers and users...
The question of interfaces can be a vexed one for digital projects. Research-based projects are often discouraged from focusing too much on interface design, especially because digitization, robust metadata schema and creation, and careful archival description tend to be investments that can last for decades, whereas interfaces change with rapidly shifting tastes, softwares, and design trends....
As a project archivist working on MAPP, with this blog I hope to introduce myself, and to reveal some of the behind the scenes work taking place whilst we build this digital archive.
From the beginning I've been very excited by this project. The aspect that I admire most about it is that one of its aims is to break down barriers for its audience. For an archivist, access is vital. A digital...
Doing some day-to-day editing work for MAPP, I find myself trying to track down a “dummy or mock up” (a lorem ipsum or placeholder copy) of Libby Benedict’s The Refugees (1938), once owned, according to my own cryptic notes from a while ago, by Williams College in Massachusetts. Libby Benedict’s biography has just appeared at MAPP, authored by eminent Woolf scholar Diane F. Gillespie, Professor...
Helen Southworth and Nicola Wilson were interviewed about Woolf and the press for an episode of French Culture, part of a series of programs hosted by Italian/French novelist Simonetta Greggio.
Take a look and listen!
https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/grandes-traversees-virginia-woolf-la-traversee-des-apparences/devenir-editrice-et-feministe-tuer-lange-du-foyer
On Wednesday, July 17, 2019, we're excited to be hosting at Stanford University a companion conference to the June conference held at Reading University, on Women/Gender Minorities in Print/Publishing in the 20th Century. This conference coincides with the annual MAPP group meeting and celebrates MAPP's new phase of development for which we have won a second round of funding from the Social...
We are delighted to share the programme for the Women in Publishing symposium at Reading next month, Thursday-Friday 13th and 14th June.
It is free to attend but places are limited - please contact Dr Sophie Heywood if you would like to attend (also stating any dietary or access requirements)
Speakers_Programme (1).pdf
Speakers_Programme (1).pdf
We are hiring an Archives Research Assistant to work on MAPP at Special Collections, University of Reading. This is a 0.4 post, fixed term for two years. Job spec and details on how to apply are available here: https://jobs.reading.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=4853
The Project Archivist (MAPP) will be responsible for cataloguing and digitising archives held at Special Collections which will then...
Written collectively by the students of ILS 695: Introducing Digital Humanities
Taught by Matthew Hannah, Spring 2019, Purdue University
E. P. Taylor, Amanda Leary, Alejandra Ortega, Bo Blew, Daniel Carrillo Jara, Margaret Sheble, Sunyoung Kim, and Shiyu Zhang
Our “Introduction to the Digital Humanities” class is the first of its kind at Purdue University. Over the course of the semester, we’...
Women in Publishing, a one-day symposium at the University of Reading, Friday 14th June 2019
“All publishing was run by many badly-paid women and a few much better-paid men”
(Diana Athill, Stet: An Editor’s Life, 2002)
Feminist book history and print culture is thriving. Recent books and projects exploring feminist publishers, modernist presses, and women’s work in periodicals and magazines...
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