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...
Tomorrow, February 19, MAPP co-founder Alice Staveley and MAPP Project Manager, Anna Mukamal, are excited to be joining Matthew Hannah's graduate DH course at Purdue University to talk about DH project design, challenges and opportunies in DH work, and what it's like for a graduate student to become involved in DH initiatives as part of her doctoral education.  All part of MAPP's continuing...
What's on your Hogarth shelves?  Do you have stories associated with your collecting, reading, or acquiring of Hogarth Press books you would like to share?  If so, please consider submitting to the forthcoming "Collecting Woolf" issue of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany, edited by Catherine Hollis.  Deadline: 31 October 2018 CFP: Collecting Virginia Woolf Who collects Virginia Woolf and Hogarth...
On April 5, 2018, Drs. Claire Battershill and Helen Southworth used Zoom (a video conferencing software) to join the Literature & Digital Humanities (DH) English department graduate seminar taught by Dr. J. Ashley Foster at California State University, Fresno, and share the creation and production of the Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP). The following is a collaboratively-written...
And in more MAPP related publications, we're happy to announce the publication of Virginia Woolf and the World of Books, edited by Nicola Wilson and Claire Battershill.  A curated selection of papers inspired by last year's Virginia Woolf Conference at the University of Reading, this volume showcases new scholarship on the interventions of book history and material culture into Woolf studies.  ...