Textual Studies

The draft program and registration site for the STS 2022 Conference are live! 🎉 Check out both here: textualsociety.org/2022-sts-confe…. The conference, themed "Cultural Mappings," will take place at Loyola University Chicago from May 26-28.🌎

We are proud to announce that John K. Young will be the next president of the Society for Textual Scholarship!

Brilliant co-lecture by Elizabeth McHenry & Kinohi Nishikawa, "How to Read the Unremarkable," to kick off STS 2023.

This week, at The New School: STS 2023! textualsociety.org/design-and-tex…

National Archives to award $6.5 million in grants for access to historical records. Read the press release at: archives.gov/press/press-re…

STS has signed onto @AHAhistorians statement condemning the Florida Department of Education's recent ruling that "would eliminate almost entirely the history of LGBTQ+ people from the Florida social studies curriculum." #FreedomToLearn #HonestHistory historians.org/news-and-advoc…

STS 2023 Conference at The New School, NYC: Information and Registration textualsociety.org/2023-conferenc…

STS has signed onto @AHAhistorians statement opposing Florida's #HB999. historians.org/news-and-advoc…

New Directions in Indigenous Book History: A Virtual Symposium -- March 23 and 24, …enous-book-history.mailchimpsites.com

Textual Cultures 15.2 is alive! You can download PDF files of articles and reviews at IUScholarWorks: scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index….

There's nothing quite like Whitman Week--especially when it's in Rome: whitmanweekrome2023.com

DESIGN and TEXT: the theme of STS 2023 in New York City, hosted by the New School. June 1-3, 2023. CFP: textualsociety.org/2023-conferenc…

Wonderful session last week in @UMLibraries Special Collections: "Black Movement in the Archives." We looked at blues poetry and records; Wright's BLACK BOY in multiple editions; Frederick Douglass's LIFE AND TIMES; and a booking ledger for The Red Tops blues band. #BlackArchives

A panel that may be of interest to this crowd: acla.org/unfinished-the…

SILS Associate Professor Melanie Feinberg published her new book "Everyday Adventures with Unruly Data" through MIT Press. The book comprises a set of essays that explicate and interrogate the nature of data. Learn more here⬇️ sils.unc.edu/news/melanie-f…

Textual Cultures 15.1 is out! An exploration of the horizons of Critical-Creative editing, guest edited by @cmohge & Mathelinda Nabugodi. scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index…

Attn: bookish friends! Let's go to "Black Bibliography: Its Traditions & Futures," a virtual salon on Jacqueline Goldsby and @mlmcgill's issue of PBSA, w/ @lheltonian @drkmttr82 Samantha Sommers & Michael Winship. #BlackBiblio @BibSocAmer 9/22, 7pm EST 👉 mailchi.mp/bibsocamer/bbp…

A warm welcome to our new cohort of STS Executive Board members: Manuel Portela, Montse Feu @montsefeu, and Amanda Gailey @AmandaGailey!

A great opportunity with the African Poetry Digital Portal (application by June 10): africanpoetrybf.unl.edu/call-for-grant…

Excited for the start of STS 2022, at Loyola U Chicago, in one week! textualsociety.org/sts-2022-confe…