Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies
Adele Seeff, Executive Director
The Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies was established to consolidate existing strengths in Renaissance and Baroque Studies at the University of Maryland at College Park, and to build on these strengths to create dynamic interdisciplinary programs of national renown. CHANT, the Committee for Humanities Applications in New Technology, is a project of the Center dedicated to fostering research and teaching the Humanities through technology.
Dickinson Electronic Archives
Martha Nell Smith, Coordinator, Dickinson Editing Collective
(user id: dickinson, password: ink_on_disc)
The Dickinson Editing Collective, a group of scholars who have concluded that her unusual holograph productions and "publication" of her poetry are vital to any understanding of her poetic project, is producing a hypermedia archive of Emily Dickinson's writings in order to take into account her method of publication and more fully diss eminate the range of her manuscript art and poetic experimentation to her readers (to read a more full description of the archive, see "The Importance of a Hypermedia Archive of Dicki nson's Creative Work." Three major projects are now under way: "The Book of Susan & Emily Dickinson: An Electronic Archive" (ed. Ellen Louise Hart & Martha Nell Smith), "Emily Dickinson's Late Fragments: An Electronic Archive" (ed. Marta Werne r), and "Emily Dickinson's Correspondences: An Electronic Archive" (ed. Ellen Louise Hart, Martha Nell Smith, Marta Werner).
Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
David Silver, Director
The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies is an online, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to research, study, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture. Collaborative in nature, RCCS seeks to establish and support ongoing conversations about the emerging fiel d, to foster a community of students, scholars, teachers, explorers, and buil ders of cyberculture, and to showcase various models, works-in-progress, and on-line projects. Presently, the site contains a collection of scholarly resources, including univer sity-level courses in cyberculture, events and conferences, and related links. Further, the site features an extensive annotated bibliography devoted to the topic of cyberculture.
Romantics Circles: Byron, The Shelleys, Keats and Their Contemporaries
Neil Fraistat, Steven E, Jones, Donald H. Reiman, Carl Stahmer, General Editors
Romantic Circles is a research Website focused upon British Romantic writers and organized to be open-ended, collaborative, and porous--maintaining and encouraging many potential links to other sites on the Web. The site is divided into three main entities: 1) Electronic Editions; 2) Scholarly Resourc es; and 3) Central Exchange. The last of these sections includes a real-time , interactive MOO, the Villa Diodati. Two general principles guide the development of the entire site: 1) We value quality over quantity, mounting only resources produced and mai ntained according to high scholarly standards. 2) We give priority to innovat ive, creatively-conceived resources that take advantage of the electronic medium in ways that could not be duplicated easily in print.
The Wild Project
Leigh Eicke, Lorna Ellis, Sharon Groves, and Eleanor Shevlin, Co-founders; Robert Kolker, Mentor
Begun several years ago as an 18th-Century Graduate Studies Group project, The Wild Project was originally conceived as a hypertext for classroom use. It now forms part of a larger endeavor entitled The Electronic Eighteenth Century. This expanded project aims to provide specific demonstrations of how technology can enhance research and teaching. For more information, contact Leigh Eickelae@wam.umd.edu or Eleanor Shevlines65@umail.umd.edu.