Associated Digital Projects
From Digital Americanists
The 19th-Century Concord Digital Archive
URL: http://www.digitalconcord.org/
Editor: Amy Earhart
Description: The 19th-Century Concord Digital Archive (CDA) gathers the cultural record of Concord, Massachusetts in an interactive digital archive, useful to a multidisciplinary group of scholars. The archive acts as an on-line repository of important primary documents that would otherwise require much time, difficulty, and expense to gather while site interaction encourages the user to explore different ways of interpreting materials, spurring new and exciting research questions and outcomes. The proposed breadth of the collection, gathered around a particular structure, in this case the town of Concord, and housed in a standardized digital format will allow the CDA to become an ever-expanding dataset that utilizes various tools to view, manipulate, and interpret primary texts. The CDA is in the final stages of negotiating a legal partnership with the Concord Free Public Library Corporation, which will link the two sites' search and tool capabilities. Amy Earhart has recently received an NEH Summer Stipend to support the transcription and encoding of the Reports of the Selectmen and other Officers of the Town of Concord (1841-1865), to be added to the site in Winter 2007.
The Walt Whitman Archive
URL: http://www.whitmanarchive.org/
Editor: Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price
Description: The Walt Whitman Archive is an electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman's vast work, for the first time, easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers. From 1995-2007, the Archive was housed at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) at the University of Virginia. As of March 2007 the Whitman Archive has been transferred to a server in the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. The Archive recently received a "We the People" challenge grant from the NEH to build a permanent endowment to support its ongoing editorial work.
The Willa Cather Archive
Editor: Andrew Jewell
Description: The Willa Cather Archive is an ambitious endeavor to create a rich, useful, and widely-accessible site for the study of Willa Cather's life and writings. It provides digital editions of Cather texts and scholarship free to the public as well as a large amount of unique, born-digital scholarly content. The Archive is a product of a partnership between the Archives and Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, University of Nebraska–Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, The University of Nebraska Press, and the Cather Project at the University of Nebraska.
The Vault at Pfaff's: An Archive of Art and Literature by New York City's Nineteenth-Century Bohemians
URL: http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/pfaffs
Editor: Edward Whitley and Rob Weidman
Description: Charles Pfaff's beer cellar in lower Manhattan was a magnet for some of the most unconventional and creative individuals of nineteenth-century New York City, including Walt Whitman, poet and actress Adah Isaacs Menken, journalist and social critic Henry Clapp, playwright John Brougham, and artist Elihu Vedder. The Vault at Pfaff's is bringing together in one place the poetry, drama, art, fiction, and social commentary that the Pfaff's bohemians produced, including The New York Saturday Press, the weekly periodical that served as the group's literary organ during this period. This project is a collaboration with The Lehigh University Digital Library.
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin: an Electronic Edition of the National Era Version
Dissertation URL: http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/~wnr4c/index.htm
Edition URL (MS Internet Explorer not Supported): http://www2.iath.virginia.edu:8035/cocoon/utc/
Editor: Wesley Raabe
Description:
An electronic edition that provides the first authoritative edition of Stowe's work in its newspaper publication form. The edition provides two transcriptions of Stowe’s text and two sets of facsimile reproductions of the newspaper pages. One transcription is a normalized text, and the other is a quasi-facsimile that reproduces line breaks. The low-resolution (100 dpi) JPEG page images and high-resolution (up to 450 DPI) magnifiable images are both available in full color. The high-resolution images can be viewed by installing Flash player.
The accompanying dissertation includes a textual introduction, an account of the promotion and reception of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the National Era, an analysis of newspaper-reading as a metaphor for male characters' futile attempts to escape the domestic sphere, a consideration of political events in the Era as a context for the reception of Stowe's work, and a meditation on conceptual models for digital texts.
Literature Alive! in Second Life
URL: http://literaturealive.wikispaces.com/
Creator: Beth Ritter-Guth
Description: Literature Alive! in Second Life is an academic project in Second Life aimed at collecting and distributing resources for the development of literary projects of collegiate worth in SL. It began in December 2006 as a voluntary effort and continues to exist on a voluntary basis. The mission of Literature Alive! in Second Life is to distribute resources for the teaching of immersive literature on the teen and adult grids of Second Life. Our goals are to help faculty create ethical and immersive learning environments that provide "added value" to students in composition, professional writing, and literature courses; to help students use the resources of a 3D world to add to the depth and breadth of understanding literature; to foster a community of open access educators dedicated to the sharing of teaching content through the Open SLedware Project; and, finally, to promote a lifelong love of learning through a lifelong passion for reading.
