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  1. 📣 Funded PhD stu
    dentships at Loughborough Uni English Department

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    #PhD #Funding #Humanities #EnglishLiterature

    Get in touch if you want to work on #Modernism #JamesJoyce #LiteraryArchives #TextualEditing #TextualScholarship

  2. Lack of care and understanding of literary archives and its enormous value for heritage is leading to the dispersal and possible destruction of Orwell papers from his publisher Gollancz.

    theguardian.com/books/article/

    #archives #literaryarchives #orwell #gollancz #literaryheritage

  3. Someone asked me the other day whether there is a good textbook on the nuts and bolts of transcribing and editing literary manuscripts.

    I said no, but there is a good course.

    #editing #scholarlyediting #handwriting #palaeogrpahy #archives #literaryarchives #manuscripts #LIPS

    ies.sas.ac.uk/london-internati

  4. Forgeries are a common topic in book history, but what about fraudulent claims about copyright ownership?

    Simon Kövesi | John Clare out of Copyright lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/january/jo
    >‘It was not very manly of you to evade telling me what you had been up to when we met today,’ the late Eric Robinson...

    #literaryarchives #literaryheritage #bookhistory #bookstodon @bookstodon

  5. New publication: Genetic Criticism in Motion: New Perspectives on Manuscript Studies, edited by Sakari Katajamäki, Veijo Pulkkinen and Tommi Dunderlin.

    Pleased that my essay, "Genetic Criticism and Modern Palaeography: The Cultural Forms of Modern Literary Manuscripts", is included in this fantastic collection.

    The book is available in open access at doi.org/10.21435/sflit.14.

    #publication #research #manuscripts #archives #literaryarchives #geneticcriticism #textualscholarship #sks

  6. Showing off the cover of my new book, James Joyce and Cultural Genetics: The Joycean Genome, which will be published by Bloomsbury this autumn.

    #book #monograph #research #publication #modernism #JamesJoyce #literaryarchives #geneticcriticism