STS CFP

The Society for Textual Scholarship, which holds a fine biennial interdisciplinary conference I’ve attended multiple times, has issued its 2005 CFP. Recommended.

Call for Papers

The Society for Textual Scholarship
President: W. Speed Hill, Emeritus, City University of New York
Executive Director: Richard J. Finneran, University of Tennessee

Thirteenth Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference
March 16-19, 2005, New York University

Program Chair: Theresa Tinkle, University of Michigan
Deadline for Proposals: October 31, 2004

The Program Chair invites the submission of full panels or individual papers devoted to the implications of contemporary textual scholarship: the discovery, description, bibliographical analysis, editing, and annotation of texts (be they musical, verbal, visual, etc.). The Program Chair is particularly interested in papers and panels on the following topics, aimed at a broad, interdisciplinary audience:

. digital text and editing projects,
. the marketing of books and digital texts,
. texts for teaching-challenges and opportunities,
. property rights,
. gender and editing.

Papers should be no more than 20 minutes in length. Panels should consist of three papers. Individual proposals should include a brief abstract (one or two pages) of the proposed paper as well as the name, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation of the participant. Panel proposals should include a session title, the name of a designated contact person for the session, the names, e-mail addresses, and institutional addresses and affiliations of each person involved in the session, and a one- or two-page abstract of each paper to be presented during the session.

Abstracts should indicate what (if any) technological support will be requested. Such support may be limited, so please request only what is truly needed.

Inquiries and proposals should be sent to:

Associate Professor Theresa Tinkle, Program Chair
Society for Textual Scholarship
Department of English Language and Literature
University of Michigan
3187 Angell Hall
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003
FAX: (734) 763-3128
Email: tinkle @ umich.edu

All participants in the STS 2005 conference must be members of STS. For information about membership, please contact Secretary-Treasurer Nancy M. Goslee, Department of English, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
37996-0430 (ngoslee@utk.edu). For conference updates, see the STS
website: www.textual.org.