The Antislavery Literature Project
URL: http://antislavery.eserver.org/
Editors: Joe Lockard and Project affiliates
Description: The Antislavery Literature Project engages in public scholarship by providing educational access to the literature and history of the antislavery movement in the United States. To accomplish this work, our project does historical research; digitization and production of electronic editions; and delivers annotated texts via the Internet. We emphasize a continuum between research, digitization, and teaching, and make a corpus of antislavery literature available for free for educational purposes. Most of our work concerns the documents of historical US slavery, but the Project also maintains a collection of contemporary slave narratives edited by Kevin Bales and Zoe Trodd. We produce streaming video to interpret selected historical texts, to present research lectures, and to provide teaching models for antislavery literature. Videos include abolitionist choral music from the Antislavery Ensemble, in cooperation with the Arizona State University School of Music, and lectures from a Harvard University course on American social protest literature. The Project is based at the English Department of Arizona State University and the EServer at Iowa State University's English Department. It receives assistance from a diverse group of affiliates who support its scholarly and educational objectives.
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide
URL: http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/home.htm
Author: Paul P. Reuben
For over ten years, this Meta Site has served and continues as a research and reference tool for high school and university students and teachers; it is especially helpful to those who have no or limited access to libraries and academic databases; international readers, interested in American literature, will also find this site helpful.
Table of Contents: Fully searchable, this online project is organized in chapters and appendices. The ten chapters represent the major literary and historical perspectives, cycles, or movements in American literature; each chapter has an introduction, a selected bibliography, and a list of representative authors. The twenty-two Appendices cover a range of helpful and specialized topics in genre studies, writing assignments, research topics, and perspectives related to American studies.
Alphabetical List of American Authors: This PAL site has individual pages on over 430 American authors. Except for a few, each author page has a listing of primary works, a selected bibliography, links to relevant sites, brief introductions, brief biographies, and study questions.
The Charles Brockden Brown Electronic Archive and Scholarly Edition
URL: http://www.brockdenbrown.ucf.edu
Editors: Mark L. Kamrath (General Editor), Philip Barnard (Textual Editor), Fritz Fleischmann (Consulting Editor), and affiliate volume editors
Description: Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) has earned a general reputation as one of the early republic's most ambitious and accomplished literary figures. He wrote prolifically in many genres, founded and edited three major magazines, published widely-read political pamphlets, and intervened in many debates about the culture and politics of the new nation.
Brown is still mostly known for his novels and for Alcuin, his dialogue on women's rights, as these are the only texts currently available in scholarly editions. Not available are his letters, short fiction, poetry, as well as a rich collection of periodical publications that include important book, theater, and music reviews, provocative philosophical essays, and numerous meditations on law, religion, nationhood, geography, history, literature, political economy, medicine, science, and sexuality.
To make all Brown's works accessible, we are preparing a digital archive of Brown's numerous periodical publications, along with a print edition of Brown's letters and selected writings (six volumes) to be submitted for MLA CSE approval and published by the Kent State University Press. The project is also planning an XML version of the print volumes, which will be fully integrated and searchable with Brown's novels at the Kent State University Institute for Bibliography and Editing. The Brown project is currently supported by the UCF College of Arts and Humanities and the UCF Center for Humanities and Digital Research.
ebr: the Electronic Book Review
URL: http://www.electronicbookreview.com
Publisher: Mark Amerika
Editor: Joseph Tabbi
Provocateur: Rob Wittig
Associate Editors: Stefanie Boese, Lori Emerson, Eric Dean Rasmussen, Ben Underwood
Design Editor, Site Designer: Anne Burdick
Database and Application Designer: Ewan Branda
Description: ebr is a journal of critical writing produced and published by writers for writers: a peer to peer modification of academic review. Designed as a networked database, ebr hosts exchanges between writers, scholars, and artists interested in digital writing and publishing, literature and technology, interface design, and distributed-community building.
ebr is organized into thirteen threads: Fictions Present, Critical Ecologies, First Person, Enfolded, Technocapitalism, End Construction, Music Sound Noise, Webarts Writing Under Constraint, Internet Nation, Image + Narrative, Electropoetics, and Writing (post) Feminism. Each essay is reviewed by a thread editor (a tenured professor) and at least one other ebr editor. On acceptance, the essay is posted to the ebr staging site, where it is made available for comment by ebr's 500-plus past contributors, all of whom are published authors in print and online. Unlike academic peer reports, which are generally seen only by committees, ebr reviewer comments can be read in the margins of the essays, as glosses. More substantial response is given in commissioned Ripostes.
