Erin McCarthy: "Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse"
Wednesday, October 23rd, 5 PM, ZOOM
Zoom Link: https://csuchico.zoom.us/j/88561594318?pwd=MW5CZHpVRHUyOERSRW1WOVpOc09rZz09(opens in new window)
This talk will provide an introduction to “STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse(opens in new window), 1475–1700,” a digital project funded by the European Research Council and headed by Dr. McCarthy. Whereas scholars have tended to treat manuscripts primarily as case studies, STEMMA seeks to identify patterns and trends at scale. By mapping the evidence that has survived and making statistically informed inferences about what has been lost, our model will prompt a thorough reconsideration of early modern literary culture and the diverse people who participated in it.
Erin A. McCarthy is Established Professor of English Literature and Computational Humanities at the University of Galway. She is the author of Doubtful Readers: Print, Poetry, and the Reading Public (Oxford University Press, 2020), which won the 2020 John Donne Society Award for Distinguished Publication. She is currently completing two monographs: a jointly authored monograph about the reception and circulation of early modern women’s writing and a sole-authored monograph called Interpreting Early Modern Manuscripts: Towards a New Methodology.
The Digital Humanities Series is open to the public.