As part of the Alt-X Online Network and in continuous publication since 1994, ebr is among the longest running critical reviews on the Internet. It has published notable American literary figures including Charles Bernstein, Raymond Federman, Harry Mathews, Joseph McElroy, Brian McHale, R M Berry, N Katherine Hayles, George Landow, Thomas LeClair, Jerome McGann, Walter Benn Michaels, J Hillis Miller, Michael Joyce, Marjorie Perloff, Stephanie Strickland, Ron Sukenick, Steve Tomasula, and Cary Wolfe.
Submission Guidelines: http://www.electronicbookreview.com/public/guidelines.html
The Ah Quin Diary
Editor: Susie Lan Cassel (scassel@csusm.edu)
Description: The Ah Quin Diary is a ten volume, 3,300 page diary, spanning twenty-five years from 1877-1902, and is arguably the first significant writing in English by a Chinese immigrant to the U.S. It is an important historical and literary document, and exists at a length and with an eloquence—in English—that few believed possible for a 19th C Chinese immigrant laborer. It represents one of the few first-person accounts by a Chinese immigrant during the age of Chinese exclusion, beginning just 5 years before the passage of the federal 1882 Chinese Exclusion Law and helps us to understand from a first-person perspective what life was like as a Chinese laborer in a hostile America.
From a literary perspective, this diary has been absent during the thirty-year discussion that has shaped and formed the critical field of Asian American literary study. The beginnings of Asian American literature are currently dated with the poetry of Sadakichi Hartman and the short stories of Sui Sin Far at the end of the 19th century. Discovery of this diary potentially changes the paradigm of Asian American literary studies by moving the date of origin back a decade, if not a generation.
Finally, the Diary represents an important Chinese Christian conversion narrative where Christianity can be seen as a foundation for racial and ethnic assimilation. With the help of the Donaldina Cameron Mission Home, Ah Quin married Ah Sue, who had been rescued from (forced) prostitution, during a time when most Chinese men were bachelors due to the laws that restricted Chinese women from immigrating (1875 Page Law) and laws that banned miscegenation between whites and “Mongolians.” With their twelve children, they helped to establish the first Chinatown in San Diego, where Ah Quin was often informally known as the mayor.
In short, this is the story of one man’s growth from laborer to contractor, cook to family and community leader. The Diary contributes immeasurably to the growing field of Asian American Studies, to the trans-Pacific field of Chinese Studies, and to the cross-disciplinary fields of history, literature, religion, linguistics, and ethnic studies. I am working to publish it in abridged form as a one volume, 500-page critical edition, and to release the full, annotated transcription in digital form.
Project Yao 覞工程
Editor: Joe Lockard (Joe.Lockard@asu.edu) and Project affiliates
Description:
Project Yao engages in public scholarship by providing a free, Internet-accessible, and permanent database that documents literary translation relations between China and the United States. There is a lengthy translation relationship dating from at least the mid-nineteenth century and it has had deep influence on both nations. This online tool enables the study and mapping of this relationship, as well as provides a major new reference site. The project is completing initial development and will have its official launch in September 2009.
覞工程致力于公共学术，通过国际互联网免费向公众开放记载中美之间文学翻译关系的永久性资料库。始于19世纪中页的漫长的中美翻译关系对两个国家都有深刻的影响。这一资料库给研究相互影响及绘制联系图提供一个新的资料服务平台。
The database is designed to serve the academic community, librarians, publishers, and the general public. It provides MARC-standard bibliographic records using MySQL, an open-source relational database management system.
资料库的服务对象为学术研究人员、图书馆工作人员、出版社工作人员以及一般读者。资料库通过免费的MySQL开放源码跨平台数据库系统提供美国国会图书馆机读目录标准的著作目录。
This project represents collaborative digital humanities research co-sponsored by Arizona State University, Iowa State University, and Sichuan University.
该项目为数码人文学科合作研究，合作方包括亚利桑那州立大学、爱荷华州立大学、四川大学。
Sichuan University and Arizona State University provide and manage database content. The database has been designed by the Studio for New Media at Iowa State’s English department, and is maintained on the EServer, the world’s most popular online arts and humanities publisher.
四川大学和亚利桑那州立大学提供并管理资料库的信息内容。资料库由爱荷华大学英语系新传媒工作室设计，通过世界上最大的在线艺术人文学科出版运营商Eserver服务器维护。
The project’s name – Yao – is an ancient Chinese word meaning ‘two people come together and look at each other.’
项目名称“覞”为中国古代汉字，意思是“会对并视”。
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